The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-02-23

facing the company streets, are TIT
tents of the company officers. Eact
captain has one to ni,aself, while ths
two lieutenants share one between
them. The tents of the lieutenant
colonel and the majors are all in thu
same row. At the rear are the tents
of the adjutant general, the colone
commanding and the regimental adju.
tant.
Tents for the mess, cooking, storage.
| etc, are disposed for convenience and
looks to good advantage at the ends
of streets and rows.
Sinks on ground lower than that OF
! the camp and ditch to receive the
refuse form a guarantee of sanitary
conditions.
| Water is supplied from a mountain
stream in deep gulch. 1t is pumped
| through hose to filter dischargina
| into a cask.
CAMP RATIONS.
err entered the camp yesterday, and.
from the immediate and cordial invita-,
! ton he had to join the officers mess.
was placed in a position to judge the
rations. They constituted square
and wholesome meal and perhaps that
is the best Judgment which could be
passed upon military camp fare. But
lest an impression exists that officers
are more than good to themselves the
bill of fare may be given from menu
DRY. 1t consisted of oyster soup. corn
ed pork and cabbage, boiled beef and
potatoes, hard and soft bread, plum
pudding, coffee, raisins, nuts and or
anges.
BY the kindness of Lieut.. Hanna OF
Camp Mckinley the reporter was put
in possession of the bill Of fare for the
men in Camp Taft the three first days.
Here it is:
Observation-Disclosures, bacon, potatoes,
bread and coffee. Supper. beef stew,
fruit, bread and coffee.
Thursday-Breakfast, beef la mode.
rice, bread and coffee. Dinner. stewed
beef, soup, gravy. boiled potatoes.
bread and coffee. Supper, salmon, po-
tatoes, poi, bread and coffee.
Friday-Breakfast, beef stew, bread
and coffee and fruit Dinner, pork
and beans, soup, hard bread and cot,
fee. Supper, beefsteak, boiled pota-
toes. salmon and poi, bread and coffee.
Beef is obtained fresh from the Dow,
sett ranch The natives can have poi
and salmon on request.
AN IDEAL SITE.
Camp Taft is ideally situated. 1t
nestles close under the Wafanae range, /
on the westerly margin of the Leile, |
hua. plains, little northerly from the
waianae gap. The elevation is 1900
feet above sea level Between the
camp and the upper mountain foothills
lies a guich, so to rs feet deep, at this
spot expanding into crater shape. |
Through this gulch a stream of clear
mountain water smeanders, tumbline |
over a rocky bed.
AS the range bends outward from
the table land at the gap, the site of
the camp is recessed. One of the most /
noble landscapes in the Hawaiian ISL
ands is spread out in broad perspective
from the spot. The camp is just far
enough back to make the southerly end
of the range shut off the view of the
ocean had from a little distance out
on Leilehua plains, and the pinnacled
ridge to the north appears to bend
over almost to meet the termination of
visible clear around to the back of
Thus the view has the grand general
effect OF a vast amphitheatre of level
almost enclosed by the two
mountain ranges like opposite cres-
cents Judged by the eye the plateau
might be from ten to fifteen miles
broad between the ranges. Every
feature of the overlooking Waianae
range is clearly defned-the deep-scor-
ed gulches. the volcanic crinkles and
,reases. the scattered groves OF trees,
The frequent patches of scrub growth,
the insertions of grassy slopes, tina
gnarled bluffs and zigzag summit
ridges. A wealth of variegation In
color is also displayed over the whole
diversified face of the mountains. the
F<oolau range, on the other hand, from
Camp Taft, has its rugged sky line
partly yelled in cloud and its general
features are toned down by distances
% dreamland picture Viewed
across the plain its color scheme is
navy mixture of ever-changfng tints.
More than by its picturesqueness,
hough. the Leilehua landscape fires
he Imagination by the possibilities or
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