The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-01-18
A Great Rush to the scene-Looking
Down Upon y Carnival of Heat
and Glow.

and GLOW.
VIM. Brash, of this city, an
"Petaluma Ned" a Wilson Lin
stage driver, picked up the glare {
fire from Halemaumau, in the X
lauea crater, at 1850 the night {
the sd inst. They were sitting o
the veranda of the Volcano House
hoping for return Of the fires, whe
the red tinge was shown in the SIX
delicate, but pure and certain, re
flecting the live lava. This mani
festation came after thirteen month
Of only smoke and steam from tn
largest active volcano in the world
the one crater seemingly forever t,
be depended upon.
Peter Lee, manager Of the hote
and director of the Volcano Hous,
Company's business at Kilauea, anc
Albert, the intelligent and expert
enced native guide Of the crater
were reused by Brash and the stag,
driver.
All the people on the premise.
were soon viewing the column o
red glare, now more defined abov,
the fires that had so long slumbered
At 3 a. m. on the 4th inst. de.
scent was made to Halemau
mau. 1t is a trip O
three miles into the great cratel
and to the brink of the pond O
liquid lava. Lee. Albert and the
rest of the party, found the devil.
cauldron once more boiling, and
the mixture of red and cooled lava
proceeding in lively fashion. The
party remained at the Volcano till
about 10 a. m
Lines had been carried and meas
urements were made. 1t was
found the fire was $50 feet
below the surface and
the liquid lava body, an oval
deposit 2ocx2so feet. Telephone
messages were sent to all ports and
settlements on Hawaii and in
quiries poured in all day. Mr..
Lee wrote to L. c. Macfarlane, c.
D. Chase and the steamer people
in Honolulu. One letter had a
diagram Of Halemaumau as an en-
closure. This sketch, together
with an account of the return OF
activity, was given in this paper,
and STAR representative was
despatched to the scene by the first
steamer for Hawaii.
The first tourists to be taken into
the crater by Guide Albert were
the Queensland Government Ofici-
ais, now visiting Hawaii, and a
number Of Americans. This was
the night of the Iath. They were
very much impressed with the scene.
On the night of the 18th the de-
scent was made by dozen planta-
ton people who had made up a
special party, including c. A.
Doyle, the Japanese interpreter.
They were. treated to one of the
rarest of sights. The lake sudden
ly began to bubble and surge like a
great vat of oil into which foreign
substance had been tosse11. Then
1t rushed like torrent into an arch
from which heavy fire had been
playing. For ten minutes there
was a torrent of flow into this
opening. The guide and others
were fearful that the fire was to
disappear. AS quickly as the re-
ceding movement had started, it
set in by the opposite direction and
the food from the arch
was longer and stronger than
that which had gone into it.
After this agitation the live lava
was more active than ever, with
cracking and scanning and play of
the so.called fountains.
DR.. Jas. T. Wayson of Honolulu,
Miss A. M. Reed of Pennsylvania,
Robinson Brothers of Canada and a
few more tourists who had started
from Honolulu on the strength of
THE STARS account, with this pa
per's reporter, comprised the party
Of the 18th inst,
1t is best to leave the Volcano
House at 4 p. m. Ponies are avail
able for those not caring to walk.
The chap who remarked in the
Record Book that it was three miles
to Halemaumau and seven miles
back, hit it about right. Lanterns
are carried and it is not a bad idea
to have a bit of lunch along.
The descent into the great old
crater is a sharp one, made by
zig-zagging down declevity little
less than perpendicular.
Once on the floor of Kilauea, in
terest is quickened. One can pick
out old and later flows, mounds,
hillocks, gulches, chasms, in forms
varying as the work of any melting
pot.
There is a bridge over one great
crack. This break was make Of a
nightwhen party was at Halemau-
mau and found their return cut off
by it. A wide detour was made
upon the trembling earth, and past
the monster fssure the travellers
were safe from further earthquake
tremblings.
On the journey by daylight the
guide points out how scores Of
lava flows when the lake was at
the surface forced as many changes
in the trail. Surveyors marks
have been obliterated, several
telephone lines washed down and
submerged and half a dozen horse
stations wiped out. Where the
Little Beggar" crater once played
with constancy is a bank OF
eruption thrown up as the fires be-
meath failed.
Two hundred yards from Hale
maumau one begins to feel the
heat. 1t comes not only from the
crater. The gnarled. twisted,
somber lava beneath the feet is
warm and haze like the fumes Of
Indian summer air waves and floats
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