The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-12-01
| WHARF AND WAVE
Transport St. Paul With Troops
Arrives in Port.
U.S.T. BENMORR AND lENNOX OUT
The Thanksgiving Fleet Nsws of
the Louis-PiIot House
Moving.

headquarters, Ddnu, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
staff and Cos troops Of the Thirty
eighth Infantry. The st. Paul sailed
from San Francisco a few hours after
the Hancock and brought no mail OF
late news. She was signaled off Wal
manalo about IL o'clock yesterday
morning and came into the harbOr
some three hours later This is the
fourth voyage of the st. Paul to Ma
Mia and she has proven one of the
most popular steamers in the trans
port service. \ year ago she took the
Christmas gifts TO the boys in the
Philippines, but this year that pleas
ant duty was given to one of the larg-
er transports. The ST. Paul is char
tered from the Alaska Commercial
Company and is cOmmodious. and the
cuisine is surpassed by none OF the
tFans-Pacific steamers. The Thirty
eighth Regiment is composed of men
chiefly from the South and was re-
cruited at Jefferson Barracks. On
board the st. Paul are fifty recruits
under command of Lieutenant l.. d.
| Howard. The other officers on board
are Col. Geo. :. Anderson, command
ing; Maj. w. \. Holbr6ok, Maj. j. ID.
| Glennon, Md, surgeon: Maj. +. T..
| GOOdier: Captains w. c. Bennett; B. A.
| Read, w. G.. Fleishauer. w. J. More
Il. VI. Nolan. w. J. Warden. J. e. Web
er, C.. r.. Sawyer; Lieutenants c. b.
Mallhoff. NJ. d.. n. p. Pavey, w. G.
DOane. w. y. Coyington, l.. ID. How
ard. Fl. V. Stevens, ]. ]. Morrison. \.
Il. Kelley. +. s. Krebs. ID. II. Jacobs
Second Lieutenants ID. r. Johnson, w.
o. Thornton, f. Bury. ID. G.. Shortle, |
+. G. Husman, c. ]. Weinheimer and |
\. ]. Wonde. The two quartermaster's |
clerks are F. NJ. Lowell and r. V. Dell |
Col. Geo. s. Anderson is an old regu- |
lar army man who has seen service for /
many years on the frontier. Captain |
w. C. Bennett is the United States
quaTtermaster on board Lieut.. G. b.
Millhoff. Md, is assistant surgeon of
the regiment. Capt. w. J. Warden of
New Orleans is typical Southerner,
and has had experience during the
Spanish war on the Atlantic coast
The officers of the st. Paul are Captain
Hays, First Officer Warner, Second Of
ficer Johannsen, Third officer Malo-
ney, Chief Engineer KurtZ, First AS
sistant Engineer Durham. Second AS
sistant Engineer Tracey, Third Assist
ant Engineer Concannon, PurSar Stet-
son and Steward Ramsden. The St.
Paul carries a crew of seventy men.
C. III. Durham of the engineers staff is
n sort of kamaaina here, having pulled
the throttle in the Wilders' Steamship
Line for many years.
The St. Paul had an uneventfuI trip
from San Francisco, sailing on the
evening of November 20 and coming /,
at slow speed so as not to get here too
far ahead OF the transport Duke Of
Fife, on which is the rest of the reGi-
ment. The Duke of Fife is expected
this morning. The st. Paul passed the
Australia at ) o'clock Wednesday aft
ernOOn bound east.
THE BROKEN-SHAFT QUESTION.
Remarks an English shipping ex-
change: The cases lately chronicied
OF vessels on the Australasian Inc
breaking their shafts, and afterwards
drifting about for weeks at the mercy
of the wind and waves. call attention
10 the desirability of steamers. at least
those that carry passengers, being fit
ted with twin screws. The additional
expense is, of course, considerable,
about e15.000 perhaps. according TO
size and class of ship, and where it is
desired TO build cheap ships and run
them cheaply, such expenditure would
not be welcome TO owners and direct-l
ors. But twin-screw vessels are GER
fainly becoming more fancied by the
public, and in the future any :
line that is ambitious of competing for :.
passenger traffic will have 10 incur the
expense. One of the objections from
4 cargo point of view is the additional
space taken up by the duplicate en-
sines and shaft tunnel. With sails re-
tuced TO a minimum. and pole masts,
it is only just and proper that every
should be taken to see that d
the propulsion system should be of the
safest and most complete"
THE LOUIS IN DISTRESS.
The American bark Louis arrived at
Taiohae. Narquesas Islands, on Sep
.ember 5 in leaky condition, bound
from Iquique, South America, to Ho-
lOlulu, with a cargo Of nitre. It was
the intention of the master OF the :