The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-02-09
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: Army and
!; Navy News
~ y 49, ~ 1888 .s.s.s.s - -

The Oahu Railway and Land Com
Pany is carrying sections of the old
Honolulu Hotel to PuuIoa station.
where they are transferred to ears of
the Honolulu plantation and forward
ed TO the end of the line, whence they
are carted over to the site selected
by the Hawaiian Dredging Company
for its working headquarters on the
Honolulu side of Pearl Harbor chan
mel The dredging company is sending
down lot OF supplies to put the new
town in shape. The dredgers may be
sent down to Pearl Harbor channel
next week to commence work on the
$3,5o0,000 contract.
In order to facilitate the shipment
of supplies to the WATERFOWL, the
dredging company will build its own
track, connecting with the plantation
track. Ties have been shipped down
already.
Flowing for Roadbed.
The contractor engaged in building
the extension of the Wahiawa road to
Leilehua eneampment is blowing up
the right, of way, preparatory to build
ing the roadbed and laying the ties.
Most of the ties are on Tie ground.
Fifth Cavalry at Shafter.
The squadron of the Fifth Cavalry
that is to participate in the Lincoln
Day parade win camp on the Fort
Shafter parade ground, and the mounts
will be picketed on the vacant lot back
| of the corral. The troopers will have
| their meals in the company mess halls.
| The squadron and the band will start
| in from Leilehua about noon on Feb
| ruary IL, will camp at Shafter that
| night, parade the next day, camp out
again that night, and start back for
| the cantonment early on the morning
| of the 18TH
The mess halls at Shafter are small,
and arrangements for feeding the
! troopers have not yet been completed.
| There viii be crowded tables, and
| there will have to be several sittings
| to accommodate both the Shafter and
| Leilehua men.
Sent to Navy Yard Museum.
The large glass case containing the
| model of the old frigate Constitution
and the engrossed petition signed by
| over 10000 patriotic citizens asking
for the preservation of the old war
| ship has been removed to the
| museum at the Washington Navy
| Yard. For the past three years it has
occupied conspicuous place in the
| big reception room of the Secretary of
the Navy and proved of great interest
to tourists and other visitors. The
| monster petition was the result of a
land against the suggestion of Mr..
| Bonaparte, then Secretary of the
Navy, that the old ship Constitution
was not fit for further repair and
ought to be destroyed. The movement
| for the preservation of "Old Iron
Sides resulted in the enactment of
legislation for the repair and preser-
walton of the historic old relic. 1t is
| now at the navy yard, Boston, classed
as unserviceable for war purposes. !"
Law Not Changed.
As a result of the hearings on the
| removal of marines from the vessels
| of the Navy, held before the Subeom-
mittee on Naval Academy and Marine
| Corps of the House Committee on
| Naval Affairs, the committee has
found that E'the President order
| concerning withdrawal of marines from
ships merely specifies additional du-
ties for them on shore and "that
the present organic law concerning
| their employment is not changed.
| cit is of the utmost Importance, -
| SAYS the committee, "that the Ma
rine Corps remain absolutely under the
control of the Navy Department, and
| all war plans thus far laid down pro-
| vide for the close cooperation of the
/ Marine Corps with the Navy afoat and
| ashore''
! ssThere has been much misappre-
hension as to the President s order, -
| said a member of the committee to-
| day GAS matter of fact, the order
/ was prepared by the cOmmandant of
/ the Marine Corps and, at his request,
| signed by the President. 1t does
! nothing more than define the scope of
INC NhhiIHS wi 20 NutiSo o4l NAiNA
General Staff Scents Trouble.
The New York Herald, in comment
ing on the fertilization problem, refers
to the report from the General staff
in regard to Pacific Coast ports, and
brings in Pearl Harbor as well. The
Herald says:
Another phase of the question was
added today by a statement made III
an official report to Congress from the
General Staff of the Army urging the
immediate fertilization of San Pedro
harbor, in Southern California.
The report lays special stress upon
the ease with which, under existing
conditions, an enemy could occupy the
harbor and use it as a base for oper-
atoms against the rest of the Pacific
Coast and the Panama Canal.
Japan is not named in the report