The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-10-29
THE BOARD Of ENQUIRY
REAR ADMIRAL EVANS WILL
VISIT PEARL IIARBOR.
Visiting Officers Enthusiastic over
Renews Many Old Acquaintance.

Renews Many Old Acquaintance.
Rear Admiral Robley d. Evans will
take a trip to Pearl Harbor soon to
look into the land question there and
generally see the place as he expects
to be asked many questions as to its
practicability on his return from Pago
Pago. He states that there is a feel
ing in Washington that the land own
ers in the vicinity are trying to over
rate the value of their condemned lands
and squeeze" the government
While nothing will be decided as to
the nature of the fortifications to be
erected at Pearl Harbor until the dec-
sions of the army board are known, Ad-
miral Evans believes that there will be
a complete station put In at Pearl Har-
Dor on account of the great natural ad-
vantages of the place. The utilities of
Pearl Harbor are well known at Wash
ington and the station VIII be worthy Of
the site, although the labor market, cost
of supplies and general local conditions
will affect the use of the appropriation
and widely enter into the. question.
After the defence of Hawaii, a suit
able site will be looked for among the
Aleutian Islands, to protect the inter-
ests of America in the Behring Sea dis
trict. There is already a coaling sta
ton at Dutch Harbor at the Alaskan
end of the string of islands where ves-
sells coal to go northward to the Arctic
sea. There are sealing interests i'm ihe
Behring sea that America is bo,y'd TO
protect by the treaty of PafL5 and
which create a reason for the naval
station aside from purely strategical
purposes There will also be a large
station erected at Subig Bay to guard
the Philippines.
Admiral Evans and Admiral Glass
viii pay an informal visit to the Gov
ernor this morning having failed to find
him at the Capitol yesterday when they
called. Admiral Evans, who is now on
his first visit to Honolulu, thinks high
ly of the resources of the islands and is
very anxious to meet the Governor, who
he declare, is very highly thought of at
Washington.
Admiral Glass is we'll remembered by
kamaainas of the city and is renewing
many old acquaintances from way back
in the seventies. The present occasion
makes his third visit to Honolulu, the
first occurring in 1870, when he was in
command of the Nyak and came here
from a South American station. The
next occasion was when he was con-
Voylng the first contingent OF the eighth
army corps to sthe Philippines, being
then in command of the Charleston
The rapid growth of Honolulu in the
last three or four years was a great
surprise to the admiral. On his last
visit he dined with Minister Sewall in a
house where the Moana Hotel now
stands and was astonshed to find that
so up-to-date an edifce had sprung up
during his absence.
Admiral Glass is the present com
mandant of the Goats Island training
station at San Francisco and is en-
thusiastic over the excellent material
being developed there for Uncle Sam.
Captain Thomas of the Oregon, from
whose command he has D zen temporari-
ly relieved to serve on the present board
of enquiry has been in Honolulu before,
but was agreeably surprised at the ra-
| pid growth of the city and the new
| buildings so rapidly springing up. He
is firm champion of his fighting ma
chine the Oregon, and expresses his be-
lief that she could whip the Wiscon-
sin any day on account of her superior
| battery.
The captain does not believe in the
changes now being made in the arma-
ment of war vessels. whereby six inch
guns are being substituted for eight
| inch, neither does he consider the new
seven inch weapon of great practical
value.
According to the calculations of Cap
| I
San Francisco about the 10Th of De-
cember, arriving at Pago Pago about
the Sth of November.
Captain P. H. Cooper, former COM
mander of the Iowa will be a rear ad-
miral before the year is over. He has
| had no command since he brought the
Iowa into Pacific waters after the war
was over but has been serving on diff
erent naval boards. This is a pleasant
trip to him into fresh quarters of the
| globe, aside from the painful duty
awaiting at Pago Pago, which is much
| deplored by the board in general who
have hitherto ALWAYS esteemed Captain
Tilley, their old friend as n model of
naval propriety.
| There was a pleasant reunion between
Captain Merry and the other members
of the board yesterday. Captain Merry
| served in the same ship as Admiral
| Evans before Fort Fisher and was a
bedfellow in the hospital after the ac-
ton, receiving three gunshot wounds
while Admiral Evans received the in
! iuries that have made him limp through
! the remainder of his career.