The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-31

ger steamship, but cuts through the
great walls of water her forward deck
being flooded.
The majority of the men aboard the
battleship Cher complement is $500 are
short timers on their way home. In
fact, there are only about ten or a
dozen men on board the ship who have
any length of time yet to serve in the
navy. Just before the Oregon sailed
from Yokohama all of her Tong -tirne's.
men were transferred toaotfer vessels,
while all "short-tfmers's from other
vessels were placed on the Oregon, that
they might be taken homeland receive
their discharge.
An Advertiser reporter went aboard
the Oregon yesterday afternoon. Cap
tain Thomas was seen in his splendidly
appointed apartments aft. He is a
man with a most attractive disposition,
affable, obliging, thoroughly informed,
and a commander in every sense of the
word He was assigned to the Oregon
on the 18th of April. having previous
to that date been in command of the
Brooklyn. In the last two years Cap
tain Thomas has commanded four
men-of- war, the Lancaster, the Balti-
more, the Brooklyn, and the Oregon.
He has been to Honolulu before, and
has many friends in this port.
In 1885 Captain Thomas was here as
executive officer of the Hartford. Ka-
lakaua was King at that time. Ten
years later the captain was here in
command of the Bennington.
After arriving at San Francisco, for
which port the Oregon will sail hence
in a few days, she will go to Bremen
ton, to go on the drydock for repairs.
She is wounded. She has yet to be made
whole after going on the rocks in the
Straits of Pechili.
Captain Thomas at hrst intended
bringing the Oregon into the harbor
and putting her alongside of one of
the Navy wharves. He decided, how
ever. it would not he wise to run the
risk of taking the great ship through
, the channel. The Oregon is 562 feet
beam; and the channel rs only about
$50 feet wide in it's widest part The
vessel does not steer very easily. She
is shaped something like a watermelon
+ seed, and is apt to go off a little too
| much to one side or the other to run
any risks in a narrow channel
! Captain Thomas does not yet know
/ where he will go after arriving at San
/ Francisco. He has applied for duty
now in Boston harbor, however, and it
| is possible that he may be assigned
to that vessel.
| Captains Writer Bennett. who has
! been. with the Oregon since she left
New York, kindly furnished the re-
porter with the names of the places
visited by the Oregon since she left
New York.
! The Oregon sailed from New York
on October u. 1898; arrived at Bahia,
/ Brazil. October 81: sailed thence No
vember s; arrived at Rio de Janeiro,
November IL; thence November 10;
! arrived Point Arenas December /;
thence, December 10; arrived Valparai-
so. December II; thence, December 20;
arrived Callao. Peru, December %;
ttherce, January IL 1899: arrived Gala
pages Islands, January 16: thence
January II. arrived Honolulu, Febru-
| ary 5: thence February 20; arrived
Guam. March 10; thence. March IL: ar
:, rived Manila. March Is. thence. June
! II; arrived Lingayen. June II: thence
July 1: arrived Manila. July 4; thence
August %; arrived Iloilo. August "a;
thence, October 8; arrived Manila, Oc-
tober 5; thence October Z: arrived
Hongkong. October 10; thence, Novem-
Der 6; arrived Lingayen, November 9;
! thence November 25: arrived Vfgan
same day: thence, November %; ar
rived Manila. November 30; thence
December 9: arrived Subig Bay. De-
7 cember 10: thence December II; arriv.
ed Manila. same day; thence. Februar,
Is. 1900: arrived Yokohama, February
20; thence. May Z: arrived Kobe, Ma.
s: thence, May 20; arrived Nagasaki
May %; thence May &c; arrived Hong
kong. May 81: thence, June %: wreck
/ ed on reef near Howky Light, strait
, of Pechili June IS: off the reef. Jul!
u: arrived Kure. July II: thence. Au
5 gust %: arrived Nagasaki, August 30
: thence, September 8; arrived Shanghai