The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-07-29
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Mrs. s. NJ. Damon had about thfrt,
| Boys in Blue at luncheon yesterday.
| ID. NJ. Carmen. representing the San
| Francisco Report, is on the Pennsylvania
| Free soda is still the order of the dan
| for Boys in Blue at Benson, Smith &
| Co.'S.
Sergeant Elvin entertained large
number of Boys in Blue at Kakaako butts
yesterday.
a. w. Clay, Company F. Montana Vol
unteers. is a brother of Deputy Collector
OF Customs.
The youngest member of the expedition
is Trumpeter VIM. Brown, aged y, aboard
the Pennsylvania.
The Montana band gave a concert on
board the Pennsylvania at o'clock yes
terday afternoon.
Tricks Nelson. d local celebrity. is
employed in the engine room of the trans
port Pennsylvania.
knights of Pythias in the expedition
visited Mystic Lodge Wednesday evening
and Oahu last night.
Mrs. c. NJ. Hyde is erecting a tent on
the lawn at her residence for a lOunging
place for Boys in Blue.
Camp Merritt has been abandoned and
soldiers a San Francisco for Manila are
qaartered at the Presidio.
A half of the troops now on the Penn
sVlvania had liberty yesterday morning,
and the remainder were ashore last night
The Rio was expected to leave San
Francisco not later than the 22nd. The
Scandia and st. Paul are to follow later.
Private Besse, of the Fourteenth, is
correspondent for Boston and other pa
pers and has lately been in politics in
Ohio.
First Lieut.. William B. Hanna. adju-
tant of the first battalion, Montana regi-
ment, is a nephew of Senator Mark
Hanna.
Private A b. Elder, a young man, when
at home is a practicing attorney, with
offices in the Commercial Block, Salt
Lake City
Dr.. c. B. Cooper. of this city, at one
time practiced at Butte, and finds many
friends and acquaintances in the Mon
tana boys.
Bevan Montague, who had an Austria
liam vaudeville show here about two
years ago, is a member of the Montana
regiment band.
Edwin Farmer. school teacher at Eva,
has enlisted in San Francisco for the
war and will probably pass through here
on the Rio de JaneirO
Bandmaster Harry Roberts of the Mon
tana band and Bandmaster Watson, of
the MinneSOtaS, who died here a few
days ago, were old friends.
Private McManus, of L, in the Four
teenth, is newspaper man well known
in Milwaukee and Chicago. He is writ
ing for number of papers.
General Otis has decided that the men
on the Pennsylvania are reasonably COM
Portable and will not have a part of
them go into camp as was at first hoped.
the Pennsylvania with all back money for
the men of this expedition. 1t will be
dealt out at the judgment of cammand-
ing officers.
1t is now said that the Alger CChey
enne. WyoD battery of light artillery,
will be assigned to the garrison at this
place with the Tenth New York regi-
ment of infantry.
Sergt. Morford. of the Montana Regi-
ment at Camp Merritt dubbed with
rife Private Stanley, who was about to
stab Lieut.. Conrad. Stanley is yet in the
hospital with a broken jaw.
Young Private Cohen, with the troops,
is son of the man at one time in bus
mess at the corner of Fort and Merchant
Cohen is being entertained by John Egan,
an old friend of his father.
Private Cook of Company f, California
recruits, is the big brother of Fred COOK,
ex-patrOlman and member of Company
+, N. @. H, who left Honolulu by the
second expedition for Manila
Many of the Montana men were sea-
sick coming down. In town yesterday
their legs were shaky, houses were reel
ing and they could hear the splash of sea
waves on store windows as they passed
along the streets.
Regular officers from the Peru and
Puebla went to Eva mill in a special
car yesterday. They were pilOted on the
trip by Justice Whiting and COlonel j.
H. Fisher and other n. @. H. officers.
If the Rio de Janeiro is in port by
o'clock this morning the troops aboard
Will be received with the Montana men
at the Executive grounds today. If the
Rio men arrive later than that hour they
viii be entertained separately on Mon
1aE.