The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-09-14
The Trip from CaIlao Made in
Eighteen Days.
| THE BOSTON WILL PROBABLY
LEAVE next WEEK.

After a pleasant and uneventful
passage of eighteen days from
Callao, Peru, the U. S. S. Phila-
delphia cast anchor in Honolulu
harbor shortly after > o'clock yes
terday afternoon. Extraordinary
fast time was made, the vessel
averaging a speed of II knots per
hour throughout the voyage of 5000
miles. She left Callao on August
26th at 6:15 PM, and the ap-
pended memoranda, kindly fur
nished by Captain Barker, will
show the number of miles covered
each day:
August 9th, 1SS miles; 2Sth, 2SS;
29th, $50; 3Oth, 275; 31st, 292; Sep
TENDER LIST, 2S9 I'd, 3Ol; Sd, $50; 4th,
800; 9Th, 2S5; 9Th, 25S; 9TH, 246; 8th,
2S2; 9th, 2S4; 10th, 291 18th, 2lS;
18th, 800; 18th, 1893; covering a dis
lance of 800 miles, and arrived TT
Honolulu September 18th at 4:30 PM.
She carries crew Of $50 officers
and men, her list Of officers be-
ing:
Captain-A. S. Barker, command
ing.
Lieutenant Commander - l.. G.
Logan, executive officer.
Lieutenant-W. NJ. Wood, naviga-
tor.
ieutenant-Samuel Seabury.
Lieutenant-AleX.S Sharp, Jr.
Lieutenant Or. Grip. j. Wer-
Itch.
Lieutenant CIR. Gr.)-W. S. Sims.
Ensign-C. NJ. Knepper.
Ensign-Phillip Williams.
Eusign-H. ]. Ziegemeier.
Ensign-L. A. Bostwick.
Naval Cadet. A. Perry.
Naval Cadet-D. NJ. Berry.
Naval Cadet. S Doddridge.
Naval Cadet-P. n. Olmsted.
Naval Cadet-F. p. Upham.
Naval Cadet-A. a. McKethan.
Naval Cadet Eng. Div.)-F. ID. w.
Read.
Passed Asst. Surgeon z. Gram
dali.
Passed Asst. Surgeon-E. S. Bogert,
Jr.
Assistant Surgeon-M. S. Guest.
Paymaster-C. +. Hendee.
Chief Engineer - Isaac r. Nc
Marry.
Passed Asst. Engineer - w. n.
Little.
Assistant Engineer-F. H. Conant.
Assistant Engineer-U. L. Holmes.
q
Prince.
Acting Gunner-H. A. Eilers
Carpenter-F. S. Sheppard.
Pay Clerk-Theo. w. Arms.
Three hundred and eighty men.
AS the vessel was off the harbor
a salute of twenty. one guns was
fired to the Hawaiian flag, followed
by salute of thirteen to Admiral
Skerrett. The Boston responded
! with a return salute of thirteen
guns, and when the Philadelphia
| got inside government shore bat
terry salute of twenty-one guns was
fired.
A large crowd had gathered
along the water front to see the
Philadelphia, and when the big
protected cruiser came steaming
| into the harbor she was saluted by
the different vessels tied to the
wharves and anchored in the
stream.
Captain Barker reported having
sighted the Australia at about 3 SO
yesterday. She was signaled and
answered.
Following is a description of the
vessel:
The Philadelphia is classed as a pro-
tected cruiser. Length, 3S5 feet; beam,
| IS feet, inches; mean draught, &c
| feet 5 inches; and displacement ton
mage, 500; and was built for the gov
ernment by VIM. Cramp d Sons, OF
] Philadelphia, and launched Septem-
Der Z, 1889. Cost, without armament,
was 81 $50, 900. Built of milled steel,
| the plating inch thick, the protective
deck p inches to inches thick, and
| the coming tower 8 inches thick. The
motive power is steam. Has twin
| screws with horizontal triple eXpan-
sion engines, capable of developing
over 10000 horse power, and driving
the vessel at the rate of 1865 knots an
hour or about Dds miles.
The main battery consists of four
6-inch breech-loading rified guns
mounted on the forecastle and poop
decks, and eight 6-ineh breech-loading
| rifIed guns mounted in broadside on
the spar-deck. The weight of fire from
these guns ahead and astern is 40O
pounds. The same abeam or in broad
| side is 600 pounds.
The secondary battery consists OF
two / Founders, four 5 Founders, and
four FOUNDERS, rapid-fire guns, three
SIM Hotchkiss revolving cannon and
four Calling guns, mounted on the
rail, also 5 torpedo tubes for use of
| automobile torpedoes.
] The complement consists of about
/ $50 officers and men.
The Philadelphia is fitted with cleo
trio lights throughout, four powerful
search lights, and IS water-tight COM
partments, and has 40 distinct and
| separate engines for various purposes.
! The ventilation is perfected by two
blower engines, the pipes for which
reach every room and compartment.