The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-12-30
RUSHING OAHU
WAR WORK
Continued from Page One)

MILITARY ROAD APPROPRIATED.
Lines for military roads have been
run in all sections of oahu so far
surveyed by Uncle Sans Engineers.
Mountain passes have been particular
ly noted and methods of transport
considered. The quickest and easiest
avenues between points, of course, are
aimed at. The data secured are in
valuable to the knowledge of local
gun-play facilities and enable military
operators to ascertain exactly what
points are vulnerable from other
points
! CONCENTRATE AT PEARL HARBOR
Two detachments have practically
cleared up their work for the present
and within ten days will Join the third
detachment of Engineers at Pearl
Harbor, where the lochs and imme-
diately surrounding country will be
subjected to the Photographic process
and otherwise carefully surveyed.
Facts thus derived, in conjunction with
Naval Pearl Harbor statistics will put
Pearl Harbor and environs like a great
chess board on the maps of the War
and Navy departments. After Pearl
Harbor, or perhaps before, this at pre-
sent seems uncertain, comes Leilehua
region for exact Typographical treat
ment.
MILITAIS1 ELECTRIC LINE.
Plans are Deing completed for the
construction of a military electric
! line from the waterfront to the Unit
ed States Government fertilization pro-
perty at Waikiki and it may be ex-
tended to Kaimuk and beyond, by a
short cut to the fort behind Diamond
Head Whether the Government will
give this contract to a private enter
prise or itself handle the work is not
certain, but the indications favor Gov
eminent work. This line will be used
to transport the great sections OF the
! 14-inch gun batteries to be mounted
at Waikiki armament stations which
will weigh 10000 tons each.
Tests are still being conducted at
Waikiki as to foundations, and 1t
seems that previous observations have
been more favorable as to the nature
of the beds than present tests would
indicate. Now a sinking tendency is
noticed and the big batteries may
have to be planted on piles.
The use of an electric line would
be continual for the transport of am
munition, provisions and supplies of
all kinds to the Waikiki and Diamond
Head Notifications and would more
than pay for itself to the Government
in a comparatively short time. Other
wise heavy material used in the con-
struction and other material continu-
ally used afterward would have to be
| extensively and inconveniently trans
ferred from vessels bringing it to huge
drays which, in some cases would have
to be specially constructed, and would
have to be hauled by road-locomotives
to the fertilization sites. It is poss1-
BILE that the Honolulu Rapid Transit
& Land Company may have an oppor-
tunity of putting in line, to be used
by the Government, but present talk
has it that the Government will do the
work itself.
GIBRALTARfNG DIAMOND HEAD.
The fact tina; tunnels are being
made into the crater of Diamond Head
has been taken as a move for the per-
lection of the system of fire control
for the fort back of Diamond Head.
One tunnel is being driven from the
mauka side of the extinct crater into
the crater and another will eventually
reach to the outside of the crater,
opening on the sea.
The tunnels, as a matter of fact,
are to be utilized extensively Inside
the crater is to be conserved what wa
4 ter settles there; ammunition cham
bers are to be established in the
mountain, certain high explosives re-
quiring most tender care as to tenn
perature; and convenient means OF
ingress and egress will also be estab-
lished by the tunnels, from the fort
to the center and from the crater to
the lands end and vice versa
At present the job is more of big
trench and it will be some time before
the diggers get to the perpendicular
of the craters rim.
There will be other tunnels later
and possibly chambers of observation
and also for smaller guns than are
mounted in the fort; also for the sake
of the fire control
100 CARPENTERS FOR LEILEHUA.
An advertisement today appears for
one hundred carpenters to apply at
once for work at Leilehua where the
great cavalry camp is to be built.
The lumber for the FIRST building re-
quired is on the ground and men are
wanted in a hurry, for the advance
troops of the Fifth Cavalry will be
here about the middle OF January and
the mounts viii be here, too.
Whether the Army can get one hun
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