The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-03-11


regard to the housing, or rather the
tcnting, of the regiment of the FIRST
4. 5. Infantry.
As the official schedule now stands
the first Infantry are to embark OIL
the U. S. A. transport leaving San
Francisco on the 5th of May next.
The ship will go from the California
seaport up to Seattle, WASH where
the troops will be assembled ready
for the journey to their new station.
This regiment is serving now at Van
couver Barracks, Wash.
On their arrival here this company
of almost nine hundred men-and
there are always women and children,
families of the army officers and men
of the regiment-are going to be
placed under the canvas at the Leile-
hua reservation. A whole regimental
post is to be built of tents, where this
large aggregation of people are to
live and have their being.
Tenting for brief season at the
right time of the year for Hawaii is
all right for men and women, too,
when the season is pleasant and the
time not too long.
But to place an enire regiment on
a government reservation far removed
from the busy haunts of men by a
distance of twenty odd miles for an
indefinite period of years seems rath-
er strenuous hospitality. Taking the
cold nights of the high elevation Of
the Leilehua reservation, the red dirt
and possibly the rain which will come
in due season, and out of season as
often happens, the prospect for the
expected arrivals is not altogether
cheering.
The frame one-story houses which
now compose the three separate regi-
mental environments of Schofield Bar
racks are all crowded with the mem
bers of the Fifth Cavalry, First Field
Artillery and two battalions of the
Second Infantry, with the headquar,
ters, staff, band and machine gun
platoon of each, First Field Artillery
excepted, and the medical corps, too
So the First Infantry have been as
signed site on the reservation OF
Leilehua, near the Second OInfantry
post, Just nearer the public road
where post of tents will be pitched
and all available conveniences Will be
installed that is possible.
Captain Frank B. Edwards, in
charge of quartermaster's construc
ton for the army in this department
at present, has tremendous PROPOSE
ton on hand, to begin and have all
in readiness for the arrival of the
large company expected.
Not only are the tents to go up
but the general outline of an army
post, with due regard to government
, regulations, has to be observed and
all planned before the first stake Of
tent is driven.
The water supply is first and very
important consideration in the build
ing of an army post. The supply or
hand. that is entirely adequate al
Il. present for the men and animals sta
toned at Schofield Barracks-will Il
:. reach the demand of another regi
= ment? Piping is to be considered
With Captain Edwards to plan an'
= work on this new tent post, all Will D'
done for the health and comfort o
the incoming troops that is possible
It The delay in the beginning OF tn
3. construction of the proposed new Cav
o airy post at Schoffieds Barracks VIII
ultimately work a hardship on tn
First Infantry regiment that Is con
ing. For the plan is that when tn
- reinforced concrete cavalry post !
COMPLETED the cavalry will turn owe
their present cantonment to the Flrs
g. Infantry wnen they take possession
y their new quarters and barracks. Tn
h. tenting post of the First Infantry WI
probably in turn be occupied by an
other Infantry regiment that will com
to these islands later on.
= The question naturally arises whe
will the new concrete cavalry post b
completed at Schofeld Barracks, S
the desired change of regimental hou
ing can take place.
Building of New Post.
The cavalry post at the Leilehu
reservation, it is proposed, will b
built along the same lines and of tn
same material as are being used
the construction of the Coast ArtilleT
g, post of Fort Ruger. Reinforced co
> crete is shot, in true army style, I'M
the temporary box casing, instead
a the old and considered slower methC
of pouring the ingredients into Il
- casing. The houses and barracks b
ing built at Fort Ruger were in Il
nature of an experiment testing Il
various building materials and the