The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-11-06
KAWAILOA CAMP
DISAPPEARANCE
Of PERMANENCY
Spur Track Going In and Water
\ System Being Installed
At Bio Expense i. x
REEVES SUGGESTION OF
GUARD BEING CALLED
Suggested That Regiments win
Be Brought To War Strength
Through the Draft tiI

/ TOT the enfAnpmeot OF the hawaiian
National Guard this week, including
the laying o. spun track to the main
line Of the Oahu Railroad Mt that point
and the piping a fresh water for two
miles to the camp site, al cost Of sew.
eral thousands Of dollars. leads many
to the belief that Kawhiloa is intended
as permanent tfafning camp, not
merely Temporary one for the guard.
The preparations have renewed the
idea in many. quarters that the Ma.
tional Guard, at the conclusion of its
encampment, win be held and brought
into active service, although no iufor.
nation to this effect has been made
public by the military authorities,
Draft and Call ~ sln
With the National Army drawings
completed and the examination boards
prepared to sift over all Of the 10000
men so drafted, and the announcement
from washington that the next draft
quota from all over the country is to
be called 10 the eolors early In Janu-
airy, the belief - expressed by many
who are following the trend Of Ha-
waits military affairs that the guard,
after il has been carefully gone over,
will be brought np to war strength
with Hawaii 3 draft quota, and the
regiments put into intensive training.
1t Is almost a natural conclusion that
the local military authorities win not
recommend that Hawaii',s National
Guard or the citizen draft quota be
sent TO any mainIhnd training camp
this winter, on the ground that the
majority Of the Isleud men will be up,
able to Withstand suddenly the winter
weather. The majority drafted are
those who have been born in the Islands
or came here from the Philippines, and
have never been subjected TO colder
weather than that experienced at the
Volcano, while a large number have
never been mt even so high an eleva.
ton. BY training the local militia
and. eonscripts here until spring the
menace Or the v6id 5Nonid ~ .Shsiatsa.
Gone Over Again : ;,
The guard, IN all probability, will be
sub iected 70 another wedding out proc
ess, should Washington call For It's mo,
Utilization and much more drastic Sc
lective process than that of last spring,
when a large number Of married men
we're eliminated, although some Of those
dropped then hive returned 10 the
guard. The regular army surgeons, In
all probability, will be more exacting
in their physical examination Of the
men than the militia surgeons, and the
physical standard will be raised.
Kawailoa Plans 'ta. -
Kawailoa, for the present, will have
no permanent structures, as the en-,
campment, site this week win be GOV.
cred principally by a tented city.
The camp will be located on the shor'
side of the railroad tracks with thu
brigade headquarters not far from the
railroad station. just beyond will BE-,
the regiInental headquarters. To tn,
right, facing the sea, will be the camp
Of the First Regiment, and to the lief
the Second Infantry, extending out 10
two long lines, company by company
|. Between the shore and the camp ~
rather extensive field for drill pur
poses, The bathing beach will be of
the shore at the end of the Second
Regiment line and in the direction Of
Haleiwa Hotel. The beach running
parallel TO the camp will be tabued, ow'
ing to q DANCE Gus undertow at that
point. ,.,.
A spur track will he run from the
railroad on the Waialua plantation side.
where the quartermaster g Offices and
warehouses; will be located.
There is also a considerable area Of
level ground beyond the spur track and
toward waimea which will be used for
maneuyering, and also lot Of land
available near Mokuleia, between Wal.
alua and Kawaihapai, where the entire
brigade viii maneuver.
First Troops Friday
The local regiment will not leave
Honolulu for the camp until next sun
day morning. The first units to 60 into
camp will be the section of the Second
Regiment from the Kona district Of
Hawaii, due TO arrive here on the
morning Of the ninth.
"a The iguArdtwill receive ,itSi arst int
strnction in entraining on arriving AZ
the depot. Strict discipline will be
maintained both at the depot and In
the cars in transit. Upon arrival at
the camp the troops viii be detrained
Quietly and after the roll has been
called, policing squads viii go through
each car TO clean and put II in proper
order. D.. .. , z
Only Essentials
Officers who have been figuring on
taking a lot of home comforts along
will find. II they are Of the rank below
major, that they are limited TO fifty
pounds of baggage and this must be