The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-08

( OF the StdtIC diecudfSeSy ana WHERE
other plants could not work as re-
suit of the atmospheric conditions the
! Glacier equipment would not be in
terfered with. There is also a special
static valve which further takes up
the static discharges or atmospheric
/ disturbances. What the Glacier wire
| less plant prides itself on is the get
| ting of big results with small power.
/ The amount OF sending power in com
parison with the output is great.
| In the estimation of the commander
of the Glacier, the atmosphere of the
Pacific is the most perfect in the world
| for the successful operation of the
wireless, and no doubt is expressed by
! him in the ultimate success of the local
company to reach the Coast from here
with the proper equipment The pat
ents for the improvements made in the
receiving and sending apparatus rest
in Commander Hogg, and he is having
his improvements exploited in the East.
! He has given the government permits
sion to install his plants on any of their
vessels or stations, and it has already
been placed in the Connecticut, Pan.
Their, Culgoa and Louisiana, and at
Point Iona and Pensacola.
The Glacier is the advance guard of
the fleet, and after feeding her great
charges will leave here ahead of the
battleships to take up her station in
the South Seas with the Culgoa, so as
to keep the fleet in touch with the
world by wireless, and the cable at
Suva The great steamers of the aux
iliary fleet may appear to many to be
tramps, great cargo steamers without
the elamor of navy vessel, but this
is not so. They may not have target
practise and pingpong; the command
ing officer may even pass up the bag
inspection and general muster, but they
are navy Just the same. The same
kind of men will be found aboard them
that one can find in the battleships, the
same officers, the same field days, and
the same application of sand and can
vas to the end of maintaining the
same white decks, spotless patchwork
and polished brass. Formerly the Gla
cier was the British steamer Port
Chalmers. She ran between London
and Australia as a refrigerator ship,
CARRYING beef and mutton and passen-
gers. She was built to steam a very
long distance on a small consumption
of coal, and she can steam at the rate
of about twelve knots an hour, besides
run all her auxiliary engines, on con
sumption of about 35 tons of coal a
dav. She is the fastest of the auxil-
iaries and proved it on a run from
the Strait of Magellan to Callao with
the Panther and Culgoa, one of which
she beat by six hours and the other
by over day. She is the vessel which
did the real work of towing the float
ing drydock Dewey from the Eastern
coast of the United States to Manila.
Her officers are: Commander w. S.
Hogg, commanding; Lieutenant ". n.
LETTERS. executive officer and naviga-
tor: Assistant Paymaster w. II. Will
terdink; P. a. Surgeon b. f. Jenness,
Chief Boatswain c. ]. Cooper, Chief
Boatswain j. Mccarthy, Boatswain f. /
J. Cartwright, Warrant Machinist R.
F. Nourse. Pay Clerk r. R. Barton, !
- ms NON
She has over three thousand tons of |
provisions aboard which are roughly |
stated to be as follows: Biscuit, 9400 !
lbs; cornmeaI, 1900 lbs; -four, 527,450 |
lbs; beef, frozen, 549,S61 lbs. mutton,
frozen, 34,123 lbs; chicken, 20,714 lbs;
veal, 70,301 lbs; turkey, 4006 lbs;
pork, Ioins, 118,279 lbs; bologna, 5000 |
lbs; pork sausage, 10000 lbs; lunch
con meat, 1916 lbs; Frankfurters, 30, |
500 lbs; truegg, AIS lbs; eorned beef,
3S,476 lbs; ham, timed, 1922 lbs; |
salmon, timed, 26,640 lbs; bacon,
timed, 34.776 lbs; salt pork, 1900 |
lbs; clipped beef, 1896 lbs; ham, smok-
ed, 7S,066 lbs; beans, pea, 6942 gal;
Lima beans. dried, 1869 lbs; Lima
beans, timed, 55441-2 lbs; peas,
timed, 34.991 lbs; string beans, 10,259
lbs; corn, timed, p, 500 lbs; tomatoes,
timed, 130,669 ID lbs; onions, fresh,
$4,000 lbs; potatoes, fresh, 100000 lbs;
cabbage, dehydrated, S008 lbs; carrots,
dehydrated, 2016 lbs; soup greens, de,
hydrated, 1910 lbs; spinach, dehydrat,
ed, 20 lbs; cranberries, COZ lbs; pota'
toes, dehydrated. $4,000 lbs; onions,
dehydrated, 1854 lbs; oatmeal, 1000
lbs; rolled oats, 302S lbs; rice, 14,200
lbs. hominy, POO lbs; tapioea, 2516
lbs; cornstareh, 1000 lbs; aprieots,
timed, 4037 lbs; peaches, timed, So
$50 II lbs; pears, timed, 39,8o6 -
lbs; raisins, 1910 lbs; prunes, 1000
lbs; apples. evap. $500 lbs; peaches,
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