The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-01-15
MOVING WITH
THEIR MOUNTS
Continued From Page One,


the railway station. All of the quarter
master IS drays, and large number of
private vehicles as WELL were called in
to service to facilitate the work.
| When breakfast dishes have been
cleared away this morning, the bat
TALON of marines, brought here on the
U. S. S. Buffalo, will prepare to move
to their new home at Camp Very. ALL
day yesterday the men were employed
in pitching tents and getting the camp
ready, and last night the last peg was
driven.
The task of getting a vacant parcel
of land ready to receive 500 troops was
no easy one, but the men went about
the work Systematically and ground was
cleared and tents pitched in short order.
I Considerably more work will be done
at the encampment before it is consid-
cred ready for permanent occupation,
but it will all be of nature which can
be carried on while the men are living
there.
When the Fifth Cavalry starts for
Leilehua this morning, the band will
| go along despite the report published
in an afternoon paper to the effect
that the musicians would be stationed
at Fort Shafter. "Where the colonel
goes, the band goes, was the way
, an officer of the regiment put it yes
terday afternoon.
There is a rumor current to the effect
that Colonel Schuyler may be placed
in command of all of the forces of the
Island and that in that case, he may
take up his residence at Fort Shafter.
If such be the case, the band will prob
, ably be located there also.
| nav ha tba Anal arronun.
ments with regard to the residence of
: Colonel Schuyler, the band will 90 to
a Leilehua today.
One million feet of lumber was ship,
n ped from Puget Sound on the American,
:, Hawaiian freighter Mexican for the
= Lelehua construction work on January
I 10; most of the work for which the
1 lumber was destined has already been
c completed. What disposition to make
n of the material is a question now fac
1 ing the authorities here.
L When the constructing quartermaster
!; was sent here to prepare temporary
Il cantonment for the first and third
Is squadrons of the Fifth Cavity, he was
II charged to have the structures ready in
10 time for the arrival of the troops. Lum,
p ber ordered in Oregon. was slow in
g getting started on its way and soon
If Captain Cashier realized that. We're he
to await the arrival of the wood, the sol.
a diers would find scant accommodations
le on their arrival.
IS Having in mind his orders to hurry
5 up, the officer proceeded to get hold of
such lumber as there was on the ground
IN He was so successful that Leilehua is
8 now all but ready to receive its garrl'
IL son: but there is that l,000,0 900 feet OF
1 I. l. ~ al. s,,ta tinr
IN Some of it may be traded in exchange
he for that which was received here hui
of what will be done with the rest Of il
MT no one is willing to try and prophesy
Cavalry Detail Recalled.
The order for cavalry detail tc
leave the transport Thomas yesterday
morning for the new post at Leilehua
T was recalled 1t was probably decided
r that the men were not needed, as there
is at present a guard detail from Fort
Shafter doing duty at the cantonment
n The Worlds Garden Spot.
N "I think Honolulu is the garden
9. spot of, the world,'' said one of the
i. newly-arrived marines last night to a
"a cavalry friend. al was here in Sep
n. TENDER and went to Samoa on the Ten
u. nessee. We came back in October and
r l tried to transfer and stay here, but
"a could not We went from here ia
n. South America for target practise
or Then we were taken off the ship and
il sent over here, and you bet I am here
10 to stay
SO Cavalry Athletes.
10 The Fifth Cavalry has a fine lot Of
a.. a. athletes and the men will take an ac
III tive part in athletic events here.
:, "We have good baseball team
w said a member of the first squadron
Ms yesterday, "and as soon as we get set
Va tied down we would like to hear from
~ some of the teams in the city, the
y Fort Shafter men, the marines, or thu
y, engineers. We won our share o:
~ games before we came here and I thinl
we can do it here.
o. Parade at Fort Shafter.
There was the usual weekly parade
ed MT Fort Shafter yesterday evening
IL Berger's band not being present, thu
field musicians of the Twentieth fur
nished the music. The companies pass
n. ed in review in the following order
Company +, Company Il, Company ii
Company G. Company + was com
~ mapded by Captain Parsons, Compan.
- g by Lieutenant Pardee, Company
~ by Lieutenant Rogers, and Company
~. by First Sergeant Edwards. There
w parade at the post every Thursda
- evening, the Hawaiian band bein
~ present alternate weeks.
zee Men in Hospital.
sh Two men of the Fifth Cavalry wer
mt sent to the hospital at Fort Shafte
ny Thursday morning. They were FRS
us Sergeant Wood and Private Irwin, bot
~, of Troop c.
ief Quartermaster Sergeant Walker.
APP orortermaster sergeant Walker VII
'n was promoted from Sergeant Major {
on the Twentieth Infantry, and was 70
on merly stationed at Fort Shafter, h;
u" reported for duty at Fort Meade, Sout
l., Dakota.
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