The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-11-04
General Bliss Brings News of a
Big Addition to Troops for
This Island.
GO TO SCHOFIELB BARRACKS
Generals Up to Ears in Work
Closing DoWsett Ranch
Land Matter.
cFrom Thursday'a Advertiser

Schofield Barracks, the cavalry post
at Leilehua, is to receive full regi-
ment of infantry in January or Feb
ruary The troops will be ordered from
the mainland for duty on this Island.
No orders have been received yet to
erect temporary quarters and barracks
for the officers and enlisted men of
the coming regiment, but, as these can
be put up in thirty days or less; in
structions may not reach the command
ing officer of the district until next
month.
With the arrival of the new regi-
ment the original cavalry camp viii be-
come a brigade post which will change
its status to some extent. The entire
Fifth Cavalry is now stationed there,
and this month or next a battery of
the First Field Artillery will be as
signed to duty at the same post, max
ing a total of about 1900 men to be
modified in the one cantonment.
This information came with General
Tasker n. Bliss, commanding the de-
partment of California, who arrived on
the Mongolia on Tuesday, and was con-
firmed yesterday by Colonel Schuyler,
temporary commander of the district
of Hawaii.
Colonel Schuyler has had 40 informa-
ton as to what regiment will come to
the Islands. 1t is certain, however,
that the war department will not desig-
rate the 25th regiment, which is com
posed of colored men, for this station.
Looking over Dowsett Leases.
Generals Bliss and Aleslire, the lat
ter the uuartermaster-g general of the
Army, Colonel Schuyler and Captain
Falls, constructing quartermaster, re-
turned from Sehofeld Barracks yestcr-
day on the one-thirty tram, and i'm
mediately held conference ut the Ha.
waiian Trust Company's Offices with
the Dowsett Ranch representatives.,
relative to three thousand acres of land
which the government requires for its
extensive army expansion work. The
Dowsett company has long lease on
most of the Leilehua plain, and nego-
tiations have been under way for some
time to acquire at least three thou
bduu. ACRES Va lnS ldhtA' " hSh bhC w a.
department determined upon placing
the Fifth Cavalry on the Leilehua res
ervation a friendly agreement was en-
tered into with the Dowsett company
to take over a portion of its pasture
lands and convert the same into site
for the cavalry cantonment. The quar-
tiers and stables were erected in a few
weeks after instructions were received
here.
While Generals Bliss and Aleshire are
here it is probable that all negotiations
which have been under way to ac-
quire this property will be settled and
the war department will be free to carry
on its work unhampered by leasehold
property lines
Many More Troops to Come.
In addition to the infantry regiment
more troops may be ordered here in
the spring, including at least two more
companies of coast artillery, probably
two more batteries of field artillery,
and a section of the signal corps. Those
ordered to Leilehua will be housed in
temporary environments.
Colonel Schuyler, as a member of the
local army board, has recommended that
additions be made to the local garrisons,
and the field artillery and regiment of
infantry are part of the additions de-
termined upon by the war department.
The same board recommended that addi-
lions be made to the force at Fort
Shafter, now only battalion post, with
permanent buildings to house the
troops. AS far as the colonel knows at
present, no additions will be sent to
Shafter for some time In all li1eli-
hood the war department will build
additional permanent quarters to fill
the post out to regiment size beforo
ordering two more battalions there for
duty. AS the tour of duty of the Tween.
tieth Infantry in the Philippines will
be finished next summer and the regi
ment ordered home, probably no changes
at Shafter will be made until the new
regiment exchanges with the Twentieth
One battalion of the Twentieth is at
Shafter. The Fifteenth Infantry is
scheduled to exchange with the TWEEN
tieth.
Macomb VIII Select Quarters.
Colonel Schuyler plans to leave Homo.
lulu for Washington in December. He
goes East for duty with the general
staff, in charge of the cavalry section.
Colonel Maeomb will be promoted short
ly to a brigadier.generalship. and in
January win arrive here as commander
of the new army district Of Hawaii.
Meanwhile Colonel Schuyler wAl con-
tinue to maintain his headquarters at
Schofeld Barracks, and when General
Macomb arrives he will have a free
hand to select his own headquarters In
this city. There Is no likelihood that
the army will build lis own headquar'
tiers for some time, and viii have 20 be
content with rented Offices
Visited Both Sites.
After coming ashore from the Mon
goiia on Tuesday, Generals Bliss ana
AleshiTe accompanied Colonel Schuyler,