The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-09-07
NURSES AND
SURGEONS
Belgian King Here For
Manila.
j. S, ARMY STORES ABOARD
Was in Collision With the TeIlus
Off California Coast
Officers Surprise.

Is that San Francisco newspaper OF
the latest date which you have in you,
pooket-brought down by the Ifongkone
Maru?' inquired an officer Of the United
States army transport Belgian King, oil
an Advertiser reporter aboard that yes
sci yesterday afternoon
''No!-That is today's Advertiser
why! Have you daily paper pub
lished in Honolulu"
20 yes! This is the morning paper and
then there are several evening newspa-
pers."
Printed in English or SPANISH"
The dailies are printed in English;
there are many other papers, not daiHes,
| printed in Hawaiian, Japanese. Chinese
and Portuguese"
You surprise me, I'm sure And this
native language. what is it-lxind of a
Latin tongue? You know I've never been
in the Sandwich Islands before and, in
fact, have only been in the States a few
months. I'm from England
"Yes?'
Eyes! We're only going to stop here
until tomorrow and 1 am anxious to get
ashore. / have a kodak with me and /
promised the folks to send them some
snapshots of the savages here and their
grass huts and hula dances I-er-beg
pardon, you know. but-er-do you think
L can safely secure pictures of the natives
at home MISUNDERSTANDING my people
in the old country? That is-er-welI! to
speak plainly-do the natives here wear
anything in the way of clothes?n
The Belgian King arrived yesterday
morning from San Francisco, en- route to
Manila, with eommissary and hospital
stores, doctors and nurses for the Philip
pines She left San Francisco on August
q, the day before the last mail steamer
the Hongkong Maru. 1t is expected that
the transport will get away this after
noon. She was here about this time last
year with troops for Manila
Inc officers of the vessel which is a
British boat chartered by the California
and Oriental Company and rechartered to
the United States Government, are as
follows: Captain Thomas L. Weiss, First
officer Bruce, Second Officers Abermethy
and Matthiers, Third officer Lord, Pur-
ser Stanley and Chief Engineer Venus.
me surgeons on their way to the Philip
pines are Doctors Griffiths, Snyder Lewis.
Macy. Mabee, Patterson, Preston. Hem
derson, Edmundson, Sturtevant, Hooper
and Brooks. The nurses are Misses Ken
key, Butler, Sweet, Spears, Felt. Macrae.
Gottschalk, Bear and Barridge Thayer
and Porter are the quartermaster,s clerks
aboard.
The Belgian King has 1900 tons of
stores for Manila. Previous to sailing
from San Francisco the transport was
llbeled for $4,000. This is the expense in
Cured for the repairs necessary after her
collision with the Norwegian tramp
steamer Tellus. Most of the officers now
aboard We're on the vessel during the ac-
cident
Thirty miles south of Point Arena Light.
according to the reckoning of Captain
Thomas l.. Weiss, in a fog that could al
most be kneaded like dough, late on the
night of Tuesday, July II, the two ponder
Gus ships of steel crushed together with
grind and SILVER that ripped open the
metallic shell of one and left gaping
mole in the side of the other The Bel
gan King was the steamer that did the
ramming, her victim being the Norwe-
gian tramp, Tellus. When the vessels
came together 1T was with jar that
made the crews of both think in another
minute they would be grasping floating
Wreckage to save their lives, but the off
GERS OF both vessels soon learned that the
hing had miraculously escaped without
serious damage, while the Tellus was left
riding the waves with the plates in her
port quarter abaft the forecastle wrench
eu apart, leaving wide breach, into
which poured the sea- Luckily the con-
when one of her compartments filed. and
she remained buoyant, there was no dan |
ger, unless the bulkheading gave away or /
a fresh breach was made.
Siege Battery o of the Seventh Artil- |
ery, was to have sailed from San Fran
CISCO on the Belgian King for China. but. /
'wing to the recent change in the aspect
u the Chinese situation, 1t did not sail as
originally planned. The battery will prob
ABLY be assigned to Honolulu or Fort
Mason
Inc coming of the Belgian King this
Pay Is an indication of the Governments
mango or plan concerning the Chinese
situation. She was on the list for China
" to within day or two before she left
ne coast. The Logan was listed to leave
san francisco for Manila via Honolulu
IA the lst instant. If she left on schedule
ime she should arrive here tomorrow
me VIII bring two days later mail and
lews from the Coast. The Belgian King
at the Oceanic wharf coaling.
When the transport passed through here
asst year, in September, she had aboard
or Manila companies A, b, C. d. 7. X
no Nj, numbering 745 men. Of the Tbir-
y,iourth Regiment, U. s. V. The son of
=, ishtng Joe" Wheeler Major Joseph
heeler, Jr, was then among the offcers
u the way to the front on the King