The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-07-23
Transports Peru and City Of
PIG1la Are Due.
MAJ.- Gen. OTIS AND HIS STAFF
VIII Be Here a FOrtnight-To Await
Three More Boats-LOCal
Military Post.

The United States transports Peru
and City of Puebla are likely to arrive
in today bound for Manila.
The Peru and City of PuebIa will
remain here until the arrival Of the
next fleet, which will be composed of
the Pennsylvania, the Rio Janeiro and
the st. Paul. This fleet was slated to
sail yesterday, but what troops it will
carry has not yet been decided This
matter will be left to Major General
Merriam, who is to have charge of all
the Philippine expeditionary forces re
naming at San Francisco after the
departure of Major General Otis. The
regiments to be stationed at Honolulu
was to transported without delay on
a vessel yet to be chartered.
General Otis, while waiting for this
regiment and the three other trans
ports, will arrange matters at Homo
lulu for the military post and have
everything in readiness for the demon
stratiOn in honor of the annexation,
in which all the troops present, to-
gether with the garrison regiment,
will take part. At Honolulu General
Otis will receive additional orders
from Washington.
Major General Otis and his staff will
be on the Peru. His staff is composed
of Brigadier General r. P. Hughes,
United States Volunteers, inspector
general chief of staff of the Depart
ment of the Pacific; Lieutenant Colonel
T. II. Barry, assistant adjutant gen
eral; Major John S. Mallory, inspector
general; Captain Charles Mcclure of
the Eighteenth Infantry, acting judge
advocate; Captain John L. SehOn, as
sistant adjutant general and aid, and
First Lieutenant f. w. Sladen of the
Fourteenth Infantry aid.
The assignments to the two trans
ports were:
On the steamer City Of PuebIa:
Headquarters and remaining cOmpan-
les of the Fourteenth United States
Infantry; recruits of First and Sec--
Ond BattaliOns of the Eighteenth and
Twenty-third United States Infantry;
enlisted men of the First North Da-
kota, Alger Light Artillery of Wyo-
ming, First Idaho Regiments of Vol
unteers, medical officers and members
of the hospital corps.
On the steamer Peru: Squadron of
the Fourth United States Cavalry de-
signated for eXpeditiOnary purposes; |
light batteries of the Sixth United
States Artillery; detachment of the |
Third United States Artillery-mem- |
bers of batteries which have already |
one company of the signal /!
corps, United States Volunteers, and |
medical offers and members of the |
hospital corps.
General Merriam, commander Of the |
department of California, to |
which Hawaii has been attached, will |
in all likelihood soon visit the ISL |
ands.
There will be on the Peru and City |
of PuebIa in the neighbOrhood of 1000 |
men.
Colonel Barbers regiment to garri- |
son the United States post here will, !
with attaches, number not less than |
l, 500 officers and men.
According to San Francisco papers |
it was at one time intended to send |
400 soldiers for the garrison here by |
the Alameda, but this project was |
abandoned at the last moment.
The ships of the first expedition |
should be along any day now on the |
way back to San Francisco. These |
are the Australia Peking and Sydney. |