The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-05-09
SEA AND SHORE
u. S. 7. Warren Afraid
of Plague.
People Aboard the Vessel --'Kinau
Leaves for Hi|o--Chinese Re-
former a Passenger.

transport Warren, from San Francisco,
was reported off Koko Heec The pilot
boat with DR.. Wood aboard and Captain
Cameron at the tiller, went out to meet
her soon afterwards. On getting along
side the vessel the doctor made really
to board her, but was informel that no
body would be allowed on board. The
greatest fear seemed to prevail on the
transport of having anything to ID with
al vbody from Honolulu. They did not
know, of course, that the quarantine
had been raised and that there had been
no cases of plague in this port for the
lasr thirty-eight days.
Officers from the deck Of the vessel
called to the men in the boat TO stay
Were they were. They asked where DR..
Carmichael was DIR. Wool replied that
re CDR. Wood was the port physician,
and unless he was allowed On board the
Warren could drCp her anchor where
she was.
A brief consultation was held on the
bridge and then Cantain Cameron was
asked to come aboard and steer the
transport into port.
Or. Wood here declared his authority,
anG said thai if Captain Cameron went
aboard he would place MIN in quaran-
tine, and that he Che 'ioctor) would
- aboard if the pilot did.
After DR.. Wood had laid down the
law another brief consultation was he'd
On the bridge. and D.. Wool ana Cap
tan Cameron were allowed To ascend
tn, s,!ip's side. No one else was PERMIT
ted TO leave the boat.
The Warren has had previous expert
ence with the quarantine here, and has
not forgotten it. She dropped her an
Choir outside the harbor and awaited
an answer to a letter sent off by the
pilot boat to DR.. Carmichael.
| The Warren brought no mail, nor did
! she bring any newspaper files for the
news stands. She sailed from San Fran
cisco on May 1st and brings five days
| later news.
On Board the Transport.
The Warren carries the largest con
signment of troops that has passed
through here in many months. Many
officers whose sick leaves have expired
are going back on her to the Philip
pines; a lot of men for the hospital
corps and about 600 recruits about take
/ up dll Tic pdSotiiStl NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
the good ship possesses.
Among the cabin passengers on the
Warren are: Lieut.. Col Chas L. HeiZ-
man, deputy surgeon general U. S. A.
Major Edwin F. Gardner, surgeon L
S. A; First Lieutenant G. A. Skinner
assistant surgeon U. S. A; First Lieu
tenant Benjamin ]. Edgar, assistant
surgeon U. S. A; Acting Assistant Sur
geons Frank R. Maura, Albert l.. Mil
len, J. S. Shepard, E. d. Shortlidge and
J. " May, First Lieutenant Carl r
Darnall, assistant surgeon u. S, A, and
Acting Assistant Surgeon Randall G
Stoney. Seventy-five hospital corps
men make up the medical force.
Tie Warren has almost a new set OF
officers. Captain Hart is on the SICK
list and will remain in San Francisco
for few weeks. When chief officer OF
the Mariposa he was thrown off tbs
bridge and had several of his ribs bro
ken. This was when the mail steamer
was on her way to Australia. Wher
Sydney, n. S. W., was reached, Captain
Hart was sent to a hospital. His wife
was at that time one of the visitors tt
the hospital, and in that way she ant
her husband became acquainted. After
the MaripOsa completed another rount
trip the jOvial master mariner became
a benedict and took his wife to Sal
Francisco. When the Government pur
chased the Scandal and renamed hel
tt e Warren, Hart was made captain.
When the Warren reached San Fran
cisco on her last trip Captain Hart was
not well man. but he held out as Ions
as possible, but nnally had to go to st
Luke's hospital. There it was fount
that the ribs broken on the Mariposs
in gale were causing all the trouble
An operation had to be performed ant
a growth on the bones Scraped Off. The
captain has been out and about since
but gathers strength slowly. He viii
take command of the transport Sheri
dan, and Captain Pierce of that vesse
is at present master OF the Warren. TIL,
Sheridan will be in San Francisco FOL
a couple of months.
Chief Officer Fred E. Magune of the
Warren is now master of the Lawton
The second and third officers of the
Warren have taken a step upward il
consequence. Purser Bucklin left thu
Warren and is now purser of the Nome
steamer c. d. Lane Urrawaddy). Hi!
place has been taken by r. Center, for
merly Quartermaster Miles clerk. The
w
Lawton as purser. A number of othel
changes makes almost a new crew lis
for the Warren.
Kinau Off For Hilo.
At 12:15 yesterday afternoon the HI
nau sailed for Hilo and way ports
Crowds We're on the dock to see he
off, Berger's band discoursed sweet mu
- sic, there were leis in abundance, and
large number of passengers We're on tn
steamers decks. The occasion was tn
first sailing of the Kinau on her regula
run since the raising of the quarantine
A native quartet and Colonel Rod
gers sin, ;ers added to the general hap
piness of the multitude by filling in tn
intervals between the selections by tn
band. aloha De- Hawaii Ponoi,
and The Star Spangled Banner" stir
red the flower-bedecked throng to tn
highest enthusiasm, and hats We're of
handkerchiefs fluttering and many a
eye bedimmed with tears when the fina
whistle blew and the Kinau turned he
head toward the open Sea.
Cruise in South Seas.