The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-10-02

ASKEDFOROAHU
ARMY BUILDING
Estimates Covering immediate
Needs Forwarded TO Washing
ton-Money Expected Soon

Ten million dollars Is the amount
stated in the estimate forwarded from
the military authorities Of the Depart
ment of Hawaii to the war department
at Washington for construction, i'm.
provements and general development
Of all the army posts in Oahu to start
Mt once, the recommendation inelud.
ling heavy work for each fertilization
and military post, necessitating the
steady employment Of small army Of
laborers numbering at least seven hun
bred men.
Colonel Scofeld, u. s. A., chief Of
the quartermaster department of the
local department, stated yesterday
that these unusually large figures rep
resented vast additions in every branch
Of the service, and much of the funds
will be obtained through the present
war measures passed by congress, while
heavy amounts will be released next
July for the continuation Of many pro-
iccts which will be started this year.
More Barracks at Cashier
Among the immediate improvements
at Schofeld Barracks, in the Cashier
section, will be the construction of
barracks, quarters and other buildings
required for the signal corps compan-
les. two of which recently arrived from
the Philippines for permanent station
on Oahu. These win be joined by a
telegraph detachment now CHARTERED
at Fort Shafter. For the entire ag.
gregation there will be constructed a
double barracks building for two hun
bred men. Certain housing buildings
will be erected for the motor trucks
and other gasoline driven vehicles re-
quired by signal corps and telegraph
companies Few, IL any, horses or
mules will be used here by this branch.
The signal men from the Philippines
are temporarily CHARTERED at Fort Ka-
mehamehA. LII. a.. .....
Concrete Mixers Delay .'. .-.-'.
The delay in receiving equipment
for eOnerStS mixing machines and parts
is holding up some of the preparations
for the development Of the field artil.
lery cantoRment at Cashier, which is
| located to the right Of the main post
road from the Honolulu Haleiwa road
entrance to the upper part of the reser.
walton. Foundations have already been
laid for the barracks. Frame towers
for handling the concrete in different
directions will be raised in the center
of the space to be surrounded by bar.
racks buildings, towers which will rise
several hundred feet, considerably
higher than those in use for the Fourth
| Cavalry barracks work. The mixing
parts and new rock-crushing machinery
will give the construction officer Ave
machines which will facilitate the com.
PletiOn of the buildings, by tripling the
present capacity. Work in getting all
machines ready will occupy about four
| weeks,
Artillery Cantonments o.,
| Eventually, barracks and officers
quarters, stables and sheds for the guns
and tractors of the two field artillery
regiments will be erected in the Cast.
ner section, and all the old artillery
cantohment structures will be torn
away and the field cleared for maneu.
vering service. In time, everything
in the way of buildings win be concen.
trated at Cashier, giving much needed
room between Cashier and the Waianae
range for brigade maneuvers and en-.
larged artillery practise.
Some of the artillery officers quar-.
tiers have already been completed over
toward the gulch on the Haleiwa side
of Cashier.
Enlarging Fort Ruger
Colonel Scofeld IS department is also
preparing for an increase in accommo,
dations at Fort Ruger, to include one
new barracks building, one administra
ton building, five sets of officers quar-
tiers, stables and wagon sheds.
| The quartermasteT 5 department buys
practically all its building materials
on the mainland, and now has lumber
and other material ready for one hun
dred officers quarters, forty-three fol
the field artillery being practically
completed. =
New Infantry Post ~.
| new infantry cantonment is also
to be constructed on Honolulu side OF
the Fourth Cavalry cantonment at Cast
ner. This is to house regiment Il
be later ordered to Oahu. +
-Four hundred recruits recently re
ceiVed at Cashier for the Fourth Cav
airy, are now quartered in tents nea
the cavalry cantonment. Barrack
now in course of construction will b,
finished in a short time, only the in
terror finishing being required to max,
them habitable, and the recruits viii
be given accommodations therein. Tn,
administration building will be finished
in about three months. ~.
A number of small cottages and tn,
present Office of the construction de
partment near the cavalry cantonmen
VIII be taken out to make room for tn,
new infantry and cavalry improve
iments. ......'
Shafter to Double
Plans have been settled for the en-
largement of Fort Shafter to a full
regimental post, entailing heavy ex
pense. This work will be well undeI
way early next year.
In Kahhi, on the town side of For
shafter, the ordnance department i
erecting its own warehouses for th,
storage of munitions and general wa
material These are all of heavy con
stuctiOn and hollow tile is also used
The buildings and Offices will face OF
King Street and extend to consider
able distance back toward the ridg
opposite the location of the army en-
gineer's cantonment at Shafter.
Completing Warehouses
The army quarteTmaster departmen