The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-02-10

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Second Lieutenant Henry d. Post,
who had become one Of the foremost
niatary aysseeis 2 ~ t;>ssre % the
United STATS, was wolf known in Homo.
luln, having been attached TO the
TwentysEfth Infantry.
The rise OF Lieutenant Post in the
flying profession was meteorie. He was
detached from his regiment in Hawaii
last july and joined the Army Avia-
tion School Cauip at San Diego the
same month. Within seven weeks af.
Ter he Joined he successfully tried for
his United States license and obtained
IL with but one fight.
He was declared by the Army Board
on duty at the School TO be competent
to try for his military license, a far
more difficult test, the following week
lut owing to the generally damaged
condition of all the machines at the
school, tho test was deferred until the
latter part of November.
Qualities in Shortest Time. si
OF all the officers of the Army and
the Navy who have started on aviation
duty, Lieutenant Post qualified in the
shortest time and ID is claimed at the
School that but for the delay caused
by the condition Of the machines avail
able would have made record for
quickness of fitness that probably
would have stood for years
Within three weeks Of his receiving
his qualifications as a military aviator
he had beaten all previous records for
altitude for military aviaters and be.
gan series Of flights, Including night
flights under the most severe eondi-
tions that marked him at once as a
most accomplished and daring airman.
Temperamentally and physically,
Lieutenant Post measured up to the
highest demands of his venturesome
profession and his unusual qualifca-
tions have aroused the Signal Corps TO
an enthusiasm which they have not had
for any other aviator who has come
under their direction,
Was Coming to Hawaii.
From letters to friends in his regi.
ment IL is known here that the War
Department had contemplated sending
Lieutenant Post to take the command
of the Hawaiian aviation squadron, ad-
mittedly the trickiest Territory that
the Army military ayiators have 10 deal
with. The work already done here has
been negligible aud the Chief Signal
Officer believed that he had found in
this young officer a man who no condl.
tions of cross currents or air pockets
wonld prove too hazardous to conquer.
Lieutenant Post was twenty.eight
wears of age He was born in New
York City and received his college
training at Columbia University. from
which Institution he was graduated
with honors in 1907. He was president
of his class of over twelve hundred
students, pulled number seven and !
stroke on the Columbia crew during
his four years at college aud was one
of the fastest ends that Eastern foot.
ball has ever known. He was captain
Of the last football team Columbia put |
in the field. In 1907 he was Walter
camp : choice for right end on the All |
American team. Lieutenant Post had, |
while In college athletics, the unusual
distinction Of having been captain Of |
The rowing crew for two years. g |
After graduation he went TO Valpa.
raiso, Chile, in the employ of w. II.
Grace & Company Of New York and !,
'ondon and remained there two years.
While there he won the Chilean rec.
'rd in the ADdean meet for the mile