The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-05-31
PROGRESS At
NEW POST
Kahauiki Will Be New
Beauty Spot for
Honolulu.

Honolulu, when its buildings are com
pleted and its grounds brought under
cultivation, cannot fail to be the joy
of the whole military establishment of
the United States.
/ Riding out to the reservation in an
of the hill by the Pacific Fertilizer
CO. works. one catches the first
glimpse of the Post buildings. With
out knowing what they are the visitor
would say that it is no ordinary sub
urban vllage-the irregular appearing
group of imposing structures as yet
implanted upon the opposite hill beyond
the gulch-whieh bursts on his view
Honolulu could hardly, notwithstand-
ing its rapid suburban development,
| produce such simultaneous erection
| of SO many houses upon single tract
| and houses so large, in one solitary
scheme of real estate enterprise.
There are twenty-three buildings at
| the Kahauiki Army Post completed, all
but the finishing touches by the car
penter inside and the painter all over.
| On the south side of the Eva road
or King street, the hospital stands
| apart though of course within the re-
| servation. All Of the other buildings
| are upon the plateau on the north side
| of the road. The hospital is two-stor-
ried, about fifty feet square, with a
| truncated roof. 1t has deep verandas
on both floors. There are small square
| lights above the second floor windows,
| probably intended for ventilation with
avoidance of strong drafts. A house
for the hospital steward is to be erect
ed on the same grounds.
Entering an old gateway at the cor
| ner of the parade ground site, from
the road just after it crosses the gulch
two-story building 40 feet long
stands close On the left. This is the
subsistence storehouse. 1t is profuse
ly lighted with iron barred windows
and topped with a ridge roof
Proceeding along the line of the
street to be, passing the building just
mentioned, in one or two hundred yards
the first of twin barracks is reached |
These are long, well lighted and ven
tilated, two-story structures. A cano-
pied cross hallway section is in the |
middle, dividing each building into |
two wings. Rows of seven windows |
extends on either hand from the hall |
way entrances. The barracks are in |
line few yards apart. Each build |
ing will accommodate one company of |
soldiers.
Facing the barracks, across the |
street, are three single-story buildings
of bungalow type. Two of them are
lavatories and one is the mess hall.
A cluster of buildings two or three
hundred yards eastward from the bar
racks group consists of the quarter
masters stOrehouse, stable, wagon
shed, forage storehouse and mechanics
shop. An oil warehouse will be added
to this cluster.
Making. fresh start from the Eva
road, few hundred feet beyond the
gateway westwardly, the line of a curv
ing street of officers residences is en-
tered. Four next the road are for
lieutenants. Then come three for cap 1
tains with two more for ieutenants be-
yond. They are comely looking two
story cottages with pavilion roofs and
have verandas and balconies on their
eastern fronts and northern sides.
There are two smaller cottages, two
stored, at the end of the row for non
commissioned officers.
Between the last of the ieutenants
houses and the pair for non-coms.
stands the administration building, of
two stories with truncated roof and
ground dimensions, judging by eye, of :
about sixty feet square. 1t is one of
the most imposing structures upon the
reservation and to all appearances one
of the most comfortable-as it should
be, considering that the business of the
Post will be done inside of it.
All IF no buiIJir0S fins 70
toned are wooden, but they are of
especially strong construction. The
underpinning consists of concrete pill
lars upon hard pan One end of each
of the barracks is enclosed, beneath
the ground floor, by concrete walls.
A bakery of concrete is under con-
struction between the subsistence
storehouse and the barracks
A magazine of iron and concrete is
advanced in construction as far as the
laying of the first floor joists. This
structure lies beyond rough ground sew
eral hundred yards to the northward
of the barracks.
The underpinning is in place for a
guardhouse near the bakery.
Altogether twenty-seven or twenty
eight buildings are included in the
present contract of the Burrell Con-
struction Co., of which twenty-three
are practically finished on the exterior
save the painting. The remainder are
either under way or to be started soon. {
Work began about the first of the year
and it is expected that the contract ]
will he fulfilled about the first of Oct
ober.
II. II. Burrell personally superin-
tends construction for his company.
Mr.. Hassfurther is the structural en-
gIneer for the company, and J. L.
Young structural engineer and inspec-
tor for the [. s. Government
Contracts have been let for the sew /
ers and septic tanks, also for the
water system including artesian wells. {
The Post viii have its own power
house for electric lighting. etc. I