The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-07-17
u. S. Training Ship Mohcan Had Long. Tedious
Passage and First Made Port at Dutch
Harbor for Coal.

1TSHE United States training ship
Mohican, Commander A. r. Cou-
den, arrived in port at IL O'Clock
/ yesterday morning, after So
| days passage from Yokohama. Many
people feared that the vessel had met
with some mishap because of her long
/ passage, but she arrived safe and as
sound as she ever was. Naval ships
are so we'll manned. provisioned and
Differed that it is seldom that anything
/ happens to them except in war.
/ The Mohican left Yokohama intend
! ing to make the trip along the regular
northern trade route, which at this sea-
| fair wind. But the vessel failed TO find
| a favorable wind and met with all sorts
OF Gains and foul winds until she had
been driven so far north that the COM
mander thought it prudent to put into
Dutch Harbor on June 81 for coal. In
this far northern port she took in about
$50 tons of coal and remained for two
| days. Leaving Dutch Harbor on June
%, she made her way to Honolulu part /
ly under sail and partly by steam. In
latitude 81 degrees north and 155 de-
grees east she spoke a French bark
whose descriptive letters were II. sd
f. c. bound from Newcastle to San
Francisco.
The Mohican has 313 cadets aboard
and these became very tired of their
long and tedious voyage, Walking
about the bird deck of the vessel. where
the rated cadets live, a reporter was
greeted with all kinds of questions and !
remarks. Tell 'em we've had very
bum grub aboard" said one. DO you
know how soon they pay the wheels
out to us?" How would a guy get on
ashore here if he left the ship?" But
most of the men seemed particularly
happy. although the Mohican is a bad
Iy overcrowded training ship. on the
gun deck dozens of recruits were seat
ed with small boxes between their
knees writing letters to friends in all
parts of the United States. Guess the
governor will come down when he sees
this Told him / was robbed in Yoko-
hama and will need cash when we get j
to Puget Sound" Going ashore to- :
day?" queried one. NO. How the
blazes would you go ashore before we
get paid Off" answered the one ad-
dressed. There were all sorts of lads
all strapping looking fellows and>tan-
ned deeper than a South Sea Islander I
pictures of health every one of them c
Come this way, mister. and I'll show
YOU the cadets lover" said a strapping r
young fellow. Yes, it's our lover; not \
quite girl, but better thing than b
girl as far as 1 can make out" And
The cadet led the visitor below to the :,
bird deck, where little room surround r
I'd by wire grating contained desks =
md a steel safe. That's it," he said:
'landsmen call that the paymasters
'ffice. but call it the lover
And out of that little office on the 4"
,un deck some $4,000 viii be paid away o
oday to the youngsters on the Ms p
lican. The boys are all eagerly wait u
ng for it and there viii be a big time u
-mong them when it reaches their
lands- it VIII never reach their peck
is. as it viii all be left in Honolulu d
n the hands of business people. as the Il
-oungsters intend TO have a good time q
shore after their long passage. :
Every piece of metal on the ship is 4
olished as bright a new gold piece u
he decks are almost snow white and u
o look at the kit bags in the gun deck
ne would think that all of them have
ust been made out of new clotii-asI
White and clean as elbow grease and
Dap can make them. On the gun deck
ishteen marines are quartered, and as
he marines are supposed to be the
udes Of a ship it was nothing I'M
sual 10 see them squatted on the deck -
nending and cleaning clothes. and one
nan making clothing on a small hand
ewing machine. o
Had the Mohican made better pas =
age from Yokohama she would have
ematned here about two weeks, but il -
; now unlikely that she will stay here
onger than five or six DAYS She is an
hored in the stream near the Quaran-
Inc Island pier and viii remain out
here during her stay in port
For some reason or other perhaps be- a.
ause of its novelty a, naval vessel is r,