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 SCHoFIELD BARRACKS
Generals Up to Ears in Work
Closing Dowsett Ranch
Land Matter.
crrom Thursaay,a Aavertlser1


Schofield Barracks, the cavalry post
at Leilehua, is to receive a 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 will be-
come brigade post which will change
its status to some extent. The entire
Fifth Cavalry is now stationed there,
and this month or next battery of
the First Field Artillery will be as
signed to duty at the same post, max
ing 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-
tion as to what regiment will come to
the Islands. 1t is certain, however,,
that the war department will not desig- !
cate the 25th regiment, which is com
posed of colored men, for this station.
Looking Over Dowsett Leases.
Generals Bliss and Alesaire, the lat
ter the quartermaster-genrr of the
Army, Colonel Schuyler and Captain
Falls, constructing quartermaster, re-
turned from Schofeld Barracks yester-
day on the one thirty tram, and i'm
mediately held conference ut the Ha-
waian 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. TheI
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
sand acres of the land. When the warl
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 portion of its pasture
lands and convert the same into site
for the cavalry cantonment. The quar-
tiers and stables were erected in fewl
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 it's work unhampered by leaseholdI
property lines
Many More Troops to Come.
In addition to the infantry regiment
more troops may be ordered here I'M
the spring, including at least two more
companies of coast artillery, probably
two more batteries of field artillery,
and section of the signal corps. Those
ordered to Leilehua will be housed inl
temporary environments.
Colonel Schuyler, as 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 likeli-
hood the war department will build
additional permanent quarters to fill
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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
stan, In charge Of the cavalry section.
Colonel Maeomb will be promoted short
Iy 20 a brigadlergen and In
January will arrive here as commander
of the new army district Of Hawaii. |
Meanwhile Colonel Schuyler wNl con
tinue 20 maintain his headquarters az
aehofeld Barracks, and when General
Macomb arrives he will have O free
hand 10 select bic own headquarters IN
this city There i no likelihood that
the army win build ~ own headquar'
ieu Tor some time aud will haye ~ be
content with rented ohieoH,
Visited Both sites.
After coming Ashore from ihe hop
Rola pH Tuesday Generals iilia pnd
hlfshife accompanied Colonel Schuyler
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