The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-07-30
Shafter and Cashier Exchanges
With $50 instruments
Almost Ready
JOB WHOLLY HANDLED s
By 'SlcNAL CORPS MEN
Twenty Thousand Feet Of Heavy
Gable Connected With
Boards IT,

The new post telephone system at
Cashier and Scho6eld Barracks Is now
practically completed with more than
$50 telephones instal!ed between Scho-
field and Cashier garrisons. This is
the largest telephone system In the
United States army. All Of the work
on the systems. was done by the mem
bers of Telephone and Telegraph de-
tachment, Company M, Signal Corps,
stationed at Fort Shafter. &.. .
The work at Cashier was started on
August 1914. The work at Scho-
field proper was started February 7,
1915 and at this date Is practically
finished. For the first time In the his
tory of the big post, there is an up.
to-date telephone system installed
there. At present every officer s quar-
tiers, every Office, stable, corral, etc,
has telephone service as well as serV-
ice with the Honolulu automatic ex-
change. .s#s s.
Numerous improvements Made
in all, more than $50 poles were
set, more than 10000 feet Of heavy
cable connected, and vast amount Of
open wire lines installed, with two
standard switchboards Of 200 drops at
Schofeld and $50 drops at Cashier.
The telephone and telegraph detach
meht, Company M Signal Corps, ar
rived in the Hawaiian Department on
August 10, 1918. Since arrival the
detachment has installed seventy foot
ooie on top of Diamond head, for con-
fidential purposes. The pole was
pulled up the steep slopes of the fam
GUS crater, more than 700 feet, ~
hand. ~
Other noteworthy Jobs done bv this
outfit are. standard fire control in
Stallation at Fort Kamehameha, cen
al energy telephone system at F '~t'
Kamehameha and Shafter, local bat
terry telephone system at Cashier and
Schoiield Barracks, besides numerous
'ets on the big guns in the Coast A.
tillerv district. A military telegram
line has been installed and is now In
operation with stations at al of the
army posts, with central Office at
army headquarters. This line is OPP
Grated and maintained bv members of
the same detachment. All Of the tele-
phone systems, except those at the
Coast Artillery posts, are maintained
by members of this detachment. An
inter telephone system
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Il TO DE Instaiieu a. INC 80 10 noar
hospital, Fort SnaiUer' III 'no "-
future ~ -. n,hh.
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AN OF the work mas S oeen Gone ~"usr u"" g
the directions Oh naP., " esscc-
Glnps' tne Gepar rh en-, oI"" o.r;oai
assisted by henry Naln"ei' 80 TLo
assasfaht' signai serVlrs az a. .IoLono
detachment Is composed OF d 'e's'r CIV
construction party; compose Vi Cra.s
geant owen e. Lyn@n; IoA
Prirates, kainh M; nakeis; 'o" u,E
Davies. Herman hlhen' A'W Wv ~.
bard, Jerome r. Lane, "eorpn "" e
US, Joseph H. Mph"e"; hooer y
MARSHALL: Prlvates, J"hn n'oWI' II. D.
Maksoodiar, Joseph H. hl"par"; q
ard N. Lawrence and COOK Leland o.
Brown.
The TELEGRAPH detaehn"nt CIV"
posed OF the lolIo"a"s Is III, n
perts: First Glass sergeant 'o"n ="
Johnson, chief operator win S'T,""'
Mt department headguarte,S' r's.
Glass Private Bert6eld a; MoT,'H' ~
Honolulu office; FIRST lass Ir'N, '
Elige ]. Kirk, ~ Fort hueer; vi