The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-29

sighted shortly before 6 O'Clock. she
sailed from San Francisco on the 22d
instant and brought five days later
news of the outside world.
STOCK TRANSPORT KINTUCK. AR
RIVES.
The long looked-for stock transport, |
Kintuck, arrived here yesterday after
noon after a rough pas sage or 1our-
teen days from Seattle. She sailed
from Seattle on the 18th instant, and
for the first week of her voyage she
experienced weather which necessitat-
ed her slowing down. to half-speed.
She fought constantly against terrific
head seas, and took great deal OF
water on deck.
Notwithstanding the fierce winds and
heavy seas and the consequent roll
ing ,of the vessel, not a single animal
of the S15 horses and mules aboard
the Kintuck was lost.
This is a record which has never
been equalled by any transport COM
ing into this port. Even in good
weather it is the usual thing for one
or two animals to be lost at sea as the
result of sickness or the severe roll
ing of the vessel.
But the Kintuck has established the
record of coming all the way from
Seattle to Honolulu, being fourteen
days on the trip, going through
weather which has been felt by the
last half dozen steamers arriving
from the Coast, weather which was
unusually rough for the Pacific, with
over eight hundred animals aboard,
without losing one of the horses or
| mules. It is an enviable record, and
the credit is certainly due Bronco"
John Sullivan, transportation agent,
lin charge of the stock, and Dr. T.. II.
Bugbee. the veterinarian, as well as
| Captain X j. Hampton, the quarter
master in charge of the transport.
There were a great many people on
the wharf to see the Kintuck come in
yesterday. Everybody thought that
there would be a story of hardship as
/ far as the animals were concerned,
that in all probability large pro-
portion of them had been SO knocked
around and cut and bruised on the
boat during the storm, that their car
casses had been thrown overheard and
the Kintuck would arrive in port with
a great many animals less than when
she sailed from Seattle.
Their expectations in this respect
were very happily not realized, how
ever, and Bronco John Sullivan. in
explaining the matter to an Advertiser
reporter, said that he thought it was
due entirely to the way the animals
were taken care of and stalled on the
transport that no deaths had occurred
among them.
Bronco John Sullivan has had q
great deal of experience as trans
portation agent He has been in the
service of the United States since 1876
first seeing service in the West a
couple of months after Clusters last
battle. He has been a scout under
General Miles, has made two round
trips to Manila ass transportation
r agent, had charge of the transporta-
ton out of Tampa, was, one of the
first men to go to Cuba after wal
had been declared against Spain, tt
investigate landing placesl in the in
terests of transportation, and has the
reputation of being one of the bes'
transportation agents in the servics
of the government Sullivan was 1
member of the various exploring ex
peditions in the Egyptian war and il
the Russo-Turkish war, and has mad
the matter of transportation a stud.
all his life. He is man about forty
two years of age, and very popula
among the "skinners, as we'll as ev
erybody else aboard the Kintuck
DR.. Bugbee has taken remarkabl
care of the health Of the horses AM
mules on the way down from Seattle
while he started from Seattle witt
ten sick animals on his hands, he ha
arrived here with all the others il
fine condition, and most of the sic
ones in much better condition thai
, when they started.
AS the transport Thomas was a
Navy slip No / when the Kintucl
arrived, the stock transport docked a
the recently completed Navy whari
Arrangements were Immediately made
as il was about sunset when the yes
{ sci docked, to land those animal
which were in the lower and hottie
holds. Lines were stretched across tn
wharf and a gangway was gotten ou
and a good number of the horses an
mules which were on the third an
fourth decks of the steamer wer
taken ashore and hitched to the rope
They will be taken to the governmen
paddocks this morning, together wit
the rest of the animals aboard
There are about eighty "skinners
on the transport. They were ashor
last night to take their first look {
Honolulu. The Kintuck will remain |
port a week or more 90 give the mule
and horses a good rest before proceed
I ing on to Manila. 1t is understoo
that all transports carrying horse
/. and mules from the Coast to Manil
will stop over at Honolulu for th
purpose of resting the stock.
4 In the hold OF the Kintuck ther
y are something like two thousand tor
of stores for the army in the PhiliI
pines; on deck she carries a numbt
of ambulances and wagons.
or the total of S15 animals en- rout
!, to Manila. SOC are horses and 300 al
mules. Several tons of hay on dec
were damaged coming down by IL
water taken aboard during the storr