The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-07-06
TWO SHIPS ARE IN
Troops Arrive on City Of Para
and Ohio.
THEY LOOK LIKE FIGHTERS
Stunning Regiment From Mime
sota-Strong Battalion From wy
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
THEY LOOK LIKE FIGHTERS
THIRD EXPEDITION.

4 The steamships Ohio and City ot
Para, advance pair of Gen. Merritt
own squadron for Manila, arrived in
this port yesterday forenoon. There
were in 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 ad staff are aboard
the City of Newport
Aboard the City of Para, which was
dOcked at the Pacific Mail wharf. is
the Thirteenth Minnesota Volunteers,
already a famous regiment. The
command numbers 1890 officers and
men.
Aboard the Ohio are twenty-four Of
ficers and 954 men, with a band. This
ships company includes five companies
! of L. S. Infantry. Two batteries of
u. S. artillery and the First Battalion
of Wyoming Volunteers. The senior
! officer is Col. Van Valzah, Eighteenth
| u. S. Infantry. Maj. Frank Foote is
| in command Of the Wyoming Bat
| tahOn.
The Ohio and City of Para will be
| through cOaIing today. They must
wait for the Morgan City and Indiana.
1t is likely that these four will go on
ahead of the Valencia and City of
Newport.
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 ...-......
....Lieut. T. w. Griffith, T. S A
America ........ 18th Infantry Band |
Grafton .Sergt. Chas. H. Burritt, Wye |
Sergt. Burritt was fortunate enough |
to coin a new and most happy phrase. |
1t is: we have a Sampson in the |
Eastern Ocean, for the clipping of
whose hair no Philistine Delilah has
yet been born" After the program
there were sports. These consisted of
boxing, tug-Of-war, etc. The OratiOn
was frequently interrupted with ap-
plause. Especially was this the case
|
neXatiOn of Hawaii
The Ohio orator of the day found ac-
and friends in the small
colony in Honolulu. In the
fOrty-fOurth state no name is better
known that that of Chas. II. Burritt
-he attorney of Buffalo. He is at pres
9nt a member of the Legislature, sat in
.he Constitutional convention and is,
Or was, in the most direct and certain
inc of political preferment. Mr.. Bur-
It was at one time offered a commits
sion in another command but prefers
% remain a wearer of the chevrOns
With the boys from his own State. He
5 a pleasant, lively, active, almost rest
eSS man. He has even more than the |
reservoir of western energy. | (
n secret society life Mr.. Burritt is a
state district deputy for the MasOns
md a past grand chancellor for the
Knights of Pythias. He is an Ameri-
an to the core, and when the call to
arms was heard cast everything else
lside and fell in as a private with the
company he had once commanded.
Few men sacrifice more than frank
,arnest. friendly and unpretentiOus
Ihas. H. Burritt, of Wyoming.
YESTERDAY AND TODAY.
The troops of this expedition are the
irst to be drilled ashore at Honolulu
S final preparation for service in Ma
lila. Most of the men are in the }
,rOwn dungaree uniforms, though the !
Wyoming battalion used the white I
anVaS suits. !
The reception to the two ships ar {
living yesterday morning was about S
he same as to the others. The band c
nd officials and citizens went out in /
he Wilder steamer Maui and there 5
we're the usual exchanges OF cheers. @
Shore liberty is being given the men {
GENEROUSLY. S
Soon after the noon hour yesterday 2
he regulars off the Ohio and the WyO- I
ling battalion Of volunteers marched z
ut Beretania street. The regulars c
OntinUed to the base ball grounds y
nd were there drilled for a couple of v
ours. Mai. FOOCe halted the WyO- Y
ling battalion at Thomas Square. The a
len were allowed TO rest in the park Il