The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-10-30
FORT SHAT TER
IMPROVE
The Houses Will Be Duplicated
and an Electric Plant
Installed.

T1dHS Tor the duplication of accom-
modations at Fort Shafter, the army
headquarters and barracks at Kahau-
Xxi, will be completed by the middle
of next month and it is expected that
by the first of the new year bids for
the construction, as great work of
erection as has already been accom-
plished, will be under consideration.
As the military reserve now appears
it is about to receive the finishing
touches of road and curb and pave
work, and about the time that gardens
about officers quarters begin to take
on beauty the new work will be start
ing and two more large barrack build
ings will be swung into the circle of
huge frame structures, in the makai seq
nient, and another dozen or so houses
for officers, including a bachelor Off
GERS domieile, will be begun. Then
Fort Shafter will look like a well-set
and pretty township sprouting anew
under a building boom. In other words,
Fort Shafter will sbe spreading to twice
its present capacity.
1t is not improbable that before the
work of doubling is complete the army
viii decide to increase the facilities
and accommodations still further and |
in that event more buildings will be
ho 4orx
side of the present fort.
1T is expected that arrangements will
soon be made for an electric light plant
at Kahauiki, the fort thus generating
it's own power. At this time the great
barracks are lit by oil lamps and along
the 1oadways are wooden posts upon
the tops of which are placed the lamps,
These will before long be replaced by
ara lights and, with it's own power
.em and its own water, Fort Shafter will
be something of an independent muni-
,ipality.
1t is not an easy matter to make the
our of the citadel, as some of the
soldiers term Fort Shafter, for the
oadways have not received their top
DRESSINGS where they have been gra-
led and filled, and there are also
hose which have yet to be put to
grade and filling. A portion of the
upper streets passing the officers
quarters have received cement side
walks and a considerable stretch has
,een curbed and guttered, both curb
ng and guttering being of cement.
Eventually the immense center space
will be cleared and graded and con-
erted into a splendid drill ground that
will also be used for sports. 1t is
arge enough for polo and an ideal
pread of land for all manner of ex-
rcise on foot or ahorse.
Honolulu people or those recently
rrived who contemplate building
ZONES in this country would learn
much from an inspection of the Ka-
auiki buildings which have on sew
raj previous occasions been described.
hey are built for the climate and for
urability and not without soa1e arch
-ectural thought. Along similar, if
ot identical lines, the new buildings
0 be added to the Fort will be erected.
Lawns have already been laid out
bout the barracks and many of the
ther edifices, trees have been planted
nd hedgerows, in places, set out.
From the heights of Kahauiki the
ghts in the barracks appear as those
{ big hotels When the electric plant
installed Fort Shafter will be the
ost brilliant spot on the island after I
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