The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-07
OUR YOUNG REPORTER
RETURNS FROM A TRIP TO
THE VOLCANO
And Details His Experiences for the
Benefit Of the "Star's" Numerous
Readers.

time and being generally well-treated,
besides nearly falling into the volcano
His experiences are best told in his
own language. 1t will be noticed that
his spelling is better than could be ex-
pected, but the reason for that is that
the boy is ambitious to learn and when
he does not know how to spell word,
always asks someone to tell him how.
The Volcano House at Kiauea,
Hawaii, is very beautiful place. 1t
stands on very large piece of land. 1t
is long, beautiful, two-story building,
and it has a beautiful flower garden all
around it, in which grow geraniums,
daisies, roses, etc, and number of
beautiful trees. On the second story
there are nice large rooms for guests.
| The rooms contain a table, chair, a
wash stand, and very comfortable
| bed, and there are also two large win
dows in each room. Down below, in
one end of the house, is the billiard
room. In one end of the room there
is a comfortable log fire, with five
chairs around it, and alongside of the
fire is a bookcase which contains all
kinds Of books and magazines. In the
middle of this room is billiard table
In the other part of the house there are
a library, drawing-room and fine
dining-room, with All Hee, the
emperor of the heather Chinese
walters, his clean white sh irt drawn
over his pants and kind smile on his
yellow face, attending to the guests in
as good manner as any of the great
American walters do.
Standing in front of the house you
can see lots of steam come from diff
ferent parts Of the crater, which is
about mile away, and you can also
see the smoke come from the Halemau-
mau, or House of Everlasting Fire.
Mr. Lee, manager of the Volcano
House, is a nice gentleman. He tries
to make his guests comfortable in every
possible way. There is nothing about
the Volcano House but beauty and
comfort.
Now, before going on with the most
Interesting part of the crater and the
Halemaumau, will first introduce my
self to the readers of this article. |
have good reason to do SO, because
some of the readers who have been to
the volcano themselves might think
that this article is not put together in a
manner as it ought to be, so | would
like to tell 'em that the one who wrote
this article is nothing but boy-a q
year old boy-and that it is the first
article | ever wrote. My name is
Louis Morningstar, and bear the title
of THE Boy Globe Trotter.' | arrived
at Honolulu Friday, September the
2oth, at 7 A NJ, on the S. S. Alameda
and left on the Mikahala for the vol
cano Friday, September 29th, at 1896
A. NJ. | arrived there early Sunda,
morning. While on the Mikahala
got acquainted with two gentlemen
Mr.. Brown and Mr.. Hardcastle-anC
when we reached the island we had to
90 about thirty-live miles on horseback
which took us about four hours, anC
we stopped at the Volcano House; anc
the description OF the Volcano Hous,
is the nearest | can get to. Can you
blame me for ii?
Monday, October I'd, at P, M, VT
Ictortal (Nr th ,,D1rann Thu
guide walked first, and Mr.. Brown, MIR
Hardcastle and myself followed. Rair
dropped quietly from the sky, and {
. b, autlful rainbow could be seen lyns
upon the restless volcano. The guide
. carried water with him, in case of thirst
# Our minds were full then, lust t.
think that we were going to see thu
p greatest curiosity on earth! Meantime
t we were going down into the grea
6 crater-down, down We went; 1t looked
Il as though it would never come to al
o end. But it was not just as | thought
o for before twenty minutes was over W
II found ourselves at the bottom of tn
h greatest crater on earth; and OBJ, wha
a wonderful sight met our eyes! Tn
first thing we saw was great big crac
about fifteen feet wide, and a sma
/ bridge going across The floor of tn
bridge is made of lava, and it is a
black as coal. The lava is not smooth
II no, the place looks as if there wer
S great earthquakes. 1t looks perfeC
j. wreck; although there is road mad
n for people and horses to walk on, W
could not help stepping into crack
y about TWO feet deep. After about a
{ hours walk we reached the gra'
house, there we stopped to take res
u When we had about ten minute
= rest the guide said that it was abo,
% time for us to 60 t. the burning lax
- After few minutes we descended inl
the upper crater, surrounding Hall
maumau, and half mile from II
il bottom reached the lava embankmen
h inside of which is the most wonderf
/, crater in the world.
, The whole of the lake is one ma
! of seething fire, crusted over with
a cover Of solid, grayish colored mas
y This mass is full of holes and crack
,r through which the moulen lava
n. continually being blown, sometim
m reaching to a height of twenty
N thirty feet AS we stood watching
big piece OF burning lava came crac