The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-06-15

-HE smoke of steamship was
sighted on the western horizon yes
| 4 terday afternoon between four and
a five o'clock by the watchful lookout
at Diamond Head. Everybody supposed
that the vessel was the Pacific Mail
steamship China coming from the Ori-
ent, but, as she came nearer, 1t was
seen that she was a transport.
Upon arriving off the harbor she
dropped her anchor and awaited the
pilot and the doctor. The steamer
proved to be the United States army
transport Buford, Captain Martens,
from Manila, via Nagasaki, bound for
San Francisco She was obliged to put
in here for coal, on account of having
experienced heavy weather for many
DAYS after she sailed from Nagasaki.
The quarantine officer discovered sew
eral cases of measles on board. The Buff
ford came into the harbor about O'Clock
in the evening and locked at Navy
Wharf No l. Soon after docking the
sick ones We're taken ashore to the hos
pital.
The coming of the Buford to Honolu-
| lu was unexpected by the people aboard.
as it was by the people here. No time
was lost by her many passengers in
getting ashore to take a look at Homo
lulu.
On the 18th of May the Buford sailed
| from Manila with the Forty-first In
| fantry bound for home, via Nagasaki.
She sailed from the Japanese port on
| Sunday May 26th. For the first two
DAYS out she had pleasant weather, and
! Captain Martens expected to make a
| good trip to San Francisco by the
great circle route. Bad weather was
encountered on the third day out of
! Nagasaki, however, and the vessel
could make but little Roadway against
the heavy seas and head winds. For
ten days she fought the elements, using
| coal TO such an extent that her COM
mander soon realized that it would be
risky to continue on to San Francisco.
On Friday, the 7th instant, therefore,
when the Buford was about 1000 miles
from Honolulu, Captain Martens de-
cided to head the vessel for this port
I to take on more coal
At noon on the day when this decision
was arrived at the ship was in latitude
fortythree degrees thirteen minutes
North and longitude 10 degrees thirty
two minutes West. 1t was about 9
o'clock in the evening of the 7th that
the course was changed, and the Buferd
started for Honolulu
On the following morning, Saturday
the Sth. the transport Pennsylvania
was sighted, making her way to San
Francisco with the Fortieth Infantry
The Buford and the Pennsylvania pass
ed close enough to speak each other,
and Captain Martens asked the Penn
sylvania to report him at San Francisco
saying that he had decided to put in
at Honolulu for coal.
1t was piece of good fortune. the
passing of the two transports, for.
otherwise. considerable anxiety would
have been felt on the coast in regard
to the Buford
The Buford will take on 500 tons of
coal here, and then sail direct 10 San
Francisco. She will probably get away
on Sunday afternoon. She has a consid-
cradle list to starboard at the present
time, insomuch that it is no easy task
for a landsman to promenade her decks
The following is a complete list of the
passengers:
General Ludlow, wife, maid and clerk;
Colonel Goodale, wife and son; Colonel
L VI ~ lIldHlIy MdJOT
Wholley; Captains Mower, Boston, Mar
shall, Haggerty, Wadsworth. Martin.
Clarke, of the Forty-first Infantry; Lieu
tenants Davidson, DR.. Barrett. Mcintosh,
Christie, Boiseau, Miller, Glover, Towsen.
Simmons, Claxton, Caldwell, Cummings,
Beall, of the Forty-first Infantry, and
Lieutenant Seaoney, acting Adjutant,
Forty-tirst Infantry, U.S.V.; Major Ruth
ers, commissary department; Major Rod
man, Twentieth Infantry; Lieutenant
Colonel Hfestand. Adjutant General; Ma
Jor Biddell, engineer corps; Major Chebb
Twenty seventh Regular Infantry; Cap
tain Lloyd, Fifteenth Infantry; Captain
Berry, artillery corps; Lieutenant Scott,
artillery; Captain Dr. Bennett; Lieuten-
ant Siegel, Thirty-eighth Infantry; Lieu
tenant Courtney, Thirty-eighth; Lieuten-
ant Hanney, Twenty-second Regular In
fantry; Second Lieutenant Allen Smith,
Ninth Infantry; Captain Chapman, wife
and two children; Captain Ahern and
wife, Ninth Infantry; ex-Lieutenant VIII
son, Twentyninth Infantry; Dr. Fulcher,
A.A.S; DR.. Norris, A.A.S.; Drs. MorreI,
Thornberg, Hadderly, Warwick, Shop
herd, acting assistant surgeons; DR..
Pinkham, assistant surgeon, U.S.A;
Misses Read and McCurdy. nurses; Mrs.
Rylands; Mrs. Crawford; Quartermaster
Clerk Glassbrenner; Judge Young; Pay
masters Clerk Hitchcock and Dr. Hunter
veterinary.
Major Noble H. Creager is the quarter
master in charge of the transport. In
his department are Quartermaster's Clerk
Astel and Commissary Clerk Reinhart
The officers of the ship are: Captain
Karl Martens, First Officer Hasted. Sec
ond Officer Peterson, Third Officer Grau-
mann. Surgeon Henry NJ. Hall, Chief
StpWa rd II toe
Kelly.
In the hold of the Buford are about 300
caskets containing the remains OF SOL
diers being taken home for burial.
Pearl Harbor Naval Station.
The board appointed by the Secre-
tary of the Navy to report upon the
location of a naval station at Pearl
Harbor, Hawaii, has completed it's re-
port, and adheres to the first impress