The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-08-21
NATIONAL GUARD
REGIMENT NEARING
ITS WAR STRENGTH
Already Has Considerably More
Than a Thousand Men and Ex-
poets To Have Two Thousand
TWO NEW COMPANIES
ORGANIZED YESTERDAY
Plantation Managers Offer En-
thusiastic Cooperation and
Give Housing Facilities

With total new strength of two hun
dred and fifty men, representing en-
istments in two new companies and in
old companies, the first regiment of the
national guard had red letter day
yesterday. The regimental strength
has passed considerably over a thou
sand men, with every prospect ahead
of reaching its war strength of two
thousand within two weeks.
The organization of two new com
panies, one ut Eva and the other al
Waialua, was commenced yesterday
the necessary strength was enrolled
and the officers will be appointed and
the organization completed today.
General johnson Of the guard, an}
Captain l., G. Crawford L. S. A.
senior instruetor.inspeetor, kept gen
eral supervision over the formation OF
both companies. That at Waialua wa,
superintendent by Lieut.. T. c. Boylan
adjutant, third battalion, first regi
ment, with Doctors A. X. Hanchett
u. b. Cooper and II. Wood, the first
named of the national guard medica
corps, in charge of the physical exam
nation Of the recruits. One hundret
men were passed for enlistment, all o
them, the surgeons reporting, being OF
exceptionally fine physique.
The Waialua company will be &
mixed company, including Hawaiians
Portuguese, Filipinos and japanese, ter
of the latter enlisting.
In Eva the enlistments were under
the superintendent of Major vii
Wayne of the adjutant- general de
partment, and Captain F. ID. Dougher
ty, regimental adjutant, first regiment
One hundred and twenty four mel
were accepted, others being rejected
for physical deficiencies. The great
majority of the recruits in this com
pany are Filipinos but all can read
write and speak English.
Maj l.. l.. Patterson, VI. C., N. G
H., and DIR. G. l.. Mclean conducted
the physical examinations at Eva.
\ Manager Renton of Eva and Man
ager Goodale of Waialua offered theil
most enthusiastic cooperation in the
work. Both men are placing at thu
disposal of the guard authorities al
the necessary space and housing facil
tiles, including locker room and armOry
space. Their active interest, the guart
officials state, has made the companie,
possible and will undoubtedly MAKE
them efficient.
The officers of the Eva Company will
be Captain J. Lewis RentOn, and Lieu
tenant Frank Neumann. At Waialui
the officers will be Captain William A
Kinney and Lieutenants Lewis W. How
ard and R. Elliott.
A sergeant instructor from the regu
lar army will be attached to each o
the outside companies until they hav
been put into military shape.
50 At Aiea Company l., Captain Char
les N. Arnold, drilled all morning, Ser
geant Bruce Sheldon, Second Infantry
sergea Mt instructor of the nationa
guard, acting as instructor, with Cap
tain Arnold, and Lieutenants Witte an
De la Nux
Japanese Company Growing
In Honolulu Company d, now Japa
nese, drilled for three hours in tn
morning under Captain Allen and Lieu
tenants Midkiff and Mae Kaye. Seven
ty-four out of the seventy.fve enrolle,
reported and twenty one new men en-
ihbEu. nc 'Oihpdlg Will ItdVh WI
strength by Thursday night. The ma
chine gun company Captain Judd an
I.ieutenants White, Clark and Rycroft
also drilled yesterday morning, havin
been recently augmented by transfer
from the now vacated coast artiller
companies and by the old personnel o
Company d. More than ninety me
turned out. .
Under Colonel Riley of the first reg
ment, the following officers went t
the PunchbOwl ranges yesterday 70
pistol practise, the first of the year
Major johnson, Captains Johnson, ReeS
es, Lowrey, O'Sullivan, Ware an
Amona, and Lieutenants Bigelow, Wes'
colt, Haehnlen, Kauhane, Sing, Benny
Gimbel, Ho, MeCullum, and White,
Practically every officer of the reg
ment was on duty yesterday.