The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-26
ADMIRAL SPERRY RAISES
FLAG ON CONNECTICUT
Admiral Thomas Follows Admiral Evans Into
Retirement With Simple Ceremonies on
Board the Flagship at San Francisco.

vessels of the Atlantic fleet on theil
| voyage across the Pacific next month
More than a million and halt
pounds of meat are contracted for. for
the sailOrman of the navy is no vege-
tartan. This quantity will be made ur
of 100000 pounds of frozen beef, 49,. 00C
pounds of frozen veal and mutton
900 pounds of pork Joins. 40. O0u
pounds of young chickens, 5000 pounds
of turkeys. about 10000 pounds OF
frankfurters. pork sausa ges, bolognas
and compressed ham, and 250.0O0 pounos
of smoked ham.
To bake the bread and the cakes
that the tars will eat there will be
bought 100000 pounds of flour, and to
sweeten the coffee and tea there will
be 100000 pounds of sugar. Of canned
peaches, pears, and tomatoes, and evap-
Grated apples there will be laid in about
100000 pounds.
| The navy man is not strong on the
so-called breakfast foods, and Il 900
| pounds of oatmeal, rolled oats and corn
meal are all that the warships' larders
will stock up with. Vegetables will be
we'll represented. In quantity, potatoes
| head the list with half a million pounds;
onions coming next with $4,000 pounds
There will be 1900 pounds of Lima
beans, and there will be 10000 pounds
| of sauerkraut. =.
| Uncle Sam buys in methodical way
| for the navy, showing a thrifty dispo-
sition and getting as much as he can
| for the money. The contracts which
have just been awarded are based on
bids which were opened on April 29th,
and the price per pound is worked out
Il
ing are the awards.
800 900 pounds of frozen beef, half To
Miller & Lux at .0S65, and half to the
Western Meat Company at .0SS75 $1,000
pounds of frozen mutton to the Cuda-
by Packing Company at .0SS75; 100000
pounds of frozen veal, half to the Wes-
tern Meat Company at 90 and half
to Miller & Lux at the same figure;
10000 pounds of pork loins to Armour
& Co. at 1872: 5000 pounds of turkey
to Armour & Co. at 24.70; 10000 pounds
of young chickens to Armour & Co. at
1855: 10000 pounds of bolognas to Ar
mour & Co at 0672: 55 900 pounds of
frankfurters to the western Meat Com
pany at ,0S75; $4,000 pounds of pork
sausages TO Armour & Co. at .0872:
10000 pounds of compressed ham to
Armour & Co. at .0S72: 100000 pounds
of potatoes to Waiff & Sons at .0159;
$4,000 pounds of onions to Waiff &
Sons at .0441: 5000 pounds of rolled
to John Rothschild & Co. at 1922; 5000
pounds of oatmeal to L. T. Snow &
Sons at SAL: 5000 pounds of rolled
oats to Getz Bros. at .03473; 1900 pounds
of Clipped beef to Swift & Co at .27S:
400 pounds of barley to Rothschild &
Co. at 0437: 1900 pounds of Lima beans
to Rothschild & Co. at .049S; 5000
pounds of hominy to Snow & Sons at
.02S; 5000 pounds of tapioca to Snow &
Sons at .0547; 10000 pounds of sauer-
kraut to Libby, Mcneil & Libby at
,01875: 500 pounds of hops to Snow &
Sons at IA: $4,000 pounds of cheese to
Rothschild & Co. at .16; 100000 pounds
of canned tomatoes at .0S23; 10000
pounds of canned peaches to Haas
Bros at .0823; 10000 pounds of canned
pears at .0S33; 10000 pounds of evapo-
rated peaches to Guggenheimer & Co.
at .O96: 10000 pounds of evaporated
apples to Guggenheimer & Co. at or;
100, 900 pounds of sugar to Rothschild
& Go. at O622: 2,22500O pounds of class
81 and class SO flour to the Port Costa
Milling Company at .0331 and .03S5 re-
spectively, and 100000 pounds of class
81 hour, not yet d"dTu6u, AoV,oOV
pounds of smoked ham to the Western
Meat Company at 1910.
THE TORPEDO BOATS.
VALLEJO, May lit is reported
on Mare Island that the Navy Depart
ment is considering a plan to enlarge
the torpedo boat ffotilla on this coast.
The proposition as it now stands is to
group the destroyers Preble, Perry and
Paul Jones of the present Pacific flo
tilla with the destroyers Whipple.
Truxtun and Hopkins, which made the
trip with the Atlantic fleet under the
command of Lieutenant Cone.
This fiotilla would take the place of
what is now the fourth f1otilla, and a
brand-new mosquito fleet would be
formed on the Coast, consisting of the
remaining destroyers, Lawrence, Hull
and Stewart, which also came from
the East, and the Farragut of the Pa
cific fleet, along with the torpedo boats
Eoy and Davis of the same fleet