The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-07-14
MERCHANTS OF H|LO
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
VOLCANOARMYPOST
Board of Trade Gets Behind
Health Station For Regulars
and National Guard
COMMITTEE APPOINTED
TO WORK OUT DETAILS
Bishop Estate Donates Fifty
Acres For Site; $4,000. Of
$4,000 Needed, Assured
Especial, By Mutual wireiess)


HILo, July d1.7-A great regular
army and militia post Mt the Volcano of
Kilauea Is going to become fact If
hard work by the Hilo citizens back
of the idea can do the trick.
The board of trade of Hilo today
adopted without a dissenting voice, a
resolution laid before it by Lorrin A.
Thurston, proposing to establish a ma.
tional guard camp aud field vancouver
ing grounds, and a vacation and health
recruiting station for the regular army
men in garrison'.in the Territory, on
the slopes Of Hawaii s great Volcano.
The estimated cost Of the station, de-
clnred Mr.. Thurston, in an address he
made to the board of trade >ou the
project, is 10000. OF this, hRlf, or
approximately $4,000, has already
been assured, added the speaker.
The Bishop Estate had come to the
assistance of the plan by promising to
donate tract of fifty acres at the
site, selected blythe originators of the
idea, acting in conjunction with Brig
Gen. r. X. Evans, commanding the
Hawaiian Department, and Brig. Gen.
samuel l.. johnson, adiutant.general of
the Territory
Committee VIII Begin Work
Mr., Thurston s. address was enthus-
tiastically received by, the board of
trade; and heartily s endorsed, and a
committee was at once appointed to
begin theworlt of cehFassing for funds
10 complete the amount needed to make
oftthe post reality instead of hope.
In his address, Mr. Thurston pointed
out that as there is no appropriation,
either territorial or national, for such
post IL would be necessary for the
people of the Territory, If they wished
to see the station established, to con
tribute to the fund for thatffpurpose.
He said that the proposed site for the
post is smauka of the Kau road, on the
low bluff above the rock quarry. on
the MauHa= I5d8 side Of the fiat lying
west of the Volcano House, and about
a mile distant from that place.
This location, the speaker added, is
rolling plain, easily cleared and Of
sufficient proportions for the purpose
of the station. The view, he said il
wonderful, las Kilauea-iki, the Volcano
House and Mauna Loa are all visible.
III uuuTtsb, MT. ]
said frankly that he has precedent
in the Philippines for his plan. There
the government, at a cost of more than
81, 000,0u0, had established the post at
Baguio, in the hills, sixty miles from
Manila. Ia.
Hawaii Also Needs Post
That the Territory of Hawaii needs
such post as much as the Philippines
was another point he made. He de-
clared that there was much discomfort
and restlessness among the soldiers sta
TONED on Oahu, due largely to the
''deadly monotOny" of the life they
are forced to live there, and that "be-
ing human beings like the rest of us -
soldiers need change and amusement
and rest to keep them in good trim for
their work.
In speaking vi the need of the ma.
tiOnal guardsmen Of the Islands for
such Il camp Site. Mr.. ThurstOn said
that the militia has grown to such pro.
portions in the last few months that
its training has become n serious mat
ter, and some central drilling and ma.
neuvering point has become of great
importance to the future efficiency of
BhhIu
There are now in the guard he said,
machine-gun company, cavalry
troop, and seventeen companies of in
family on the Island of Hawaii alone,
numbering approximately 1000 men,
move than full regiment, and presup-
posing regimental organization that
would knit TIE men into one compact
fighting mass. -,-..
Training Is Very Essential
The training for such an 0rganiza
ton, h" went on 20 say, cannot be ade.
quRtcly accomplished unless there is u
place in which It can, from time to
time, assemble for drills and the ma.
nPmvers incident to field work.
He poiNed out that without such
training the guard must remain a
Heterogeneous mass of men, without co.
hes}on and discipline, unfit to act as a
INIT. and as clineher he added that
the law requires a two weeks training
camp every year; that so far there is
no place for il to be held.
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