The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-01-30


work demanded, it was found that a !
pile of greater length was needed.
The first number of these concrete
made piles were forty feet long. Now
sixty feet is needed.
Busy days are these at Fort Arm
strong for it means the making of tif-
ty-nine more mouds of the extended
| length when, or as these mouldsl are
completed, the concrete is poured into
them and remains for two and a half
or three days. Then the outside frame
of the future stays of this wharf, are
conveniently unfolded and used for
the shaping of another pole. The con
crete pile is allowed to rest on coming
out of the mould, for twenty-eight
days, in the sunshine and the rain
to season" it.
A torpedoboat house is being built
at Fort Armstrong just to the right of
and on the concrete wharf that is be-
ing constructed at the east end.
The frame work is almost finished.
On floor of concrete stands these
upright side beams and roof with
steel crossbeans. All is to be covered
with corrugated iron that is now re-
ceiving a coat of paint of the brightest
red. From these steel bars of the
roof, supported by similar beams of
steel at the sides, there will be two
pulleys to lift and place on the inte-
rior of this boathouse two small boats
needed at this government reserva-
ton. The boats will be pulled bodily
out of the water through the floor of
the house, where they will remain
when not actually engaged in the work
of this station, held from straps lead
ing to the lighthouses roof.
1t is anticipated that in about two
weeks more the boathouse will be al
most ready for occupancy.
Besides Battery Tiernon, at Fort
Armstrong, there is tankhouse which
will hold some high explosives, prob
ably, later on, and the reservation also
boasts of flag mast. These with the
work shops and the building under
construction makes this important
point on the sea coast busy camp.
A detachment of five men taken
from the two Coast Artillery compa-
MES, numbers 1O5 and 159, under Cor
poral Chisholm, from Fort Ruger, COM
nose a caretaking squad that lives in
the tank house temporarily and policies
the battery and work construction at
Fort Armstrong.
A Vateran Soldier.
Another member of the happy fami-
" force doing business at Fort Arm
strong is #. F. Kennedy. Mr. Kennedy
is timekeeper and office boss. He has
military record that few can equal
having served thirty years as sol
der in the u. S. Army. He is yet
, hale and hearty and can do the WORK
of two men.
Enlisting in New York as private
Mr. Kennedy received the pay allow
. cd at that time for beginner in the
r service of Uncle Sam at the rate OF
+ thirteen dollars a month-the very
bottom in pay and rank. On the 81 OF
March. 1909, having been promoted
TO each and every grade possible II
an inward march in the file, Mr.. Ken
pedy was retired on the above dat'
with the fullest and highest rank ant
nay in his corps, as a sergeant ma1oI
: Of engineers
= Having passed civil service exam
nation comfortable situation wa
located where Mr.. Kennedy can SUI
no near his first and only army corp
Iowa the engineer branch of the sci
,ice In addition to his monthly sa
orv as a classified clerk. Mr. hei
nadv will draw-until the last day
bis well.earned retired sergeant Hi
iors nay of sixty-seven dollars an
fifty cents a month
\ During the almost continuous mn
y tarv service of T. F, Kennedy IN T."
r. S. Army, he is proud OF the la'
that there was never twehty'io,
49, bours between the expiration OF an o.
ord a new re-enlistment. For the MI
- eiobteen months of duty Kennedy pas
cd at the New York engineers pos
on the Atlantic coast. Going TO u
rs philippine Islands in 1898 he saw
we're and active aervice at Culunp'
% Iazan, under General Arthur MICA
tbur II. S. Army Spending three al
half years there helped to swell u
time until the age Of service peru
could be reached The last Few yea
needed to round out the thirty yea
was enent at Fort Leavenworth, ia