The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-11-27

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dan, well known to a great many peo-
pie in Honolulu, having been with the
Second u. S. V. engineers here for
many months, says that after all, the
transport Thomas is the finest boat in
the world. Clayton has been on a great
many vessels and ought to know what
he is talking about. He says that the
Sheridan may be second best, but that
the Thomas is by all odds the finest
of the transports. 1t will be remem-
bered that Clayton was on the Thomas
not long ago.
| The Thomas consumes less coal for
the distance she travels than the other
transports, is better fitted out and has
more accommodations in every way.
There are no flies on the Sheridan,
however, and there are lots of people
aboard the Sheridan who think that she
is the finest thing afioat
Berger's band spent couple of hours
on the transport yesterday, much to
the delight of the one hundred women
and children aboard as well as the SOL
diers and everybody else. When the
band played there were very few who
could resist the fascinating effect
which it had upon their feet. Many
long before flying feet and swishing
skirts made a merry scene and the
laughing, happy faces of the ladies and
the sterner countenances of the officers
beamed roseate under the influence of
the jolly exercise.
When the band slid off into rag time
music all heads were turned to where
the captivating strains had caught the
brains of two or three soldiers of the
colored persuasion who were busy do
ing wonders on the deck with their ir-
repressibie musical feet.
Then Berger led the musicians in
aloha Oe' and the people on the
transport were bound to confess that
they had never heard anything half so
sweet or enhancing. Then Hawaii
an girl sang. She sang some popular
native airs, popular with all who have
been fortunate enough to hear them;
her voice was rich and tender and clear
and full of that subtle influence which
is so characteristic of the race The
listeners We're charmed and expressed
themselves as delighted with the sing
ing. Kappemeister Berger came in
for a great amount Of praise on ac-
count of the efficiency of his band and
was obliged to play more pieces than
he had at first bargained for. Refresh
ments were served to the band boys
in the saloon, after which there was
more music and more dancing.
The Sheridan sails for Manila direct
today, probably getting away about
noon. There will be a great number of
people at the wharf to see her off 1t
is expected that the transport will pass
through here again on her way to Ma
Mia from San Francisco about the lat
ter part of February of next year.
SURVEY STEAMER RANGER OFF
TO CRUISE.
SAN DIEGO, Nov 13-The United
States survey steamer Ranger sailed
from this port this morning on seven
months cruise to La Paz and the Gulf
of California.
NAVAL ARCHITECTS MEET
NEW YORK, Nov. 15.-The eighth
general meeting of the Society of Naval
Architects and Marine Engineers was
begun in this city. President Clement
a. Griscom presided. The present Of
Ulcers were reelected.
STEAMSHIP MEN MAKE DENIALS.
NEW YORK, Nov. 15-James A
Wright, second vice president of the
international Navigation Company,
better known as the American line,
denied today that there was any truth
in the rumor that his company is to
consolidate with the Atlantic Transport
Line. President Baker of the Atlantic
Transport Line, made a similar en-
phatic denial.
SHIPPING NOTES.
The P. NJ. S. S. China arrived from
San Francisco last evening, being
sighted off Koko Head at 6:15 O'clock
DIR. Louis Livingstone. of New York.
is one of the passengers on the trans
port Sheridan. The doctor is on his
way to the Orient to take charge of
the hospital ship Maine which was in
South Africa during the war.
There was very little work done on
the water front yesterday on account
of the storm.
Although there are very few vessels
in port at the present time the proba-
bilities are that within a couple of
weeks all of the wharves will be re-
ceiving freight from discharging yes
sells.
NEW RUSSIAN BATTLESHIP
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 15.-The
Russian battleship Retevisan, recently
!, launched at the Cramps. Shipyards in
Philadelphia, is similar in many ways
to our own battleships, the Maine, the
Missouri and the Ohio. All the mate
rial used in the construction of the
snip is OF American manufacture She
has length of 1858 feet, 70 feet p.
inches beam, % feet draft, with a dis
placement of II. 700 tons. She is pro-
Hided with triple-expansion engines
with water-tube boilers of the Mic
lausse type to develop 5000 indicated
horsepower and a speed OF eighteen
knots for twelve hours
The main battery consists Of -four
12-inch breechloadng rifles, mounted If
pairs in two turrets on the middle line
one forward and one aft, and twelve
6-inch quick-firing guns. The second
airy battery consists Of twenty s-inch
twenty 4-millimeter, six 81 millimetel
and two 21a-inch guns-all Of the rapid
Iire type and she is fitted with six tor.
pedo tubes.
rms new Russian battleship Is of 6
distinctive type, and represents the lat
est development of the art of nava
larChlfRnt1lro G mr.