The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-07-24
A HOSPITAL SHIP
The Relief Reaches Port
From Manila.
Comforts and Convenisnces for
Some Of Those on Board.

Wh.te-capped nurses fitting 10 and
fro; a delicious GOODNESS in the rooms;
snowy couuterpaues on the ueatest Of
iron beds are about the first impress
sions one receives on paying a visit
10 the United States hospital ship Re
lief, which is now coaling at Irmgard
wharf.
Under Captain Frank Harding. sail
ing master; Major y. 3. Gradley. bril- /
gade surgeon. commanding; LieUteu- I!
ant George Irwin. quartermaster. the
Relief has nearly CirCied the world. |
During the Cuban campaign she was
running between New York. Cuba and |
Porto Rico and took sick and wounded !
soldiers 10 Fort WycOff at Montauk
Point. She was formerly the John In
gals. running between Portland. Me.
and New York. and was bought by the
United States Government and fitted
up regardless of expense. She made
eight trips between the West Indies
and the Atlantic coast. She has on
board an operating room and a COM
plete lot of surgical appliances: a
steam laundry and an ice plant. High
out of the water she rolls a good deal
in heavy weather, but this is more
than compensated for by the most en-
joyable living rooms high above the
water where ever breeze penetrates.
Poor, MANNED fellows on Crutches
were on the streets soon after the Re
rs..g
perience one does not soon forget To-
see the sad faces of those sick soldiers
on board who cannot come ashore.
The Relief arrived in port early Sat
urday from Manila, via Nagasaki and
Yokohama. Manila was left behind on
the 22nd of June and Nagasaki was
reached on the 26th and left on the
29th. In Yokohama the Relief was de
tanned several days on account of a
| typhoon raging not far outside the har-
Dor. July 2nd was spent on u sand
bank, on the Saratoga spit. at the en-
trance to the harbor of Yokohama.
The Relief has over 500 men aboard,
most of them being sick soldiers from
| Manila. Besides she has n set of of
| ficers and u complete hospital corps,
| Including surgeons. stewards and
trained nurses. On board are the fol-
| lowing commissioned officers, all of
whom are well known here. who are
invalided home: Captain John l.. lei
linger, First Nebraska; Captain Will
! liam J. Watson, Twentieth Kansas;
! Captain Adna G.. Clarke. Twentieth
! Kansas; First Lieutenant John G. Me
Arthur. Third infantry: Second Lieu
tenant Collin II. Ball. Twentieth Kan
sas: Second Lieutenant Oliver c. Lapp.
South Dakota.
! The army officers in charge are: Ma
jor ~ Il. Gradley, brigade surgeon.
III. 5. V, commanding: First Lieuten-
ant George Irwin, Fifth artillery, @.
NJ. and y. c. s.; Captain Henry K.
Stiles, assistant surgeon, L. :. A.; First
Lieutenant Weston Il. Chamberlain.
assistant surgeon, L. ). A.; contract
surgeons, DIR. c. ID. Van Waganan, DR..
w. p. Reed and DR.. Henry c. Rowland.
The hospital corps consists of Stew
ards George w. Muller and Henry
Fuerschback; acting stewards, Dean,
Schenk and Blankmeyer. Contract fe-
male nurses, Misses Jean Allan, Amy
b. Farqubarson, Esther i. Hassen,
Alice =. Lyon, Armistead, Guion, Ir-
vine and Russik.
Two men have died. Chris Klaus, pri-
vate of Company II, Wyoming. died
at Yokohama on July of malaria. At
Nagasaki, on June IS. Frank \. Duval
Isuccumbed TO meningitis. Both bodies
were embalmed and are being re-
turned to the United States on the Re
lief. Duval was shot in the right leg
and was laid up with his wound when
he contracted the fatal ailment.
The various regiments are represent
ed on the Relief by the following num-
Der of sick men: Hospital corps. six;
Third artillery, one; Sixth artillery,
two; Fourth cavalry. one; Third in
fantry, ten; Fourth infantry, six;
Ninth infantry. one; Fourteenth,
leight; Twenty-second. nine; Twenty
third, two; Signal corps, one; Utah ar
tillery, two; Wyoming artillery. one;
california artillery. two; First Califor-
mia, six; First Colorado. fourteen; Ida
Tho. six: Iowa. nineteen; Kansas. thir-
Ity-one; Minnesota, twenty-one; Mon
Itana, ten: Nebraska, fourteen; North
dakota. two: Oregon. twelve; Penn
lsylvania, seven; South Dakota. TWEEN
lty-five: Tennessee, one; Washington
five; Wyoming, three; navy, one; CT
william, one.
: The First California men aboard are:
John w. Slade. Company y; W. =
Thompson. Company =; Corporal G,
\. S. erase, Company c; II. Jantzen
Company f; r. ]. Mcdonald. Company
f: Hermann Yerg, Company l..
The Oregon men are; y. o. Reynolds
Company \; Corporal II. NJ. Wagner
Company b: Douglas Glenn. Company
d; r. w. Price, Company +; y. Rock.
well, Company +; Sergeant James Col,
llins. Company +: Corporal w. c. John.
son. Company +; Sergeant G.. J. Lau'
: tenschlager. Company c.; Ed l.. King
! Company II: Edmund Cyrus, Company
Il: Corporal T. II. Ballard. Company l.;
I r. p. Marshall. Company l..
Captain Frank Harding Is master o
the vessel. Charles Crocker first Off
, Ger. l. Charleton chief engineer. and
: f. Cole first assistant engineer.