Mr. Horace See, and others in general engineering and consultation in con- 
nection with the manufacture and treatment of guns, armor, shafting and other 
war material, and especially with the fluid compression and hydraulic forging 
of steel and the best types of armor. 
At the beginning of 1895, at the request of the Governor of New Jersey, 
he began the organization of a Naval Reserve for that state, and on February 
27 of that year was commissioned captain. This command he held until 
January, 1898, when loss of health compelled him to resign. 
The later developments of the Bethlehem Works are in a great measure 
due to Captain Jaques. During the period that the works were adapted 
for the manufacture of guns and armor they have executed the principal 
contracts issued by the United States Government for all descriptions of war 
material, including shields, conning-towers, machine parts, shafting, heavy 
forgings, and carbonized and nickel steel armor-plate. 
It was no small matter to have borne so prominent a part in the installa- 
tion and organization of the naval power of one of the greatest countries in 
the world; the natural result was that Captain Jaques became the recognized 
independent authority in the United States and Europe on the manufacture 
of guns and armor. 
He was presented the Whitworth scholarship medal for his metallurgical 
work and was decorated by the Emperor of Japan with the Order of the 
Rising Sun for his valuable services to Japan previous to the Chinese War. 
He also received the formal thanks of the Peabody Academy of Science for 
his services in the Coast Survey in 1874; of the United States Lighthouse 
Board for valuable aid rendered in the reconnaissance of the Stratford Shoals 
in 1878; and of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey for his ex- 
amination of the New England Coast and tabulation of results accepted as 
guide for Massachusetts Bay. 
Having done his full share in bringing the ordnance and armor of the 
United States to a high standard of excellence, he, in 1897, undertook the 
development of submarine torpedo-boats and accepted the presidency of the 
Holland Submarine Boat Company, greatly aiding in perfecting the Holland 
type. During his incumbency the mechanical control of submersion was 
perfected, which forms the vital character of the modern submarine. 
Captain Jaques was the author of numerous books and monographs on 
heavy ordnance, armor, torpedoes, solar radiation, etc., and an authority 
on water engineering. He was one of the international jury on marine trans- 
portation and war material at the Columbian Exposition of 1893. 
