The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-10-25
PEOPLE ON
THE GRAN I
Finest Transport Here
Again.
MANY LADIES ARE ABOARD
Recruits, Officers, Nurses, Officers
Wives and Others En- Route
to Manila.

One of the finest and largest troop
ships in the world the United States Ar
my transport Grant, arrived in this port
early yesterday morning from San Fran
cisco. She sailed from San Francisco on
the 18th instant. and has aboard recruits
for the Philippines, Hospital Corps men,
Signal Corps men, officers, civilians en-
ployed by the Government, nurses and
the wives and families OF number OF
officers in the Philippines.
. At 12:1O clock in the afternoon of the
18th instant, the Grant left her berth at
Folsom street wharf in San Francisco
and dropped into the stream, sailing soon
afterward for Manila, via Honolulu and
Guam. In the stream the Grant TOOK Oh
81, 300, 900 in money which had arrived at
the wharf moment after the transports
lines had been cast off. The money Is IN
tended for the troops in the Philippines,
and is in charge of Major Hamilton wal
lace, paymaster of the Army. In consti-
tuted truck load, and was guarded by
armed soldiers on the way through the
streets of San Francisco to the dock.
The Grant carries no regular troops.
The large body of recruits which lined
the railing of the big transport as she
left the dock furnished the usual amount
or shouting and hurrahs. Among the
notable passengers are Mrs. Funston,
wife of General Fred Funston; Miss
Smith, sister of General James +. Smith;
Colonel NJ. C. Goodrich of the Marine
Corps; Captain Dubois of the Forty-sec-
ond United States Volunteers; Lieut.. j.
p Hasson of the Thirty-fifth Infantry;
Lieut.. l.. NJ. Cults of the Eleventh Cav
airy; Lieut. r. II. Tenner of the Sixth
Cavalry; Lieut.. L. b. Howell of the Fill
Pine Cavalry; Act. Asst. Surgeons w. Il.
Mclaughlin, NJ. A. Probert and w. j.
Lyster; Major T. C. Prince, quartermas-
ter of the Marine Corps. In addition, the
Grant has aboard sixteen male civilians,
twenty-seven female civilians, six chill
dren, three female nurses, one commits
sary sergeant, seventy-four members of
the Hospital Corps and 507 recruits.
Mrs. Funston is accompanied by her
sister, Miss Blankart, and intends to
make her home in Manila for some time
to come. The General is now operating
in the vicinity of San Ysidro, and his wife
cannot tell just where her future home is
located.
Mrs. Funston is as handsome as when
she first sailed for Manila, the bride of
the then Colonel of the Kansas regiment.
When her husband returned to Manila,
the ruler of the War Department would
not permit her accompanying him. But
matters are different now, and Mrs. Funs-
ton, while leaving not few regrets be-
hind, looks forward to happy days in the
walled city. Her sister Is to remain with
her several months.
There are about twenty five wives of
army officers in the Philippines on board
who have managed to cut the red tape
of the Department.
One wife, however, was not so fortu-
nate. This was Mrs. E. b. Howell, the
bride of a newly made Second Lieuten-
ant in the cavalry. Her husband is a
passenger on the Grant The two were
married within the month. Howell had
served in Cuba as a sergeant and went
out to the Philippines with the same rank.
He was invaded home and while at the
Presidio he met and won Sadie Aubrey
The young woman was then the promised
bride of Arthur l.. Harris of the Hospital
Corps, who was in the Yosemite Valley
with the Sixth Cavalry. She wanted to
marry Harris before he went away in
last March, but he deferred the wedding
until this month, when he would be free
from the Army. He reached San Fran
cisco on the day following the wedding
of his affianced.
Twenty recruits ordered to sail
for the Philippines on the Grant disap-
peared on the night previous to sailing
and as they We're nowhere to be found
when the transport made ready for de-
parture from San Francisco, they were
left behind. Many of the derelict "rook-
iCs' will probably return and tell the
commanding officer long tales of woe in
| the hope that they may escape the Sc
we're penalty that fits their offense.
! They are however, amenable to court
martial and unless they can give a sub
ste ntial reason for their Shortcomings
they will probably be summarily tried and
sentenced.
The Grant is locked at the Navy wharf
| and is taking on coal. She has a grea
quantity of stores and supplies aboard
for the Army in the Philippines 1t is ex.
pected that she will sail for Manila vie
Guam on Saturday or Sunday. Captain
Schiller is the navigator of the Grant.