The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-01-10
NORTON'S ROUGH RIDERS
THE VIDETTE QUARANT NE
GUARD.
Volunteer Force From the Mounted
Reserve Which Guards the Long Line
From Maunalua to Moanalua.

Honolulu has its Rough Riders" as
valiant in service as daring, and doing
as necessary a work, as Roosevelts
They are the men who are enforcing
the quarantine around the boundary of
the judicial district of Honolulu, from
Maunalua to Moanalua," along the
crest of the pail from Makapu to Ha-
lava.
1t is an entirely volunteer force, COM
posed largely of the swell young men
of the city, giving their services for
the public good, and for the most part
furnishing their own horses. The work
of guarding this long and difficult
boundary line was given by the Board
of Health to Marshal Brown who at
once called for volunteers from the
Mounted Reserve of the Citizens
Guard. The response was prompt and
enthusiastic. A sufficient force to keep
constant vigil at all the points of egress
along the long line to be guarded was
! soon enlisted, and the active command
was given to Lieut.. c. H. W. Norton,
who selected A. L. c. Atkinson as his
chief of staff.
The three accessible passes out of the
district of Honolulu to the other por-
lions of the island are the pass at Ma
Halawa hill and Puukaki. Camps were
established at these three strategic
points. At Makapu pass Mr.. Hemin-
way of Oahu College is in active COM
mand, with Sergeant Lawrence Judd
! Allan Judd, Charles Judd and Gerrit
Judd under him. This point being so
far distant from town, it is not attempt
ed to send relief details out there, but
this force guards the pass night and
day. They have a regularly established
camp, with a Japanese cook, and do
what might be called extreme frontier
scout and vidette duty.
At the Pail is the second detachment
of the Rough Riders" S. G. Wilder
has been in command here until the
! last day or two when the command de-
volved on Alfred Castle. With him are
| Fred Alexander, the two Messrs Jor-
| dan, and a number of others, the per-
| sonnet varying nearly every day as the
volunteers are able to give their SER
vices. There is a camp established
here with commissary department, and
all arrangements for keeping up a con-
slant and effective guard.
The third strategic point is Halawa,
hill. This is the most difficult place to
thoroughly guard because OF the proxi-
nifty of the plantations with their Jap
anese who might be willing to befriend
refugee countrymen of theirs through
mistaken national spirit, and from the
| fact that the pass through the noun
tans is not so narrow as at the other
points and offers greater possibilities of
| evading the guard. Lieut.. Norton is IN
| immediate command here, with a con-
slant guard of eight mounted men
standing guard in six hour watches
from O'clock at night to o'clock in
> tho I'D !, fr1 11N
standing guard for the remaining
twelve hours of the day, the day watch
being less arduous than the night be-
cause from the camp the whole country
approaching the pass can be surveyed.
The camp here is established at Pun
kaki on the top of Halawa hill There
are four tents and a Japanese cook IS
in charge of the commissary. Among
the men who are doing service here be-
sides Lieut.. Norton, and Chief of Staff
A. L. c. Atkinson, are Frank AthertOn,
c. s. Cotton, John Doyle Joe Conrad,
Frank Atkins, John Colburn, Jr., Philip
Hail, John Moses, Joseph. Woodward,
Joseph Levi, Leslie Scott, Earnest Ross,
Digby, SIoggett, Tarn McGrew, c. X.
| Hyde, George Angus, c. V. E. Dove,
James L. Holt, Danson Kellett Judge
Stanley, Edwin Paris, d. Howard
Hitchcock, James Torbert Joseph Ke
alohakui, Charles Weight, Rudolph
Duncan, Isaac Ihihi, John Soper, Judge
Peterson, e. A. Mott-Smith, Joseph p.
Cooke, Robert Single, Eugene P. Sui
Ilivan, E. o. White, Ed. Damon, Messrs.
Davis, Campbell, Merry. Siebert, Null
len Guerrero and Pascal.
There is a long line of road to guard
in this section. Lieut.. Norton at night
has two men posted at the railroad
tracks a. Moanalua, two at the inter-
section of Moanalua and Puuloa roads
and the remainder as a reserve in camp
Marshal Brown says of this volunteer
force that it is the most willing, enthu-
siastic and effective force that could be
established Its influence on the peO-
pie on the other side of the quarantine
line and on the Asiatics on the ada
cent plantations is most excellent. In
order to add to this effect, the officers
of the force so far as possible are in the
uniform of the Mounted Reserve. The
work is not easy by any means The
nights are cold, the line to be guarded
long and difficult, and the work is ex-
acting. But it is performed with an
enthusiasm that gives me pride in the
organization from which so many Of
the men have volunteered"
The business houses and business
men of the city have taken a great In
terest in this volunteer force, Hackfeld
& Company have voluntarily given the
services of three of their employees for
it. Castle & Cooke have done much for
the comfort of the men. Charles $.
Desky has sent out delcacies for The
| camp. The Oahu railroad has supplied
a dozen horses, and others have shown