The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-10-03
THE GRANT IS HERE
With Fourteen Hundred
More Troops.
Has a Fine Band of Twenty-Five
Some OF Thar Records,

One of the finest-looking bodies of
soldiers that has been seen in Homo
lulu arrived here last night in the
United States transport Grant. II was
the Twenty-sixth Volunteer Regiment
from Plattsburg barracks, on Lake
Champaign, New York, and is under
the command of Colonel Edmund Rice.
The regiment has been recruited to the
full limit, and carries in addition a
number of extra men. The men wear
khaki suits, including helmets. Their
band numbers nearly twenty-five
pieces and is fine musical organiza-
ton. On the staff of Colonel Rice are
Adjutant and Chief of Staff Captain
John w. Boardman; surgeon, Major
Charles F. Mason; first assistant sur
geon, Captain Frank A. Washburn;
second assistant surgeon, First Lieu
tenant r. S. Griswold; quartermaster,
Captain K. A. Whipple; commissary
omcer, First Lieutenant Frank +. Ed
wards. The three majors are Joseph
z. Dickman, Edward ID. Anderson and
Frank A. Cook. At present the regi-
ment is without a lieutenant colonel.
Colonel Duvall, who was appointed to
that position, received orders after the
regiment had left for the West to re-
main in the East and recruit a regi-
ment of colored troops, of which he
Will be given command In conse-
quence there Will be promotions for all
of the senior officers of the regiment,
and the necessary orders to that effect
are anXiously awaited.
Of the 1850 and odd men in the reg
iment 400 are from Massachusetts,.
Many are from New York, a good num-
Der from Rhode Island and the bal
ance from other New England States.
Colonel Rice is Massachusetts, man,
but some of the officers are from New
York. The regiment is one of the first
ten to be organized for service in the
Philippines. Few of the soldiers, ex-
cept the officers-most of whom are
regular, army 'men-have seen service
before. The regiment has been in SER
vice for about eight weeks, the re-
cruiting having been conducted at
Plattsburg barracks. The organization
left the barracks on September ), but
accepted the invitation of the Govern
or of Massachusetts to be entertained
for two days at Boston, and from there
went to Providence to enjoy the hospi-
tality of the Governor and State OF
Rhode Island for several days.
Colonel Rice has a splendid record
as soldier. He served with the Nine
teenth Massachusetts through all of
the hard fighting in Virginia in the
Civil War, and advanced from a cap
tain to the command of his regiment.
being made colonel at % years OF age.
He was wounded several times, and
had an exciting escape from the Con-
federates, who had placed him in a
box-car. Together with some other
prisoners, Colonel Rice cut his way
out of the side of the car and escaped
to the Union lines. At the close of the
Civil War he entered the regular army.
and during the Spanish war was pro-
noted to be colonel of the Sixth Mas
sachusetts Regiment by Major General
Miles, with the consent of the Presi-
dent. In the person of First Lieuten-
ant James P. Glare of Company Il
Colonel Jones has a reminder OF his
Civil War career, as Lieutenant Clare
is the only man in the Twenty-sixth
who served under Colonel Rice in the
old Nineteenth Massachusetts,.