The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-11
PASSING SHOW IN
SAN FRANCISCO
The Departure of BattIeships-
Relay Wireless and
Sports.


SAN FRANCISCO, July Coming
from various directions along the coast
the battleship feet is assembling and
t taking on stores and coal preparatory
to sailing for the islands early next
week. Yesterday twelve ships had ar
rived in the bay and the rest will be
here by tomorrow at the latest Most
of the preliminary work has been done
and the officers say that they are prac-
tieally ready to sail at any time. By
| Sunday the entire fleet of sixteen YES
sells will be ready 10 sail at moment IS
notice
With the arrival of the Rhode Island
day before yesterday the entire first
squadron of the Atlantic feet was com
pleted. Admiral Sperry S flag flies over
the flagship Connecticut. The other
vessels in the first division include the
Kansas, Vermont and Minnesota. The
| New Jersey, Nebraska and Georgia con
stitute the second division. Admiral
y d.
Admiral Emory who commands the
second squadron viii fly his flag from
| the Louisiana Included in this squad
ron are the Ohio and Virginia, the lat
ter having arrived two days ago from
Bremerton navy yard, the Missouri,
which dropped down from Mare Island
+o1o, +ba WISCONSIN TlIipoiS Raar-
sarge and Kentucky. Admiral Schroe-
der s flagship. the Wisconsin, has been
at Mare Island also undergoing some
minor repairs. The Kearsarge and the
Kentucky arrived from the north today.
Judging from the supplies which have
been going aboard the last day or two
one would imagine that the cruise was
a lark instead of fulfIlment of duty.
Scow loads of chewing and smoking to-
baceo, cigarettes, and many other kinds
of refreshments were carried out to the
vessels and slowed away for future use.
It is possible that there viii be some
changes in the commanders of the YES
sells before they finally leave port. Sew
eral of the captains have applied to be
retired or else have reached the age
limit. Nine captains of the navy and
five commanders are Oh the list of re-
tired officers recently approved by the
President Among the officers of the
Atlantic fleet are Captain Morrow of
=, -Io h
by Captain Beattie of the CharlestoWn,
and Captain Greenleaf A. Merriam of
the Missouri who will be succeeded by
Captain Z. NJ Doyle
With the retirement of officers there
comes TO the feet sixty Annapolis grad
yates who will begin active service on
the present voyage. They have just ar
rived in San Francisco having come
across the continent Unfortunately
the men were in a wreck on the Santa
Fe Limited at Hardy, A. T. last Sun
day night, as a result of which three
of the midshipmen, E. J. Estes, J. E. |
Meredith and c. w. Magruder were
done up in bandages, having been more
or less injured in the wreck, which
was caused by a burned bridge.
Dispatches from Washington state |
that Admiral Sperry has been given
his final sailing orders. and the feet has
been announced ready to start
with the unofficial announcement that
it is in better shape than when the
squadron left Hampton Roads last De
eember. One important improvement |
is the installation of the fire control |
system on all the vessels of the fleet
during the time the vessels have been
IN the Coast. This system had only
been placed on few of the battleships
before fly left the Atlantic Coast.
RELAY WIRELESS.
If all goes well the islands viii be
n wireless communication with the
coast by way of the feet True the
messages will be relaved from the va
'ious vessels but nevertheless there will
De wireless communication if conditions