Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-06-02
SAILOR Of SOlACt
HAS SCARLET HVH

Inc united states navy NhhSp'''
Solace, Commander Singer, arrived on
the harbor yesterday afternoon about
4:3O o'clock from San Francisco, She
made the run down from the Coast in
remarkably good time for a vessel oil
her class. occupying only six days and
two and half hours.
The Solace was not permitted TO en-
ter port yesterday on account Of case
OF scarlet fever among the crew. This
morning the patient was removed to
Quarantine Island and the vessel came
into the harbor docking at the United
States quarantine wharf near the chan
mel. The Solacc is in strict quarantine
and no one is allowed aboard. The Of.
iCers of the vessel. however. are per
mitted to come ashore.
Commander Singer called at the Ma
val Station this morning, He was for
merry executive officer Of the cruiser
Raleigh. which saw service at the bat.
tie of Manila Bay.
The Soace left San Francisco last
Monday. May 10th, bringing four days
later news of the outside world. She
brought no mail or newspaper files,
mail being held for the steamship Cop.
tic. which was to sail the next day and
which Is expected to arrive this after.
noon.
Through the kindness Of Arthur l..
Merry, clerk of the United States Ma.
val Station. the Bulletin secured a com
| plcte file OF the latest San Francisco
newspapers. The officers Of the Sol
rec strenuously objected to letting any
newspapers, leave the vessel. although
the local health authorities had signi.
fed their willingness to allow newspa.
rers to leave the vessel. provided no
one from ashore went aboard.
The Solace will remain here p!ob
ably three days, taking on coal, water
and provisions.
A most enjoyable trip was enjoyed
all the way from San Francisco. the
" Gather being all that could be desired
The Solacc carries large amount
n supplies and FIVE hundred men fo
rho warships of the AsiatiC squadron
She will touch at Guam on her way L
the Orient. Among her passengers ar,
sixty naval cadets who are to be dis
;ributCd among the vessels OF tn,
AsiatiC feet. The families of two o
three Naval officers on the Asiatic sta
ton are also aboard.
Tho Naval transport, as usual. is il
sr,oriiG condition, shining in spotles
paint and presenting a wonderfully
neat appearance. When she arrive
of the harbor yesterday afternoon
y crowd gathered on the waterfront, e,
pCCting TO see her come III and moo
alongside the Naval wharf The
were doomed to disappointment. how
ever II was some time before II wa
known on the front that there wa
Slt kntSS hDOdIu the NtSStl.
The crew and men in transit aboar
the Solace are naturally very niue
" disappointed at not being able to com
Grhore In Honolulu. They viii be for
: cd to stay aboard during the two c
' three days that the vessel spends &
u the channel wharf. The wharf is car,
~ Inlly guarded by Board of Health of
~ GERS and guards from the SoiaCe. III
" latter patrolling the wharf with fiXe
D bayOnets.
u No one will he permitted to leave III
~ ship except the officers, and no or
- will be allowed aboard. This mornin
when the transport dOcked there wei
!" not more than dozen men on Il
~ wharf. most of these being officers
!" the board OF Health.
'e y iaundryman went AS near to Il
ships sides as the armed guards won
'e permit and called out to Executive c
" fter Rogers, asking him Il he had al
" washing to 20 ashore. The stern of
~ cor seemed astounded that anyone da
" I'd 10 speak to him over the very hea,
D. OF the guards which he had Just st
III toned on the wharf. When he fouI
his tongue he called out that the lau
CT drymaD must not come near the shi
ne Then, suddenly remembering, p.
e. haps, that he would need a clean shi
IL when he reached Guam, he called o
On that perhaps the washing would be
er lowed ashore later The laundrymi
no retired, shouting the number of h
W. telephone as he disappeared throu,
ne the gate.
III When newspaper men asked +
We newspapers from the Coast, MIR. Re
se ers arose in his might and passed Il
en- word that anybody caught giving
newspaper man paper over the si
would be hauled up. he took abs
lutely no compassion on poor, lionel
cableless. little Hawaii.
One OF the ladies on the upper de,
n was reading a newspaper evidently
N San Francisco sheet. 4 reporter
" the wharf managed to signal the la,
that the said paper would be very q
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