The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-08-01
Former Pacific Mail Liner Here
for Manila.
is A NEW BRIG. GEN. ABOARD
Reception to Steamship - South
Dakota VoIunteers-Given Exer-
else at Once TOday-Notes.

The transport Rio de Janeiro arrived
early Sunday morning, eight days from
San Francisco. She was received by quite
a large wharf crowd, heads of the Big
Hundred and officers of the n. G.. H.
The Rio docked at the Oceanic wharf.
Brigadier General Otis called on Major
General Otis aboard the Peru early in
the forenoon and decided upon matters
respecting the stay in port
About 10 o'clock all the troops the
Rio were marched to the grounds of the
Executive Building. There arms We're
stacked and the men fell out. On board
the transport a big gang was set to
work cleaning up and the vessel began
taking coal at once.
After falling out the new troops looked
over town. Most of the officers took car
riages and visited various points of in
terest, many taking in the concert at
Makee Island. General Otis went to the
top of Punchbowl hill. The men found
all the amusement they desired in un-
ravelling the mysteries of the cocoanut
and questioning the fruit vendors. Trop-
zeal plants and fruits were entirely new
to the Dakotans.
There are 87S men on the Rio besides
the staff of General Otis and the unat-
Third Battalions, First Regiment, South
Dakota Volunteers, go men; recruits for
the Utah Batteries, now at Manila, IU9
men; signal corps, 80 men; officers, As. The
first battalion of the South Dakota regi-
ment was left at San Francisco and Will
probably arrive the St. Paul.
Staff officers on the Rio are as folio Ms:
Major George F. Shields, brigade sur
geon: Captain Edward Murphy, Second
Assistant Adjutant General; Captain A.
w. Kimball Chief Quartermaster; Cap
tain Seth NJ. MilIiken, CommiSSary of
Subsistence; First Lieut.. Louis +. Sand
ers, aide; Second Lieut.. a. w. Bradbury,
aide.
The unattached officers on the Rio are:
Lieutenant Colonel Charles w. Whipple,
Inspector General, L. S. V, ordered to
report to Major General Merritt at Ma
Mia; Captain G. a. Devol, L. S. A, As
sistant Quartermaster, ordered to report
to Major General Otis; Captain G. G.
WaIcutt, L. S. W assigned to duty at
Honolulu; Captain Samuel w. Belford,
L. S. V, acting adjutant general, ord
cred. to report to General Merritt at
Manila.
First Lieutenant Leo. f. Foster. of the
South Dakota Regiment, is detached and
placed in charge of the l tab light artil-
lery recruits on the Rio. Captain Edgar
Russell, L. S. A, is in charge of the
volunteer signal corps.
Colonel A. d. Frost is in command of
the South Dakota regiment. His officers
are as follows: Major Charles A. How
ard, second battalion; Major William +.
Allison, third battalion; Major X. {.
Warne, surgeon; Captain F. w. Cox, as
Sistant surgeon; Captain G. NJ. Daley,
chaplain; First Lieut.. ]. II. Lien, regi-
mental adjutant; First Lieut.. Henry Muir
ray, quartermaster. These are company
officers:
Company A-Capt. A. L. Fuller. First
Lieut.. Edwin Harting, Second Lieut.. NJ
NJ 4. Guthrie.
Company C-Capt. w. S. Gray. First
Lieut. Leo f. Foster, Second Lieut.. s. @.
Larson.
Company D-Capt. c. P. Van Houten,
First Lieut.. L. l.. Dynna, Second Lieut.
George G. Jennings.
Company E-Capt. George w. Latin,
Lieut.. Sidney E. Morrison.
Company F'-Capt. Charles L. Brock
way, First Lieut.. Palmer D. Sheldon,
Second Lieut.. Fred Huntingdon
Company G-Capt. Robert r. NcGregor,
First Lieut.. O. NJ. Fisk, Second Lieut..
William a. Halle
Company L-Captan William McLaugh-
lin, First Lieut.. John @. A. Braden, Sec
ond Lieut.. George H. Crabtree.
Company M-Capt Frank w. Meabery,
First Lieut.. Fred NJ. BurdiCk, Second
Lieut.. +. f. Young.