The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-09-21
Army and
Navy News
Foreigners Get Contracts.

NEW YORK. September 1.-Ad-
vices from the Far East reached New
York today that in the face Of the
present agitation throughout the United
States for the reestablis hmept of Amer
lean shipping and the emancipation Of
this country from the three hundred
milion-d dollar toll it now pays annually
to the foreign steamship trust, the
federal government has granted great
army contract to a British steamship
line. The contract calls for the trans
portation of all government supplies
for the American army in the Philip
pines from Seattle to Manila. Bids
We're asked for, and the Blue Funnel
line, which is owned and operated by
A. Holt & Co. of Liverpool, was the
successful bidder.
Dodwell & Co., Of Seattle and Taco
ma, agents Of the Blue Funnel line,
offered to carry general cargo. coal and
grain for So a ton and lumber at 81
thousand feet. AS more than 10000
tons of freight and 5000 900 feet of
lumber We're moved last wear for the
government from Seattle to Manila. the
contract promises to be large one.
a. Holt 4 Co. are the owners of the
China Mutual Steam Navigation Com
pany and the Ocean Steamship Com
pany, which operate more than sixty
steamers. The Blue Funnel line. which
Is round-thew world service between
Victoria and Liverpool, is part of the
Ocean Steamship Company.
LOWELL, Massachusetts, August %.
Word was received in this city. late
Monday night, by Mrs. Bridget Nc
Gookin, of the death of her son. Svl-
vester NJ. McGookin, member of the
United States cavalry, stationed at Ho-
nolulu, Hawaiian Islands.
From all that could be learned the
young man was playing ball at Soho
heid Barracks, in Honolulu, and was
struck on the head by pitched ball.
lie died the following day, August 1,
the cause of death having been cere-
hral hemorrhage. His body was shin
ped home on the transport Logan and
arrangements have been made to hrinp
1t to this city for burial. Besides his
/ mother, Mrs. Bridget McGookin of 2
! himball avenue, he leaves to mourn his
loss one brother, William McGookin.
and three sisters, Mrs. Claude True
! ana ana the Misses Bernice and Mary Ne
"ookin, all residents of this city.
Holbrook to Be Major.
WASHINGTON, September 10
Capt. Willard A. Holbrook, Fifth Cav.
airy, VIII report to. Col. George X. Hun.
ter, seventh Cavalry, for examination
ior promotion upon the completion OF
HIS uut1es at the camp of instruction
at Atascadero, California.
swindler a Deserter.
Dan DIEGO, September obtaining
the woman he married in San Eran
cisco in 1905 for his downfall, w. G
Mar, alias Chilly Mansfield. in isi
mere on charge Of swindling q To.
Angeles woman out of valuable iewelrv
TINS afternoon admitted he was a de
Serter from the United States Nav,
anu stated also that his brother is til,
priHate secretary to Mayor Fitzperal,
OF Boston, Massachusetts.
Mar says he came to the pac;f,
Eods, IN l9oS as chief electrician n,
the nattleship Alabama. He saws h,
met the woman now his wife at no+a,
care IN San Francisco, was married +,
ner ana through her efforts was trars
I IS;t to the supply ship Aretbusa
Elgh' months afterwards, he saws Sb,
induced him to desert from the No. 9A
ms statement was made to the shsrif
d. the county Jail, but it is do,rh.fn :,
II ne VIII be claimed by the nav Ia %
paftnent until after he has been 80,
IN the civil courts. Mrs. Mar ;s :,
jan ana IS blaming her husband for -,
ehtlre ahalr. 1t is probable hotb WI ~
be tried at the same time '0'A VII