The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-12-08

railroad people yet about extending
their line to the site to be selected
but / suppose some arrangement will
be made with them by the army tc
run spur to the rear Of the store
houses and commissary buildings
81 have no materials on hand yet
for building the cantonment. 1 arrived
ahead of the stuff. A lot of lumber left
Seattle on the 2Sth of last month and
should be here in the next ten days.
The tents are all here.
"The brigade post will no doubt be
commanded by a general officer, and
if not the senior colonel stationed here
will be the commander. All the plans
for Leilehua are independent of the
army post at Fort Shafter. The regi.
ment of infantry to be sent here later
on would be independent Of the com.
mand at Shafter.
"You will have plenty of bands
when the permanent post is finished.
Each regiment will have its own band
and they ought to play enough to blow
the Islands away.
az do not think that the permanent
post will be completed in much less
than two years and of course the gar
rison will not arrive until the post is
ready to be occupied entirely. The
work, however, will be rushed both on
the temporary and the permanent posts.
l expect to be here at least two years. -
1t is understood that the work will
be done mainly by day labor. Accom-
panying Captain Castner are three men,
Dan Sullivan, J. Britten and w. o.
Bradford, who will assist. The men
appear to be as great hustlers, as their
chief. Sullivan is concrete worker
| and is regarded as anal man.
The plans and specifications of the
brigade post, while allowing for quar-.
ters for the regiments and detachhents
above noted, will be of such char
acter that the post can easily be en-
larged to accommodate at least two to
three thousand additional troops.
Employment for hundreds of work
men will be available when the work
really begins on the permanent post.
There will be almost as much activity
at Leilehua as at Pearl Harbor, though
the expenditure for permanent works
is only half of that proposed for Pearl
Harbor.
Captain Castner is regarded as one
of the best equipped constructing of.
| ficers in the quartermaster depart.
ment. He has been engaged in military
construction work for several years and
only recently completed two.troop
post at Yellowstone Park.
The Leilehua reservation contains
about 14,700 acres, much of which is
under lease to the Dowsett ranch COM
pany and there are many sub-leases,
some of the land-being planted in pines.
The Dowsett lease has several years to
run, but when the permanent post is
to be constructed the government will
start negotiations for the return of the
lease.
The War Department IS order concern
ing the Fifth Cavalry are covered in
the following from the Army and Navy
Journal:
War Department.
G. o. III, Nov. 9, 1908.
Headquarters, band and 1st and 3rd
Squadrons, 5th Cav, will be relieved
from duty in the department of the
Colorado, and will proceed to the Island
of Oahu, Hawaii Ter, for station, sail.
ing on transport leaving San Fran.
cisco, CAL, about Jan. 8, 1909. The
organizations will take all impedimenta
with them to the Island of Oahu and
the horses will accompany the organ.