The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-04-30
MAKES AN
EIGHT DAY RUN
Transport New to This Port Ar.
rives With Mail and
Troops.

The transport Crook arrived from
San Francisco early yesterday morn
ing with two days later mail and news
| The weather coming down was fine and
nothing more exciting occurred or
| board than a case or two of mumps
among the soldiers. The Grant. Alas
kan and Sonoma were sighted, between
| here and San Francisco. The vessel
| sailed from the Coast on April 81.
The Crook has on board the second
| battalion of the Eleventh Infantry, a
| few recruits, forty-one hospital corps
men and sixty-siX cabin passengers.
Among the latter are the officers in
| charge of the troops, officers on special
duty and officers on their way to join
commands. "a few schoolteachers and
some civilian Government employees.
The cabin passengers are:
l. Officers accompanying Eleventh In
fantry-Major ]. b. Jackson, Captain
]. S. Emery. w. r. Wilder. II. r. Lee,
j. w. Heavey, Lieutenant S. G.. Chiles.
j. w. Furlew. w. NJ. Parker. o. Il.
Booth, G. X. Crawford, s. T. Mackall,
A. o. Seaman, c.. l.. Johnson.
Major j. n. Henry. surgeon. u. S.
V. commanding detachment hospital
corps men to Manila. and. Lieutenant
j. p. Robinson. artillery corps. COM
manding and accompanying Honolulu
detachment.
Contract Surgeons f. B. Bailey. z. T.
Wilson, w. +. Hall. C. A. Warwick.
Mrs. j. c. O'Donnell. Mrs. Frank
Woodbury., ]. w. Desmond. Miss Edith
Quackenbush. Mrs. C. NJ. Stanisfer, A.
II. Kennedy. c. w. Slime. w. Ware 5.
:. Carothers. ]. II. Thigpen, s. A. Har-
vey. II. T. Schildroth, NJ. D.: Mrs. Gar
ret O'Reilly and child. :. c. Williamson.
Mrs. l.. Barbeau and two children, II.
@. Depatz, G. w. Dorsey, wife and
child; p. II. Loughran. Mrs. John II.
Voss. +. III. Fogerty. Mrs. II. r. Lee.
Captain John Z. Hams. Lieutenant II.
l.. James. d. w. Chamberlain, V. NJ.
Elmore. d. A. Snyder. A. II. Hickox
Captain w. K. Jones, wife and two
children; Mrs. II. l.. James, Professor
]. NJ. Wilson, Miss s. Kennedy and sis
ter, C. w. Cannon and wife, Major P.
r. Eagan, w. Lynch, wife and two
children.
The Crook brought five members of
the hospital corps to Honolulu and has
on board thirty-siX of the same service
for Manila. The Eleventh Infantry men
number All.
The transport landed about seventy |
five tons of supplies for the local gar
rison. She is coaling at Navy wharf !
No. l and will sail for Manila direct !
this afternoon or tomorrow morning. |
Concerning passengers aboard the
Crook, the following appeared in a re-
cent issue Of the San Francisco Call: l.
Conspicuous among the departing Of |
ficers was Captain ]. P. Hams of the /
Artillery Corps. Captain Hams is we'll /
known in local society circles, and has
the reputation in the service of being |
q smart artillery engineer. He is ia
nous apart from that, however, as be-
ing one of the few American army Off
GERS daring enough to appear before his
men in khaki breeches cut in ali the
extremes of tightness and looseness
prescribed by the British school of rid
ing. He rides. however. with a long
stirrup. never drops an H" and is
classed by the ladies as cute
Among the passengers was Miss
Edith Quackenbush, who goes to the
to marry a scnoolteacher.
Tee Crook is commanded by Captain
a nephew of w. n. Armstrong
and Mrs. Weaver of the Lunalilo Home
Chief officer Royce and Chief Engi-
neer Williams are prominent officers of
the big transport. Williams, according
TO the captain. is remarkably clever
engineer. for the rather Anticipated en-
gines of the transport have, under his
care, performed unexpectedly good
work. The transport quartermaster on
he Crook is Captain Thomas Swobe.
The Crook has a length of 1905
breadth of AZ feet and depth OF 2se
with a net tonnage of 27o3. The vessel
has twin screws and four ma.ts