Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-10-11
CRITICISMS OF
CAMP CASHIER
AREEAPLAINED
Why Complaints Are Mace and
Reasons Why Post Is
Built As 1t is

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Stories from Schofeld Barracks
Ierit.cssing Camp Castner and its build.
/. ings on the ground Of excrbitant ex.
penditure for Inadequate results have
met with emphatic denials. by army
iengineers and builders, and more re-
Gently with investigations that reveal
| a state Of affairs entirely different
/ from what &cHld seem 10 be the case
from the many kicks" and com
lpiaints that undoubtedly are; emanat-
ling from the big post on the plateau.
Simmefed down to few words. the
trouble at Cashier seems to be that,
following the designs Of army officials
I'm Washington, and forced to erect
buildings that will be at sonce per
imanent and cheap, the local army men
have built a semi-concentrated type
LOT post that arranges the houses close
fly together, and that sacrifices beauty
of exterior finish to utility for all
around use. i.s.ls fzs
No one can call the Cashier offic-
lers, quarters beautiful; no one. can
even call them pretty. They are built
of concrete, rather bare Of exterior,
nor do the windows and doors add
much of comliness to the general APP
lpearance The poTches. with their
heavy concrete pillars, only add to the
general air OF unadorned ahsterity. &
Complaints have been frequent at
Cashier, since the officers and their
families moved II. Some of these
complaints are entirely logical and
most il not all of them are entirely
natural. The post does not strike the
observer as attractive, in fact it Is
Just the reverse; Just now, before the
walks and lawns are completed. and
before the plants are growing along
the streets and alleys The camp site
is still bare; everything is in the raw,
with material Just beginnin to be
cleared away But the builders have
scheme for landscape gardening
that looks as II It might redeem the
appearance Of the entire post.
An unfouHded Charge.
Coming down to the officers uqar-
tiers themselves, awhere the principal
criticisms seem to be, complaints
have been made, ana even have got
ten into the service papers Of the.
mainland, that the houses are unin-
habitable. A visit to Camp Cashier
and inspection OF q number Of the
houses shows that suchta statement
lis very far from the facts. The hous-
es are inhabitablg and are above the
grade of most houses il Honolulu oc-
cupied by people 70 any except the
we&itiifef walks 66f ne me rooms
are not large, but they are not small;
they approximate medium, and
while 1t is somewhat warmer at Cast
ner than further up toward the noun
tain, it is cooler. than in the major
ity OF Honolulu homes, and the winds
give good ventilation. The rooms,
closets, bathrooms, etc.. are as well
arranged as in other houses of APP
proximate1y the same cost. A set of
double officers quarters at Cashier
costs $4,000, and, considering the
type of house that is built at the post.
the money seems; to have stretched
farther than il generally does In ex-
penditures for government work.
OF Permanent Type.
A large part Of the cost Of these
houses has gone into making them
permanent. They are at Cashier to-
stay The walls and floors are Of
strongly reinforced concrete; the.
roofs are tiled. There is nothing OF
the fiitnsy construction usually assoc
lated with the tropics. The builders
were ordered from Washington to
make these quarters OF b durable
type, and they did it and did it we'll.
But there are drawbacks IN mat
tiers of detail. These drawbacks are
Just the kind that upset domestic ar
.rangefnents and irritate in a score OF
petty ways. And, having to contend
with these drawbacks constantly, it
is not to be wondered at that officers
wives at Cashier make some sharp
complaints. z -. j.
They point out little things that
might be remedied -or might have
been remedied--such as the absence
of misunderstanding the ineonveni.
emit arrangements OF windows =
Say "Too Crowded" ~
An inspection of the post and talk
with Cashier people reveals that the
most generally-felt, or at least the
most generally-voiced grievance, is
with the type of post itself. The,
army designers back in Washington
chose to make this post compact,
small, concentrated. The buildings
are close together, arranged IN
horseshoe shape, with the officers
quarters around each side and the
street in the center.
COMPLAINTS are made that the GUAR
tiers are too close for comfort and
for privacy. 1t is true that they are
close. but the fact is that they are
no closer than the majority of city
homes. But. in the vast expanse of
land On which Schofield Barracks is
situated the Cashier buildings, with
almost limitless ground around them,
certainly, al first sight seem rather