The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1906-10-05
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tFrom Thursdays Advertisero

ny iu' AitlH,
emblcmatic of the big gun champion.
ship of the navy. the battleship Wis
ccnsin entered the harhor shortly after
S clock yesterday morning and dock
ed ut Naval wharf No. 3. She was
thirteen days out from Yokohama,
during two of which she was tossed
in the high seas occasioned by the tail
end of the typhoon which wrought the
damage in Hongkong harbor.
The Badger ship sailed from Chefoo,
homeward bound on September /, sail
ing orders having been received the
previous month. The transfer of of.
ficers and men to the other ships of
the fleet and the joining of a large
number of time expired men took place
during the last week ut Chefoo, the
Wisconsin sailing with over six hun
bred souls aboard, nearly all of whom
will be paid off and discharged at the
Coast. Three of her crew, who enlist
ed here from the Iroquois three years
ago. were discharged yesterday.
Since leaving Chefoo the battleship
has called at Kobe and Yokohama. sail
ing from the latter port direct for
Honolulu. She will remain here until
Sunday next, coaling and preparing for
the last leg of the homeward trip. After
her arrival at San Francisco she will
she laid up for short time for re.
pairs and will then proceed around the
Horn to join the Atlantic squadron.
BEAUTIFUL SET OF CoLoRS.
The Wisconsin is homeward bound
after serving three years and half
on the Asiatic station and the gratifi-
cation of the six hundred and twenty
seven members of her crew, from Cap
tain Drake TO the latest Joined marine,
at the prospect of rejoining the loved
ones at home finds expression in the
beautiful set of colors, surprising those
of any flown by homeward- boundcr
in the fleets history. To surpass the
colors of all previous homeward bound
ships seems to be the aim of the one
following. and this the Badgers have
accomplished. setting high mark for
the next ship to top.
The pennant streams out to length
of $50 feet, being &c inches wide at
the head, continuing this with for $50
feet, when it tapers to the tails which
are 6 inches wide and 90 feet long.
The blue field in the. pennant is 100
feet long and the stars are % inches
across. The great ensign has length
of 80 feet, the stripes being IS inches
in width. The jack is fourteen feet
and the red trophy pennant at the fore
is nine feet on the hoist with seven
foot fly.
Forty-one bolts of the best Soochow
silk have been worked up into these
colors, costing alone $435, and the work
of making them was done by the
Franciscan Sisters of the Chefoo con-
vent. The pennant is to be cut up and
divided among the members of the
ships company after her arrival at the
Coast, the ensign will be presented to
the executive chamber at Madison, and
the jack and trophy remnant will be
presented to Captain Drake.
BADGERS ARE CHAMPIONS.
The badger crew are proud of their
ship and of themselves, with the best
of reasons. Not only have they won
the championship for gunnery of the
Navy, but their score was the highest
ever made by any battleship, earning
for them the congratulations of Sec
rotary Bonaparte and TIE praise of
their commander. IL addition to this
the baseball championship of the Asia
tic fleet was gathered in, two champion
ship trophy cups occupying proud
position in the fo'c'sle alongside a
carved silver table bearing the names
of the champion gun crews and the
record of their victories, the last being
presented to the crew by Captain
Drake.
The big gun scores in the target prac-
tice among battleships are:
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