The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-06
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Army and
Navy News

| Enlistment in the Hawaiian Islands Is
| to be made second only in Importance
to that in the Philippines, and with the
| transformation of the temporary garri-
son at Leilehua into permanent sta
ton which is expected to take place
this fall, brigadier- general, and pos
sibly major general, may then be de.
tailed to the Oahu station. Although
similar news has reached Honolulu be-
fore, this last information came direct
from Washington by the >Tenyo Maru.
Oahu will be an Independent military
establishment, entirely disassociated
with the department of California.
A Washington dispatch states that
full regiment of cavalry will be station
ed here by this fall, in which case the
remaining squadron of the Fifth Cav
airy may be ordered to join headduar-
tiers now at Leilehua. -Four companies
of coast artillery win be employed in
connection with the defenses of Pearl
Harbor, Waikiki and Diamond Head.
Major Rays Clerk Here.
E. s. Gee, clerk to Paymaster Beecher
Ray, United States Army, who has been
Crdered to Honolulu as paymaster for
the army forces on Oahu, arrived yes
| terday on the transport Thomas from
Manila. Major Ray may arrive on the
next passenger liner from the Orient.
The presence of paymaster here will
save considerable delay in paying off
the enlisted men, whose payrolls here
tofore have had to go to San Francisco
to be completed.
Hero Titus Passed Through.
Second Lieutenant Calvin P. Titus,
End Infantry, passed through Honolulu
on the Thomas yesterday en- route to
the mainland He will be retired short
ly at his own request. Lieut.. Titus is
the young man, who, as a musician in
the 14th U. S. Infantry, was the first
American to scale the walls Of Picking
in the final assault during the Boxer
war. General Daggett who command
ed there at that time made such glow
ing reports of the bravery of young
Titus, that although the young man
had no friends to press his case at
| Washington, President Mckinley de-
| cided to send him to West Point as a
| candidate al large. He was sent to
| West Point on April l, 1901, as a cadet.
On that day General Corbin cabled
| General Macarthur at Manila TO send
Young Titus home on the first available
| transport in order that he might make
| the entrance examination to the AGA
| DENY.
| He is very religious man and prior
| to his entrance into the army was a
| Salvation Army member, and is intel
| ligent, sensible and modest in all his
| doings. His resignation from the army
was sent from Manila some time ago
and it is expected will be accepted.
| Lieutenant Titus may then engage in
religious work.
Guns Out at $50 A. M.
! Superintendent Harry Denison of the
Oahu Railway wharves will have two
locomotives on the tracks near the
| barge Mohican before s O'Clock this
morning to be used in furnishing the
power to lift the two Pinch guns out
| of the hold of the Mohican. He ex-
poets to start pulling at $50 O'Clock
| this morning. The freighter Arizonan
left the wharf yesterday afternoon,
| thus permitting the barge to shift down
| directly under the great shear-legs
| which will stand most of the strain in
| lifting the guns. The announcement
| that the guns are to be lifted today,
+! is bona fde, and it is expected that
camera fends will be ON hand to get
record of the hosting operations.
| Inspector Leaves.
! Col. Woodward, u. S. A., Inspector
| General who has been in the islands
/ for +ba paS+ throa weeks concluded hia
| inspection of all the military forces
| for the Coast yesterday, accompanied
by Mrs. Woodward, in the transport
| Thomas.
Score of Men Go.
A score of enlisted men of the army,
navy and marine corps, including Com
missary Sergeant Hensley, left yester-
day on the Thomas for the mainland.
| The enlistment terms of most of the
men have been finished Sergeant Hen
ley was accompanied by his wife and
| child.
New @. M. for Logan.
Captain William Ii. Tobin, Coast
| Artillery Corps, has been detached as
| quar- termaster captain of the transport
Logan and will be relieved by Captain
Thomas G. Hanson, 10Th Infantry. The
| Logan is scheduled to sail from San
. Francisco for Honolulu and Manila on
March 6. She will carry General
| Brush and other high-rank military of
| ficers. and in addition is taking over
to Manila the entire 18th Cavalry,
whish has been stationed at Fort
Myer. Va. The Logan is due here