Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-05-22
ANOTHER CAVALRY regiment MAY
CONE TO HAWAII FOR station
Positive Statement is Made That the Eighth Brigade of nan-
try is Under Orders to Sail for the Sands-Loca Off
Disbeeve Rumor of Horse Troops Being Sent Here

That another regiment of cavalry
may be ordered TO Hawaii, in order
that the local garrison might be ma.
terially increased without delay, is a
fumor printed In the San Francisco
Chronicle of May 16, in connection
with the positive statement that the
eighth brigade of infantry was under
orders to proceed to the Islands for
station. Local army officers, how
ever, place little credence in the
cavalry end of the rumor, as the
plan OF the general staff for the per-
manent garrison off Oahu never con-
templated more than one regiment of
horse for this station.
The Chronicle says:
with the departure of the Sixth
the Sixteenth regiments of Infantry
the Preside of San Francisco, and
the Presidio of Monterey will be de-
serted, with The exception of cavalry
commands. There is one troop of the
First Cavalry at the local Preside
and four troops of the same regiment
at Monterey. The report went out
last night that even the First Cavalry
might be ordered to the Hawaiian
islands,"
While a regiment or Infantry can
be. put under canvas in this climate
for an indefinite period, provided the
government Is willing to foot the
bills for the big depreciation in the
tentage, 1t is quite another matter to
put a cavalry command in camp, as
stabling facilities have to be taken
into consideration. However, to over
come this difficulty, should the rumor
that the First Cavalry is to come here
prove well founded, there are the
nearly-completed stables at the new
cavalry post at Castner, which could
be finished In snort order and made
ready for the mounts of full twelve
troops. There is also plenty of wa
ter near Castner so this objection
would not hold as at the present cav
airy cantonment at Schofield Barracks
where, al certain times OF the year, It
is necessary to take the horses three
miles to water. At Castner; with the
horses well housed and with plenty
of water for them, the troops could
60 under canvas, and the officers
could, at q pinch, occupy the infantry
quarters now nearly completed.
On the same day that news Of the
proposed movement Of the Eighth Bri
gade reached San Francisco. the war
department made. public orders thai
three field officers and two companies
of coast artillery would sail from San
Francisco for Honolulu about May "a
this latter information being published
in the Star-Bulletin Saturday last
These orders, 1t was explained IN
Washington, were in conformity witf
the program for the creation of per
manent and sufficient garrison in Hs
wall, outlined in the last annual re
port of the secretary Of war and mere
~ carried out plans of long standing
They relieved Colonel William c. Raj
ferty, coast artillery corps. of the com
nand OF the coast defenses OF the Fo
tomac, and of the post of Fort Wash
ington, to sail for Honolulu with the.
One Hundred and Nineteenth and the
One Hundred and Forty-third compa
nies of coast artillery; assigned Capt
George L. Hicks Jr. to accompany
Colonel Rafferty, as member of his |
STAFF. and directed Major Frank w
Coe, now personnel officer of the Nortf |
Atlantic Coast Artillery district, to sal |
On the same steamer.
No Word Here.
Major E. J. Timberlake. command