The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-08-10
AN ISLANDER WRITES OF
THE SCENIC HILO RAILWAY
Inc Los Angeleg Sunday Times has the following:


The opening Railway to Mountain View twenty
one and half miles miles from lo, the road to the volcano
of Klauea marks epoch in the development of the largest
OF the aWaan Islands Few stop consider that the Island of
Hawaii has of square miles, against in
other islands, and in 1901 produced sugar.
against tons by the of the The opening of the
Olaa mill with its thousands of tributary cane
the Puma plantation will swell the output immensely
The average comes to "do" the Hawaiian Islands
seldom off the Island of Oahu Indeed before coming
By this he misses of the grandest sights of the world Within
two days travel of live Volcano he passes the SIDE
forest with its wonderful foliage and twenoot
nowpped Mauna Loa and Maunakea
most delightful trip but this need longer brighten the m
the luxurious of the o Railroad
miles of the Volcano House. leaving but miles of Then
where the beautiful yellow, CRYSTALS gte IN the sun and th @
gent fumes give what they peraps)
In the distance perhaps three miles from the hotel looms the
steam from Kauea, and for closer view Down. down
like of moaes candy which had been pushed
cracked while coon rivuets which had boiled
up and again strange fantastic shapes
patch of cndr rock called by the Hawas while the hard
smooth lava rock is called pahoehoe There many
caused by bubbles the high
middle three feet, and from feet wide
Within few hundred yards of the
and pick gngery and around the cracks which send
forth their hot blasts the very edge of the cumbng rocks where
hundreds of feet below still seete the fires the Almighty knded so
cycleago And grand sight before such
equaled by nothing else earxcep another vocanoand
thousands have been too ndoen to and it. Hold staff
little down that crack and how begins smoke
Drop string down. and bzes at once Over little way and yon
step down that ladder ten fifteen feet into the bowels OF the
heat Will make you think have found the
hot chamber of Turkish bath Back great quantities OF
steam from numberess cracks and we find sort OF large
enough walk into comfortably, but hot prevent walking
very The top rocks dull red heat night and give
forth clear ringing sound when struck with hammer or stone
boil coffee and cook and meal cooked by
made by Our guide has brought Pele berries
grow profuon the haeompoed lava the sides of
They cool and refreshing tasting somewhat
a cranberry stuffed with watermelon rnd.
moonlight ride back the hotel and find solid well
oud comfort and that dearybeo
travellers, bed You put much you like
delightful spot There points of beauty in the neigh
borhood-Klauea Xxi only short walk another eight
kOa in
number residences of Hio by and
Is wanting.
we return the waving of and watch pull
ing ND great the with those powerful little donkey
ngin preparing the land plant We the little
# wafer in Vhaped fume, watch them dumping loads
MO to be carried tentyix miles down the great Olaa MIL
md there made mo candy for all the world Go and watch
falling hume the endless the cruers.
the same thrown into the fume miles
way up the mouan comes down Just as qek as You en- com
mill how that roller chews and
neezes As from the roller little of
directed it, which dampen for the second set OF rollers