The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-06-09


taken away from their legitimate du.
ties Of becoming soldiers, in order 90
care for the great parks which tho
posts really are. with this class Of
posts the war department requires n
great deal Of administration work on
the part of the commanding and other
officers. II We can eliminate all that
by placing the garrisons in town the
troops can be used more for their
legitimate work and made more Off.
cient,
Sanitary Conditions.
"If the troops come to town we
have 20 consider sanitation. Your
citizens arc now going at the senitR-
ton matter That is the only true
way things are done. 1t would be un-
wise to put troops in town unless the
sanitary conditions are such as they
would make them themselves of their
own resources This is matter that
win have to- be settled before the war
department. makes a. final decision as to
putting troops in town. If the troops
are gafrisoned in town the officers viii
NOT be with the troops. as they are at
Fort Shafter. They will have to find
their own quarters about the city and
thereby practically become citizens of
your town.
tcThat would seem to offer field
to develop certain unOceppied lands
here and put thereon quarters for Off
GERS, matter which believe would be
Il good return on the investment. The
government would have to depend on
the people here to supply houses which
they could rent for quarters. of course
the bulk of the officers expected here
will not come for some time, and the
few officers now here have been able
to find comfortable quarters.
"The army has always taken a
prominent part in the sanitary reform
in many towns. This was effective in
Manila, and the same thing took place
at Havana when it was under the MILF
/ tary rule of the United States. Tt
was cleaned up and made a better city
than ever before. Tt was the same in
Santiago and Porto Rico. Wherever
the army goes the sanitation is always
improved.
For Great Park.
| "This town is growing up fast, but
there are some parts of it which are
most unsanitary That can be cor
rected, but not without considerable ex-
pense Tt would be well to work with
the government and try to arrange for
certain area to be converted into a
great park in the center of the town.
| Down below Sheridan street there is n
large area of ground now mainly a
swamp. If you could build a seawall
you could make much more land and
this could be filed up with silt and
coral from the reef.
&c You could deepen the reef so that
only fresh sea water would dash
against the sea wall and where even
tually. sand would form clean beach.
The sewage would have to be emptied
Tout beyond the reef Such tide lands
we're in Washington, d. c., and these
were reclaimed and became the site of
the splendid War College. That could
be done here.
''Do all this, and you would have an
area for great park. In my opinion
this park should be left an open field
and surrounded by bonlevards and
planted preferably with royal palms
You would then have the most mag
nificeht vista in the world. Along the
beach site you could use eocOanut
palms, which, when they grew up, would
not obstruct the view of the sea nor OF
the mountains. The palms would form
a beautiful and regular driveway. The
park could then be used for drill pur
poses. @ ,t
/ At the Crossroads.
ssThis, town has a great future, be
cause it lies, as your promotion com
mittee states, at the crossroads of the
Pacific, and navies from all nations Of
the world will stop here. They would
do so if they knew they could TAKE
their crews ashore and drill them. The
people living here would have an op
portunity of seeing the crews of for
:, eign ships at drill, spectacle vel
worth seeing, j assure you. Englisl
: land German sailors drill well, and thu
German close order drill is exception
ally well done.
"Such, park would be place wher'
: all the people could get together an'
where they could listen to the man!
| military bands which are to come here
l Some of the army bands could be con
: solidated into a magnificent singh
: band, and the concerts would becom
as famous as those of the COnstabular.
Band at Manila.
i 1.-THE people here could submit plan
: to the war department as to their view
Z concerning the development of the mill
/ tary establishment here. The war de
t paFtment, however, does not Away
find time TO consider the plans of pee
a pie, and goes right ahead with its OWL
' This is shown at Fort Shafter, wher
officers quarters were built which woul
be more approprite in New Bingham
than in Honolulu. And it is the sam
! with some of the houses in the city
! which are probably much like thos
! which people formerly lived in in Nel
: England.
: dThefe is no reason why Honolul
I should not have its wonderful AL
= Moana road along the beach, TO b
: known the world over, the same as tn
3 Luneta is at Manila. From this driv
4 there is a beautiful view of damon
4 Head and the sea and mountains. Thi
. scheme, however, involves large el
: penditure Of money.
Civilians and Troops.
"Another subjeetinVolve the close
!. relationship of the civilians and I'll
' troops. l don't think the people tax
as much interest in the soldiers as the