The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-02
MARINE:
Changed Ships Bell.

1Aa~A0SA N-~"2 . -~SAA'
Captain johnson of the schooner
Helene entertained a large number of
local friends on board the vessel New
Year s Eve. The old year was watch
ed out and the new one ushered in
with the changing of the ships bell,
the ladies present handling the musical
end Of the fun-making.
China Due Today.
This morning the steamship China is
due from Yokohama with a good
sized cargo for Honolulu. The steam
er will have accommodations for about
fifty passengers from this port. The
vessel will probably leave for San
Francisco this evening, carrying mail.
Lament of the Marines.
While recruiting officers of the
army and navy report brisk enlist
ment all over the country. different
state of affairs is being felt in the
Marine Corps. There they are trying
to figure out exactly what they are in
the service, afoat and ashore. The
marines feel keenly the position they
are in as a result of the presidential
order that ruled them off the ships,
and they are wondering what fate the
future has in store for them after a
century of service to the nation. 1t
is common talk in the recruiting SER
a71ti0nly he
fore faced the marine recruiting Off
GERS.
Under the former regime service in
the Marine Corps was made attractive
by a neatly gotten up book, the cover
of which showed marine in full uni
form standing at present arms, while
the inside was full of explanations of
the good things and fine times that
once upon a time came the way OF
| the marine. Now this is all gone and
| a new set of books has Deen sent out,
in which everything that pertains to
| the sea has been blue-penciled by or
| ders from the White House.
Before the Roosevelt order was is
sued this paragraph was one of the
principal arguments advanced when a
young man appeared at marine re-
cruiting Office:
| "Marines are required to enlist foI
four years. The term of enlistment
| is divided as nearly as may be practi
| cable between duty on board sea
| going ship of the navy and service or
| land. This is intended to give the
men the necessary diversified training
TO qualify them both as land and sea
| fighters
In the old unpenciled version thi;
was fine picture that the recruiting
| officers made use of:
1.-THE particular duties of marines
aboard ship are as sentinels to watcf
over the gangways, boats alongside
approaching or passing, and to give
| the alarm in case of fire, to preserve
order. and to allow no gambling
swearing or immoral practise; to pre-
| vent injury or theft of government O.
private property; to allow no smoking
or washing of clothes except at tn,
prescribed hours; to allow no enliste,
man or boat to leave the ship withou
the authority of the officer of tn
deck; to guard prisoners, and at al
times to sustain discipline and goo
order. In port they also constitut
the deck guard to render honors.o
This is what they tell the prospec
tive recruit now:
ga frequent duty for marines, i
foreign countries, is to guard tn
Ameriean legations and consulates
and the interests of American citizen
IN time of revolution, riot or disorder
and to protect surveying and astrc
nomical parties The duties of ma
rines when stationed on shore at tn
| navy yards and naval stations are t
protect government property fror
theft, injury and fire, and to proven
disorder of any kind.
In other parts of the book the word
sea and ''aboard ship" are crosse
out wherever they occur.
A New Half Moon.
The construction of the vessel Hal
Moon, which viii represent Holland i
: the Robert Fulton celebration at Ne,
York this year, is wen under way TIL
keel was laid in the Royal Naval docl
yards at Amsterdam, Holland, Oct. 2.
and the ship viii be finished next MAJ
The new vessel viii have three mast
The fore and mainmasts rugged wit
yards, and the mizzenmast with
lateen sail. Her dimensions are: Length
So feet; beam, IL feet, and of eight,
nine tons. She is built of oak, and wi
be fitted with four guns. When con
pleted she viii be taken to Rotterdam
from which port she viii be shipped 0
the deck of a steamer to New York.
Shipping Notes.
Boripgs are being made along tt
waterfront of Pearl Harbor on the pr
4 posed sites for wharves. The boring
I at the drydock site are completed.
: The purser of the Mauna Kea r
ports the following sugar on Hawa
awaiting shipment: Nainaku, 13s
| bags: Honokaa. 1000; Punaluu, 1865
According to Agent Morse of I'll
American Hawaiian Steamship Con
| LOCAL OFFICE OF THE UNITE
STATES WEATHER BUREAU.