The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-03

II.
Captain Duncan Elliot, Eighth Cav. !
airy, who has been serving with his !
regiment in the Philippines division, !
is among the arrivals today on the |
U. S. A. T. Thomas.
Captain Elliot comes here from
Manila, P. l.
Personal Notes.
Lieutenant Harry b. McAfee, med !
zeal department, U. S. Army, who is
under orders to leave San Francisco
on the U. S. A. transport on Monday,
comes to this department for tour
of duty
Lieutenant McAfee will relieve DR..
Ernest Kinloch tombstone, as attend
ing physician and surgeon at the base
hospital, at Fort Shafter. DR.. John
stone will have completed his detail
of duty in this department and will go
to the Coast on the March transport
for new assignment of work in the
mainland.
During the two years of their resi-
dence at the Kahauiki reservation DR..
and Mrs. tombstone have made legions
of friends and have contributed great
! ly, not only to the military society of
the island, but in the practice of the
doctors profession DR.. tombstone is
not only a success but is constantly
! hoi ut fu1 n n
of kindness and charity. Both will be
sadly missed in local circles as well
as at the army post Miss Marjory
Allen will accompany her aunt and
uncle to San Francisco. She also will
leave many friends in Honolulu.
Raiser of the Maine.
MAJOR Harley B. Ferguson, who is
raising" the Maine from its untimely
resting place in Havana harbor, Cuba,
is we'll known and has many friends
in this city.
Major Ferguson or Captain Fergu'
son as he was then was a member of
Major General Thomas II. Barry's Of
fetal staff when that officer was in
command of what use to be the de-
partment of the Pacific. Hawaii be
ing part of this department and un
der the ranking army officers station
. ed at San Francisco. This old regime
of rule, military, was changed on July
the first, the beginning of this present
= fiscal year. At that date these is
lands became a separate and indie
, pendent army department with its owl
commanding general and staff know
as the department of Hawaii.
} Two are three times a year Majol
t Ferguson would visit here, officially
, from the coast 1t was during his las
p. visit to Honolulu with Major Genera
. Barry in 1910, that the major visited
the breakwater at Hilo; and made ex
. tended and minute inspection of thu
. fort here and its submarine defensei
E. or the possibilities for such. His sug
. gestions and the result of his clos
: and expert Investigations with REGARD
T. to future needs and work here wer,
. carefully received by Major f. Eve
r leth Winslow, corps of engineers, Wit
. at that time had charge of the pionee
e army engineering work along tn
ocean front.
Z Shortly after leaving Honolulu Ma
T. jor Ferguson was called for duty be
\ ing highly recommended, as a mem
Der of the board consisting of Colone
William NJ Black and Colonel Masol
NJ. Patrick, both of the corps of en-
,, gineer, u. S. Army, to undertake tn
gigantic task of raising the Maine.
was Major Fergusons plan of work
his own thought and figures, that wer
adopted as the mode of accomplishing
e the desired end by the members o
I the Maine board When some insiste
that the present plan was madness Eel
guson was obdurate and willing I
u stake his reputation, his position an
{ his future on the success of the 81
called experiment Eminent engineer
shook their heads and predicted dii
J. aster only Fergusons mastery oil
i ,stinacy won out Today he modestl
gives the credit to others for the MAJ
: nificent success of the work Shout
the trial have been a failure he woul
T. have stood for it, But army and nav
t men know where the credit belong
l. and they, with the people of the couu