The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-10-21
FAMOUS COMPANY b. IS
EXPECTED ON THE LOGAN

II the report is correct that Company
B. Ninth Infantry, is aboard the trans
port Logan. which is due today on the
way to the Coast, Honolulu will have
in its midst one of the famous COM
pan1es in the army. Company B, as
part of the Ninth Infantry, partici-
pated in the siege of Peking during
the Boxer trouble. and since has been
the American legation guard The
company was recently relieved from
duty and replaced by marines.
The reason for the withdrawal of the
army legation guard at Peking is not
a part of the general scheme of army
retrenchment. 1t is an entirely differ
as a station, and the small quota of
officers which it is possible to keep
on duty there with a company of one
hundred and fifty men, makes it diff
military discipline. Company B of the
9Th Infantry is a picked organization,
and no men are accepted for transfer
to that company, to take the place of
soldiers whose terms of enlistment have
expired. who have not clean records
and who do not bear the name of being
good soldiers.
Neverthe ess it is impossible to avoid
the necessity now and then of a court
martial, and when any such occasion
of grave moment arises it is a ques-
ton that bothers the war department,
to know how to detail a court for the
purpose. Heretofore, it has been
necessary to send an officer or two
from the Philippines, thereby incurring
expense and causing vexa-
tious delay, the prisoner being kept
under guard meanwhile. to his own
prejudice and that of the service. II
also necessitates the absence of an Of
fcer from duty in the Philippines.
The navy is situated differently, be-
ing more mobile on account of its ships ]
being on a cruise in some direction the 4
greater part of the time. The navy |
7essels are always running over to Che |
200 from Manila, and it is a small mat
ter for a light launch to run up to
rien-tsin a fifty-mile trip up the Pei
lie, drop off a captain and a lieutenant |
IT two of the marines, who can proceed
hence to Peking by rail. The navy
las a base at Nagasaki and altogether
'eking is much more accessible for the
lavy than it is for the army. The
anne factors figure in the problem of
ending supplies to Peking, the navy
eing able to send them up whenever
United States ships cruise in the gulf
f Chih-li.
Furthermore, Company B of the 9th
as been in north China a long time.
t sailed from Manila bay on the night
f June 27. 1900, when the gallant Cen
raj Liscum, with his little expedition
Or the relief of his countrymen and
beleaguered by Boxers :
nd Chinese troops, sailed from Manila !
, lay down his life before the walls
Tien-tsin. In the early summer of
9Th returned to the Phil
pine shores to undergo the trials and n
ecimations of the campaign in Samar :.
all but Company B. That company,
,cruited up to almost fabulous
rength, stayed behind within the p
laded compounds of Peking. and for
long time a delightful assignment it ;,
as. At present there are but few Of
lie enlisted men left who constituted II
at original legation guard. The old s
ners have taken their discharges and a
# or have been sent home to be dis L
larged, and new men, all of them
cond enlistment men, or better. have
.en sent to take their places.
Not so Captain Andre Brewster, the g;