The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-07-31
FLOWED FOR THREE WEEKS.
DOUBTFUL REPORT or RENEWED
ACTIVITY
How Pelc'e Fires Went Outcome
Gradually Built up its Gap y Sec
ondary Cone Formed

Gradually Built up fits Gop-A Sec
oudary Cone Formed.
There was a report at Huo. just be-
fore the Kinau sailed, that Mauna Loa
had become active again about 3 o'clock
Friday afternoon. This was of course
too late to secure a Verilication Of IT,
as the I[inau left about O'Clock
Manager Lucas of the Hawaiian Hotel
received a letter by the Kinau from a
correspondent i'm Olaa, i'm which the lat
ter says i'm a postscript that he hears
the volcano has got to wark again.
The report therefore is only long dis
lance rumor, and may or may not be
true.
j. NJ. Weatherwax of j. j. Williams
photograph gallery was one of the last
persons at the active cone, at least one
of the last who has returned - Homo
lulu He-Was at the cone as late as 10
o'clock Wednesday forenoon, July 26,
and came down from there to Kalai-
cha that day, leaving Kalaieha. Friday
morning. His last view of the cone
and the lava flow was about 10 o'clock
Friday morning, July 2S. 1t was entire
~ inactive at that time Consequently
for the report of renewed activity to be
| true, the volcano must have broken out
again between 10 o'clock in the morning
and 3 in the afternoon.
Mr.. WeatherWaX was at the cone
twice between July 90 and July p, go"
ing up each time from the Humuula
Sheep Station at Kalaieha. He found
an easy trail by way of AinahOu which
would only require little work across
about 100 yards of IA to make it good
trail for horses up to within a mile o"
the cone. His opportunities for seeing
the decadence of the activity were
probably better than those of anybody
else, because for a week beginning with
July 20 when it was in full activity he
was never out of sight of the cone and
the flow.
From the observations of people who
visited the cone during the progress of
decadence the process seems to have
been considerable building up of the
cone, accompanied by an increase of
smoke or vapoT; the gradual filling up
of the gap in the side of the cone until
there was no appreciate gap there; the
formation of a secondary cone in front
of the other from which the lava flowed
during the last few days of activity;
the gradual decrease of lava flow with
an increase in the amount of smoke or
vapor given off, and finally an entire
cessation both of lava flow and smoke.
When w. r. Castles party We're at
the cone July 16, the gap in the side
from which the lava flowed. extended
fully half way from the top of the cone
to theb OttOm July q when Fred A,
Jacobs and his party, who planted the
American flag on the cone and christ
ened it Dewey were there, the gap
extended only about a third of the way
down to the bottom and the secondary
cone had begun to form.
when we were at the cone the last
time July 26," said Mr.. Weatherwax,
the original cone had entirely closed
| up it's gap, so that there was no gap,
and the lava inside the cone which filed
| it nearly to the top had begun to cool
and harden, so that by this time, have
no doubt if there has been no renewed
| activity at this point, one could walk
all over the surface inside the cone. The
secondary cone had begun to form right
/ in fornt of the gap in the old cone, and
pouring its stream of lava into the same
/ channel formed by the original cone, the
! first day we were there. During the
! last few days of activity all the lava
! flow was from the secondary cone which
! built up as is shown by pictures 1 took,
to about half the height of the original
| cone.
The dying out process was a gradual
diminution of lava flow accompanied by
an increase of Vapor particularly from
the slope of the mountain on the oppo-
site side from the gap. Finally the
| flow of lava ceased altogether, the
smoke ceased from the cone, the stream
of lava and the spreading flows gradu-
! ally cooled and blackened, the smoke
| from it grew less and less Our last
night view of it from the sheep station
| Thursday night, only showed a glow of
| fire here and there on the side of the
mountain and our last view of it by day
on Friday showed no smoke at all from
| the cone and only little here and there
hardly distinguishable from the lines
of heated air rising over places in the
hot lava, anywhere on the flow. Vol
canic activity had ceased"
Mr.. WeatherwaX made a complete set
of photographs of every part of the
flow and every phase of the cone. He
was accompanied by Banko H. Kobay-
ashi who made drawings and sketches
of the whole scene as the basis of pic
lures in color which he intends to make.
This eruption of Mauna Loa thus
lasted about three weeks. 1t is not
| known just how many people actually
! got to the scene of activity, the spout
| ing cone, but not a large number Five
trails We're found and followed to the
! scene. One of these was from Pahala,
up through Kau, taken by the first
party probably, that reached the cone.
Another was through Shipman's ranch
| striking the 1880 flow about thirteen
miles from the cone, taken by w. r..
Castles and several other parties. A
third was through Shipman's ranch,
but more to the left and striking the
1880 flow several miles nearer the cone.
| This was taken by a party including
! Fred A. Jocobs, Charles E. Eagan, e. o.
Hall, Harold Dillingham;, Fred. Alexan-
der, Jack Wilson and e. LIE Munyon.
A fourth was right up the 1880 flow
from Hilo and was taken by a party
composed of Eugene e. Burlington,
Horace and James Sisson, w. p. Jarvis,
A. Il, Loenbenstein, Jr., and the guide
"Aledk." The fifth was from the HUI
muula Sheep Station up the mountain
to the left of the new flow. This trail