The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-04-24
Transport Logan
Here From
Frisco.
Mail Guaranteed But
Troops Land The
Sierra In.

Logan was sighted, coming iron
II San Francisco, yesterday morning
9 at 9:34 o'clock Shortly before noon she
I was in the harbor and not long after
y wards she was alongside the Navy
1 wharf.
The Logan sailed from San Francisco
In the afternoon of Monday, the 18th
\ instant and brought 10 bags of mail
and papers up to and including the
18th.
j. A. Patton, Captain and Quarter
master, U. S. A, is in charge of the
since she has been in the transport ser
vice. He has been through here sew
4 eral times with the great army boat
4 and has many friends in Honolulu.
+ Always willing to oblige and ever ready
to act for the benefit of others, Cap
tain Patton is an exceedingly popular
h man with all with whom he comes in
4 contact
There are 1,570 persons, not counting
i the ships company, aboard the Logan,
. Including 54S enlisted men of the Elev-
q enth Infantry, 322 men of the Ninth
& Cavalry S31 men of the Tenth Cavalry,
3 271 men of the First Infantry. thirteen
3 Hospital Corps men, two boys of SOL
s diers, nine soldiers wives, one stow
Il away and the following officers and pas
II sengers: Lt.-Col. c. L. Davis, Maj. A.
4 L. Myer Mrs. Myer, Capt. P. NJ. P.
Travis, Capt. Robert Alexander, Mrs.
81 Alexander and two children, Capt. j. S.
e Battle, Adj; LIST 1t. G. H. Sheldon, 1st
4 Lit. G. Hooker. End 1t Jos. Kay, End
s Lit. E. A. Meyer, Mrs. Meyer, DR.. A. D.
81 Williams, Capt Odin Gurovits, Mrs.
Il Gurovits, Maj. Surg. S. o. Beasly, all
& of the 18th Infantry; Major M. B.
B Hughes, Mrs. Hughes, Capt L. w. Cor
nish, Mrs. Cornish and child, Capt.
& Chas. Young, 1st 1t. S. B. Pearson, End
8 Lit E. Calverx, End 1t. J. Fechet, all
81 of the 9th Cavalry; Capt. Robt. D.
u Read, Mrs. Read, Capt. P. E. Trippe,
Il Master Trippe, Capt. Guy Carleton,
4 Mrs. Carleton and two children and
4 servant, 1st 1t. T. A. Roberts and ser
I want. 2nd 1t c. A. Romeyn, End Lit.
!. F. W. Fonda, End 1t. ]. Huston, Surg.
T. C. Longino, Mrs. Longino, child and
servant, all of the 10th Cavalry; Capt.
w. E. Chandler, 1st 1t. w. K. McCue
and servant, all of the 1st Infantry;
/ Hon. ]. A. T. Hull. Mrs. Hull. Miss
Hull, Hon. ]. Gibson, Geo. A. Vawter,
1 Hon. A. p. Odlin, Mrs. Odlin and two
81 children, NJ. A. Haynes, NJ. w. Lang
s horn, w. E. Pilliam, Mrs. NJ. A. Batson
81 and two children, Mrs. Stodter Officers
# wife), Mrs. Williams Officers wife),
Z Hon. L.. r. Whitley, passengers.
I4 The squadron of the Tenth Cavalry
aboard the Logan comes from Texas.
The troops of the Ninth Cavalry come
/ from Utah and Arizona; they have
been in the department since the close
E#of the campaign in Cuba.
ia The Logan expects to sail for the
Philippines this evening, hoping by that
time to have completed the taking
e aboard of 760 tons of coal and a guam
6 tity of water and fresh provisions.
"a The Logan was first reported as the
fIPacific Mail steamship China; the con-
VI sequence was that a great many people
Il fastened to the Mail wharf to see the
IS China come in.
"a The reason that the Logan is under
!. rush orders and is so anxious to get
away for Manila this evening is the
& necessity of taking home the various
1 regiments by July 1st.
Among the passengers on the trans
port are Congressman J. A. T. Hull,
e chairman of the committee on military
IN affairs, accompanied by his wife and
daughter; L. r. Whitley and A. F. Odlin,
4 who have been appointed judges of the
3lcourt of first instance at Manila
ID Quesr Quarantine Methods.
.tt According to the manner in which
the transport Logan was handled yes
SCI terday, as far as matters of quaran-
sfEtine are concerned, a letter is far more
n apt to carry the germs of disease than
$ an individual.
re When the transport locked at the
g Navy wharf the 40 bags of mail were
Immediately sent over to the Quaran-
fstine Island to be fumigated on account
stof the presence of smallpox In San
III Francisco while the troops and pas
+ sengers were allowed to come ashore
& and wander at will through the City
81 When Ho!-olulans became acquainted
swith the facts that the mail was quar-
Neantined until it had been rum1gated
and, a t the same time, saw the sol
zdiers walking through the streets
they naturally wondered what kind OF
"a new quarantine regulation had been
;sinvented To say that they were in
Malignant would be to put it very mildly
lit is some time since mail mas Deen re-
tteeived from the Coast and people were
livery anxious to get it. They had to
ssxait until late in the evening, howev-
/. ssr, before they could get anything
.fEsrom the postoffice. In the meanwhile
81 hey nursed their wrath and indgna-
{9fion and amused themselves by watch
ling the hundreds of soldiers taking in
the town and as likely as not, IL there
Zoe so much danger in letters, carrying
jifrom one end of the place to the other
sisihe germs of a contagious malady.
lH There was no quarantine on the
itself. Soldiers and passen-
y gers could come and go as they pleas
sd and people from ashore were per-
Emitted to go on board. The mail bags,
were being fumigated on
Island. lest their contents
3 might contain bacilli.
L A great portion of the troops on the
4 logan are negroes who are, as rule,
more susceptible to smallpox than are
white men.
I'll tt Is the first time that mail matter
iswas ever known or supposed to be
ssnore dangerous as a conveyor or
Terms than living men. especially a
h,r,, Whn have