The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-06-21
BELGIAN BANNER FLIES
IN PORT FOR FIRST TIME
Pioneer Vessel Of Belgium Entered Honolulu
ElarbOr Yesterday-.-Shc Is Training Ship
EAvenir From Newcastle.
tFrom Saturday Is Advertiser.l

electrical power also being furnished |
for her winches and capstans, Captain |
Zander will recommend that his vessel
oe equipped with wireless telegraph |
instruments and an engine for auxiliary
power.
The hospital is fitted as a result of
the experience of the Belgian govern
ment in its conduct OF the Congo trop-
ical hospitals. The quarters of the
officers and petty officers are separated
from those of the cadets by bulkhead.
The vessel is fitted for caring for sew
enty cadets but there are only fifteen
! aboard. This small number is not due
| to lack of interest in the future mer-
chant marine of Belgium but on ac-
count of the first bad accident that her
first training ship met with. This is
brand new enterprise and has not
been taken hold of fully, but on the
next voyage the officers believe she
will carry full corps of cadets.
From Best Families
The cadets have to possess a good
education and come from good families,
and they are subjected'to a severe ex-
animation before being listed as cadets.
The ship carries four nautical officers,
one priest, one surgeon, two professors,
eight petty officers, fifteen cadets,
eighteen sailors and ten ordinary sea
men. The ship also carries two cooks
and a baker.
The vessel has attained a speed of
lax knots per hour for seven hours.
Her bows are very sharp, and only on
account of her extreme beam of As feet
she might be likened to the lines of
the Cunarder Mauretania.
First Ship Inflated.
The first training ship, the Comte de
Smet de Mayer, was built in England
and had mishap at the start and she
finally went down in the Bay of Bis
cay with twenty cadets, which pro-
duced a feeling of gloom in Belgian
maritime circles.
The chief administrator of the com
pany is John Wekerille, the Belgian
"Krupp." The vessel is operated by
! the Association Maritime Beige, al
} though the Belgian government holds
half the shares. The leaders and ad
ministrators of the company are far
seeing and are among the most promi
, nent men in Belgian mercantile circles
The leading director is M. Ortmans OF
Antwerp, the minister Of foreign affairs
and commerce. The Belgian merchant
! marine is increasing rapidly, and par
tieularly during the past year made tn;
greatest proportionate increase Of any
nation, owing to the development of the
a Congo trade.
Esprit du Corps.
= The officers are pleased with thu
, spirit of the cadets, who are devoted
! to their work, and all show the splen
! did discipline maintained by Captain
: Zander and his Jealous officers. TIL
: officers are loaned by the German
: steamship company to the Belgian gov
= ernment, Captain zander now filling hi
second charter.
The cadets are required to study con
, stantly, and the government has on
course in commercial law and martini
law which is made most prominent j
.. the curriculum. On approaching a neN
/. country the professors give lecture
:. about it and the cadets are thorough
y familiar with the Hawaiian Island
n They are healthy lot of young fe
= lows, well fed and devoted to thei
work. The officers are: Commando
: lander; chief officer, Kranzlin; seeon
a officer, Lemaitre; third officer, Aspe
&c lagh; fourth officer, Meulemeestei
p priest, Walravens; doctor, Luysser
- professors, Dollo and LauTeys.
L. The vessel will remain here about sil
J. teen days, diseharging cargo and pr
Z pairing for her long voyage home.
10 Brewer 6 Co. are the local agents Il
the vessel, and the McCabe, Hamilton
I. Kenny Company is stevedoring the shil
vi One of the interesting souvenir