The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-07-12
4 STATE
PUSHED Up
Pennsylvania Gets a
\ Lift From
Pelee.

HARRISBURG, July 1.-The report
of Col. Henry c. Demming, the geolo-
e.ist to the director of the United
states Geological Survey on the up
baavaI of part of Pennsylvania, due
apparently to the volcanic and earth-
quake disturbances in the West indies
notably Mount Pelee, on Martinique
Island May s. has attracted much at
,antion among scientists in the United
States.
Col. De,nrning said his attention was
first called to the upheaval In Penn
sylvania while doing geological "orA
ON the Welsh mountains, two and one
half miles northwest of Honeybrook'
chester County. The instruments were
first used on the floor of the Verahoa
of the Ammon farm house. a few rods
aast of C,hurchtown Road Station, then
at several places in Honeybrook, and
finally at the highest point on the
sbirk road, which leads over Welsh
mountain, two and one-quartef iiiiieS
northwest of Honeybrook
In the report of the second geoioglcal
survey of Pennsylvania, 1873 10 lS'',
hook N. page 46, the elevation OF
Honeybrook above sea level Is stateu
10 he $50 feet The measurements
which Col. Demming made show tne
elevation to be $40 feet and small
fraction over, while at the hlSh poihe
on the Shirk road the increase ia ele-
walton shows 4o1s feet.
The next elevations taken were a.
Columbia and the crest OF Chickies
ridge. Both indicated an upheaVal oL
about six feet
AT gettysburg there has been push
up of nearly a foot. Al NeWViile'
cumberland County, where heretofore
the official measurement was 533 feet
above ocean level, on Monday, June g.
the record was 534 feet.
At Harrisburg on Tuesday, June 10,
the old level at the United States Hotter
of 221 feet had been changed TO 80
feet. About the same difference was
shown at the base of the Executive
building. State Capitol grounds
Col. Demming stated that in a rev
days he would be in Allegheny ana
Washington counties on geological ana
meteorological investigation, ana Would
take a number of measurements thefe-
At Faber's Station, Nelson County,
Va. laSI w eunESudys CiCNeiA4CIA -
taken by him preparatory to a geologi-
cal survey there. and the result proved
that old Virginia had also been pushed
up several feet 1t is the colonel's in
tention to have new measurements
made at Washington, ID. c., TO ascer-
tain whether the national capital also
participated in the late ground swell
AS to how the changes in elevation
in Pennsylvania occurred, Col. Dem
ming stated they were undoubtedly due
20 the earths disturbances manifested
last month in the small islands OF the
Caribbean sea Why the earthquakes
and volcanic eruptions took place
there, the colonel said, was possibly
due TO the abnormal weight of the
earth's surface a the mouth of the
Mississippi river caused by the con
tinuaI discharge there of mud and fine
sand. until billions of tons had been
deposited.
This may have caused a bending and
dropping of part of the earth's crust
into the molten mass of the earth. &C
cCmpanied by flow of water. and the
result was eruptions of the volcanoes
near the great molten wave flow, the
effects of which were also manifest in
various parts of the world, from Mount
VesuVius, in Italy, to the kiiauea and
MaUnd LOd volcanoes on HAWAII 1Sl-
and in the Pacific Ocean. Minor dis
turbances also occurred in one of the
mountains of Maine, of Nebraska and
of the state of Washington. It is not
surprising, therefore, he said, that
there was a slight pushup in Pennsyl-
vania.
Col Demming said that a sudden
shifting of any part of the enormous
internal heat of the earth, from any
cause, would lead to volcanic eruptions
or earthquakes. and that, although
Pennsylvania had been blessed thus
far by freedom from either. there was
no reason why the state should be al
ways exempt.
Col Demming said that while the
startling events of the last two months
are appalling in the loss of life. it
seemed that Nature was emphatically
calling the attention OF man to an
enormous power not utilized for hui
man wants and comfort The deepest
role in Pennsylvania. in Pittsburg.
nearly 5000 feet. produces hot water:
5000 feet further and it would produce
steam.