The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-05-30

SIGHTED AT EARLY HOUR FROM
JAPAN.
Lying off Harbor Where She Will Coal
Until Monday-Wll Leave Next
Week for Frisco.

At 5:25 o'clock this morning the Bat
tleship Oregon, the prize OF the navy
was sighted off BARRIERS Point and
within a short time the vessel had an
chored about half mile off the mouth
of the harbor. This is the first visit OF
the oregon to TINS port since 1899 when
she was going out to join the Asiat1C
station and but few of the men VINO
were on her then returned this morn
ing.
The vessel left Yokohama on the 18th
and encountered two days of bad
weather. Had it not been for being de-
layed in this way she would have
reached port a day or so earlier.
Quite number of the men aboard
her were with the vessel when she went
on Pinnacle Rocks last year while hur-
rying to Taku during the Boxer trou-
bles. Had it not been for the good luck
which has always followed the vessel
she would probably have been lost on
that occasion. Several days before she
struck the rocks Captain Wilde her
commander, purchased the wrecking
apparatus of the Toxic Maru a Jap
aneSe liner which had been wrecked
within 100 miles of Pinnacle Rocks He
paid only 500 pounds for the apparatus
The result was that when the vessel
struck he was able to put the wreck
ing apparatus to work and pump her
out and save the ship. Had there been
very rough weather at the time how
ever she would have pounded herself
to pieces. Taken altogether, the wreck
was the cheapest work that the govern
ment ever had done as the government
men did it themselves,
The repairs made to the boat are only
temporary and after she reaches San
Francisco she will probably go to Puget
Sound to be further repaired.
Captain c. NJ. Thomas of the Oregon
was formerly in command of the cruiser
Brooklyn. Carpenter j. p. Yates and
Gunner Simon Jacobs are the oldest
officers in the service of the Ore~o-- as
both of them have served with the ves-
I sci since she was first put into COM
mission.
The oregon will begin takino coal to-
morrow morning Owing to the men
having completed a voyage of IA days
it was decided not to have them par
ticipate in the Memorial Day exercises
on shore. The vessel will take about
( $50 tons of coal. 1t is expected she will
ret away to San Francisco by Monday.
! There will be no reception on board the
| sh.a when he is coaling.
The following are the officers of the
| battleship:
Captain Charles NJ. Thomas; Lieuten-
ant Commander Charles A. Adams,
executive officer Lieutenant-C -Comman-
der H. F. Dixon, chief engineer;
Lieutenant F. NJ. Bostwick, navigator;
Lieutenants J. H. Gibbons, Waldo
Evans, r. H. Leigh, L. McName, How
ard Gage; Ensigns G. l.. Poor and d.
M. Wood; Surgeon Philip Linch; p. A.
| Surgeon A. Farenholt; Paymaster S. l..
Heap; First Lieutenant Logan Feland,
! U. S. M. c.; Boatswains j. E. Murphy
and Henry Feshan; Gunners Simon
Jacobs and Samuel Chiles; Carpenter
j. P. Yates; Machinists ]. F. Green, c..
f. Wood, Charles Hammond, A. G..
Bates; Pay Clerk H. d. Lazette
The last time the Oregon was here
she had just made the record that
gave her fame all over the world. 1t
was in making her trip round the Horn
under high pressure of speed all the
way, escaping a Spanish squadron en-
route, though many people afterwards
wished she had been found and had
tackled the squadron, and arriving In
Cuban waters in condition, without any
repairs, TO take large part In the des-
truction of Cervera's s fleet off Santiago
This remarkable record was comment
ed on all over the world, and it made
both the Oregon and her builders, the
SCOTS, builders of the Ohio, which has
just been launched, famous every.
where.
After the end of the war with Spain
the Oregon was sent to the China sta
ton, where she has been ready for us,
during the strained situation of the
past months. Her withdrawal from
the east is regarded as another sigT
, that the administration has little feaI
/, of immediate trouble among the power
in China.