The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-11-01
FORT SHAFTER
IMPROVEMENTS

Plans for the duplication of accom-
modations at Fort Shafter, the army
headquarters and barracks at Kahau,
Xxi, will be completed by the middle
of next mouth and it is expected that
by the first of the new year bids fol-
the construction, as great 4 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
ment, and another dozen or so houses
for officers, including a bachelor Off
GERS domicile, 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 be spreading to twice
its present capacity.
1t is not improbable that before the
work of doubling is complete the army
will decide TO increase the facilities
and accommodations still further and
in that event more buildings will be
erected across the stream, on the town
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
are lights and, with its own power
for illumination, its own telephone sys-
tenn and its own water, Fort Shafter will
be something of an Independent NUM-
,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 filed, and there are also |
hose which have yet to be put to
.rade and filling. A portion of the
PIPER streets passing the officers
uarters have received cement side
-alks and considerable stretch has
cen curbed and guttered, both curb
lg and guttering being of cement.
Eventually the immense center space
ill be cleared and graded and con-
erted into a splendid drill ground that
ill also be used for sports. 1t is
Irge enough for polo and an ideal
pread of land for all manner of ex-
rcise on foot or ahorse.
Honolulu people or those recently
rived who contemplate building |
ONES in this country would learn
uch from an inspection of the Ka- /
auiki buildings which have on sew !
al previous occasions been described.
hey are built for the climate and for /
Inability and not without some arch !
ectural thought. Along similar. if Ii
IT identical lines, the new buildings q
be added to the Fort will be erected. i
Lawns have already been laid out '
,out the barracks and many of the 7
her edifices, trees have been planted 6
Id hedgerows, in places, set out.
From the heights of Kahauiki the
,hts in the barracks appear as those
big hotels. When the electric plant
installed Fort Shafter will be the f
ost brilliant spot on the island after s
nSet. a