The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-05-04
She was F Formerly a Ward
Liner to Havana.
Commander Miller in Charge-Vessel and
Officers Be at Aria SINE
Time

The United States cruiser Badger
having on board the three commissions
10 Samoa from the United States, Ger
MANY and Great Britain, arrived from
San Francisco at 10 o'clock yesterday
morning. seven days out, having sailed
from that port at 1920 a. IN. April
goth. She brought no mail and but
| few newspapers as it was thought by
the post Office authorities in San
Francisco that the Coptic would arrive
in Honolulu before the Badger.
The Badger was formerly the Ward
line steamship Yumuri, running from
New York to Havana and Vera Cruz.
She has a tonnage of 47S4 tons, is 1886
feet long and II feet draught. She was
purchased by the Government at the
beginning of the war, armed with six
5-inch guns and six rapid-iring guns,
and was in the auxiliary fleet around
Cuba all through the war. She carries
30 officers, marines and blue jackets.
The Badgers officers are as follows:
Commander, James NJ. Miller; Lieuts,
J. B. Milton and T. D. Griffin; Surgeon,
20. d. Norton; P. A. Engineer, w. G.
Herbert; Captain. n. H. Hall, U. S. NJ.
c.; Ensigns, r. r. Belknap, j. r. Y.
Blakeley and Yates Stirling; Naval
Cadets, F. Morrison and E. j. Sadler;
Assistant Paymaster, H. P. Ash; Pay
Clerk, w. A. Hopkins; Boatswain, w.
A. Cooper; Carpenter, j. A. O'Connor;
Mate, G.. Larson.
Commander Miller is famous as be-
ing in charge of the Merrimac until,
under HObsOn, she was sunk In san
tiago harbor. He is an American OF
the most pronounced and popular type,
square jawed and iron browed, and,
since his graduation at Annapolis IN
'67, has seen service all over the world.
From start to finish he was in the
thick of the fray around Cuban wat
ers during the Spanish war. Relin-
gushing command of the Merrimac he
was placed in charge of the United
States steamer Pompey until last de-
cember, when he received orders to
take command of the Badger at Hamp-
ton Roads.
The Badger sailed from Hampton
Roads February LIST, and after calling
at Bahia, Montevideo and other South
American ports, reached San Fran
cisco on April 18th. Falkland islands
were stopped at for a short visit and
the remains of brave Admiral J. H.
SPOTS were exhumed and taken on
board. He was in command of the At
lantic squadron at the time of his
death, March 10th, 1882, which occurred
while his flagship, the Brooklyn, was
off Falkland Islands. 1t was a peculiar
incident that the remains should be
disturbed just II years after, on March
10th, 1899.
On board the Badger are two cask-
cts for the bodies of the two American
officers of the Philadelphia, who fell
in battle with the Samoans in the brush
near Apia, Lieuts. Lansdale and Mon
Afghan. Both Lansdale and Monaghan
were we'll known to Commander Miller
and the former was very dear friend,
which makes this a pathetic mission,
indeed.
Commander Miller does not know
how long the stay at Apia will be. He
is under orders of the commissioners
and Admiral Kautz.
On the way from San Francisco the
Badger sighted the City of Peking and
another steamer bound east. She is
anchored in naval row and will sail
for Apia as soon as three hundred tons
of coal are on board.