The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-05-12
VOLCANO
WAKING Up
lilo People Think
Eruption Is
Due.
OLAA. MILL MAKES
A NEW RECORD
Doctor Russell Will Experiment
With an Old Fibre
Plant.

HILO. May s.-The people of Hilo
III and vicinity are again watching
for an early outbreak of the Vol
cano. Recent visitors have noticed in
creased action in the crater. and an
| other eruption is not wholly uneXpect-
ed within a very short time. on We'd
nesday the cliffs and floor of the vol
cano were a mass OF steam. The
clouds were So dense that Uwekahima.
the Government surveying station sit
uated on the high BLUM about a mile
from the hotel. was invisible. People
who were present at the lava flows of
1881 and 1888 report that they never
have seen steam on the Kilauea Xxi
side of the crater. while at present the
considerable smoke is visible on that
side.
Manager Waldron went down into
the crater on Wednesday and made
careful examination of Halemaumau.
Twice during the day, when the wind
RleY the steam to one side, he was
able to see fire at the bottom of the
pit. The idea that ii was a burning
sulphur bank was removed by the lack
OF fumes. Had ii been burning sui
phur the smell would have been evil
dence OF the fact.
The old native guide. who is prob
ably the best authority on Pele's ac-
lions. having been at the volcano for
more than thirty years. says that the
volcano is acting just as it always does
before il breaks out He expects an
eruption in the near future.
Porto Ricans here intend to observe
the independence day of Cuba. On
May goth. when the emblem of the new
republic is to be raised for the first
time. Cuban flags will be fioats1 from
the Porto Rican camp near here.
The annual Sunday school excursion
will be given tomorrow, the picnickers
going To Puma.
F. Very and family departed on the
Falls of Clyde for an extended jour-
ney on the European continent.
Judge Hapai has been hearing an in
teresting tax case. w. Ross Campbell
refused to pay the personal tax de-
manded by the collector. upon the
ground that he had been within the |
Territory only since the first of Jonu- /
AIRY. and consequently could not he
held for the tax. Judge Hapai de-
cidcd otherwise. however. qnd The TAX
must ~ paid unless an appeal is taken, !,
Professor Leonard Is to make bal !
loon ascension tomorrow. and says he
will go up 5000 feet.
The CotiIlion club gave a most en-
joyable German Friday evening at
Spreckels' hall. Miss Franc Eaton vas
chosen queen Of May. and was crowned
by the maids Of honor. wh" were: Mrs.
Nee. Deacon. Mrs. r. Il. McStocker,
Lilinoe Hapai. the Misses Cheek. Mrs
Rice and Melinde CanariO.
TraCklayins has begun on the Ka-I
asJels division Of the Puma railroad.
\ team belonging 10 r. W. Barnard
rent over the bank near Ookala last
week and one mule was killed. DR.. .
traces team met with a similar acct
ent. the japanese driver going down
ixty feet AIessrs. Guard and Lucas
ad a narrow escape from u serious
Ccident at the same place.
The Olaa mill did a recOrd-smashing
usiness last week in grinding 13l2is
ms Of sugar in five days Of 1912 hours
ach. The run is said 10 be the best
yer made by any mill in the Hawaiian
stands. The Olaa people celebrated
ie famous run with a meeting at the
ill last Saturday night. There were
yer thirty OF the employees present and I
|
ere INDUCED in and the supremacy of
laa was fittingly toasted.
In the higher elevations on this
land. where the timber has been cut -
,wn. the olona fiber plant grows lux
-iantly. During the recent visit of
Smith the cultivation OF
ona was discussed by him with Doc
r Russell. and the Commissioner re- In
tested the doctor 10 procure samples 81
be forwarded to the Agricultural De pl
rtment al Washington. It is said
at olona fiber is stronger than that Of .
y plant known. and has a CONNER
Al value worth considering. Years Sr
o Hawaiians used il in making nets =
d fish lines. and the old Hawaiian IN
Seconnet. he whose face has become III
miliar as a model for Professor Hen
aw in his photOgrap hic work, has a
n line now in use that was made by ]
grandfather. The Commissioner Ell
u ask the Department Of Agriculture an
Washington TO find means OF treat ma
, the fiber economically. and when pa
information IS secured a movement exc
u be set on foot 10 plant from cut -
IS much OF the upland not suited II
le.