The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-18

TecIIou Oh tHS uc" IAItdiy camp, Inc
presence of the new arm of the SER
vice is soon apparent. The roads are
deep.-Futted where heavily-laden bag
gage wagons and a string of mules
have passed and repassed. On every
wagon a soldier or two may be seen,
going to or from the post, for cav
airy trooper dislikes to hike when he
can jump ride, and at present the
cavalry are mountless owing to the
quarantine of the horses.
Then as the wagon pulls up before
an opening in the long cattle fence
mounted vidette is encountered. sit
ting motionless. He is armed with re-
volver, gauntleted and spick and span,
for he is one of the-new guards fresh
from the guard amounting ceremony.
His duty is not so much to watch the
comings and goings of army wagons,
nondescript carts and vehicles of Jap
anese and Chinese, pedestrians and
troopers afoot and mounted, as to pre-
vent the cattle of the Leilehua Ranch
from wandering out of their pasture
into the rich pineapple fields beyond.
Crossing another field another fence
opening is met and another trooper.
His duty is also to see that no one
opens up private gates in the ranch
precincts for short cut to the camp.
On nearing the camp, signs of ae-
tivity are met with. Troopers are
working among the horses, picketing
punches here and there, grooming,
looking after the escort wagons and
Dougherties. Beyond are the streets
of tents, flaps and sides raised SO that
the breezes which blow through Waia-
nae Gap and across the Leilehua plain
may have free way over the tent
floors. Chests of the troopers are
arranged about the tents. and in
each tent troopers may be seen bend
ing over the open boxes, taking out
creased clothing, looking over priced
photographs of mother, father, sister,
brother, but mainly sweethearts, some
! where in distant parts of the world.
A group of officers stroll across the
parade. They stop and discuss the lay
of the ground. One of the officers dis
covers that the line of officers quar-
tiers, and that means the enlisted men :
mess halls as well, were not laid true
north and south, just slight devia-
| ton from the cardinal points. They
learn, however, from one of those who
| laid out the camp, that this slight de-
Walton was not an error, but purposely
| done, but not because they wanted il
so. The lay of the ground compelled
the slight deviation. The officers were
interested also in the stakes being
driven to mark the line of the carriage
drive around the parade grounds, leav
| ing a wide margin of grass in front
of each of the quarters. When an of
ficer starts for his assigned quarter:
he has to begin at the end and count
off, for all look alike.
| "Reminds me somewhat of Hua
! chaca,' said an officer. 'sThat is, tn:
location is in just such position neal
the mountains and across the plain i:
another range of mountains, only thu
range opposite us here is about twelve
or fourteen miles, and over at Hua
chaca it is about forty miles distant
Nice cool place here, though. -
/ Pineapples Are Cheap.
The Fifth S troopers are reveling il
pineapples since their arrival at Lei
lehua. Chinese and japanese are cart
ing whole loads of the luscious pine
over to the camp and disposing O.
them at rs cents a. dozen. They n
mostly small, but juicy, and are re
garded by the troopers as about tn
best fruit of the kind in the world
Their one hope is that the price will
remain the same.
Beef from Leilehua Ranch.
Most of the beef supplies for tn
post comes from the Leilehua Rancl
close by. It takes a lot of beef t,
supply two squadrons of healthy troop
crs with big appetites, sharpened b.
the fine air of Waianae Gap. Eggs ar
in great demand and sell for about s.
to so cents dozen. Ice is already be
ing received at the camp from town
but the first days supply had to melt
as the refrigerators had not been Sc
up.
Name for Post.
After all, the new post will not b
named after General Earl D. Thoma
or George II. Thomas, as there are a
ready two posts of that name anon
the garrisons of Uncle Sam. There
likelihood, however, that if the CON
manding officer of the post has an 81
portunity to make a recommendation
the name of former Fifth Caviar
officer who achieved fame in the Civ
War will be suggested
Camp Very.
II Camp Very has changed greatly i
the last few days, the arrival of fou
hundred marines necessitating an e1
tire change in the quarters of the mel
There have been about fifty new tent
pitched in the rear of the old caml
giving it quite a different appearance
from the old one. The building 70,
merly used as mess room by til
company stationed there for the la:
year. has been turned over for til
commissioned officers mess.
There have been five new posts adj
ed to the guard, and there are no
| twenty-one privates, three corpora
and two sergeants mounted on guar
each day, with an officer of the da
and an officer of the guard, makir
quite a showing.
The men are working hard on Il
new company streets, and working wit
| will In a short time Camp Vel
will be a fine military post