The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-13
MARINE:


dan lies at Naval wharf No. 2, arriv-
ing at $50 yesterday morning from
San Francisco. She left "the city, as
the ships crew term Frisco. forgetting
that they are even now lying at the
foot Of a city, at noon Of May 8 and
made a splendid run in less than seven
days, enjoying good weather all the
way.
Wireless communication with the
Naval Station here was not established
I until after O'Clock for the reason that
| the troopship is not yet equipped with
a permanent wireless plant carrying
only a field apparatus which is not de-
signed for effective service at much
more than twenty-five miles and which
cannot carry far beyond fifty. Upon
| her return to san Francisco she will
/ be supplied with a complete and pow er-
| full machine. Her aerial is complete.
| but beyond this the smart little field
machine in metal trunk is all that
can be relied on.
| Three thousand tons of stores and
war material are in the hold of the
! Sheridan for the Philippines and this
| includes a lot of silver, coined in pesos.
for island circulation.
| In the cabin of the Sheridan are
about two hundred teachers, officers,
wives of officers. husbands and wives
of teachers, and civilians in the employ
of the government. bound for Manila.
| There We're three passengers in the
cabin for Honolulu. Chief Of Detectives
| toms service and w. H Tucker. Two
passengers disembark at Guam, DR..
Stracton. U. S. N, and his wife.
Teachers en- route n the phfIiDpiOas
are: w. j. Bannish, w. ]. Bechtoldt,
H. P. Bell. H. F. Boyer, c. F, Board,
Mr. and Mrs. D. w. Caldwell. F. w.
Cheney Jr.. c. L. Davis. Mr.. and Mrs.
Leon DeHoff. w. s. Ffckes. A. NJ. Fos-
ter, O. c. Hansen, A. j. Heaney, Mr..
and Mrs. A. L. Hickson, G.. A. Higley,
A. Hoag, NJ. F. Jackson. L. H. Jacob,
F. s. Mccarthy, n. l. McJunkin, Mr..
and Mrs. P. K. McWherter, ]. Madi-
son. A. L. Mayfeld, o. z. Paris, c. w.
Paulson, Charlotte A Petit, f. E.
Pond, J. L. Robb. l. P. Smelser. H. F..
Summers. o. G.. Wocott, Grace G..
Wright. S. o. Wright and A. L. Young.
Among the others aboard are: DIR.
II. L. Brown, L. s. N. Mrs. c. Y.
Brownlee. wife of Transport Surgeon
Prownlee: Mrs. F. L. Dengler and two
children, family of Transport Quarter
master Dengler: Captain James w.
Furlow of the Fourth Infantry: Lieu
Tenant F. L. Gerlach of the Philippine
Scouts: Lieutenant F. W. Healy OF the
Twenty-ninth Infantry: DR.. Spencer L.
Higgins, Z. 5. N. DR.. z. P. Huff. L. S.
n. and wife, Captain Z. P. Jervey
Tenth Cavalry and wife; DR.. H. l. Kel-
ley, u. S N, Mrs. A. G. Kellogg, OF the
family of a late commander of the
Navy; Chief Gunner F. c. Messenger.
L. s. N. DR.. J. a. Randall. u. s. N and
wife. Chief Gunner James Shannon, u.
5. Y. and wife.
SiXty-four enlisted casuals are all the
troops travelling aboard the Sheridan.
If she can complete coaling by that
time the sheridan will sail at II O'Clock
this morning for Guam and Manila.
The Hawaiian band viii probably at
tend her getting away,
ALAMEDA SAILS TODAY.
With the Hawaiian band playing. as
usual. and the large and dependable
crowd that is as much an institution
as the boat, the Oceanic steamship Ala
media. Captain Dowdell. sails from the
Oceanic wharf at 10 o'clock this morn
ing for San Francisco with hundred
passengers who are about evenly divid-
commodations.
The Alameda will take about 1900
tons of freight. consisting in the main
of $4,000 bags of sugar, 1900 bags of
coffee and rice, zoe cases Of green pine
apples, 600 cases of canned pineapples,
and 1000 punches of bananas. A large
quantity of miscellaneous freight will
include considerable consignment of
empty drums and barrels.
HIIoNIAN HAS ORDNANCE.
The Matson Navigation s. S. Hilo-
MAN, Captain Peter Johnson, is due to-
morrow from San Francisco. She has
aboard 397. 900 pounds of heavy ord
nance material for the Diamond Head
fortifications, about half of the con-
signment, consisting probably of four
of the eight big guns designed for the
Diamond Head fort. with their car
riages and equipment. The Honolulu
Construction and Draying Company
will handle the armament from the
ships tackle to the fort.
Castle & Cooke. local agents for the
Matson Navigation Company, yester-
day received cable advices, in response
to their inquiry by cable to the San
Francisco headquarters. stating that
about half of the Diamond Head ord
nance is aboard the Hifonian.
SHIPPING NOTES.
The steamer Maui is on the marine
railway for a scraping.
The steamer Helene yesterday even
ing took out the barkentine Aurora for
a tow TO Hilo.
Surgeon Carey D. Langhorn, who is
to relieve DR.. Smith at the local Naval
station, did not arrive in the Sheridan
and is looked for in the Korea.
The Inter-Island steamers Mauna
Kea, w. G.. Hall and Iwalani got away
on their regular runs yesterday. the
flagship for Hilo and way ports with
a number of prominent people to visit
the. volcano.
Quartermaster's Clerk Straus. who
was aboard the transport Sheridan
when she went on the BARRIERS Point
rocks and who was assigned to duty
in the yard while she was undergoing
repairs. is still at his post aboard the
monster troopship. Straus and the
Sheridan cannot separate.