The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-09-18

through the ravine has been greatly
| improved, the large boulders removed
and the road we'll leveled.
Two temporary lamp posts have been
constructed to light the way across the
ravine. Incandescents are used and
| the wires are carried on into the camp,
each tent being lighted by electricity.
In the headquarters tent occupied by
! the adjutant are also telephones con
meeting Camp Billiard with Fort Shat
ter and with the city.
Camp Billiard is a model camp and
was laid out by Lieutenant Pardee,
Twentieth Infantry, who is also in
charge of Company +, designated as the
model company while the school of in
struction is under way. As model com
pany it viii be used to illustrate vari-
Gus orders. problems, etc. The camp is
a model of military sanitary science,
and this is a feature which will be
studied by the guardsmen for sanitation
is regarded as more important than
| working out plan of campaign. The
camp is not a field camp. but a school
camp. The site will probably be used
when Fort Shafter is expanded into
regimental post. It is an admirable
/; location. and in future, when the post
is extended will probably be connected
with the present post by bridge across
the ravine
One OF Colonel Billiard s anxioms of
advice to the citizen officers is to re-
frain from thinking of how many things
an officer should carry with him into
the field. and glance into the interior
of Colonel Bullard S tent shows that
he is setting an example of how little
a man need have about him in the field
His tent is furnished with cot,
wooden case for clothes and odds and
ends, a clothes line string between the
tent poles, on which a towel and an
extra coat hang, a piece of canvas for
the ground, and-that' s all 1t is sim
plicitv itself. The adjutant 5 tent con
tains a desk. military field chest. the
door of which forms a table or writing
desk, q couple of folding chairs, some
maps. ara very little else. Colonel Bul-
lard, IA one of his addresses to national
guard officers. states that the Romans
conquered far and wide. and they ear
ried very little, for they called baggage
! impedimenta. Better results, he argues,
are obtained in the field by having the
men ready for action, rather than for
tagging.
Maps. will form 2 large and interest
ing part Of Colonel Bullard s instruc-
ton. 1t is the modern military theory
that battles are fought on maps first
and afterwards on the field In the old
war days when the weapons did not
carry their messages of destruction very
far, the fields to be fought over were
accommodated and the maps afterward
consulted and the plans laid for attack
or defense. The modern weapons carry
missiles so far that armies are not
within the same distance Of each other.
in theory, and accommodating is not so
easy. Maps are used and the problems
worked out in advance and the troops
( are deployed according to the results Of
j computation on the maps. Colonel Bull
/ lard intends using the maps of the army
| engineers in theoretically fighting the
Battle of Kaneohe Bay. the Battle of
! Waiama Landing and so on.
Colonel Billiard s first duty yesterday
after inspecting the camp was to N
spect Company E, at which time he ex-
! pressed his appreciation of what had
| already been done to put the camp IN
shape. At eleven clock the twenty
four officers of the national guard made
their appearance, each wearing a khaki
uniform. His side arms were brought
into camp. and each one also brought
the full equipment of an enlisted man
rifle, haversack, canteen, suspeniers
for belt. for careful instruction N the
use of all these items ri equipment will
be given. Lieutenant Pardee IS TO give
instruction in the use OF the rifle. Lieu
tenant Watkins Of the Corps Of Eng
neers, IS adjutant, and will give in
struction in making and reading maps
Lieutenant Rogers. Twentieth Infantry
will give instruction in commslsarje>
and practical work,
At noon the officers messed in til,
dining hall Of one Of the post com
panies Some clothing was drawn from
the post Quartermaster. and the officers
: returned to the camp Ia shake down il
: their conical tents. four officers bein.
! assigned TO each. The headquarter
tent occupies the central part Of the
| camp and Colonel Bullard : is furthe1
t down the slope. Il IS an ideal camp
; in every way.
. The national guard officers evinced Z
desire TO get busy at once. and 10 de
] vote today for Instruction stead OF
lying off. Colonel Bullard thereupoI
changed the order of instruction. com
'meneing his lectures at four clccl