Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-10-06
Schofeld Notes
Especial star-Bulletin Correspondence

SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Oct. g.
Plans for the enCampment of the
First Hawaiian Brigade on the reser-
walton, beginning on the 10th of the
month, have progressed as far as the
selection of the camp site. The bri-
gade will be assembled for the first
time since the publication OF the
war department order creating IT, for
the brigade inspection, and win spend
| the first ten days under canvas, on
that portion of the post just east Of
the Jones ranch house and parallel to
the railroad track. In selecting the
camp site the brigade commander
was necessarily limited to ground adj
iacent to the post water supply, and
the newly laid water mains which,
connect the post proper with the can
torment at Cashier, just north OF
the proposed camp ground. The size
of the command, although it is still
far shori of the authorized strength,
mikes rather large tract of ground
necessary to accommodate it, and the
three infantry regiments, stretched
out in column of company streets,
will reach very nearly to the western
limits of the Cashier post. -.~
| The drill ground to the nortl Will
amply accommodate the troops in the
various regimental battalion and COM
pany exercises, and the battle exer-
cises will be extended to cover
ground outside the reservation. Il is
understood that after two days exer-
cises with the cavalry and field artil-
lery commands attached, the brigade
will march through Honolulu, around
the southeast point of the island, and
we'll up on the windward side, and
the return to Schofeld Barracks and
Shafter be made via Haleiwa. !
Along the eastern and northern
coasts of the island are camp sites
amply spacious to meet the demands
of the brigade, and the water supply
is sufficient in quantity, and of excel
lent quality.
The End Infantry is due early on
the morning of the 10th, the brigade
commander and his staff will arrive
the same day, and the 25th and list
Infantry regiments from this garri-
son will go into camp the same date.
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The forty odd native bred horses re-
Gently purchased by the quartermast-
er corps for the 18th Cavalry and re-
Gently assigned to Troop E, command
ed by Captain Walter Short, are pro-
crossing very we'll in their course to- |
wards making good cavalry mounts.
Captain Short expresses himself as
very much pleased with his new
mounts, and considers them superior |
in every respect to the horses which |
the quartermaster corps has been |
sending from the States. The e Troop |
mounts are all green horses and have
never been ridden. They are being
carefully and slowly trained under
Captain Shorts direction, each horse
getting about two hours work each |
day. The old system for many years !
in vogue in the army and copied from |
the frontier methods, Of throwing
saddle on a horse and breaking him
by main strength, has no part in the /
modern training method. Nothing |
but the gentlest of methods is used in
teaching the mounts their first les
sors, and Captain Shorts troopers
are acquiring valuable instruction in
a new phase of their duties. Fourth
Cavalry officers who have been watch
ing the progress of the training, cX-
press themselves as confident that in
a few months E Troop will have the
choicest lot of mounts in the regiment
and one that will challenge compari
son with any other troop in the ser
vice.
The recently arrived hOTseless bat
talon of field artillery will receive its
frs lot of battery horses on the next
trip of the Dix, scheduled to arrive
the first of November. The horses
number 80, and are being shipped |
from the government remount depot
At Fort Keogh, Montana.
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The garrison loses two field officers II
oday in the departure of Lieutenant
Colonel Meneher and Major Aultman II
If the field artillery, who are going II
o Fort Sill, Oklahoma, ITO attend the n
ield artillery school Of fire. III
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