The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-03-11
FIRST INFANTRY MUST
Be PLACED UNDER CANVAS
New Permanent Military Post at Leilehua
Will Take Three Years to Build
Army Personal Notes.

I But for an army post that is badly
needed almost at once to house men
doing duty, this reinforced concrete |
construction takes entirely too long.
1t will be probably June before the |
houses building at Fort Ruger, OF the !
same material that is to be used at
Schofield Barracks, will be completed
sufficiently to turn over to Uncle Sam
Should this be the case It will be one
year and a quarter since the quarters
and barracks at the Diamond Head
post was started.
1t this extreme length Of time to
complete one field officer and two line
officers quarters, three non-commis-
stoned officers houses and barracks
for only two companies of Coast Artil
lery taken a year and a quarter as
criterion, it is estimated that the new
cavalry post at Schofield Barracks will
scarcely be built under two and a half
years, many say three years.
In the first place reinforced con
crete buildings are, in their very ma
ture, not to be hurried. The art is
slow at best and the distance for
hauling all necessary building material
is far from the port of entry
Five Hundred Men Needed.
Another very important considera-
ton is engaging the earnest attention
just now of the constructing Quarter
master. 1t is in the matter of having
sufficient laborers at the Leilehua res.
ervation competent to handle the job
of construction in the building of this
large new cavalry post.
Five hundred men will be needed to
construct the first substantially built
cantonment for the army at Schofield
Barracks, and where is the govern
ment to get these men, skilled and UNI
skilled laborers? The matter of prop
erly caring for these men while en-
gagged on this work will be another
problem to be solved Temporary
homes of some sort will have to be
bullJ W ohCiICl NllC ltli sc al my VI
workingmen, besides other necessary
conveniences built.
So in putting the time Of building
the new cavalry post at Schofield Bar.
. racks at over two years the estimate
; is considered very conservative by
f those who know the place, distance
and nature of the work.
], The First Infantry will occupy theil
/ tent homes until the present conton
e ment of the Fifth Cavalry have taken
possession of their reinforced con
1 crete garrison to be built, almost three
= years hence
Personal.
+ DR.. and Mrs. Ernest Kinloch John
! stone, who have made Hawaii theil
2 home over two years, have gone tC
the coast. DR.. tombstone was granted
> months leave of absence, with per
mission to apply for a second month.
t If no change is made, Dr. tombstone
d will return to this Department in May
f to complete few more months o
duty, serving at Schofield Barracks
Y Many friends are left to miss the kind
/ ly doctor, and his charming wife. Thei
n niece Miss Allen, returned to he
t home with her relatives. y
l. Lieutenant George w. Kenyon, o
t the U. S. S. West Virginia left for thu
l. coast on the last transport.
Midshipman ]. b. Dixie, Jr., of tn,
d U, S. S. California, was another travel
e ed to the coast.
If The wives of three navy officer
were accommodated in the transpor
e to San Francisco.
v Signal Corps Aviation School.
IL AGUSTA, Georgia, February g.
e Lieut. F. NJ. Kennedy, It'll infantry
n qualified for an aviation pilot licens
le according to the rules of the Interns
is tional Aeronautic Federation The frs
er landing was made with the aeroplan
st at rest fifteen feet from the mar
of previously designated; the secon
lie landing thirty-eight feet from tn
III mark The tests were made with
n Curtiss biplane, S-cylinder engine.
lie Saturday afternoon the aviatio
camp was visited by a heavy fall {
IN wet snow In order to prevent tn
'e tent hangers from tearing due to tn
so weight of the snow, the aeroplane
IS were lowered, and it is expected thu
very little damage will result. TIL
snowstorm is the second so far tn
Ia winter in Augusta. and brings fort
be many jokes concerning the Sum
ne During the week the officers mad
in South"
ry thirty-fve flights, having a total dur
n ton of FIVE hours and thirty-two mi
to utes.
OF Lieutenant Kennedy is member I
cd the old Tenth Infantry, that was st