The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-02-05

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
After rather rough trip the Toyo
klsen kaisha steamer America Mart
arrived in port yesterday afternoon
shortly before 8 o'clock, having made
/ the trip from San Francisco in a little
! over SIX days. On February 4 at S:45
! a. m In Lat. 21.5S \. and Long. 156. 10
/ W., the America Maru met AN Amer
lean fourmasted schooner OK. Q. D.
| FD bound S. W. and she signaled with
| l. K. T." (Report me all well) 1t is
| presumed this is the schooner Aloha
| The America Maru has a light pas
senger list. and there are seven law
overs. Among the lay-over passengers
1 who will walt here for the next steam
er to the Orient is Mr.. F. A Holla-
baugh of the Bowers Rubber Co, of
San Francisco. one of the largest con-
| Germs of the kind in the west.
Mr.. A NJ. Graves, who with Mrs,
Graves will remain here for a. while,
Is secretary
. bartlett & Co, of Chicago, one of the
biggest business houses in hardware
V. i
line, is to Chicago what Marshall
Fields is i'll its particular line. Their
destination is Hongkong.
Among the through passengers is
Mrs. w. H. Avery, wife of the Assist
ant General Manager of the Togo XII
sen kaisha line. She goes to Hong
kong for trip. Mr.. S P. zee, who
is bound for Yokohama, is a promi-
tending the University oe Syracuse.
Mr. Yee,s father was considered the
richest man in Korea and. at his death,
the young man was his sole heir
Mr.. and Mrs. P. J. McCord, en- route
to Shanghai, are on their honeymoon
tour. He is connected with Mustard
& Co, of Shanghai.
Mr.. P. j. Beveridge, accompanied by
Mrs. Beveridge, Miss Phyllis Beveridge
and Miss Marion Beveridge is a pro-
mlnent resident of Los Angeles He
is the owner of the famous estate
known as Hollywood" Mr. Chin Fun
is prominent importer of Chicago
He is accompanied by Mrs. Fun.
The America Maru passed the Nip
pom Maru bound northwest at D. m.
on Saturday.
Purser Goodrich had long period of
rest in San Francisco this trip He
and Mrs. Goodrich had planned to
make the most of his long stay, and
one evening visited the skating rink, |
where. as Lacy says, the elite and the |!
rest OF the town goes, Tor everybody in |
San Francisco is skating-rink crazy" /
His wife and a lady friend were skat-
ing along quietly when an expert" |
who never turns out for others. came |
behind them and gave them a shove.
Mrs. Goodrich fell and sustained |
broken bone below the knee. Lacys
holiday in San Francisco was therefore
knocked out.
The America Maru takes on several
hundred tons of coal and will leave tor
the Orient a 3 p. m. today.
TROOPS FOR CHINA.
Col. Borden, of the oath Infantry, is
'aid to have received cablegram Just
before the sailing of the transport
Sheridan for Manila to the effect at
,roops are to be rushed to the Philip
)lnes Oh account of the China situa-
ion. The Star prints the following
rom local military man:
Extremely disquieting news was
/ ,
n fact is so serious that prompt ac-
ion has been taken by the war de-
and as result an entire reg
ment will leave San Francisco for the
within five days. Orders
ave already been issued and the men
will be rushed to the front as soon as
'ossible. i am not at liberty to dis .
lose the nature of the news received
before the transport Sheridan left this
lorning, although | heard it discussed.
he regiment to be sent forward will .
e in addition to that on board the ..
Meade which has been de !,
aged by an accident in San Fran :
iscO. | do not know what regiment
las been chosen for the work but as =
t will obviously have to be a regi j.,
lent now on the coast, the 14th in :
antry will probably be sent, l should :
hink.' -
The transport Meade is to sail for
honolulu and Manila on February 9. !
Ter original sailing day was Febru
~ /. but owing to a fire aboard the
essel on that day, the vessels sailing
ras DELAYED until the 9th. The vessel a
ras scheduled to carry the ID Infan- :
ry. This was the regiment desig- :
ated by the War Department to be
he forerunner of the new assignments ="
f regiments for the nucleus of force :
'hich might be needed IN China,
hould occasion require. Measles and y
humps broke out in the regiment at :
ort Logan. near Denver, and it was l.
lought this would hold the regiment .
ack. However. it left Denver in :
me to reach San Francisco to sail on \
ebruary I. Col Francis Mansfield is :
command. The 2d Infantry com :
rises over 500 men on it's peace foot :,
~ and besides this organization, the =
ghth and thirteenth batteries of :
ield Artillery are assigned 70 the =
ime transport. 1t is hardly likely
nat another regiment would be or
cred to the Meade, as she would be
vercrowded.
sHANGHAIING PRACTICES. Il
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