3, \Ml.l: 



AI;II>. FOREIGN. 



"Monitor." built for th 

 snperinteodenoe 



mder the plan- arid 

 MO. II. luiMily left 



New V<>rk on the vowel f nmcntal trip. 



though provided with ammunition aii.l shot n& a 

 precaution against a possible encounter. After a 

 dangerous vorage in th- 



ii l; : . . . ...: V.. hMh,-da> 



had 



comedown from Norfolk and de-.tr 



* "Congress" nini md." l.i.-ut. 



Worden, seeing the helplessness of the w. 



nchored his t-rnft near the "Minnesota, 



anchored 



. in endeavoring to escape from the "Merri- 

 nided on n -h.-a!. a '1 the 



the morrow. Kariy in the mornin 

 appeared, and headed for tlu* " 



be wa> within a mile of her in- 

 tended victim. the "Monitor" suddenly steam, d 

 out. . . de of s|,,,t 



Upon .:..-" iuit every s|,,,t 



k her turret glanced off without injury. 

 While maiHi'uvriiii: close as possil 



Monitor" !'n :-atclv 



minutes, ;. hot struck 



.ntagonist After the fijjht had thus 1 

 two hour- vnipted to ram 



Lieut. Worden handled his 

 M skillfully that the Mow glanced ofT harm- 

 lessly. At LL80 A. M. the ".Monitor's" commander 

 was blind< n<-nt tlirown into h: 



rn.-k tin- pilot-house as he was look- 



.rouiih the conning slit, and was ohlip-d to 



iiish the command to Lieut. Samuel 1 >. ( 



who continued the liirht till the " Merrimae" with- 



:-f..lk. This battle was a victory for the 



"Monitor," in that she < ..... iplei'ly frustrated the 



of the Confederate commander. It also revo- 



iutioni/ed the navies of the world. For this action 



Lieut. Wordi-n received the thanks of the Na\ 



partment and of Congress, and. almost immediately 



after his arrival in Washington, the personal con- 



1'resident Lincoln. As soon . 

 was able to return to duty he was appointed a- 

 ant to Admiral Gregory in superintending th 

 struct ion of ironclads. He commandeii tin- iron- 

 m Oct 8, IHO'J. till April 16, 



1883, and with her attacked Fort McAlli-ter. on the 

 Ogeechee river, and d the Confederate pri- 



vateer "Nashville" under the ^uns of that fort. 

 Subsequent Iv he took part in the attack on the de- 

 fenses of Charleston \>\ the ironclad fleet under 

 Admiral Dapont I L he WM nmefintend- 



.-s Naval Academy, and 



in 18?5-'77 commander in chief of the European 

 squadron. - retirement he had lived in 



Washington. 



\\nniil.-\. I heodore (ieorirc. Bhanitt, l-orn in 

 uleysburg. Pa,. ; in Phila- 



delphia, i'a., Jan. 8, 1897. He studied at Dickinson 

 College; was graduated at the Philadelphia 

 cal College in 1849; and was Professor of ( licm- 

 Istry and Natural Sciences at Capitol University, 

 Columbus 1852-'65. and of Chemistry 



and Toxicology at Starling Medical College in 

 18M-77. From the last year till his death he was 

 Profes!orof Chemistry and Toxicology in the medi- 

 cal department of the University of Pennsylvania. 

 While in Ohio he served for several years as 

 gas commissioner and as chemist to the State Geo- 

 logical Surv,-\. In i-:r, he was appointed a incm- 



Centennial Medical Commission, i 

 ceived the degrees of Ph. I), and LL. I), from Dick- 

 inson and Marietta Colleges in 1870. Dr. Wormley 

 published M Methods of Analysis of Coab, Iron 

 Ores. Furnace Slags, Fire Clavs. Limestone-. 



?) and -The hficro-Chemistry of 

 Poisons " (1867); edited the "Ohio Medical' and 



al Journal " ! : and contributed 



and a " Chemical liea 



u ' Chemical News" in 1 



\\ 01 then \\ Mli. mi l./r.i. : , r. l.orn in 



Amcsbun. Ma-., Man h II. l^l'.t; died in 

 N'ork . He was graduated at 



1888, began the pra.-t 

 ci\il . - was 



and in\e-: 



M and in other hydraulic 

 Til, -led the Suffolk, 

 Applcloii. and Hamilton Mill> 

 in Lowell : i rope in 1SIU: and on h. 



turn established him-elf in NY\v Yi-rk cit\. whi-rc 

 he also engaged in architectural \\rk and DCM 



lit of the New Vm-i 

 . road. Alter l^.'.l he \\a- empl\e.l 

 -ivdy a- a practicini: and consulting 

 He planned and built h. across 



the e-tablishment of water powers; d<- 

 teil the lirst pun. at 



Hitfh Brin -rk city ; was sanita- 



of the MetrojM... ; of Health of t fiat city in 



the first rapid-tran- 

 sit coiniiiiioii ; f the 

 Chicago main drainage channel in 1M" ':i|. lli> 

 B in freijuent demand for 

 planning, const ructinir. or improving water 



' !n !! \\a- I'l-e-iilcllt of the 



American Society of Civil Kn^iiieers in l sv -7. 



number of technical j.ui>- 



lished a "CNclopa-dia of Drawing" (New v i 



l'ir>t Loson.^ in Mechanios* 1 OM^K and 

 - Kii.limentary Drawing for Schools" (1H63.) 



oiuir \IMI v roiii.M.N. Ueoel ifnti. 



erlord. I I'.ritMi diplomatist, born in lsnl; died in 

 Lorn: L8OT, II'- Wai the son (.f a noted 



physician, and was himself educated for the medi- 

 cal profr--ion. and as an army 

 through the Carlist. war in Spain a 

 and decorations for : -tian 



and the taking of Irun. After the war wa- ended, 

 in 1 *:',?. he \\a^ a member of variou. mixed con 

 >ion- that settled the claims of the lirit ish auxiliary 



-. In 1844 he was appointed HritMi consul 

 at the newly opened port of Pocbow, and two 

 later was traiisferreil to Shanghai, where he \\ 

 strumental in founding the municipal government. 

 In time he was transferred to Canton, and after 

 Completing his term of ollicc there he wa- app- . 

 in 1858 consul general to Japan, and a year later 

 elevated to the post of minist.-r, one of 

 of danger during the early stages of European in- 

 lercour>e. when the truculent and formidable ant i- 

 foreijrn element constantly i him with 



violence and assassination. In l^il an armed liand 

 c.f ronins stormed the liritish legation in the mid- 

 dle of the nitfht. killing or wounding many of the 

 inmates. In the following year the -juard of tin- 

 Prince of Satsuma killed hard- 

 son, who was riding with ladies in the park, 

 this the Kmrlish (fovernnient exacted an indemnity 

 of C 100,000 f rom theln.vernment of the T 

 additional payment - and an apolor;, 

 demanded from the Priie nd when a 



passed without satisfaction beini: rendered the 

 "minister had the Knjrlish fleet bom ban 1 the 



_'oshima until the prince 

 Thoi.. ~<-d by many for his retaliatory pol- 



Mr. Aleocl, honor of knighthood 



for his action. For the international exhibition of 



j'-ther a fair representative col;, 

 of Japanese art and products after all assistance 

 had been refused by individual Japanese and by 

 the (Jovernment of Japan, which five years later 

 sent over to the Paris Exposition a large exhibit in 



