The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-08-29
j. s. Steamer Arizona. With
Gems. King and Merriam.
SHE is FAST AND COMMODlOUS
Ship and Men May Be Here a Fort
night-Commands on Board-A
Red Cross Corps.

| The L. s. transport steamer Arizona ar
| rived off port about 3 o'clock Saturday
might, five days and twenty-six hours from
| San Francisco. on Wednesday last she
Istopped six ana half hours on account OF
! an accident to her machinery. The voy-
age could have been made in less than
| five days under regular steam
| on board the transport are: The Third
| Battalion Eighteenth Infantry, 513 men:
| recruits for the First Colorado. First Ne
braska Tenth Pennsylvania and Third
Artillery, now in Manila. There are ,206
men all told Besides these are General
Merritt and a Red Cross Corps.
Brigadier General Charles r. King is in
command of the expedition, comprising
the ships Arizona and Scandia, and is on
the big steamer now here. His staff is
as follows: Capt. SaXton, assistant adj
Jutant general; Capt J. b. Handy. com
missary of subsistence: Second Lieut. H.
NJ. Merriam Third Artillery, aid: Mai
William II. Corbusier, surgeon: Mai. p +.
Morris, surgeon; Acting Assistant Sur
geon c. F. De May; Capt. Evans, voIun-
teer cOmmisSary of subsistence Attaches.
Hospital Stewards Charles van Radeskv,
George Egan and Oscar F. Campbeu.
Second Lieut. H. NJ. BouteIIe, Third Ar
tillery; Alexander T. Reid, Walter T.
Martin and fifteen members of the Hos
ihomas D Hare. The field and line Of
Eighteenth Infantry. COMPANY Giant
Hardin, Second Lieut.. McBrown
GG0mPany G0naPan3. I K-Eirst First Lieut.. i. Lewis
Company M-Second Lieut. Baldwin.
Tenth Pennsylvania Recruits-Tieut
Col. Barnett and Second Lieut.. Croweu, in
First Colorado Recruits-Capt Carroll
ana 4Gt.St Second S2l Lieut. BidweH in charge;
7 IfIEst fIEst Nebraska Recruits-Lieuts Kilien,
ttOlCeman and Wilson.
Fourteenth Infantry - Second Lieut..
Third Artillery Recruits-Second Tieuts
Merriam, Boutelle, James, kimmeu and
At IL o'clock yesterday morning the
were formed under the wharf
shed, where the first orders of Gen. King
to them were read. The orders set forth
10 LoeItS IN f1OiiOiuIi VIII depend upon |
themselves meaning the individual men |
any complaints from the people Of the |
Guy as 10 the conduct Of the men would !
Dc, q cause Tor stopping liberty altogether. |
Liberty hours would be from Y O'Clock !
.IoOiI @ 20 II cIock at night From noon |
to SundOWn white suits and white he'll
NETS viii be worn. After night and i'm
case Of rain during the day the uniform
viii include blue shirts. Twenty per cent
oi each company viii be given shore leave
at time.
Following the publication of these ord
arS the commands were divided into five |
1arts Of twenty men each, These squads
we're then given liberty in turn. each
squad being allowed two hours and ten |
minutes in town. This arrangement was
l little fresh air each day.
There is nothing definite as to the de
'arture of the Arizona for the Philippines.
urthGr than that she VIII wait for the
SCandia, due about Thursday afternoon |
An hour before sailing from San Fran
iSco Gen Merriam received orders from
to hold the Arizona here for
urther instructioens. ie,r This will probably
mean that she viii be here a week or ten
lays.
RED CROSS NURSES ;
There is quite a party of Red Cross
urseS on the Arizona bound for Manila. | ,
hey have been selected with a careful
lew to their experience and fitness. They r
o to Manila. not for salary. because there :
$ only transportation and food in il. but
or their devotion TO the cause for which
hey are working.
Or. Mary A. Palm practiced medicine
n Martinez and left the position of matron
n the Contra Costa County Hospital
DR.. Rose Kidd Beere graduated from the
western University, and, after three years
+ practice at Durango, Colorado. assumed
or Dependent children, from which she
esigned a few months ago. Dr.. Eeere is
he North Side Club of Denver, president
# the West Side Club and secretary of
he Womans Democratic Club.
Miss A. J. GaTliCk is a graduate of hos ,
'itals in New Haven and has had many
ears OF eNperience as nurse.
Ralph are graduates of the Childreus
hospital. Miss T. II. Lasswen has de-
-oted years to hospital work.
Dr. Wilder Dwight graduated at Los
ANGELES and took a special course at Har-
-ard.
DR. c. r. Caldwell has been surgeon
If the F'abiola hospital for over a year.
Robert DuTOJ comes from St. LUlZe'S
hospital and has Il record Of twelve years
service.
Ralph hlbble has been eight years in
he German hospital, and II. Tanner is a
eguIaT nurse and good hospital cook.
z. 3. Leonard is graduate Of Bellevue
nd his wife of the Los Angeles hospital.
Dir. Rose Kidd Beere goes to join the
Colorado regiment. DR.. Mary :. Palm
las a son. an apprentice, on the BaIti-
more. Miss LassWeu has a brother i'm the
7irst California.
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