The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-08-10
THE BOSTON HERE
Vessel Particularly Identified
With Hawaiian History.
WAR RECORDS OF HER OFFICERS
Still Bears Scars of the Battle of Ma
IiIa-She Will Remain Here
a Week.

The second-rate protected cruiser
Boston, from Manila via Hongkong
Nagasaki and Yokohama, is at anchor
in Naval Row. Flying from her main
| is the homewardbound pennant,
which tells that as soon as San Fran
| cisco is reached she will go out of
commission. On her decks are sun
| Drowned men who have been under
Dewey in the battle of Manila and aft
erwards cruising about the neighbor-
| ing harbors of the Philippines-som
who were at Guam with the Charles
ton; others who We're in the fight off
Santiago and from Cuban waters were
| transferred to the Asiatic squadron not
too late to fire a few shots at the Fill
pinos.
Shots poured thick and fast at the
Boston as she sailed with the fleet
! into Manila Bay on the day of the ia
nous naval battle and few scars
show where the doughty vessel was
struck. But now there are relics scat
tered about in the rooms of the officers
| of the victory. In Lieutenant Com
mander Hughes quarters is painting
| by some Filipino artist of the present
Queen Regent of Spain.-''Not half
bad said jovial Lieutenant Command
er w. H. Allen. Don't know who did
| it, but | assure you we all respect the
subject and the artist too, who ever he
]
an affair more or less elaborate, hav-
| ing come off the Spanish gunboat Don
Antonio de Ulloa.-"A long name, too"
smiled Chief Engineer Roberts, ''but a
good sounding bell for (apologetically)
ours was cracked you know, and we
needed a new one" Here and there
| one sees mementoeS of the war which
| these heroes are bringing home-ugly
| daggerS, curious knives and odds and
| ends from our new possessions.
After the battle of Manila the Bos-
| ton went to IloilO, where alone and
lunaSSisted she reduced that fort and
finally the whole of Cebu
But few of the original men of the
Boston who sailed from Honolulu in
February, '96, are with her now. Blue
jackets and officers are men from va
rious ships of the Asiatic squadron.
The officers are:
Lieutenant Commander (PetreD, E.
M. Hughes.
Lieutenant Commander, w H. Allen.
Lieutenant, J. Gibson.
Lieutenant D. c., G. r. Slocum.
Lieutenant (J. GD, r. E. Coontz.
Ensign, w. A. Moffett.
Ensign, o. P. Jackson.
Ensign, E. McCauley, Jr.
Passed Assistant Surgeon, B. r.
Ward.
Assistant Surgeon, J. S. Chaffee.
Passed Assistant Paymaster, B. P.
Dubois.
Chief Engineer, r. T. Hall.
Assistant Engineer, L. F. James.
Assistant Engineer, H. I. Cone.
Second Lieutenant, U. S. NJ c., L. J.
Magill
Acting Gunner, L. ]. Wallace.
Acting Carpenter, w. Boone.
Pay Clerk, w. D. Bollard.
The Boston's crew numbers 211 blue
jackets and % marines
Lieutenant Commander Hughes as
sumed command of the Boston at
Hongkong, relieving Captain w. H.
Whiting, who, on account of the Sc
rious illness of his wife there, was Civ
en- a two months leave of absence.
Lieutenant Commander Hughes passed
through Honolulu as an officer on the
Petrol some two years ago.
Lieutenant Commander w. H. Allen
was with the fleet off Santiago and
bears an enviable record for bravery
and efficiency in the late war. He was
on board the Oregon.
Lieutenants Slocum and Coontz were
with the Charleston before being as
signed to their present duty.
Ensign o. P. Jackson was attached
to the United States ship st. Paul dur
ing the past year. Ensign E. NJ. Nc
Cauley, Jr., was formerly of the United
States ship Brooklyn.
Assistant Surgeon Ward was with
the Bennington when she passed
through Honolulu, as was PaymaSter
Dubois.
Chief Engineer Hall will be remem- !
bered as an officer of the United States
ship Pensacola some seven and odd !
years ago, afterwards going through to
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