The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1905-12-05
GENERAL.
SUMNER

Major. General Sumner, u. a A.
Commander Of the Pacific Diviaion Of
the United States Army, with headqaaf-
ters at San Francisco, accompanied by
Mrs Sumner, Captain Jervey, 10Th Cav
airy, u. =. A., his aidc.de.cainp, Mira
Jorvoy and Major Lea Febigcr, u. &
A., Inspector, arrived on the transport
Logan aud are guests at the Regal Ha-
waiian Hotel The party will rcmain
until December 10, although 1t 10 poaEi-
bic they will not return to the Ceast
until early in January.
General Sumner is on tour OF in
spcction of the military district cf Ha-
wall, which includes Camp MeKiuiny-
the new army post at Kahauiki, Mema-
lua; the military reservation on tire !
slopes toward Wahiawa; the reserva1ana
at Pearl Harbor, and tho sites selecteH
at Kaimuki and Waikiki for batterieK-
The first place to be inspected may be
Kahauiki. General Sumner is interested
in this new post, ms two additional COM
panies of the 10th infantry arrived on
the Logan to join the garrison of tive
companies already at Camp Mckinley.
and the entire battalion is to be housed
Mt Kahauiki when finished. The new
post, while designed to have space for n
large body of men, is being constructed
under an appropriation sufficient Ia
erect only two barracks, or aceommo-
dations for but two companies Cen
eral Sumner will recommend that two
additional barracks be constructed, SO
that the entire battalion may be prop
erly housed When Kahauiki is occu-
pied Camp Mckinley will be abandoned
For the next two or three days the
two new companies will be given an OPP
portunity to unpack at Camp Mckinley
and get into trim. General Sumner viii
then inspect the camp and review wiz
be held by Major Van Vliet for the
general In the meantime Major Febi-
ger will inspect accounts and other mat
tiers coming under his jurisdiction.
AS to what will be done at KaimuIM
and Waikiki about erecting batteries
there, General Sumner states that he
has no direct knowledge. "That is
matter for the engineers he said
| Asked as to whether he favored the
establishment of an acclimation camp
near Honolulu for troops going TO aud
returning from the Philippines, General
Sumner said yesterday:
"The matter was mentioned TO ME
last night, but it is something to which
! have given no especial thought.
don't know that it would be really
worth while, 1t is a question for the
doctors to determine. As far as l have
observed, the troops arriving in the
Philippines from the mainland appear
to be well enough to do good service. +"
General Sumner is a golf enthusiast
Yesterday afternoon, accompanied by
his aide and Il. NJ. Boyd, he was driven
to the links at Moanalua where he en-
ioyed an afternoon with the sticks.
This is the General S first visit to the
Hawaiian Islands. He is greatly
pleased with the appearance of Homo
lulu. "This suits me, he said as he
gazed from the lanai of the Hawaiian
Hotel into the pretty tropical park
General Sumner was Colonel or the
9th Cavalry when the Spanish War
broke out He saw service in Cuba as
dier-General of volunteers, and
afterwards was assigned as military at
tache to the American Embassy at Lon
don. Afterward he went to the Philip
pines by way of Suez, and joined hif
regiment in China during the Boxer
campaign, serving throughout that nena-
orable outbreak He returned TO the
: United States by way of the northern
route on the Empress line, and there
fore has always missed Honolulu. Gen
: eral Sumner succeeded General MacAr-
J thur in command of the Pacific Divi-
sion. =
} In appearance the General is Of me
dunn height and of sturdy build. Hs
=, has the well-knit figure and typical aP
Z pearance of Uncle Sans old-time cam
!, paigners-the type which saw hard SEE
vice in the Indian campaigns