The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-04-16
PRESlDENTE
SACRAMENTO
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One of their first acts was to send
ashore yesterday afternoon for fresh
meats and dinner last evening was re-
plete with choice legs of lamb, thick
porterhouse steaks and other good
island meats.
The frigate left Buenos Ayres on
February and cruised down the At
lantic coast of South America to
Puenta Arenas and left there on Feb
ruary % The Straits of Magellan
were left on March l. The Presidente
Sarmiento did not expect to arrive at
Honolulu until April IS, but good winds
prevailed and she arrived three days
earlier than anticipated.
The vessel will remain here seven
days, proceeding hence to Shanghai,
then to various ports in China; thence
to Japan for few weeks; then across
to Sydney, Australia; Auckland and
Christchurch New Zealand and then
cruising through the Indian Ocean and
around Cape of Good Hope across the
Atlantic to Buenos Ayres. While in
Asiatic waters the Sarmiento will visit
Fusan, Korea; Port Arthur and Dalny,
Manchuria. 1t is a cruise which cir
cumnavigates the world.
The officers of the Sarmiento are as
follows: Commandante, Captain Adolfo
NJ Diaz; second commandante, or ex-
ecutive officer, Captain de Fragata Exc
quiel J. Guttero; chief of the Cadets,
Lieutenant Arturo Celery; Lleutenants
Powhatan Page, Jose j. eros, Pedro M.
Eseutary, Felix Tiscornia, Pedro Gully
Andres, NJ. Laprado; Sub-Lieuten-
ants Luis F.. Orlandini Pedro Etche
pare; Surgeon, Gregorio S. Tejerina;
Il Corloc Nnnnc. cponn6
Francisco Barbara; third, Natalie
Ageno Guillermo Fargus; Purser,
Emilio Castaing; Chaplain, Aurelio AL
coba; Professor of English, Tomas S.
Dennehey;. Professor of Fencing, En-
rique Choucino The crew comprises
263 men.
The list of Cadets aboard is as fol-
lows: Luis NJ Iglesias, Ernesto erie
ben. Santos Rodriguez Aravena, Jose
Boerr Charlone, Mario Fincati, Ramon
Pereda, Jose Silva, Juan G. Sol, Herac-
lilo Fraga, Luis Ochagavia, Adolfo
Perna, Mario Percovich, Adolfo Pages,
Esteban Repetto, Enrique Navarro,
Ignacio Barbarossa, Jorge Siehes, AL
berto Sadous.
The Sarmiento was launched in 1897
and on her first cruise around the world
she called at Honolulu. That was in
1899. She was built by Laird Brothers
at Birkenhead. She is 282 feet long,
has breadth of Al feet, draws 20 feet
of water and her displacement is 1854
tons. She is called frigate with
steam auxiliary. She is provided with
triple expansion engines with an lnd1-
Gated horsepower of 2085, and has
speed of II knots an hour. The vessel
has double bottoms and is provided
with three torpedo tubes.
The armament consists of four Arm
strong Al guns; two Nordenfeldt o.
Founders; two Hotchkiss rapid fire guns
and two Hotchkiss 3-pounders.
The vessel is essentially a training
ship for cadets and for this reason sails
are used almost entirely in cruising,
steam being used in entering and leaV-
ing harbors.
On the present cruise the vessel has
made 1900 knots under steam, this be-
ing due to the prevalence of Gains, and
800 miles under canvas.
The Sarmiento is a very comfortable
boat with roomv decks and commodious
quarters for all divisions. The officers
| Quarters are exceedingly comfortable.
| The wardroom is large and fitted for
ease. The officers are exceedingly
] courteous and the majority of them are
fluent in the English language. In fact,
| the fiuency in English is in marked
! contrast with warships of other foreign
| countries which have touched here, for
| on many of them that tongue was hard
| ly spoken.
| Among the officers aboard is Lieut..
| Powhatan Page He is a relative of
| Thomas Nelson Page, the novelist, and
| is also said to be a descendant of the
! famous chieftair Powhatan who won
/ fame as the chief of the tribe which
gave Captain John Smith considerable
trouble during the founding of the
| Virginia Colony, and as the father of
/ Pocahontas. Hence Lieut. Page s
| Christian designation.
An excellent band accompanies the
| training ship on its cruise. 1t is very
fine musical organization. As the YES
! sci came into the harbor several must
cal selections were played among them
being American national airs Last
evening concert was given which was
! listened to by throngs of people ashore.
Lieut.. Carter, Z. S. N. boarded the
vessel as she came to anchor and paid
| his respects to the communicate. The
/ call was returned later aboard the Z.
S. s Iroquois by Captain Guttero.
The vessel will be open to inspection
some time during the week, on a day
to be stated later.