The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-12-08
BIG WORK TO
START SOON
AT LEILEHUA

Three thousand officers and men viii
comprise the garrison of the new bri
gade army post to be established perma
nently on the United States govern
nent reservation at Leilehua, Wahiawa
Oahu. Included in this garrison will
be an entire regiment of cavalry (a
first two squadrons), another of fielC
artillery, one of infantry, signal corpl
detachment and one of engineers, ant
a general brigade hospital with com
plete complement of hospital corps men
Commanding this post and all the
minor garrisons on the island, will be
a general officer, who will have staff
which will include a paymaster, judge
advocate, quartermaster, commissary
and medical director.
In about five weeks time the head
quarters, band and two squadrons OF
the Fifth United States Cavalry will
arrive from San Francisco, and will
go into temporary quarters established
on site to be selected today or to.
morrow at Leilehua. This camp will
be composed Of tents for officers and
troopers, a frame administration build.
ing, nine kitchen buildings, including
one for the band, a clubhouse for of.
ficers which later will be turned into
post exchange for the men, and eight
separate stables with tiled roofs.
The stables will be built as perma,
nent quarters for mounts. They are to
be constructed from the most approved
designs for housing animals in tropic'
al countries. The stables will be rooted
with red tiles and will have side cur.
tains of canvas on rollers, SO that they
can be raised or lowered according to
the state of the weather. All the frame
buildings will be elevated on concrete
piers.
The site to be selected by the army
board appointed recently will be in
such position ON the reservation that
it will not interfere with the plans
for the permanent brigade post, and
yet will be located so that the perma,
nent portion of the temporary, can
tonment will be include in the general
brigade plan.
The sum of $4,000 for the estab
lishment of the temporary cantonmeni
has been allotted to the constructing
quartermaster, Captain Castner, and il
now in local bank, available for use
For the permanent brigade post tht
plans and specifications will call fol
an expenditure of between $500, ,00t
and 100000.
Captain Castner, constructing quar-
termaster, Major Foster, 5th Cavalry
and Captain Sturges, 9TH Cavalry, ar
rived on the Alameda yesterday. They
with Major Dunning, Goth Infantry
commandant of Fort Shafter; Captain
Falls, depot quartermaster and Other
local army officers will comprise the
army board which will select the caval
ry cantonment site.
81 was really to go ahead this af
ternoon to prepare the flooring for the
tents," said Captain Cashier last even
ing, "but as the board is to meet to
morrow at Fort Shafter and the next
day will go out to Leilehuas where the
site is to be chosen, the commencement
of this work was deferred. / DOM
know where the site will be as l have
never seen the reservation. We shall
get busy right away, however, to pre-
pare for lot of rush work, for the
two squadrons of the Fifth Cavalry
will be here about January 18th ani
the quarters must be in readiness fol
| them.
GAS to the brigade post the plani
and specifications will not be ready fol
about three months. AS soon as thos,
plans are ready and approved work viii
begin.
"The site to be selected for the tenn
porary cantonment will not interfer,
with the brigade post, but will be Sc
lected with view to merging the per
manent buildings of the temporar,
camp into the larger one.
Gin the construction of the perma
nent brigade post the buildings viii
be built of reinforced concrete, and W
will construct them on an entirely ne'
plan. Instead of pouring the coneret
into the standing wall forms, acord
ing to present methods, an entire wa
frame will be built, with the windo'
and door openings, and laid out o
the ground. The concrete will be poul
! ed into this form and smoothed owe
much as cement sidewalk is lai,
When the concrete has hardened IL
q wall will be raised with iackscrev