Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-01-14
SICK ESS
CAUSES
ORDER
Young Recruit Is Suddenly
Taken III as Sheridan En-
ters the Harbor
CASE rs DIAGNOSED X
AS SPINAL MENINGITIS
Discovery of Illness Means Men
Must Go Into Special Camp
at SchofieLd Barracks

Twenty-three hundred rifles ana
sabres were added to the army OF
Oahu this morning Two troop ships,
carrying five organizations destined
for service In Hawaii, tied up to the
waterfront at an early hour, and all
morning the whafves hummed with
the activities Of DEMONSTRATION. while
men fortunate enough to secure leave
thronged the streets. getting their ifirtt
sight Of the city that is to be sreir
amusement headquarters for the next
three years. All this army increase Ii
rot permanent, however, for the same
transport that brings the Fourth Cav
airy to Oahu, viii take the Fifth Cav
airy back 70 the Statec. The pernian.
emf increase In the mobile army Is
one full regiment OF infantry, ne
Twenty-fifth. colored, while the coasts
artillery is increased by three com
panies. the leth, 6sth and 18th. The
Fourth .cayslfS merely relieves sn.s
Fifth. ~, = g,.s... II =.
The shadow of III luck fen acr0ss
the Fourth Cavalry at the moment:
.fhat the regiment was about 70 tor s
Hawaiian ron. One nen was STRICKEN
with i contakious diseaIe almost rs
the Sheridan'f nose touched the Raj.
road wharf, and as the result the en-
tire detachment Of recruits. 246kin
number. together with the officers IN
charge, viii be placed in rigid quarar
tine for three weeks.
The Sheridan bad already been pass
ed by the federal quarantine officers
and preparations were being made tf
ship the gang plank, when one Of thr
recruits was seen b stsgger and kee'
over into the arms II his companions
Medical aid was rushed to him. and
The case was dieEnosed as spinal mer
iueitis. No one was permitted to leayr
or board the ship, until the health a.
tborities were notified. and In thr
meantime the recruits were segregate
forward.
10 BE Quap66tined. Z
On accn6nt OF this unfortunate Incl,
dent, u entire recruit detachment
will bd hurried to Schofield Barracks
by train this afternoon. ahead OF tho
rest OF the cavalrymen, and will be es
tablished In quarantine in one Of the
barracks vacated by the Fifth Cavalry,
.Officers and men VIII be cut off froT
The rest of the troops, and q strona
guard posted to see that no one es
capes from the lines. r. ls%
Its q piece of exceptionally haro
Iaek,- said Colonel w. d. Beach, the
Fourth's commanding officer. In speak
ing OF the complication. There was
not n single case Of measles or ,mumps
among the recruits, which rs excep
tional, and here when We are within
biscuit toss of the end OF the voyage
this unusual and unexpected disease
turns up. There Is nothing for 1t, how.
ever; but o strict quarantine, ano
everything will be. done to guard
against any possible contagion. The
recruits and the officers with them
will be sent to Schofield Barracks OF
a special train this afternoon, and they
will have to put UP with the Inconven
fences of quarantine for the required
time" s.-. ~
Record Arrival. ...
The arrival of troops including the
three arihs of the service caused the
biggest stir that has been felt in this
department since its establishment
This is by far the largest arrival OF
troops for station here, and what With
the Logan and Sheridan coming in
and the transport Sherman also in
port from Manila, with large mum
Der of officers and men, the whole
town is turned over to the army to
day.
The coming of the Twenty-fifth In
fantry is in itself an important event
as the regiment is >the first colored
organization to be designated for ser
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