Tombstone epitaph., 1915-06-13
by NATHERIE POPE
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 here and there in our wide domain there are groups of men wear ing United States military uniforms, going through drills. and timing their hours at the call of the bugle. As a recent writer says of the average citi- zen: He knows next to nothing about the army and doesn't take the trouble to find out anything If an army or navy officer walked up Broad way in uniform, not one in a hundred of the passers-by in Gotham would know whether he was a taxi-cab starter or head bellman." But way on in the territory of Hawaii the army is no abstraction. 1t looms large.
 On Oahu, the island on which Homo lulu is situated, more soldiers are sta tioned than are regularly located in any army post either in The States" or in the Philippines. The 5000 men there assembled are divided among six main posts; there are three regi- ments of infantry. one of cavalry. one or field artillery, eight companies of coast artillery. eight companies of en.
 
 nal corps. The names of the posts are as follows: Fort Ruger, Fort de Russy. Fort Armstrong. Fort Kameha- meha. Fort Shafter, and Schofield bar racks.
 Fort kamehameha guards the naval base at Pearl harbor, stands sentinel down by the sea Beyond and upon
  country, stands SchofeId barracks, where all arms of the service are rep resented. At an elevation of a thou sand feet above sea level, with plain spreading out from the Waianae range to the koolau mountains, there Is af- forded healthful home for the troops as well as splendid practice and re- view ground. The barracks are over twenty miles from Honolulu. but as a railway crosses Leilehua plain. the soldiers can easily get in to the mo vies' and the other delights of town. It is a splendid location from the standpoint of health. The climate is cooler than in Honolulu. the air is much more invigorating. And the oNtAcis 4S supSlD
 Fort Ruger is considered one of the most interesting Notifications in the world. Diamond Head, the jutting beadland that stands out so plainly to the eager voyager approaching Hon. olulu, is the center about which the fort clusters. Diamond Head is called an extinct crater, but since the mil ingtary" put it's seal on it. it has been reused to a new activity. Here Is To- cated a powerful mortar battery, and high on the headiand a range station has been carved out of the solid rock. The gray old height has been bored into. and one reaches the inside of the bowl now by means of tunnel. steps and ladder. Only American citi- zens. however. are given this priv. iiege
 Downward from Ruger is stationed Fort de Russy, with two big gun bat teries. Then comes Fort Armstrong, which guards the entrance to Hono- lulu harbor. This fort has a mine-con- trol station and a small gun battery Beyond, quite at the other end of town from the Diamond Head fortifi- cation, is located Fort Shafter, with an imposing array of permanent build ings and some motley temporary struc- lures. Here is the department hos pital, and here are stationed one in- fantry regiment, the engineer and sig nal troops.
 The pay roll for the troops ex- ceeds $2O0,000 a month. Add to this the sums spent on military works, and one can easily see that to Hawaii the army stands for a good deal in addition to protection. it means ready money and steady money.
 Honolulu has a population of less than 60, 900 souls, and the soldier boys. ever in uniform, i'll a proportionalIy large place in the life of this pictur- esque port. The open trolleys are filled and fringed with them, they haunt the bathing beaches, they are interested visitors and generous buy CTS at the curio shops. the kodak shops are their hunting grounds, and not few are seen chaffing and bartering with the "lei' folk, the wreath mak- CTS and flower sellers.
 One of the features of Hawaii is the lei, a wreath of flowers or greenery uor, on tbe hat or around the shoul-