The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-09


time, sailed for the Coast yesterday
afternoon at FIVE clock taking about
twenty passengers from this city. She
will keep a sharp lookout for the fleet
/ ON the way to San Francisco and hopes
/ to pass it during the day time so that
/ her passengers viii have an opportunity
of seeing the vessels in fleet formation
at sea. a sight which has been the luck
/ of but a few vessels to witness.
KoREA's FOURTH OF JULY.
The Fourth of July was duly cele-
brated on board the liner Korea and
was enjoyed very much by all on board.
The day was perfect one, and the
ship was ploughing along as steadily
as though going up a river. Many
games and deck sports were enjoyed
the day. and in the evening at dinner
very pleasant addresses were made by
Ambassador 20 'Brien, Commissioner
Forbes, Mr.. Hector Luzuriaga, pro-
missing young man of the Philippines,
son of Commissioner Luzuriaga, and
Mr. Farquharson of Aberdeen, Scotland.
The dining saloon of the ship was
deliberately decorated for the day, and
the dinner given was one of Steward
Thompson s best efforts.
After dinner, there was a musical
program in the music room, that was
enjoyed by all until about ten clock,
when dancing was INDUCED in on the
boat deck until midnight. The two
days following were both Sundays, and
gave the passengers ample time to re.
cover from the strenuous times of the
day before, and everybody voted that
Captain Dixon and the committees of
arrangements interest in having the
day a pleasant one for the passengers
had been highly successful.
During the evening the Asia, out
ward bound, was met and possessed a
beautiful appearance on the moonlit
sea. Signals were exchanged and sa-
lutes were given by both ships as they
met and passed on.
PANTHER AND YANKToN.
Reported as being almost everything
but what they proved to be, the second
squadron of the auxiliary feet, the
Panther and Yankton, arrived off port
yes terGay afternoon, and were soon
passed and came into the harbor, being
moored at the Navy wharf. These YES
sells left San Francisco in company on
the last day of June, and made the trip
in Just eight days to the minute from
stream to wharf.
The Panther is the great repair ship
of the Atlantic fleet, and is in com
mand of Commander V. S. Nelson. She
is fitted up to do any repairing job
which could be expected of anything
not a regular ironworks.
The roster of officers of the Panther
is as follows:
Commander V. s. Nelson, command
ing; Lieut.. Commander H. X. Gise, chief
engineer; Lieut. Commander E. III. De-
laney, executive officer and navigator;
Lieut.. Commander W. K Riddle, watch
officer Ensigns j. P. Hart and H. A.
Stuart, watch officers; p. A. Surgeon
Js d. Manchester, 2. A. Paymaster
Thomas Williamson, Pay Clerk J. A.
Rebentisch, Warrant Machinists w. T. |
Mullinix, G. ". Johnson, and c. G.
Nelson.
The Yankton, in command of Lieut.
Commander Chas. B. McVay, is about |
the sauciest looking Vessel which ever
entered the harbor. She is gunboat, |
which does duty as the despatch boat
of the fleet.
The Yankton has had quite a varied |
experience since her launching. She
was built by an Englishman as pri-
for several years under the name of |
Sapphire. Then she was purchased by |
Sarah Bernhard, the celebrated French |
actress, and rechristened the Cleopatra |
The divine Sarah, firing of the vessel,
she was sold to E. C. Converse of New |
York. who used her several seasons as
the Penelope, and sold her during the
Spanish war to the United States gov
eminent. She was used all during the |
war along the Atlantic coast and in |
Cuban waters.
She carries four three-inch guns, two
aft and two forward Her steaming
radius is about $500 miles on a daily |
consumption of little over fourteen
tons of coal. On the run down from
the Coast she averaged little better
than eleven knots an hour, and rs ca
pable of doing fourteen. The officers
of the Yankton are:
eut.-Commander Chas B. McVay,
Jr.' commanding; Ensign Halsey Powell,
executive officer; Midshipman Arthur
W. Frank, engineer officer. Midshiuman