The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-10-29

will have to have station in the
Aleutian group. for it must be remem-
bered that there is a large part of the
United States In the north. We are
now looking for a good harbor IN that
string of islands,
Rear Admiral Henry Glass is the
junior of that grade, having been ad-.
vanced to it through the retirement of
Admiral Schley which took place on
the 9th of the present month. Ills
commission has not been sent out, but
he has the title and rank nevertheless.
Admiral Glass has seen Honolulu
through many years, having come here
the first time early in the seventies.
He is very modest man, and would
not talk at any length, but said that
he thought Honolulu had greatly
changed, and in fact that no other
town he ever had seen had experienced
the same amount of change as in the
past three years. since the time he
was here in the Charleston, on the way
to take Guam and finally to land as
port captain of Manila.
Admiral Glass is now seommandant
of the new training station for boys.
located upon Goat Island, in the bay
of San Francisco, and it is his exoecta-
tion that he will remain there for sonic
time; at least until the completion Of
the buildings for that station. The
work now being done there, he said,
was excellent. and the young men
trained there were a credit to the navy.
From what has been said il is believed
Congress will make provisions for ex-
tensions of that station during the
present term.
Capt. c. NJ. Thomas is the other
member of the party who has been in
Honolulu before, he having Been here
in the Oregon, which ship ne took
back to the United States after her
disastrous strike in the Japan sea. He
is still the commander of tie battle
ship, having been taken off only for
this service. He said yesterday that his
ship was in excellent shape, ana that
had it been needed he could have gone
on around the world. Captain Thomas
is one who disapproves of the new
plan of cutting down the secondary
battery OF a battleship, as is now
planned in the new vessels. WHARF the
6-inch gun is mounted instead Of the
8inch. He also does not like the idea
of the finch gun at all. Captain
Thomas expressed himself as much
tha n 1frcr Of ~
city, commenting upon the Young and
Hackfeld structures as most credita-
BILE to any city, even one of much larg-
er size than this.
This mission of the members Of the
board, said Captain Thomas, is most
painful to ali of them, owing to the
fact that Captain TilIey has Away;
been looked upon by his fellows as a
model of propriety. Captain Thomas
said that in his opinion the board
could not complete it's work in time
TO catch the ship leaving Pago PaSo
on November 18th, and that it would
be about the first of December when
the members got away.
Capt p. H. Cooper, the former COM
mander of the battleship Iowa, who
brought that ship around into this
ocean after the war was over, Is the
senior captain, and will be rear ad-
rniral before the year is over. He has
had no command since the close of
his last cruise in the Iowa, and has
spent the time serving upon boards
such as the present one. He is now
on leave, and this duty is a most peas
ing experience TO him, as he has rever
before been In this part of the world.
Capt P. F. Harrington, who is one
of the members of the board who neve:'
before cruised in these waters, is now