The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-09-03

teTs. SOlue IDey uecldIeu looked ike
actors and actresses just made-up for
the stage; one fish with long-extend.
ing proboscis they named Einstein. The
squid with its ugly in-sucking tenacies
held their attention. The beautiful
peacock fish, the canary birds, those
through which the sunlight cast
shadows-all appealed to their sense of
the unreal. They declared the fish look
ed almost as if painter had used
brushes upon them TO OBTAIN the beau
tiful coloring and fanciful designs.
"The sight of the fish in the Aqua
rum" said Congressman R,edcr of
Kansas, "is alone worth the wh 10 trip
down to the Hawaiian islands,
Reluctantly leaving .Ne denizens of
the deep, the party motored ar1nnd
Diamond Head to Battery Harlow,
perched on the mauna side of the era
ter, where Major Winslow, Engineer
Corps, U. S. A, under whose direc.
ton the Notifications have been built,
received the party. In the pleasant
task of guiding it over the works the
Major was assisted by Mr.. Burbank,
the engineer who has worked directly
on the job, Captain Pourie of the coast
coast artillery officers attached to Fort
Ruger.
View Magnificent Battery.
The first view of the great, black
cemented works with their death deal
ing engines of destruction, was an OBJ
ject lesson to the Congressman of the
manner in which the War Department
is spending money appropriated by
them to make Hawaii the strongest
outpost between the Far East and the
Occident. Battery Harlow looks like
huge river boat with the central pilot
house high up above the main deck.
The battery consists of central sta
tion with two wings, and in each wing
are four great mortars. There is one
main floor or deck on which the NOR
tars are located. In the great cement
deck-house, using the boat term. are
casemates for protection ard for office
rse. Above the main deck house is
another, with more Offices. Above
this is a narrow house, where the
charts of the sea are plotted and sur
mounting the entire structure is the
pilot house, where the commander of
the battery has his quarters when the
guns are being fred. Long, narrow
Sits in each side give him a view of
the two mortar batteries. Direct com
munication is had with the room below
where the telegraphic orders are re-
ceived from the trig station on the
apex of the crater rim above the Dia-
mond Head lighthouse, as to how the
gnns should be fired The maps are
shown with small squares illustrating
the sea some distance ont. The range
is computed in the trig station and
directions flashed through the wires
which pass along the inner side of the
crater, through the tunnel and then
into the battery, In the plotting room
the order is received and with mathe.
matical accuracy, the range is again
determined and so many seconds being
allowed the proiectile is fired from the
great gun. The projectile takes a
fight over the crater far up in the
air and its fall is designed to be upon
the deck of hostile ship where 1t
should pierce the armor and explode
below. Then good by ship.
This was all explained to the visitors
by coast artillery officers. The Con-
gressmen listened intently, because
good listening under such circumstan.
ces was better than doing any talking
about those mysterious azimuths and
trajectories.