The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-10-02
The Finest Troop Ship in The
World Now in Port.
TRANSPORT SHERMAN ARRIVED
Has Sixteen Hundred and Fiji )
Stores and Ammunition,

souls on board, bound for Manila.
The Sherman remains in port until
tomorrow afternoon coaling and will
then sail for the Philippines. She ex-
poets to make Manila in very quick
time.
The Sherman is the finest troopship
in the world. She was formerly the
Mobile, of the Atlantic line plying be-
tween New York and London. She
was fitted up for troopship at
Cramps yards, and took troops for the
Philippines from New York by way of
the Suez canal. She is AS feet long.
10 feet beam, 81 feet depth of hold
$50 tons gross register; she has four
boilers, capable of producing steam
equal to $500 horse power; her en-
gines are triple expansion; she has
twin screws and her propellers are 81
feet pitch. She carries a crew of 175
men.
Besides the troops the Sherman car
ries large supply of stores, 5000 rifles
and 1000, 900 rounds of ammunition.
Captain c. II. Grant is sailing mas
ter of the Sherman. During the late
war he was in command of the United
States steamer Governor Russell.
On board the Sherman are the Thir-
tieth Infantry Regiment and 35l re-
| cruits and casuals for the Fourteenth
Infantry, Eleventh Cavalry, Thirty
seventh Infantry, Thirty fourth Infan-
try and Thirty-slXth Infantry. now in
the Philippines.
The following is a roster of the Off
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States Volunteers: Cornelius Garden
er, colonel; James r. Campbell, lieu
tenant colonel; Matthew r. Steele. ma
jor; Thomas L. Hartigan, major; Jno.
r. McDill, major and surgeon; James
J. Erwin, captain and assistant sur
geon; Albert II. Eber, first lieutenant
and assistant surgeon; Charles f.
Reese, captain and adjutant: Frank II.
Burton, captain and quartermaster;
Walter P. COrbett, first lieutenant and
commissary; Harry d. Blasland. first
lieutenant, battalion adjutant; Frank
ID. Buckingham, first lieutenant, bat
talon adJutant; Kaolin l.. Whitson,
first lieutenant, battalion adjutant
Company A-Captain Frank d. New
berry First Lieutenant Virden c.
Packenpaugh, Second Lieutenant
Charles H. Errington.
Company B-Captain e. Ross
Smith, First Lieutenant Albert G.
Mcmillan, Second Lieutenant John c.
Abbott.
Company Captain Edward Y.
Miller, First Lieutenant Harry r.
Chadwick, Second Lieutenant Francis
w. Ralston.
Company D-Captain Kenneth NJ
Burr, First Lieutenant John j. Foley,
Second Lieutenant Guy A. Boyle
Company E-Captain Edwin H. Fitz-
gerald, First Lieutenant Frederick J..
Barrows, Second Lieutenant William
F. Pack.
Company captain Harrison S.
Kerrick, Second Lieutenant Charles L.
Bear.
Company G-Captain Gilmore G..
Scranton, First Lieutenant Daniel
Wells, Second Lieutenant Guilford s.
CARRIER
Company H-Captain George F.
Connolly, First Lieutenant Edward II.
Andres, Second Lieutenant Robert f.
Brooks.
Company Captain Merrill Webb.
First Lieutenant John Mcbride. Jr.,
Second Lieutenant Francis J. Ellison
Company K-Captain Frank W. Lat
inner, First Lieutenant Albert E. Nc
Cabe, Second Lieutenant George w
Cochnower.
Company Captain Charles p.
Newberry, First Lieutenant Edmond
X. Tompkins, Second Lieutenant Rob-
ert E. Gulich
Company M-Captain Joseph W.
Portertield, First Lieutenant Charles
S. Tarlton. Second Lieutenant A. Holt
Bradford
board: Eight female nurses: Misses a.
Arm
quahson, E. V. Hasson, A. Y. Irvine,
E. Lane, A. p. Lyon, NJ. Pfieffer, Fa-
Their Gleason, Catholic priest; Capt
w. B. Reynolds, Fourteenth Infantry;
Lieutenant w. G.. Mills, Thirty-sev
enth Infantry; Lieutenant A. G. Nc
Kelvey, Eleventh Cavalry, U.S.V.;
Lieutenant Colonel A. s. Tower, Major
F. A. Meacham, Major P. w. West.
The officers of the Sherman are:
Captain Grant, First Officer J. F. Rob-
erts, Second Officer w. Walton, Third
officer ]. ArrisOn, Fourth officer j.
Sloan, Chief Engineer Kingsland, Sec
ond Assistant Engineer NJ. McCabe,
Third Assistant Engineer Hickey,
Steward j. Robinson, Second Steward
J. White, Third Steward r. Murphy.
First officer c. F. Roberts, who has
been on the Sherman all the way
round the world is very popular
aboard the ship. The Sherman ar
rived in Manila from New York March
22d, and Officer Roberts. as soon as
he could get ashore, trudged out to-
the front where General Otis line of
battle was getting ready before Mala
bon 20 engage Aguinaldo's forces. Be
hind trenches on Sunday, March 26,
stockaded with uprights of loopholed
corrugated iron were the Filipinos,
awaiting the Second Oregon Infantry,
who, spelling tactics, rushed pell nell
forward yelling as only the "web-foot"
can yell. Dropping their guns the Fill