The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-08
A Bark off Port.

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ington, as is also the Yosemite.
| a Bark off Port
! A bark lay off Diamond Head last
night. Her Identity was not known.
The bark Nuuanu is due from New
York, and there are several expected
from the Colonies with coal and one or
two are about due from the coast. Who
ever she is the tug Fearless will bring
her into port bright and early this
morning.
! Variable winds prevailed all day yes
terday. Last night the weather was
clear and the wind at rest.
News Of the Navy.
! Several ships now in commission on the
| Asiatic Station will have to be placed on
the reserve list as soon as they can be
| brought to the United States, their long
and active service in the tropics having
rendered their efficiency below the point
where 1t is advisable to retain them in
| commission. 1t is expected that several
| of the ships now nearing completion will
| be commissioned for sea service with full
crews and the proper complement of Off
| GERS. This will probably result in con-
| siderable increase of the Home Squadron,
and the Pacific Station will probably
benefit IfOIl lNe TeQucllOn Oh the emma
Squadron to the extent of two or more
| vessels The South Pacific Station stands
] in great need of re-establishment for it
| has been quite number of years since
! the American flag has been displayed to
the southwark of Panama in anything
| like it's former strength. These changes
| will hardly be effective before next fall.
The U. S. S. New York has been re-
ported as arriving at Port Said, all well
| n Of fhA oh in
| from this date on will be Manila. P. l.
/ 1t is not intended that the New York
shall make any considerable stops be-
| tween Port Said and Colombo, but some
| delay may be made at that point for
the purpose of giving the crew a chance
for shore leave and to recruit the per-
sonnet, which by that time will have
been steadily at work for a long period
The New York may be expected to ar
rive at Manila by the first of June or
perhaps few days earlier.
The appointment of a board, presided
over by Capt. G. A. Converse, U. S. N,
to consider the advisability and desira-
bility of having the torpedo boats rem
dezvoused at some central point on the
coast, is a move in the right direction,
says the Army and Navy Journal, and
one IN which the whole Navy will be in
terested. The idea has been advanced
that it would be good plan to have
these small craft taken out of the water
during periods of inactivity and kept pre-
pared for active service, so that they
could be set afloat at a single days no
tice. Boston has been mentioned in this
connection, but many officers favor Rich
mond, as being more central and possess
ing any quantity of fresh water. The
matter will be gone over with all the at
tentien to details for which Captain Con-
verse is noted, and the results will be
carefully considered before anything is
done to carry out the intent of the. Sec
rotary of the Navy.
The u. S. T. s. Dixie will soon sail
| from Norfolk for the New York Navy
Yard where 1t will take ABOARD a crew
of raw recruits, and will go on a cruise
for practice and drills similar to those
of last year, which proved SO successful
in all particulars. This method of in
creasing the enlisted personnel of the
: Navy has proven so successful that IL
is not probable that any more green
hands will be sent to ships in commits
sion for foreign service; the crews will
have passed through the preliminary
phases of sailors life before being sent
aboard ship in commission for sea
duty.
!, The Kentucky has returned from Hong
kong to Cavfte after a successful dock
ing and a few minor repairs. Rear Ad-
miral Kempf is left in temporary COM
mand of the ASiatic Station during the
absence of Admiral Remey in Australia
The old Supply, for several years past
laid up at the New York Navy Yard, is
at last to be rehabilitated and placed in
commission for service at the Island of
Guam. The Supply will be the perma-
nent estationaire at the point, and will
serve the purpose better than a steam
vessel. She has had a long and check
cred career in the Naval service, and at
various periods has been a store and
supply vessel for near.y every squadron
flying the American flag. For many
years this fine old-timer was stationed in
the harbor of Callao, Peru. as a supply
ship, and from there was transferred to
the New York Yard, where she is at
present
While apprentices of the u S. train
ing ship Monongahela were at target
practice at the Puerta de TERRA rifle
range, Porto Rico, on March IA, the re-
volver of one boy missed fire. While
trying to extract the cartridge the wea-
pom went off, the ball passing through
the head of third-class Apprentice Clay
vile. AT the hospital at the San Juan
Naval Station an operation was per-
formed, but the lad died in a. few hours
He was II years Of age. Boys, and 9TH
ers, using firing arms cannot be too
strongly impressed with the necessity of
| hoidlng their weapons 80 that In case
of accidental discharge the ball will not
| strike themselves or any one else.
The French training ship Duguay-Tro-
uin arrived at New York April Is from
Baltimore and anchored In the upper
bay On the morning Of April 16 she
steamed up the North river to an an
| chorage off Thirty-fourth street
The senior squadron commander of the
Asiatic Station reports the following dis
trihutton of vessels in Philippine waters :
Vicksburg at Zamboanga; Nashville and
Pompey at Vigan; Paragua at Iloilo; Pa
nay Is patrolling coast of Mindanao.
The New York sailed from Suez Anril
IS for Perrin.
Orders have been issued changing the
cruise of the North Atlantic SQUADRON
so that 1t will proceed direct to New
York from Kingston, Jamaica. where II
rrived April is, instead of to Hampton
Roads, as originally ordered. This change
vas made on account of repairs neces-
ary to the battleships Alabama arc
<earsarge, which will be made In
Cramps yards, Philadelphia, and the
New York Navy Yard, respectively Rear
tdmiral Farquhar will b. relieved from
Command of the squadron at New York
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