The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-05-13
The Cruiser San Gabriel Comes
in on Her Schedule
Time.
BIG CROWD TO GREET HER
Very Extensive World Tour Be
ing Made by Portuguese
Man-of-War.
[rrom wednesday Advertlser.l

With gay flags and gay music the
Portuguese cruiser San Gabriel was
welcomed to Hawaii yesterday forenoon
and local Portuguese, for the first time
since they left the sunny isles off the
Portuguese coast, had an opportunity
to greet the flag under which they were
born, flying over one of Portugal s
ships
At two O'Clock yesterday morning
the cruiser sighted the Makapuu light,
flashing answers to the Molokai light
way down to the south, but having
wirelessed the Portuguese consulgen-
eral that she would not be in quaran-
tine until eleven o'clock, the visiting
ship crept up the coast at a snail IS
pace and was finally boarded by the
quarantine officers on scheduled time.
AS soon as the vessel was sighted
from the Diamond Head light the tugl
Intrepid with Mayor Fern, Consul.Gen.
. eral Canavarro and the executive com
mittee on board, and the inter-island
steamer Kinau with the band, the re.
ception committee and the general
public steamed out of the harbor
with score of little launches and
boats trailing after them in carnival
like procession.
The San Gabriel was met off Dia-
mond Head and the Portuguese crowd
on the Kinau started the cheering that
lasted until the vessel was safely
moored to the naval wharf. The tugl
stayed behind the cruiser as it slowly
passed along the Waikiki and Kakaako
coasts. but the Kinau hastened back to
her berth to resume her loading for her
usual trip in the afternoon.
The minute that the crowd on board
of the Kinau was ashore, many of
them little the worse for the wear of
the sea, all hastened to the wharf to
which the cruiser was assigned and
there was mass of cheering people
when the unique little man.of-war
finally came into the dock, at about
half.past eleven.
She had too much headway on as she
came into the slip and in consequence
bumped the harbor wall softly but did
not injure it or herself. The thou.
sends on shore were shouting them
selves hoarse as the ropes were thrown
and made fast and to the sailors that
lined the vessel s side were shouted
the greetings of Lusitania in a foreign
cline.
AS soon as the gangplanks were out
the Mayor, followed by the Consul
General and the reception committee,
hastened aboard and while the Mayor
extended the city welcomes to the visit
ing officers and men, the representa-
tive of King Manuel told the officers
of the death of King Edward of Great
Britain.
Instantly the white and blue ban
ners with the arms of Portugal flut-
tered to the half-mast and the fifteen
minute-gun doomed sonorously through
out the entire day out of respect to the
royal dead, according so orders which
met the vessel here from Lisbon. An
instant before, as she glided down the
channel, the cruiser had fred the ma
tional salue of twenty.one guns in pass.
ing the Stars and Stripes floating over
Camp Very, and then a salute of thir-
teen guns in honor of the flag of Ad-
miral Rees which futtered from the
staff over the naval station. The smoke
had hardly cleared when the regular
intonations of the gun that mourned
the death of the commander.in-chief of
the British navy sounded out, soaring
the delighted thousands at every shot
but conveying no meaning to them other
than that it was done to amuse them
Captain Antonio Pinto Basto, com
mander of the cruiser, paid his respects
to Admiral Rees in the afternoon and
the formal call will probably be repaid
this afternoon by the Admiral.
~
tee of the local Portuguese called OF
the captain and officers of the cruiser
for a consultation regarding the enter
tainment plans and several change
We're found to be necessary. The ban
quet scheduled for Thursday evening
has been postponed until Friday an,
fridays entertainments win be giyeI
the following Tuesday. In other re
speets the original program viii be nd
hered TO-
The vessel was opened TO visitor
about two clock and big crowd a
once thronged into the vessel AM
poured into every hole and creyice q
be found, While most OF the crew an,
nearly an the officers are from III
mainland Of Portugal aud the loca
Portuguese are from Madeira, quito
few old acqualhtanees were renewed
Commissary Naseoneellns Is an ol
friend VI J N Camara of this city VIII
N On ibe executive committee, bot
coming from the same island Other ol
friends Wefe found an board hy oihr
momben Of the local Portuguese con
munily, ana there Wl be- q prplongo
season of Publication when The rnteI
iainmeals begin neKi Friday
The yfssol gill remain here uni
May e0lh, lhe date spi ~ 10 funeT
Qf King hqNua aad aill lArn sieal
10 hahuiu| whore ito Maui r0nuguee
haye pgfpafeg elshofaie entertainment