The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-03-24
MUSICAL
FESTIVAL
Well Known Coast Sing
ers May Be Heard
Here.

1t has been definitely decided that
Honolulu's Music Carnival will take
place this year on Thursday afternoon
and Friday evening, May 8 and 4.
on the evening of May 3 there will
be a grand concert in the Opera House,
at which the choruses of Oahu Col
lege, kamehameha Schools, High
School, Normal School and Mills Insti-
tute will be heard. These choruses
will be led by Stanley Livingston of
Kamehameha Schools. Kapellmeister
Berger and his band will also be pres
ent. This event will be what has come
to be known as the Congress of Song.
The Carnival of Song will occur the
afternoon Of the following day, and
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ten minutes rest continued on our way
down into the big crater. What
trip! Down.. down, a winding trail
about twelve or fourteen hundred feet
and as We looked up at the almost
perpendicular sides towering above us
and then out upon the vast waste and
black lava we felt how Insignificant
wisdom of the Creator. After ride
over assures, which emitted steam and
heat-over bridges, wide and narrow,
and up and down on that black and
twisted mass, we came at last to
stopping place and the guide tethered
our horses in a rude karal. We then
proceeded on foot to the very edge of
the immense pit-visiting on our way
madam PaIa'S'' LyitOhnD al pn, 70
ception room. This pit, called Hale
maumau (house of everlasting fire. is
$50 feet deep and we could see away
down below, the red hot lava boiling
UP and every now and then being
thrown out. Some years ago this pit
filled UP to the rim and flowed over
and afterwards the bottom seemed to
drop out. It is gradually filling up
again and in few years will repeat
the intense activity of some time ago.
There is constant cloud of smoke is
suing from the mouth of the pit but
providentially in that country, the pre-
Vailing winds seem to be always from
the same direction so that visitors are
not troubled by the steam and fumes
of sulphur.
After remaining here for a half hour
or so, we began to retrace our steps
and We're led to the so-called kitchen,
where, about seven o'clock dinner was
cooked for us right on the hot lava.
Coffee was boiled over the hot cracks,
bacon fried and steak broiled, and, in
deed, we all acknowledged that never
had a dinner tasted better than this
one out on that volcano with black
ness all around, broken only by the
ftful CLEAN from several lanterns and
an occasional fiare-up from piece of
paper dropped into one of the many
cracks. We will never forget the
sight, and it is an experience well
worth going miles to see. Afterwards |
we came back to the karal and started
homeward. The horses knew every foot |
of the trail, so we wended our way
slowly along the dangerous path, and |
reached the hotel safely about ten
o'clock. After a light supper to aug
ment our volcanoN cooked dinner, we |
retired, very weary but satisfied and |
delighted with the whole trip. We got |
up with the sun in the morning and |
after a hurried breakfast, took the |
stage for the railroad station where we |
boarded the train and after a beauti- |
full run through the tropical planta- |
tons we reached the boat at Hilo at |
10 o'clock; then off for Honolulu where |
we arrived Saturday, after a very |
smooth and pleasant trip.
L would advise every one to visit the |
most wonderful volcano in the world, |
the only crater you can with impunity |
get close to. After a few more most |
days in Honolulu, we en-
barked on the Sierra for San Francisco,
well pleased with all we saw on our
acquired Island possessions"
n. S. MULLAN.