Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1908-12-21
|THE MAKING OF
| AMERICAN MALTA
49, Uncle Sam is Spending
I'm Money to Make Our Pacific
Base ImpPegnable

uoNoLULU, Dec. 15.-The met
..Dhosis of Honolulu has begun.
~ ago commercial problems, So
], activities, and the comings and
... Of tourists, occupied the minds
40 forty thousand or more inhab-
ante. hut today a decidedly martial
Ana runs through the harmony Of
,.vs,,an affairs, growing ever more
ominant.
And for the future? Another year
,omises to see the entire atmosphere
Honolulu changed, from more or
y placid civilian life, to that sur
,undng a great military encamp-
uept Five years from now it is
DOre than likely that an old time res
dent returning to his island home
m find himself in strange city.
Within six months Uncle Sam has
AOvn the Hiwaiians that if 1t did
axe him forty years to make up his
hind to fortify the islands, he is not
slow when he once gets started.
Work Is being rushed on the construc-
lon of three great fertilization
FORKS; corps of engineers has sur
veed and located the site for the
neat naval station on Pearl Harbor,
light miles from the city, and bids
OF the dredging of the channel into
he great land-locked basin were
pened in Washington only last week.
company of army engineers arrived
" the last transport from the main
and, for the purpose of making de-
allied military survey of the entire
sand Of Oahu, locating defenses at
trategc points, and planning other
Orks Yesterday condemnation suits
we're filed by the government against
hundred or more citizens to ac-
uFe possession of some sixty acres
land on the famo s Waikiki beach,
Or ratification and garrison pur-
Oses this in addition to eight or ten
efes Of the waterfront acquired a
ear or more ago, and including half
dozen seaside homes of Honolulu s
hstOcracy.) On this tract of land
III soon be erected great batteries
ne latest type of 12-inch coast
eense rifles, on disappearing car
ages, portion of which equipment
already arrived. Nest of the pal
'qa homes which are doomed to
Y way to military requirements
~ already been vacated by theil
Y owners, and now form temporary
7Sers quarters for the newly ar
led engineer company, while the
Apsted men are encamped in tent;
me spacious lawns.
IN January 5th, there will sal
pn San Francisco, two squadron
'ssht trOops) of the Fifth U. s. Cav
W With regimental staff and band
part of the permanent garrison
u me island On the 4th of tn
'sent month arrived Captain ]. c
.''''nsr U. S. A. constructing guar
master. and a number of other OF
IN with fill authority to eonstruc
'a''ers for the coming troops on tn
uIuul 14,000-acre tract on tn
tsaa 900 feet above the sea, an
ga miles from Honolulu, whic
reserved for military purposes
ume of annexation. A part {
4aarters at present being rushe
al possible expedition, are
polaty character, but the stable
sone of the buildings are bein
=, " the most up-to-date model
sih form part of a great pc
military post which will ga
~ s0aO officers and men whe
= sF'ed This force viii incluC
4 piete regiment of cavalry, oil
artillery, one of infantry,
:. sorps detachment, one Of e
and fun brigade hospit
apital corps. The command
~ as well as the minor gar
the island. will be in bri
woatnued on page three.)