Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-08-15
Fort Shafer Notes

Especial Star Bulletin Correspondence
FORT SHAFTER, Aug. 15.-First
Lieut.. Harry w. Mcclellan, medical
corps, has been assigned to duty at
Fort Shafter as assistant to the pest
srugeon and reported yesterday under
his orders to the post commander He
has chosen a set Of quarters in the
bachelors mess building and has al
ready taken up his residence at the
post and entered upon his duties. DIR.
Mcclellan comes to Fort Shafter from
Vancouver Barracks where he had
been stationed for a brief time and
prior to that tour of duty was for an
extended time en- duty with troops on
the Mexican border. He arrived in
the islands by the transport Thomas.
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Captain j. McT. Cullison, commits
sary of the I'd Infantry, will. it is
stated, be assigned to the duty Of
officer in charge CT the school for
cooks and bakers shortly tn be put
into operation at this post This duty
for Captain Cullison will be in add
ton to his regularly assigned duties
as regimental stan officer and COM
mand:ng the headquarters company.
No announcements as to the date when
the work Of this school Will be COM
menced has been made by department
Headquarters but the necessary in
structions as to preparing estimates
for materials and equipment for the
institution have been received by the
post commander for transmission to
the officer selected to conduct the
school and the preliminary requisi-
tons will be forwarded at an early
date. An additional barrack will be
necessary to accommodate the class
Of enlisted men t.. be detailed for this
important instruction as no accom-
modaticns are available with the pres.
ent barrack facilities for the school
Over so men VIII be in the cooks
class alone and there will be required
additional accommodation for the per-
manent detail OF instructors and adj
The class of bakers
will probably not exceed three men
from each Of the regiments on the
island with q few additional men from
the Coast Artillery posts. Altogether
the. total addition to Fort Skaters
garrison will about equal tho strength
Of company. The acquisitions for
material and eauipment will include
of the latest type In bak-
erv devices and the mixers to be In
stalled viii ell be ooerated by electri.
city. In addition to the permanent
bakery equipment and instruction with
that class OF work, the class will BIZ
carried through a complete course in
installation and operstion Of the lat.
est models of field bakeries.
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Company /, Sd Battalion of Engineers
expect to finish the course in individual
firing on the target range by Monday
next and will be followed on the range
by the recruiting detachment Of the
LIST battalion of the I'd Infantry. This
detachment will FIRE only the pre-
scribed course for the supplementary
season and viii occupy the range for
only about four days. In the engineer
company Lieutenant Cleveland C. Gee
Is the only member who has. SO far
qualified with expert fifeman's score,
although other members of the COM
pany are well within striking distance
of that qualification and number will
undoubtedly succeed In common with
the companies of the I'd Infantry.
Captain Hannum;s men have been
somewhat handicapped with an all
too brief period of time available for
instruction and the results
have been disastrous to the new men
Of the command.
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Major Lenihan's battalion of the
regiment reports thst an unusually
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