The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-07-08
LATEST FROM THE VOLCANO.

RapidIy-Drives Being Com
structed-TeIephone to Hi1o,
Etc.
The news from the Volcano by
the Kinau is up to July I'd. The
lake of molten lava still remains at
about $50 by $50 feet in diameter,
and overfows its banks in all direc-
tions at intervals of few days, thus
gradually filling up the deep pit
formed by the breakdown of March
last.
There is yet no appearance of the
upward thrust of the whole bottom
of the pit, as Is so often the case, but
all of the filling is being done by the
overhowing of the lake. The bot
tom of the pit is now a level floor
some 400 or 500 feet in diameter
with the lake in the centre.
The action in the lake is most IN
tense at the eastern end, at which
point the action is more violent than
it was in Dana Lake before the
break down. The boiling Of the
lake is incessant, the lava being
thrown backward and forward in
immense pillows and projected into
the air to the height of about thirty
or forty feet, with frequent bursts of
fiery spray to a height of sixty or
seventy feet, which falls over an
area of an acre or more. The lava
thus thrown out and cooling on the
east end of the lake has built cone
some forty feet in height and 100
feet in diameter over the east end of
the lake. The western half of the
cone has fallen into the lake leaving
the hollow interior of the cone in
plain view from the western rim of
the pit which is the present point of
observation for tourists. In and
around this cone there is roaring
fiery furnace, appalling in its trem-
endous manifestations of power. At
night the light. from the molten lava
is so bright that every portion of
the pit is lighted up, and the bluffs
stand out in high relief against the
midnight background, in most fan
tastic shape and color.
AN ISLAND
has been formed in the midst of the
lake near the eastern end, some forty
feet in length and twenty feet in
breadth with an elevation above the
surrounding surface of the lake of
six to ten feet. The current of the
lake is from west to east, the crusted
top of the lake being divided by the
island as it is borne past and re-
melted in the furnace under the
cone. AS the black crust of the lake
is drawn in under the cone, it fire.
quently leaves the surface of the
lake around the island a boiling.
fiery red. against which the black
outline of the island stands out bold
and defiant; but as the surface OF
the lake occasionally falls several
feet below its ordinary level it can be
seen that the edge of the island is
undermined on all sides.
THE NEW HOTEL BUILDINGS
are being pressed forward rapidly
Mr.. Howard, who has the contract
for erecting the new hotel, stables,
bath house and cottages, is on the
ground with a strong force of work.
men, and building is going on as fast
as possible. Mrs. Howard accom-
panied her husband, and Is enjoying
the cool weather, the sulphur steam
baths and the ohelos and cream.
THE TOURIST TRAVEL
is on the increase, in spite of the fact
that the accommodation is made
quate, especially so now that large
number OF carpenters and laborers
are added to the regular quota of
boarders. A party of twelve went
up by the last Hall, and twenty more
by the Kinau. The new buildings
are being put up none too soon to
accommodate the increased travel.
DR.. Day and his wife have been
spending a week at the Volcano, and
return with renewed vigor and COM
plexions, which will discount the
traditional smut brown maid"
Col. Hodge and wife, he being a
prominent Republican politician and
newspaper man of Cleveland, Ohio,
are also among the recent visitors.
Col. Hodge has travelled wide and
far, and his opinion of the Volcano
will command attention. He thus
records it in the Volcano House book:
CAPTAIN HODGES OPINION OF THE
VOLCANO.
| 81 have seen many of the natural
wonders of the world the Yosemite, the
Geysers of the Yellowstone, Niagara
Falls, the great Muir Glacier In Alaska,
the Colorado Canon, the great snow coy
cred mountains of Mexico, the Giants
Causeway in Ireland, Mount Blanc on q
clear morning forty miles in the distance
| Mt. Vesuvius in an eruption at night.
BUT NONE OF THESE OFFER ANYTHING SO
| GRAND, SO AWFULLY SUBLIME, so MIGHTY
IN POWER, as the great burning lake in
| the crater of Kilauea.
0. ]. HODGE,
Cleveland, o.
Juna $3.50, 1891.
THE CARRIAGE DRIVES
which the company proposes to con-
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