The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-07-24

THE YORKTOWN TO RE
LTEVI2 THE BOSTON.
Enlisted Men in Uncle sans" Service
Can Sow Purchase their Dis
charge.

! WASHINGTON, July 12.-The dis
posal of vessels that participated
in the naval review, continues,
and as fast as they can be made
ready the white ships are being
sent to the four quarters Of the
globe. The latest to receive orders
to sail is the Yorktown, now at the
New York navy yard. She is in
dock being painted and next week,
if every thing is ready, she will
proceede to the Pacific station by
Cape Horn. The voyage will take
nearly three months under ordinary
cruising power, and it is probable
the ship will bring up at San
Francisco unless events in Peru
seem to require her to stop there.
She will then be cleaned and put
in shape for service to relieve one
Of the vessels at the Hawaiian
islands, probably the Boston. which
has been a long time stationed
there and is in need Of an over
hauling. The Yorktown will go
out under a New York commander,
for the order was issued at the
navy department today detaching
Commander Harrington from duty
as inspector of the Fourth light
house district, and ordering him to
command the Yorktown, relieving
Commander Frank Wilds, who is
detached and granted months
leave.
The cruiser Charleston, which
has been undergoing repairs at the
Norfolk navy yard, is now ready
for sea and Will leave for the Paci-
ic station in q few days. She
will go from Norfolk to Valparaiso,
Chill, and, if no orders await her
there, she will proceed to CaIlao,
Peru, where instructions will be
sent her.
A NEW ORDER.
Enlisted men in the navy will
now have the privilege Of purchas-
ing their discharge. Secretary
Herbert issued an order on July II
establishing rules and regulations
for the purchase of discharges au-
thorized by the last naval appro-
priation bill. No man is to be
allowed to purchase q discharge
while in debt to the government or
until he has served three months.
The price of discharge during the
fourth month of enlistment will be
% per cent. of the yearly pay of the
applicant; during the fifth month,
30 per cent, and SO on, increasing
5 per cent. per month until the
fourteenth month, when the maxi
mum price is reached. During the
fifteenth month the price will be
% per cent. of the maximum price,
in the sixteenth month 90 per cent,
and so on, decreasing 5 per cent
per month until the thirty-fourth
month, when he may apply for a
discharge without payment. No
man will be allowed to purchase a
discharge a second time, and those
procuring discharges by purchase
will forfeit all benefit due to con-
tinuous service or honorable dis
charge. Discharge by purchase is
not an inherent right, but privi-
Iege which may be granted by the
navy department.
A cablegram was received at the
navy department on July y an
nouncing that the cruiser Phila-
delphia was at Rio de Janeiro. She
will remain at Rio long enough to
coal and then proceed to Valpar-
also. Her instructions, it is said,
will be to proceed to Samoa until
the state Of affairs in Peru and
Chile require her presence there.
She has been eighteen days in
going from New York to Rio.
Secretary Herbert has accepted
the resignation Of Commodore Will
son as chief constructor of the
navy, and appointed Constructor
Philip Highborn to succeed him.
Commodore Wilson has resigned
on account of ill-health.
Secretary Herbert has directed a
court martial to assemble at Mare
Island, Cal, on July 26, for the
trial Of Paymaster J. G. Sullivan,
with embezzIement. There
are five. charges against Sullivan.
The court which will conduct the |
inquiry will consist Of Captains
and Romyl, Commanders
Glass and Clark, Paymasters
Bache, Shedding and Loomis and |
Lieut.. Commanders Hutchins and |
Gilmore, with Lieut.. Garst as
judge-advocate.
WASHINGTON, July y. - Secre-
tary Herbert has taken action in
two cases of importance concerning
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