The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-05-30
THE SHERMAN ARRIVES THIS
MORNING.
She Has Two Brigadier Generals
Aboard, Many Heroes of the Cuban
Campaign, and 1,761 Enlisted men.

The biggest vessel that ever came
into the harbor, is at the Pacific Mail
wharf. She is the United States trans
port Sherman, Captain G. II. Grant,
seven and half days from San Fran
cisco.
She has aboard two brigadier gem
erals, three colonels, 55 other commits
stoned officers, 1,761 enlisted men, and
a dozen or more quartermasters and
postal clerks for the Philippines.
The Sherman is counted the finest
troop ship in the world. She was for.
merly the Mobile of the Atlantic Line
plying between New York and Lon
don. She was fitted up for troop
ship at Cramps yards, and took troops
for the Philippines from New York by
way of the Suez Canal. She is 445 feet
long, 40 feet beam, "a feet depth of
hold, $3.50 tons gross register; she
has four boilers capable of producing
steam equal to $500 horse power; her
engines are triple expansions; she has
twin crews and her propellors are 21
feet pitch. She carries crew of 175
men.
Captain c. II. Grant her sailing mas
ter, formerly commanded the steam
ship New York of the American line.
During the war with Spain he was a
lieutenant in the navy and command
ed the u. S. S. Governor Russell.
The Chief Engineer is George F..
Kingsland
The troops aboard the Sherman are
the 9th Infantry, 1852 enlisted men
under command of Col. T.. II. kellogg;
300 recruits and casuals organized in
two provisional companies; a detach-
ed engineer corps of so; detached
signal corps of II; and Il hospital
corps of 113.
Brigadier General Frederick ID.
Grant and Brigadier General e. r..
Bates, are passengers aboard going to
the Philippines for service. General
Grant was in command at Chicamauga
and afterwards in Porto Rico. General
Bates was in the Cuban campaign.
Col. f. Ii. Liscum, also en- route to the
Philippines was "a brigade commander
under Lawton and was severely
wounded at San Juan Hill. Col. Pow
ell is another veteran of the late war
with Spain who is going out for duty
in the Philippines.
Some of the other officers are Lit.
Col. G. w. Miner and. Major James
Candy of the 9th Infantry, Major Ben
jamin Holloway, paymaster and Major
l.. l.. Seaman, surgeon.
Among civilians aboard the Sher-
man are j. o. West, Deputy Collector
of Customs at Manila; George j. Kava-
naugh, staff correspondent of the Chi
cago Record who was all through the
war in the West Indies; E. A. Kipp of
the Minneapolis journal; and NJ. L.
Fox of the Sioux Falls Press.
Captain James Charles Read, is the
quartermaster in charge of the trans
port. He has won much distinction
during the war in the quartermaster's
department. His clerk is Samuel Dal-
zell, and the quartermaster's clerk H.
V. Bootes.
The Sherman left San Francisco at
8 o'clock p. IN. May 22. She arrived in
port at Z o'clock this morning. At s
| o'clock the flag was raised 10 half
mast in respect of Memorial Day, and
the band played the Star Spangled
Banner. The vessel was, dressed nut
in bunting. Immediately before noon
the band played a dirge, and at noon a
national salute of twenty-one guns
was fired. The flag was then hoisted
to the top of the staff and the band
played patriotic airs.
The Sherman will be here probably
about two days.