Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-06-25
THE EVENING BULLETIN HONOLULU H. L, JUNE 49, 1898.
The Monterey Arrives.

monitor Monterey upon going to
press yesterday. Wilder's Steam
ship Company kindly placed the
steamer Maui at the disposal of
the Zone Hundred" to go out and
meet the strange naval fighting
machine. Steam was up for the
coasting steamers departure for
the island of Maui at 5 o'clock.
A large party went on board,
including many prominent citi
zens. Colonel Hawkins, of the
10th Pennsylvania Volunteers,
and Captain Seabury, command
ing the troopship China, were in
the party. The Pennsylvania fife
ard drum corps accompanied the
exp dition of welcome. Soon
attec moving out the Maui sighted
the Monterey off Diamond Head.
When the vessels met, little
inside of the heads, the band
played American airs and the
Maui gave a whistling salute.
The Monterey replied with her
syren. There was great cheering
by the citizens, responded to by
the officers and crew of the Mon
terey. Cheers we're also exchane
ed with the SOLDIERS on board the
China anchored outside.
The Maui turned and followed
the Monterey down the channel,
passing her off the seawall and
preceding her into port. When
turning into the harbor entrance
the Monterey saluted the Hawai-
ian flag with her secondary bat.
terry. The National Guard of
Hawaii promptly responded with
two field pieces at the Kakaako
battery, firing a national salute to
the Monterey in excellent time.
1t was a great treat to the party
on the Maui, the first sight of the
strange craft at close range. She
has no bulwarks and her deck is
only about a foot above water.
There was such smooth sea,
however, that the wave the monitor
made at her bows was light. The
deck was wet all the same, show
Ing it to have been awash with
only the moderate swell of Molo-
kai channel. Features causing
most remark, along with that of
no freeboard, were the four prodi-
gous guns, two each pointing fore
and aft out Of the monster turrets-
the "cheesebox on a raft"-and
the huge smokestack like afactory
chimney, also the single military
mast abaft of the smokestack.
Speculations as to where the
coal tender steamer Brutus had
been left at sea were set at rest b"
the sighting of her smoke on the
horizon. She was between twenty
and thirty miles behind the Mon
terey, and duly signaled in town
while the Maui was out.
A vast copcourse of people OF
every nationality, sex and age was
distributed along the waterfront
to see the Monterey enter. The
rigging of vessels in port, psrticu-
larly of the bark j. @. Glade,
swarmed with sightseers, their
still forms contrasting we'll with
the futtering strings of gay signal
code bunting.
The Monterey steamed in slow
majesty into the hsrbor and an.
chored in naval row on the Eva
side of the u. s. cruiser Mohican.
When the Brutus entered she
took her place Eva of the Mon
terey. The officers of the Mon
terey, several of whom are old &C.
auaintances of Honolulu, are as
follows:
Commander E HI G Leutze,
Commander.
Lieut. Comdr j w Carlin, Exc
cutive Officer.
Lieutenant f E Beatty, Navi-
gator.
Lieutenants A f Fetcheler, T S
Rogers, w w Buchanan, ID Kim
nell, j G Mcdonald.
Ensigns @ F Hughes, b M
Lombard.
Naval Cadet l F Lands, Line
Division.
Surgeon, f Rogers.
Asst Surgeon, @ r. Burr.
Paymaster, E P Rogers.
Chief Engineer, FL N Steven
son.
PA Engineer, F W Baker.
Asst Engineer, P l. Feel.