The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-09-03
BIG FOUR SQUADRON HERE
TO REMAIN FOR TWO WEEKS
Marships Arrive From the
Orient With All Well
Aboard.
T HE BIG FoUR-cRUIsER squad.

a HE BIG FOUR-CRUISER SQUAD
ron, comprising four of the finest
fighting machines in the world, was
heard from by wireless yesterday after
the vessels had been sighted off Bar
D ber's Point. They were sighted short
ly after $3.50 in the morning and by
an hour later the points of vantage
in the city were covered with local
people, training their glasses on the
smoke which could be seen family in
the distance AS they drew nearer,
the masts of the ship could be seen
and then their HILLS appeared They
came up to the harbor in the usual
formation, about three hundred yards
separating each of the vessels and
cast anchor outside.
In the meantime the wireless had
been kept at work and information
for Admiral Very was being sent
ashore and replies to Admiral Dayton 's
messages kept the atmosphere full of
electricity. Then the launches start
ed to come in. The quarantine doctor
had been notified and was on board
the flagship by 1 O'Clock and had no
reason to anticipate any trouble if the
ships came into the harbor. Those
on board were more ANXIOUS to receive
their mail, which has been collecting
here for them for four weeks, than
flor anything else and a launch from
each of the four vessels was sent in
for this purpose. In charge of the
launch from the Colorado was Mid
shipman Lando, who was greeted from
the shore by his mother and other
relations.
In the meantime the crowd at the
naval dock was changing. Hacks
would drive up and the occupants
watch the scene for a few minutes
and then drive away. Automobiles
were present in numbers and the barges
which are used for loading coal on the
vessel were lined with spectators, some
of whom remained for hours, while
the warships still remained at anchor.
AT 4:3o, promptly, the West Virginia,
Admiral Dayton's IS flagship, commanded
by Captain John B. Milton, began to
swing round and point her sharp bow
for the channel AS she did so
salute of thirteen guns was fired from
the battery at the Naval Station and
the same salute was returned by the
guns on the cruiser. The big warship
came in very slowly, not making more
than third the speed at which the
British cruiser Monmouth entered the
harbor few weeks ago, and was moor
ed alongside the naval dock No. 2.
Hemp hawsers were at first used to
bring her in but then they were taken
away and steel cables substituted. The
5hngplank was hoisted into position by
ahe sailors from the Iroquols, Lieut..
Garter being in charge, and 1T was
fully $50 before the first officers came
ashore.
AS the West Virginia came along
side the dock, and before she was moor
ed, detachment of marines, Lieut..
Bigler in command, came to present
arms in honor of Admiral Dayton.
They then left the wharf and returned
to their quarters.
The next ceremony was the official
visit of Admiral Very to his superior
officer Admiral Dayton. The salute
thundered out once more and the two
officers held a short conversation, after
which Admiral Very returned to shore.
Two of the first officers to come
ashore were Paymaster of the fleet w.
j. Litten and Major j. T. Meyers, the
marine officer of the fleet. They took
dinner at the Moana Hotel. Paymaster
Litteu has been in this city before,
some IL or Il years ago when ne was
the paymaster on the Alert, when was
anchored in the stream for some time.
He has many old friends here ana
while the vessels are here will PROB
ably he kept busy seeing his oldtime
acquaintances.
STAY TWO WEEKS.
q The welcome news that the fleet VIII
probably stay here two weeks was
learned when the officers began to leave
the ships. The time of the stay mas
not been definitely decided on as YET,
but as the vessels are under orders
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