Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-17
Second INF ANIRY
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Especial star-Bnlleun Correspondence

Especial Star Bulletin Correspondence
FORT SKATER. H. T., April II.
The first battalion, End Infantry,
las finished its firing for record
marksman's. course, and while the
shooting was, in the main, excellent,
still the total number of men quail
tying as marksmen is small. Private
Ernest e.. Stroup of A company with
a. total df 376, out of a possible 500,
was high man in the battalion, with
/ Private Robert H. Berklite, company
b, with 355, as second. The men
qualifying are as follows: ..-
/ Company A: Lieut.. l.. Med. Sill
yester, Corporal Richard Galloway,
Prixates Otto D Adams, James P.
Miller, Albert d. Noolon and Ernest
u. Stroup. s~ 49, -
/ Company b: Sergt. Clarence G.
Wagner, Corporal Harry w. Bosworth,
PriVates Arthur c. Bell, Robert II,
Barklite, Chester l.. Hurlburt, Albert
]. Lerwitz. John Purcell. Alvin Smith,
and James Wooten.
| Company G.: Captain Walter H.
! Johnson, Corporal Franklin o. Wore,
/ Priyates Jobeg Meredith, Harvey S.
j DriscoIl and Tevel Gayster.
Company d. Sergt William Timm,
Privates William II. Boyer, Roy Bry-
son, John e. Burns, James Eslinger,
Paul A. Harbula; George Brumm,
James L., Mojars, Harold H. Ross,
Peter Rasmussen, George H. Robin
son, Lyman ]. Lahier, Barney Sheri-
dan and David Weisberg.
These men, with the addition of
the men who qualified as marksmen
last season, but failed in the sharp
shooters course. moved over on the
eight hundred yard range to take up
the advanced course, and the regi-
mental detachment began its firing
at the. marksman's ranges.
! Private Arthur G. Bell, B company,
by qualifying in this, his first year of
a seven-year enlistment period, will
receive two dollars a month for his
whole enlistment and in addition for
the first year of subsequent period
! if he elects to re-enlist. Bell is the
only man who will receive increased
pay for SO long time as all others
are in the three-year enlistment
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prove successful in the sharpshooter
and expert rifleman courses he will
add still other sums to his pay; ex-
pert bringing five dollars month
which would make a neat total of
more than $3.50.
Post Personals
Lieutenant and Mrs Laurance o..
Mathews, who returned from the
Coast by the last transport from a
three months leave of absence, have
begun to make habitable their tent
house. Lieutenant Mathews spent
the greater portion of his leave with
relatives at San Luis Obispo in Cali
fornia. They motored up from there
10 San Francisco and brought their
car on to Honolulu.
Captain d. w. Chamberlin, who
also returned from leave by the same
transport, has taken quarters in the
building occupied by Captain Nc
Cleaye. Captain Chamberlin visited
Detroit, Washington and San Diego
during his stay in the states.
Lieutenant and Mrs. Franklin P.
Jackson, after honeymoonfng in San
Francisco and vicinity, left for New
York on the Sd of April The, Jack
sons will, it is expected, return to-
Hawaii on the May transport.
Exploration Delayed ...:@. =
The continued rains in the noun
tains of this vicinity have caused the
postponement of the exploring tour
of the second battalion until July.
The mountains are almost impossible
at any season but with heavy rains
falling daily they would prove too
difficult to carry on exploration with
any profit. The second battalion has
been assigned the territory east of the
Nuuanu Pail and the first battalion
that Immediately to the west of the
seconds section while the. third bat
talon will work up the Moanalua sec
ton of the Koolau range and west
ward connecting up with the Scho-
field Barracks exploring. parties.
Band Concert Friday
The program for Friday afternoons
concert by the Second Infantry Band.
Chief Musician Albert Jacobsen, is as
follows: .~
Overture-'IightCa 49,. Suppe
Serenade It'll
Humoreske .'.............. Dvorak
Selection-"The Grand Mogul'.... 4
........... Luders
Waltz-':Dreams of Childhood"
Observation-Disclosures. Waldtenfel
Finale-"The Ostende" -. Galdmann
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