The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-01-12
SHERIDAN BRINGS
TROOPS TO OAHU
Detaohments Include Dough-
boys" for Second Infantry
Recruits for Philippines.

AhFpm wednesday n AuNcftihcr.l
BY the transport sheridan which left
San Francisco ON tho 9Th and Is due
here Friday large number Of recruits
for the various posts on Oahu will
arrive, among them detachment of
new men for Fort Ruger, and lot Of
20 doughboys" for the Second Infan.
try. Whether the latter win be sent to
al in vacancies at Schofeld Barracks
or to the companies at Fort shafter
has not as yet been decided at head.
quarters.
Among the officers aboard the Sheri.
dan are Capt. Frank b. Hawkins, of the
Twenty-ninth Infantry, who camo with
five nOncommissioned officers in charge
of the recruits from Fort Slocum,
DaVid's Island, New York harbor; and
First Lieut. l.. Worthlngton Moseley,
Thirtieth Infantry, who, with another
detachment, reports for duty in the
Philippines.
Corporal George Small, of the Ninth
recruit company, Fort Logan, Colorado,
win also be aboard in charge of a
special detachment of fourteen infantry
recruits for the Second Infantry here;
while eighteen Coast Artillery recruits
| from the same post for the Philippines
and seven Coast Artillery recruits for
Honolulu will be among the other de-
tachments.
For the Philippines.
For the Philippines, on board the
Sheridan, will be the headquarters and
| Companies X end L., Third Battalion of
/ Engineers from Fort Leavenworth,
Kansas. The engineers win relieve two
other companies now stationed at Fort
Mills, Corregidor Island, Manila.
Speaking Of the engineers the Fort
Leavenworth News says;
The departure of part of the Third
Battalion of Engineers for foreign
service is an important chapter in the
history of Fort Leavenworth. The
battalion has had permanent station
here since September 81, 1901. No
| other organization of line troops has
been stationed so long at this post
in generation.
The battalion, comprising an aver
age strength Of twenty officers and 625
enlisted men, but few short Of the
strength of an infantry regiment, has
established an enviable record for clean
cut soldering and ability to perform
any duty. The battalion has been an
important factor in the instruction of
the service schools here and at tFort
Riley, by giving practical demonstra-
tions in the peculiar tasks falling to
the lot of Engineer troops in time of
war. They have established world Is
records for the construction of various
kinds of bridges, principally the float
ing type of bridge, and when called
upon to erect a steel wireless tower
at this post, there was no hesitancy
and the work was completed with
dispatch that would reflect credit on
skilled civilian labor.
"The construction of a permanent
highway bridge across the Kansas river
was another demonstration of the bat.
talon Is public utility proclivities. This
bridge, which was recently destroyed
by the Fort Riley fire fiend, now at
tracing public attention, was $50 feet
long, of the truss type and rested on
nine pairs of iron cylinders, sunk TO a
depth of thirty feet below the river
bottom, and filed with concrete. This
bridge was of inestimable value to the
government as well as many farmers
who took advantage Of the shortcut in
getting their supplies to the Junction
City and Post markets
Many redOubts of gigantic dimen.
sions, entailing the expenditure of
thousands of dollars and the labor of
hundreds of soldiers, have been con
structed for demonstration and expert
mental purposes. The department of
roads and grounds of the post was con
Quoted by the Engineers for several
years and during this interim many OF
the best stretches of granolithic walk
in the post were laid, roads macadam-
lied and trees trimmed The present
large target range is the fruit of Engi,
neer design and execution and the two
artistic Grant avenue bridges should
be given a niche in the Engineer Hall
of Achievement
"Details of officers and men have
been continually op detached duty en-.
gagged in making accurate surveys and
maps of many of the governments most
strategical maneuver grounds, am
large garrisons. The survey department
of the third battalion has a long list
of mementos of wd well done and in
this respect should be classed with the
purely professional
Headquarters and Companies X and
H. will leave the post on the both inst,
over the Missouri Pacific railway. Com
pany / will follow, Honolulu bound, in
February, and disposition of Co. NJ
has not been NJ bounced. "