The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-11-16
FAMOUS SHIP
OF WAR HERE
Japanese Cruiser ldzumo Comes
From San Francisco for
Nine Days Stay.

One of the famous warships of His
Imperial japanese Majesty, which par.
ticipated in seabattles during the Rus
so-Japanese war arrived about noon
yesterday-the frst-class cruiser 1dzu-
mo-commanded by Captain Takashita,
who attended the famed Portsmouth
treaty conference us the japanese naval
attache from Washington.
The big cruiser came from San Diego,
whittier she sailed after participating
in the recent Portola festival at San
Francisco as the representative of the
| Mikado. The cruiser was piloted in by
| Captain Sanders and moored at the
channel wharf. Later on, however, the
vessel was shifted about thirty feet
from the wharf, as her bilges rested al
most on a mud.bank. In order to get
her coal aboard from the wharf it is
likely she will have to rig out long
booms to take it in.
When the vessel was moored yester.
day, Chief Boatswain Shepley, U.S.N.,
and an officer from the British cruiser
Bedford, boarded the cruiser and pass.
ing down into the cabin, proffered the
services, respectively, of the naval sta.
ton and of the Bedford, and the of.
ficers and crews, in any way the Japa.
nese captain might desire The thanks
of the captain were returned to the
respective naval commanders for their
| kindness.
AS the Idzumo was being warped
alongside the wharf big steel hawser
Which was being lowered over the star
board side about midships by means of
a patent MINDLESS, suddenly gained
Roadway and before the sailors could
set the clutch the heavy wire started
for the bottom of the harbor at terri
fic rate. A petty officer standing on
the main deck, quick as flash doubled
some lengths of rope and adroitly threw
them around the cable, adjusted pecu-
liar sailors knot and gradually took in
the slack and finally stopped the wire.
Puzzled by Light.
The Idzumo would have arrived ear
lier in the forenoon had it not been
for the fact that the great Makapuu
Lighthouse and light, which were only
recently established, were not on the
charts of the warship. When the cruiser
came within sighting distance of the
light the officers were puzzled and the
charts were inspected, but no light on
Oahu Island was shown upon them.
They were apparently headed for Ho-
nolulu on the usual route from San
Diego, but the appearance of great,
strong light just there raised their
doubts and they slowed down and
slightly changed their course, and when
daylight came they shaped up again for
Honolulu and therefore passed in later
than they had expected.
Entertainment for Guests.
The vessel will remain here until
November %, when she will depart for
Yokohama. She will commence coaling
today and will finish by Wednesday.
On Thursday and Friday the sailors will
be given an opportunity to participate
in games and other amusements planned
by the local committee of Japanese resi-
dents, and on Thursday, Friday and
Saturday the great cruiser will be open
for public inspection. There will, of
course, be entertainments ashore for the
officers, and the consul will undoubtedly
do much to entertain the distinguished
commanding officer and subordinates,
among whom is Prince Shimazu.
The 1dzumo isrin the class with the
Iwate and is an armored cruiser built
in the English ship yards at Elswick
in 1899. She has displacement of
$500 tons and carries complement of
4S3 men. She is 400 feet long. She
has four S-inch guns, fourteen 6-inch,
twelve l2-pounders and four submerged
torpedo tubes. She has two sets of
four cylinder triple expansion engines,
two screws and Belleville boilers. The
guns load at any elevation or direction.
In the four-hour speed trials the Idzumo
attained a speed of 22.04 knots. The
Iwate is the cruiser which brought the
late Prince Ito's remains to Japan.
, During the Russo-Japanese war the Id
zumo was in many engagements and was
| at one time the flagship of Admiral Ue-
mura. In the great battle in the Tsu-
shima Straits when Admiral Rojestven-
sky's fleet was almost destroyed, Rus
sian shell penetrated the Idzumo but
failed to explode. 1t was an ugly-look-
ing prOjectile, and it now adorns a con-
|, spicuous position on the quarterback,
just under the two stern turret guns.
IHIlNERY SHARKS RENn