The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-01-29
Army and Navy News


side of the parade ground, the band at
the right. Throughout the inspection
the band played, then marched and
eountermarched before the guard and
the trumpeters sounded off, the new
guard marching off to the merry tara
ra.ra of the bugles.
Everybody is Busy.
Everybody is busy at the new post,
and an empty guardhouse speaks vol.
umes for the virtue of hard work. There
is plenty to do in every direction Many
of the troopers are busy digging
trenches to bury the big water pipes
which criss.cross the post in every d.
rection, Others are digging deep holes
for drainage basins, others are engaged
with their routine duties at stables,
others on special details at Wahiawa
and guarding the great loads of feed
stnffs dumped off at the siding. In
fact, everybody from the Colonel down
to the least private has enough to keep
his hands full all day.
The headquarters building is like a
beehive. All the non-commisioned staff
with desks there keep typewriters and
pens going, issuing orders, ETC., much
of the work being done on typewriters
which in future will be turned out by
the camp printers.
New Commissary Building.
The commissary and quartermaster
supplies which have been lodged in
tents so far, have been moved into a
new building just completed, which
stands near the guardhouse. The store.
house will be crammed full; for loads
of stuff arrive every day by train from
Honolulu and heavily laden teams with
strings of four mules to each are to
be met with on the road all day long.
Guardhouse Finished.
The guardhouse or stockade is mere
ly an enclosure with high wooden walls
open to the sky. Tents are raised
within the enclosure and these are lust
about as comfortable as the tents of
the troopers outside. A gallery runs
all around the stockade, with two sen.
tryboXes elevated at opposite corners.
Some Changes.
Owing to change in the road plans,
a couple of the officers quarters about
the middle of the row have been taken
out and moved back, and these two
now face each other, forming new
street line. A road has been staked
out all around the parade, and woe to
him who drives,-or attempts to drive,
a vehicle across the parade. Mounted
sentries patrol each side of the parade
to prevent drivers from forgetting
Members of the engineer detachment
from the Waikiki camp, now tempo
rarily located at Leilehua, are running
road lines out from the camp toward
Wahiawa, and it is expected that, in
u short time, the work of grading will
be commenced.
Railroad Spur Staked Out.
The Oahu Railroad Company has
staled out the route of it's new spur
from the Lelehua siding to the cav
airy post. The proposed route cuts
through pineapple field and takes the
most direct route to the camp. 1t is
understood at the post that the rail-
road company will have the spur com
pleted in about a month or six weeks.
The present mode of connecting with
the railroad is irksome, and the new
route will save much time and trouble.
The Post Bakery.
In short time the post bakery will
be established and presided over by
Private Heuberger of Troop D, who is
regarded by a large number of the
troopers as an AL baker, and when
the rank and file say so, it must be
true. He will bake bread in the reg
ular regimental field oven, which is
carried when the cavalry goes out on
n long march or on a maneuvering ex-
petition. He will bake about 500
loaves of bread per day.
The incnerators have been received
for use in .disposing of garbage in a
sanitary way. Twenty-Five oil stoves
came during the week, and a man was
at the post yesterday afternoon giving
demonstration of their use. Fifty
refrigerators have been set up in vari-
Gus departments of the camp since the
post was settled. lee arrived the first
day the troopers took possession.
The commissioned staff officers
are yet unprovided with separate quar-
, tiers. Many of them are married, and
until such quarters are in readiness
, their families can not be taken to the
| camp.
+, Officers Train Horses.
: The officers take deep personal in
9 terest. in the mounts, and, of course,
. are particular about their own horses.
o Lieutenant Philip Sheridan was out
near the picket line with his own horse
yesterday afternoon, putting him
!. through his PAGES at the end of long
II nHt. liz hdo hpicNo anu
= teaching them good cavalry manners
|. Auto Line to Post.
n One of Honolulu IS auto drivers !!
n considering the establishment of al
auto line between Wahiawa railroad
t station and Leilehua, meeting al
Q trains. The business of the railroad ii
o picking up SO far as passengers arr
n concerned, but the transportation TO
II civilians between the station and pos
l. is limited. The Dougherties and pos
n mail wagons are for officers and per
10 sons attached to the post.
l. A Beautiful Location.
it "The site of this post is one of tn
most beautiful / have ever SEEM sal
an officer yesterday. "The climate
n. fine, and everybody is in good health
t. The last post we were in, in Arizona
re was located near the mountains, bu
ie the plain was stony, dusty and unir
" viting. This entire plateau is magnii
III cent, and this turf is not to be e.
re celled. We are not bothered with file