The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-04-26
NEWS OF THE WATERFRONT

the Solace is expected to arrive
4 here from San Francisco. Bya the
steamship China advices were received
at the Naval Station from Commander
Winslow of the Solace, to the effec,
that the navy vessel was to sail from
the coast on the goth instant
The navy's supply of coal at San
Francisco is short for some reason, and
the Solace was to take aboard only
enough fuel at Mare Island to bring her
to Honolulu. At this port she will take
on seven hundred tons. The coal is
now being made ready to go aboard. 1t
is being loaded onto barges. and the
vessel will be coaled as quickly as pos
sible, and get away after a short stay
here.
The new artesian well sunk on the
Naval reservation is now supplying
transports with all the water they re-
ouire. The Solace will take on water
here at no expense, as did the trans
port Logan, which was the first vessel
to receive water from the new well.
1t is said that the transport Ohio,
which was expected to arrive here yes
terday, will not touch at this port Al
though she was at first ordered to stop
at Honolulu, the necessity of getting
all of the volunteer regiments away
from the Philippines by the first OF
July made it advisable for her to go d.
rect to Manila.
The Thyra was also looked for yester-
day. She will probably make her ap-
pearance today. She has the horses and
freight which were to have been taken
bv the Arab. The Arab had to put
back to San francisco as the result OF
trouble with her boilers.
The Solace has large amount or
freight for Guam There is stored in
her hold tons of provisions, stores and
clothing. There is on board quantity
of machinery, including large Cor
liss engine, several huge boilers and
shafting.
Two thirty-feet fly wheels add to her
weight 10000 pounds. The machinery
will be taken to Manila.
For Guam there Is a large quantity of
the usual provisions, and clothing ana
500 good-sized orange trees. There are
A large number of them are accom-
panied by their wives.
The Solace is weighted down with old
guns and chains, taken along as bal
last for the return trip. A draftof sailors
arrivedat San Francisco from the East
to take passage on the Solace.
Captain Grant, who has commanded
the transport Sherman nearly all the
time since the steamship came to the
Pacific in the army service, has re-
signed, and his place has been taken by
Captain F. E. Fraser, who was trans
ferred from the transport Warren.
James Barneson. who for months has
been the first officer of the Warren. was
made master of the vessel, taking
the place of Captain Fraser.
Chief Officer w. H. Halves of the
Sherman has been placed in command
of the transport Samoa, and Captain
Thomas Peabody, who recently resigned
as captain of the ship Cyrus Wakefield,
was appointed chief officer of the Sher-
man.
Lieutenant Mccormack, Ninth Cav
airy, has been assigned to duty as
quartermaster and acting commissary
of subsistence on the horse transport
Thyra during the voyage of that yes
sci to Manila. Captain Guy G.. Bailey,
assistant surgeon. has been. assigned
to duty on the same vessel.
When the Solace leaves this port for
the Philippines she will take with her
Naval Paymaster E. F. Hall and his
clerk, F. F. MacWilkie. Mr.. Halls de-
parture from Honolulu will be regretted
by his many friends in this city. Mr..
has also made many friends
here, and will find 1t hard to leave
Honolulu.
J. s. Phillips, the paymaster of the
Solace, will relieve Mr.. Hall, who takes
Phillips place on the Solace
Tomorrow or on Sunday the trans
port Thomas, with two days later mail,
is expected from San Francisco.