The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-17


mark this camp, where have been
housed and fed nearly three hundred
workmen in the past six weeks. In
one of the tents Engineer Young had
his headquarters. and there the engin-
GERS have worked far into the nights
planning for the work of the following
days. Other tents were devoted to
dining rooms for the heads of jobs and
for the workmen Picket lines for
mules and horses We're laid out nearby.
This camp has been kept so clean as
to cause favorable comment from off
GERS of the Fifth Cavalry, who also
wondered why there was no camp lit
ter about the new post This comment
caused Captain Cashier to smile broad
". and he communicated the praise to
the men under him.
Cosmopolitan Laborers.
''And I want to say that I have
never seen camp so orderly said
the Captain. eve have had sixteen
nationalities Of workmen employed on
this work, and there has never been a
fight, row or disorder of any kind.
Then men all worked hard and willingly,
and even when they we're rushed they
rushed without complaint. They knew
the work had to be done and they
worked to help us all out. Mr.. Young
and Mr.. Bradford handled the men so
well that there was never any com
plant. - In fact, Jack Weday, the
fighter and police officer, has had lit
tie to do in preserving the peace of the
camp.
Crisscrossing the parade ground and
post in general are numerous water
pipes. There are three miles of water
pipes over the post, water going to
each officers quarters for kitchen,
toilet and bathrooms, to the mess
halls, to the bath and shower rooms of
the trool@, and everywhere that it is
needed. The water supply comes from
gulch below Waianae Gap, where the
government has reservoir with two
big water tanks on the uplands, to
which the water is lifted by a pump.
The sewer system in the post is excel
lent, there being over three miles of
piping for this system alone.
Like Active Service.
When the O. R. & L. train arrived
at Wahiawa yesterday before noon the
station looked like the rendezvous for
a military force on active service.
Troopers with revoEvers stood on guard
about great piles of military supplies,
baggage and camp odds and ends;
their mounts were picketed nearby;
strings of mules were attached to big
numbering army wagons which were
being piled high with camp supplies.
Whips cracked, the wagon transports
started off, some with two mules, some
with four, and in a few hours the line
reached out toward the camp almost as
far as the eve could reach. The Quar-
termaster S Department had twenty
five four mule wagons in service, and
ten more came up from Honolulu yes
terday supplied by Hustace-Peck & Co.
All day long the wagons toiled over
the road between the railroad station
and the post. The way ran over roads
that were churned to a miserable mire
during the recent rains, when wagons
sank to the hubs and the drivers swore
in picturesque army style. Drivers
left the main road and cut off through
the lantana and guava bushes, and
roads now mark the plain in parallel
lines
New Military Road.
The wagon road to the post is a mat
ter of some concern to the army peo-
pie Without railroad spur the dis
lance to the station seems great, and
the best results can only be obtained
by means of a good road. This road
the army may have to build. The
county officials may be called upon to
look after the bridge crossing the
stream near Wahiawa. Continuous
heavy teaming over it is wearing out
the planks and some of the teamsters
are doubtful as to its safety if the
strain is constant. They fear the sup
ports are too frail.
Persons who are not acquainted witt
the ways of a military post hardly
realize that large-sized community
has been picked up in Arizona anc
deposited bodily at Leilehua. The camI
has population Of twenty-nine officers
and 552 enlisted men, and in addition
a lieutenant, and twenty-five enlisted
men of the engineer corps are campeo
out close by, engaged in surveying ane
other military work.
Enormous Supplies Consumed.
The amount of supplies necessary fo,
this large population. and the half thou
sand horses. is large item. For in
stance the rations Of the troopers alon'
amount to about 1900 pounds per day
and it takes 1850 pounds Of ice to sup
ply the post. For the 500 horses, usins
that as a round number, the govern
ment allows for each twelve pounds o
! grain and fourteen pounds of hay, o.
twenty-six pounds of fodder altogether
! making a total of about $4,000 pound
of fodder consumed every day by tn
inmates of the stables. That it require
| tremendous amount of reserve 70
| these animals was evidenced by tn
! great deposits of grain and hay lynn:
on the ground at the Leilehua siding.
| Order of Exercises.
Adiutant Forsyth posted the first OF
| der on Friday, as follows:
Reveille, first call .......... 5:45 a. m
Assembly .......... 6 -
Mess call ............ els -
Stable call ............ Gas -
Sick call ........... Z
Horse exercise and water call $50 -
Guard mounting, first call. !. 1870 -
Assembly ............. 11:35 -
Recall from fatigue and first