Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1898 — DEWEY AS A DISCIPLINARIAN. [ARTICLE]

DEWEY AS A DISCIPLINARIAN.

Hie Method of Subduing Some Refractory Sailors. “I was with Commodore Dewey when he was the executive officer of the Colorado,” said a financier, “and I remember one incident which shows the manner of man he is. We had a fine crew, some of them as powerful as I ever saw. Four or five of them went ashore one day and came back fighting drunk. “Three of them were men who would singly have been more than a match in strength for John L. Sullivan. The order was given to put them in irons, and it was found Impossible to carry out the order, for the men were dangerous. Dewey was notified of the situation. He was writing a letter in his room at the time. “He wenv to the place where these giants were and he told them to come out and submit to the irons. They did not stir. Then Dewey said quietly to an orderly: ‘Bring me my revolvers.’ And when he had his pistols he again called upon the men to come out and they did not move. Then he said: ‘I am going to count three; if you are not out here with your hands held up on the third count you won’t come out of that place alive.’ “He counted one, then he cocked the revolvers, and he counted two. We all expected to hear the report for we knew that Dewey meant what he said. The men knew It, too. They stepped out just in time to save their lives and held up their hands, and they had been partially sobered by their fright and the moral effect of Dewey’s glance. “One of them said afterward that when he saw Dewey’s eyes he knew that he would either be a dead jackey in a moment or he would have to yield, and when the irons were put upon him he was as sober as he ever was in bls life. Dewey went back to his room and finished the letter he was writing.