The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-08-30
TACOMA TO STAY
FOTty-FOlr Vehicles for ]. S.
Camps in Honolulu.
RAPID TRANSIT AND CARTlNG
Tons of Freight Unloading-Taco
ma Repairs-Arizona Men May
Go Into Camp Here.
RAPID TRANSIT AND CARTlNG

Thirty escort wagons and fourteen
ambulances with u. S. A" on them
Will be placed on the roads of Hawaii
mel this week. This morning the trans
port Tacoma viii discharge these and
also about 800 tons of feed for the
horses and mules, belonging 20 the
United States Government now on pas
ture in IwiIei A week on the turf has
made the mules quite frisky and it will
be some work for the teamsters to
catch them and harness them up. Al
though the wagons and ambuIances
are intended for four mules each, only
two will be used. Lieut.. Cameron,
who has charge of the Tacoma's cargo
and live stock, thinks the roads around
Honolulu so good that two mules can
do the work all right. The escort
wagons will be used for carting all the
commissary stores to and from the
steamers, the depot and the various
camps about the island. Six thousand
soldiers will keep the ambulances busy
if the camps are scattered.
1t would take about three weeks more
to complete repairs to the Tacomas
boiler and condenser if work were con-
tinued. Orders were received yester-
day to stop the work, however, and
nothing further will be done until word
is received by the Scandia, due next
Thursday, as 10 the movements of the
Tacoma and its cargo.
Gen. Merriam stated yesterday after
noon that his orders from Washington
were to hold everything at Honolulu
until he had heard from the Govern
mant again These instructions ap-
piled to the Tacoma and her cargo of
live stock as well as to the Arizona
and the troops. Whether the Tacoma
will go to Manila or return to San
Francisco no man this side of the coast
knows Ii is not believed here, how
ever. that she will ever reach the Phil
ippines. inasmuch as the terms of peace
end the necessity for cavalry animals
there.
Arrangements are now making to put
the troops on the Arizona in camp att
Kapiolani park in case movements are
delayed by coming orders from the
War Department. This will mean
merely an extension of the present
camp TO accommodate the recruits.
The commissary department at this
post is now thoroughly established and
can easily stand the additional strain.
A few Of the Arizona men stopped at
the camp last night.
Gen. Merriam is a true friend TO a
cable for Honolulu. Unless all indica-
tiOns fail he will urge upon the Gov
ernment at Washington the immediate.
pressing necessity for connecting the
Islands with the Mainland. It will be
urged as a military necessity of great
moment. especially in view of the
movement of all eXpeditiOnary forces
to this city. There seems a probability
that the cable Will follow the troops
quickly as a military precautiOn. even
if the line is sold after the Philippine
question is fully disposed of.
Yesterday the Arizona discharged a
large quantity of hay intended for the
TacOma's live stock al Manila. It viii
! be taken 10 the Iwilei pasture today.
Over hundred tons Of supplies for
Honolulu We're also discharged. II is
/ this stuff that the TacOma's wagons
viii haul today and during the week.