People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1894 — GHERARDI RETIRES. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GHERARDI RETIRES.

The Gallant Admiral Eeaves the Active Service—His Career in the Navy. Washington, Nov. 12.—T0-day at noon there will be placed on the retired list the commandant of the New York navy yard, Admiral Bancroft Gherardi, one of the few old war commanders now in the naval service, and known in naval parlance as the “Sea-

going Admiral.” He leaves behind him a career of distinction, full of hard fighting and severe service and without a blemish. His total active service amounts to forty-eight years and five months, and twenty-five years and eight months of that service were spent at sea.

REAR-ADMIRAL GHERARDI.