The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-07-25
A Hospital SHIP
The Relief Reaches Port
From Manila
Comforts and ConvenIences for
Some OF Those on Board.

| W S's w anu
fro; a delicious GOODNESS in the rooms;
snowy counterpanes on the neatest of
iron beds are about the first impress
sions one receives on paying a visit
to the United States hospital ship Re-
lief, which is now coaling at lrmgard
wharf.
Under Captain Frank Harding, sail
ing master; Major a. b. Gradley. bri-
gade surgeon, commanding; Lieuten-
ant George Irwin. quartermaster. the
Relief has nearly circled the world.
During the Cuban campaign she was
running between New York, Cuba and
Porto Rico and took sick and wounded
soldiers to Fort Wycoff at Montauk
Point She was formerly the John In
gals. RAINING between Portland Me,
and New York, and was bought by the
United States Government and fitted
up regardless of expense. She made
eight trips between the West Indies
and the Atlantic coast. She has on
board an operating room and com
plete lot of surgical appliances: a.
steam laundry and an ice plant. High
out of the water she rolls a good deal
in heavy weather but this is more
than compensated for by the most en-
| joyable living rooms high above the
water where ever breeze penetrates.
Poor, manned fellows on crutches
were on the streets soon after the Re-
lief came into port, and IL is an eX-
perienCe one does not soon forget to
| see the sad faces of those sick soldiers
on board who cannot come ashore.
The Relief arrived in port early Sat
lurday from Manila, via Nagasaki and
Yokohama. Manila was left behind on
the 22nd of June and Nagasaki was
reached on the 10Th and left on the
10Th. In Yokohama the Relief was de-
tanned several days on account of a
| typhOOn raging not FAR outside the har-
Dor. July 2nd was spent on sand
bank, on the Saratoga spit, at the en-
trance to the harbOr of Yokohama.
| The Relief has over 800 men aboard.
most of them being sick soldiers from
Manila. Besides she has a set of Of
fiCers and Il complete hospital corps,
including surgeons, stewards and
trained nurses. On hoard are the fol-
lowing commissioned officers, all of
whom are well known here, who are
invalided home: Captain John +. lei
linger. First Nebraska; Captain Will
| liam ]. Watson, Twentieth Kansas;
Captain Adna q. Clarke, Twentieth
Kansas; First Lieutenant John c. Nc
Arthur, Third infantry; Second Lieu
tenant Collin II. Ball, Twentieth Kan
sas; Second Lieutenant Oliver G. Lapp,
South Dakota.
The army officers in charge are: Ma
jor A. b. Gradlcy, brigade surgeon,
I. S. v, commanding; First Lieuten-
| ant George Irwin, Fifth artillery, q.
NJ, and A. c. S; Captain Henry X.
Stiles, assistant surgeon, L. $. A.; First
Lieutenant Weston y. Chamberlain,
assistant surgeon, L. 5. A.; contract
surgeons, DR.. G. ID. Van Waganan, DR..
w. p. Reed and DR.. Henry c. Rowland.
The hospital corps consists of Stew
ards George w. Muller and Henry
Fuerschback; acting stewards, Dean,
Schenk and Blankmeyer Contract fe-
male nurses. Misses Jean Allan, Amy
Il. Farquharson, Esther X Hassen,
Alice p. Lyon, Armistead, Guion, IT.
vine and Russik.
Two men have died. Chris Klaus. pri-
vate of Company II, Wyoming, died
at Yokohama on July of malaria. At
Nagasaki. on June rs, Frank A. Duval
succumbed to meningitis. Both bodies
were embalmed and are being re-
turned to the United States on the Re-
lief. Duval was shot in the right leg
and was laid up with his wound when
he contracted the fatal ailment.
The various regiments are represent
ed on the Relief by the following num-
Der of sick men: Hospital corps, six;
Third artillery, one; Sixth artillery,
two; Fourth cavalry, one; Third in
fantry, ten; Fourth infantry, six
Ninth infantry, one; Fourteenth,
eight: Twenty-second, nine; Twenty
third, two: Signal corps, one; Utah ar
tillery, two; Wyoming artillery, one;
california artillery, two; First Califor-
mia, six; First Colorado, fourteen; Ida
no. six; Iowa, nineteen Kansas, thir-
ty-one; Minnesota, twenty-one; Mon
tana, ten; Nebraska, fourteen; North
Dakota, two; Oregon, twelve; Penn
sylvania, seven South Dakota, TWEEN
ty-five: Tennessee, one: Washington,
five; Wyoming, three; navy, one: ci-
william. one.
The First California men aboard are
John w. Slade, Company A; W. y.
Thompson, Company b; Corporal C.
a s. erase. Company G; X. Jantzen,
Company +; X. J. Mcdonald, Company
+; Hermann Yerg, Company l..
The Oregon men are; 4. q. Reynolds,
Company \; Corporal II, NJ, Wagner,
Company II; Douglas Glenn, Company
ID; Il. w. Price, Company Il; A. Rock
well, Company y; Sergeant James Col
Inns, Company +; Corporal W &. John
son, Company ~ Sergeant q, J, Lau-
tenschlager, Company q; Ed l., King,
Company H. Edmund Cyrus, Company
/; Corporal u, u, Ballard, Company l.;
u y, Marshall, Company l.,
Captain Frank Harding ~ master uf.
The vessel, Charles Croker frat OH
Iocr, !, Charlelon chief engineer, and