Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1898 — ADMIRAL SAMPSON. [ARTICLE]

ADMIRAL SAMPSON.

.«v 1 V:- \-x: ■ UIYM US -m «fw £l Admiral Sflinpsoii bßs b66u ooqqp © -j ice in this connectionhas been such, as a member of the bureau of ordnance, that he htuf become with the minutest details of construction, armor, guns and engines. It is no exaggeration to say that he oould personally make any naval gun or repair any engine or electrical device on his ships. His mind goes always to first principles—* 0001, analytical Aind, that wastes no time over unessentials. His great ranee of information comes rather from sheer force of intellectual endowment than from any laborious process of acquirement, for he has never been known as a student in the commonly accented sense of that word. His breadth of mind was admirably, and to naval minds most startlingly shown, when more thoroughly to familiarise himself with an important branch of his profession he applied for service in the bureau of ordnance under Commander Folger, who was much his junior in rank, and had served as first lieutenant of the "Swatara" under his oommand. Admiral Sampson ia a man of striking personal appearance, offing clearcut features, slender, above the medium height, slow and deliberate both in movement and speech, not given to inany words. He is too much absorbed in his profession and the mental processes which give him his seeming intuitive knowledge of its manifold complexities to be what ia called sociable, but he is always just and considerate to his subordinates and watchful over the welfare of his crews.

A man of reserve, of perfect selfpoeseaeion at all times and under all circumstances, he would approach such a problem aa the annihilation of the Spanish fleet with the same ooolnees and deliberation that he would an armor trial or the designing of a new gun; no detail would be too small to be overlooked, no possible contingency would be unprovided for.—N. Y.lndependent