The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-07-13
TWO SHIPS ARE IN
Troops Arrive On City Of Para
and Ohio.
THEY LOOK LIKE FIGHTERS


Regulars Events.
The steamships Ohio and city of
Para advance pair of Gen. Merritts
own squadron for Manila, arrived fn
This port Tuesday forenoon. There
were .n the same fleet. leaving the
same day and expected here hourly, the
Morgan City and Indiana There left
san Francisco two days later than all
these. the Valencia and City of New
port Gen Merritt and staff are aboard
he City OF Newport.
Aboard the City of Para. which was
doeked at the Pacific Mail wharf is
the Thirteenth Minnesota Volunteers,
already famous regiment The
command numbers 1030 officers ana
mon
Aboard the Ohio are twenty-four Of
hcers and 954 men, with a band This
ships company includes i've companies
Of L. S. Infantry Two batteries of
L. S. artillery and the First Battalion
of Wyoming Volunteers. The senior
officer is Col Van Valzah, Eighteenth
IT, S Infantry. Maj. Frank F'oote is
in command of the Wyoming Bat
TALON.
The troops of this expedition are the
first to be drilled ashore at. Honolulu
as final preparation for service liz Ma
nila. Most of the men are in the
brown dungaree uniforms, though the
Wyoming battalion used the white
canvas suits.
The reception to the two ships ar
irving Tuesday morning was about
the same as to the others. The band
and officials and citizens went out in
the Wilder steamer Maui and there
were the usual exchanges of cheers.
Soon after the noon hour Tuesday
the regulars off the Ohio and the WyO-
ming battalion of volunteers marched
out Beretania street. The regulars
continued to the base ball grounds
and were there drilled for a couple of
hours. Maj FOOte halted the WyO-
ming battalion at Thomas Square The
men were allowed to rest in the park !
and were drilled in companies on the |
street by the captains. All of these |
commands appear to be in high state |
of efficiency.
In the middle of the afternoo- the |
Minnesota regiment, which may be |
called one of the very best in the SER
vice was guided to the base ball park |
by Lieut.. Coyne of the n. G. H. Here |
Col. McC Reeve drilled his three bait
taliOns for an hour and nothing like it |
in the military line was ever before |
seen on Hawaiian soil. Every com
mand was executed promptly, in uni
son and with a snap and confidence
that bespoke hours upon hours OF ear
nest work in the earlier days of the
,iro ,-T,o = !
sofa regiment drill would like to have
another view of it in motion. The
command was given cheer after cheer
as it passed along the street, both go
ing to the ball grounds and returning.
An excellent band headed the column
The mascot is a little darkey in uni
form
THE FOURTH AT SEA.
There was a formal and a most en-
thusiatic celebration of the Fourth of
July at sea, aboard the S. S. Ohio. This
was the program. occupying the time
of the greater part of the day:
Hail Columbia 18th Infantry Band
Reading of the Declaration of In
dependence ................
Leut. T. w. Griffith. L. S. A.
America ....... 18th Infantry Band.
Grafton .Sergt. Chas. H. Burritt, Wyo.
Sergt. Burritt was fortunate enough ]
to coin a new and most happy phrase.
It is: I'VE have Sampson in the
Eastern Ocean, for the clipping of
whose hair no Philistine Delilah has
vet been born" After the program ]
here were sports. These consisted of !
boxing, tug-of-war, etc. The oratiOn
was frequently interrupted with ap- !
plause. Especially was this the case {
when reference was made to the An {
leXatiOn of Hawaii.
The Ohio orator Of the day found ac-
luaintances and friends in the small ]
colony in Honolulu. In the Y
state no name is better ]
znown that that of Chas H Burritt, I
he attorney of Buffalo. He is at pres /
mt a member of the Legislature, sat in I
he Constitutional convention and is, {
II was, in the most direct and certain c
inc of political preferment. Mr.. Bur
lit was at one time offered a commits
ion in another command, but prefers
o remain a wearer of the chevrOns
With the boys from his own State. He J
5 pleasant, lively, active. almost rest /
ess man. He has even more than the 7
reservoir Of western energy.
n secret society life Mr.. Burritt is y