The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-26

She has been in this port several
her way to the Philippines with great
numbers of fighting men who visited
Honolulu and enjoyed the beauties and
various attractions of the Paradise OF
the Pacific for d little while before they
resumed their journey to the front.
HOnoluIans have, many of them, visited
aboard the Grant and admired the won
derful floating camp, noticing with in
terest all the many things which go to
make life on board the vessel pleasant
for officers and men alike.
The names of her present officers as
well as a full list of all those people
travelling as passengers on her to the
Philippines on her present trip were
published in yesterdays Advertiser.
The story of what is to be found on
the ship herself is one that would take
lOng time and a great deal of space
10 tell hut there are many things which
can be spoken of which are of interest.
Although there were scarcely more
than a hundred men on the transport
this trip. there have been times when
she carried almost all she could hold.
Her cabins will accommodate about
two hundred first class passengers, she
has room for something like sixteen
hundred soldiers and two hundred men
in the crew, in all departments.
There is hospital aboard in the af-
Ter part Of the vessel, with everything
that viii be found in a hospital ashore.
An operating room, drug room, a con-
sutng room and large, airy, we'll
lighted and well-ventillated hospital
with comfortable hunks for the sick
and wounded, are all included in this
department. Electric fans supply cool,
fresh air to all parts of the immense
vessel and the hundreds Of hunks for
the military beneath decks are as cool
and well supplied with fresh air as is
the deck itself
The eommissary department is
marvel In the kitchens there are
Saucepans as big as channel-buoys and
eonee pots as large as donkey-engine
boilers, Hundreds of pounds of pota-
lOes and cabbage and beef and hum
afeds OF gallons of coffee and soup can
Oe cooked at once and the amount of
iS'ofes consumed in a day when a small
II army Is being fed on board would be
IsaOush to stock a country grocery store
lot couple of months.
IONS and tons of fresh meat can be
.dfned in the cold storage vaults and
ifuH and vegetables, as fresh almost
4 a. ~hen they are delivered to the ship,
are also stored away on ice for use
'niie the ship is at sea.
Twin screws drive the Grant through
Me water at speed attained by great
PASSENGER steamships and she is sup
pueu with sufficient life-saving appar-
aus 10 90 around among all on board
"a Inc event of any accident at sea
SHleh would necessitate abandoning
n ae vessel 1t would have to be some
a'As very unusual in the way of a
9.ofIn' however, which would drive the
seOpie on board = ia boats. for she is
N"eu into watertight compartments
tau II would be almost impossible for
ner to sink.
9He IS Kept scrupulously clean and
aecks are as white as her white
painted sides.
a. mere were great many people
~ Iaia OF the Grant yesterday morning
lave look at her. They were con-
..leo over the vessel, from stem to
~, ,u' oy her officers, who are as proud
" aer as can be.
,r.' ap'alh Jesse NJ. Baker, whose pic
= g appears with that of the Grant
NJ =. army quartermaster in charge
ba. 'He transport. He has been with
Va e'er since she sailed from New
,,i, captain Bruguiere. her new cap
', a. succeeded Captain Schiller.
tba ut } o'clock yesterday afternoon
N.n Iraht left her berth at the Pacific
b.rs."h arf and went outside of tht
n OOt and waited for the Zealandis
mist, 1--we rom San Francisco that she
frosn st receive mail for the Philippine:
a,-s- 'ne latter boat. The Zealandif
no. OH port about dark and mai
,ba SHORTLY afterwards transferred t.
% Manila ' 'ti'ie "a 49,
LOTTO From the Orient.
isr el,y Yesterday afternoon the Occi
r,..- ana Oriental steamship Doric
sbn I'm smith, arrived from the Orient
on a. Saliea from Hongkong and Maca'
tn o'h instant, from Annoy on tn
.sl, rom Shanghai on the 9th, Maya
Yo1., on the 18th, Kobe on the 18th an
f ;HaHla on the 18th. The Advertise
tor usoted to Purser NJ. S. Niswande
sobou luil Tile of late Honglkong and Yo
ranno .,.e papers. #. Ogawa and Y. Ku
ior '' W We're the only cabin passenger
sana a,ohoiulu Among the steerage pas
ana 81. Tor this port was one Tanak
no,, MS oFlde, Tanaka was at one tim
nan ."oerlan in the Honolulu depart
,co - ana went back to aJpan not ion
i n,1. get him a wife. The little lad
prona 'e a beauty and Tanaka is yer
her. Passengers for Sa