Monday, April 17–April 25 Sick – fever
April 23rd - Workmen onboard making repairs
April 24th - Wrote to J
April 25th - Wrote to J. Half the ships company missing.
April 26 Cloudy and misty. Foggy. At 8:20 mustered crew at quarters. At 9:20 the Samoan Commissioner, the Honorable Bartlett Tripp, Commissioner from US, C.N. Elliot, Commissioner from England, Baron Speck Von Sternberg, Commissioner from Germany, Mr. E. V. Morgan, Secretary to Hon. Bartlett Tripp, and J James valet to C.N. Elliot.
Sent a signal to ‘Iowa’. “Please send boat to take dispatches ashore”, and also "Permission to get underway.” At 10:30 got underway from anchorage off Union Iron Works and proceeded out of ‘Frisco’ harbor. Ship being coursed by Navigator.
Insert three photographs of Elliot Darren and Bartlett, there is an article that reads
The Samoan Commissioners are on their way to Apia, in the United States cruiser Badger, which flies the flags of the three nations represented. They have superior authority for the temporary administration of the islands, superseding the council and other officers now there. The first work of the commission Will be to restore peace, and the next to investigate and report upon the troubles. Their action in matters of administration must be unanimous, and they may even suspend provisions of the treaty temporarily, pending the approval of the governments. Armed with such powers and using them in a conciliatory spirit, it is believed that they will be able to allay the existing irritation.
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