The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-12-05
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wall will be raised with iaekserew
| into position and will be locked will
the, other walls in the usual way. Tht
walls will be four inches thick will
quarterback steel rods running through
and the rods will extend at the corner,
so as to lock with the connnectins
walls. A building was erected at CamI
Perry in this manner and has beer
found satisfactory. This method i.
quicker than the old way and the work
men can finish the work better.
The only work the quartermaster ;:
department would do on the army for
tifications at Pearl Harbor would be
the erection of the barracks. The army
engineers will complete the fortified
tions proper.
81 have had no conference with the
railroad people yet about extending
their line to the site to be selected
but L suppose some arrangement will
be made with them by the army to
run a spur to the rear of the store.
houses and commissary buildings.
81 have no materials on hand yet
for building the eantonment / arrived
ahead of 1.-The stuff. A lot of lumber left
Seattle on the 28th 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 general officer, and
if not the senior colonel stationed here
will be the commander. All the plans
for Leilehua 4 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.
81 do not think that the permanent
post will be completed in much less
than two years and of course the gar
rison viii 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.
/ expect to be here at least two years.
It is understood that the work will
be done mainly by day labor. Accom-
panying Captain Cashier are three men,
Dan Sullivan, J. Britten and W. o.
Bradford, who viii assist. The men
appear to be as great hustlers as their
chief Sullivan is a concrete worker
and is regarded as an al man.
The plans and specifications of the
brigade post, while allowing for quar-
ters for the regiments and detachments
above noted, viii be of such a 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 Cashier is regarded as one
of the best equipped constructing of
fcers in the quartermaster' s 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 14,7OO 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 s 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
5th Cav, will be relieved
from duty in the department of the
Colorado, and will proceed to the Island
IF Oahu, Hawaii Ter, for station, sail
ng on transport leaving San Fran
cisco, Cal, about Jan. ), 1909. The
will take all impedimenta
with them to the Island of Oahu and
he horses will accompany the organ
cations as far as San Francisco.
Organization commanders will carry