The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-17
TROOPERS Of FIFTH
CAVALRY SETTLE DOWN
IN THEIR NEW POST
Military Camp Without Name Is Now Busy
Community-.-Brigade Post Is Next Step
Now to Be Made

Almost under the shadows of the
Waianae range and directly in front
of the picturesque Waianae Gap an
entire military post has been con-
structed within month, and when the
troopers of the Fifth Cavalry marched
up there from Honolulu, they found
their homes awaiting them, and all
that was required was to picket out
their horses, enter the quarters, unroll
their blankets, eat supper, and prepare
for nights rest. Seldom has gar
rison moved from one post to another
which had everything so perfectly in
readiness for its entry.
A Made Post.
On Friday the two squadrons reach
ed the new post-whieh is yet with
out a name-and troop by troop the
men were assigned to their tents,
which were arranged on perfectly
aligned streets The colonel found his
quarters open and ready for oecu-
pancy; the adjutant, sergeant major
and regimental clerks occupied COM
modious headquarters building, where
they deposited their record books and
tackled up the order of exercises for
the day; the commissary department
was assigned to a tent where scales
were ready to weigh out the rations;
the company cooks found temporary
stoves m openair mess halls, in which,
at the regular hour, they served sup
per to the tired trooners. AS soon as
the troopers had pieketed their mounts
and the officers had located their yari-
Gus quarters and office buildings, then
the routine of post life, which had been
interrupted since their departure from
Arizona, was resumed.
The post yesterday morning looked
as if the troopers had been there for
a long time. Everything was orderly,
the camp neat and free from litter,
and the men seemed accustomed to
their island life.
An Arduous Task.
And it was no wonder that post
life could go ON smoothly in spite of
the arduous task of moving two
thirds of a regiment across mountains,
seas and into an entirely new country,
for the new camp is an example OF
the methods of an energetic army ad-
ministration. Captain Cashier, U. 5.
A., who bears the title of Constructing
Quartermaster, arrived here several
weeks ago with instructions to erect
a temporary cantonment on the mill
tary reservation at Leilehua, and have
it in readiness for the Fifth Cavalry,
which would arrive on January IL or
IA. But even then the site for the
post had not been selected, and when
the army board went up there in an
automobile, they saw so many excel
lent sites that it was difficult to choose
the best one. For about ten days the
site question was unsettled. Every
day of uncertainty made Captain Cast
ner's task the greater. Finally the
post was located and Captain Cashier
fixed on his constructing camp. Hard
Nv had that been located and some OF
the materials put on the ground than
it was decided that site closer to
the mountains would be better, and so
the site and the camp were relocated.
Then the lumber shipments failed to
arrive when expected. When they did,
the material was rushed out on the
O. R. & l.. Co. line and the cars
shunted off to a siding on the town
L A0fi
strings of army mules and wagons
were brought into requisition and a
haul of about four or five miles had
to be made. The roads were not al
ways good and it was uphill teaming
Then it was difficult to get carpenters
when needed Then came rains, and
the ground became soggy and the
wheels of the wagons sank hub-deep
Wagons for only a span of mules re.
quired string of eight. Men worked
far into the night.
Cashiers Able Staff.
Then came a kona wind about
twelve nights ago which lifted roofs
and waited tents off, and the country
seemed to be inundated. That was
the hardest trial during the stay of
the constructor men. They worked
until they were wet to the skin. The
teams could haul but little freight
Everything seemed to be at a stand
still Mr.. Young. supervising engineer
under Captain Castner; Mr.. Bradford,
field man, and Dan Sullivan, who has
been with Captain Cashier for years
put their shoulders to the wheel, and,
above all. the dominating mind of Cap
tain Cashier kept every one on the
move. But it was an anxious ten days
The cavalry was en- route from San
Francisco. But the daY the Thomas