The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-04-17
U. S. FLAGSHIP PHILADELPHIA.


The latest dispatches from the Coast
| had it that the good ship was to come
down looking for blood, and that her
officers were prepared to annihilate the
Japanese, and wipe every vestige of
their settlements from the face of the
Islands. If the crowds which assem-
bled along the water front when her
arrival was announced, expected to
see the ship steam into the harbor with
guns manned and trained on every cit
izen of the Western Empire who dared
show himself in the moonlight, they
were destined to be disappointed. The
flagship came to anchor outside the
reef as calmly as if there were not a
representative of Japan nearer than
Yokohama When it was discovered
that she would not come inside the
crowd gradually thinned out, until fin
ally only the cleaning eye of the
lighthouse remained to watch.
The Philadelphia was signaled short
ly before s o'clock. AS soon as she
came in sight around Diamond Head
the pilot and a representative of the
Advertiser put out in the pilot boat.
The lights were fixed along the buoys
in case the vessel should come in.
When the pilot drew alongside, the Of
ficer of the deck announced that the
ship would lie at anchor outside for the
night The pilot and the Advertiser
man were invited on board and found
Admiral Beardslee and Captain Cot
ton on the bridge The Admiral's first
question was for news of the Islands
Outside the news that the Petrol was
still in the harbor, that there were sew
eral cases of smallpox at quarantine
and that two Government officials were
also in quarantine. Admiral Beardslee
appeared to be as well informed on
Hawaiian political and social affairs
as his visitors.
So we'll informed was he that he dis
missed the Japanese question with the
remark that he had heard there had
". He was told that there had been
and that there were several engage
ments announced and to be announced.
Admiral Beardslee declined to talk
on the question of his mission to the
Islands. He smiled when reference
was made TO the rumors from San
Francisco. He said he had read the
newspaper reports and the reputed in
terviews with himself and his officers.
He said he had made the same reply
to questions in San Diego that he
would make now, he had nothing TO
say.
The Philadelphia left San Diego
April s. and had an uneventful run
were no winds encountered, and the |
sea was comparatively smooth during |
the whole voyage. After exchanging |
signals with the Marion, the Phila- |
delphia dropped anchor at $50 o'clock |
AS the pilot and the newspaper man |
went over the rail. the marines who |
were crowded about the gangway, |
pointed out the pilot boat as being the |
one which had been so swift when they |
were here last. From their remarks, it
is possible that they are looking for
another race.
Through the kindness of Lieutenant
Commander Ingersoll, the Advertiser
was furnished with late papers from
the Coast. The list of officers, fur
nished by Ensign Willard. is as fol-
lows:
COMMUNICATIVE ief-Rear Admiral
l.. \. Beardslee. L. 5. y.
Personal Staff-Lieut.sG VI. Stoney.
Flag Lieutenant: Ensign \. L. Will
lard. Flag Secretary.
Commanding Oficer-Capt. c. S.
Cotton.
Lieutenant COmmander-R r. In
gersoll.
Lieutenant-W. p. Elliott