Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-05-30
OBSERVATORY BADLY
NEEDED At VOLCANO
Prof. FriedIaender Urges
That Such Be
Erected

=
ing at Kilauea and Mauna Loa coult
be constantly observed, is strongl,
advocated by Professor Immanue
t'riedlaender, an Italian scientist who
mas made a special study Of volcanoes
and who has just returned from {
visit to the Volcano.
1T seems to me that it would be q
point of pride with the wealthy men
Of Hawaii to establish a permanent
observatory at the Volcano" said
Professor Friedlaender this morning
Such an institution would be of i'm
mense value to science, and would af-
ford an opportunity to study volcanic
phenomena which is now not being
taken advantage Of There are many
Of ,Mauna Loa and Kilauea are of the
most interesting type. They are en-.
quilting or pit volcanoes, of which
there are very few that are in action.
The work of the prehistoric volca-
noes and the deposits made by them
| was produced by volcanoes of this
| type, and this is about the only place
~ the world where such can be
watched with comparative ease.
1t would be very useful to have a
permanent observatory there, so that
outbreaks could be studied while they
occur, and so that dependence would
not have to be placed on the work Of
travelling scientists like myself.
have made some observations, but |
study of the activity here unless |
lived here, and do not care to live
here.
Such an institution should be fit.
ted with chronological instruments, a
| library and chemical and mineralog-
ital laboratories, so that the volcanic
| gases could be analysed at times Of
activity Of course, one can analyze
the lava even when it is several years
old, but the gases, which are one of
the most important things, have to
be analyzed at the moment they is
sue. The observatory ought to be fit
ted with instruments which could be
used by visiting scientists, so that
they would be able to make their OBJ
servations with their assistance
That such assistance would be valu-
able is shown by the fact that when
was here in 1898 | saw flames but
| Fad no spectroscOpe by which to an
alyze them. This time | took d spec
| troscope along, and there were no
flames to be seen.
Poor Italy has had such an OBJ
servatory at Vesuvius for about a
hundred years; as matter of fact,
ii was founded by the Kingdom of
Naples, and ! think that the United
States, and more particularly Ha-
wall, might show similar interest
III assisting science in such an impor
tant matter by establishing labora-
tory here The rich men here owe q
great debt to science by the aid of
which they have been able to make
their plantations produce far larger
yields than they could have done
without it, that they might find this
n fitting way to repay this debt
4 4: 1: :: e II 81 4 e 4: a az Il q 4; q q
They are intelligent and patriotic
and are not fanatics on religion. They
are of the people that have placed and
10, IN, In,, i
ton in the union through all her
troubles with capital and foreign cheap
labor
These people are content on the hllIy
farms in the Allegheny mountains to
work from sunrise to sunset for sal
aries which compared to $4,000 month
is nothing In hiring out their SER
vices $1,000 a month and board is con-
sidered good for y hours work eacfiI
day. These men are only employed
S months of the year and must save
enough out of their $4,000 to keep |
themselves and families during the |
four long cold winter months. | ven
ture to say the Oriental cannot do the !
amount of manual labor they are
pqual to-
1t has been said to me that the heat
here is too terrible for such people to
stand Bosh,-I have worked in the
grain fields and in the quarry day after
day when not a breath of air seemed to !
stir; when the thermometer was reg
lstering leo degrees in the shade and !
we were continually exposed to a sun |
violent enough to give sunstroke were
we not accustomed to its rays Ha- !
wall has never known sucn heat and /
humidity
It>has also been said that the cane in I
the fields, where the men are working, !
shuts off the air and the sharp edges OF |
the cane leaf, etc, etc, makes 1t too dis |
agreeable for an American to stand !
have been in these torturous cane fields |
but | have Il stronger memory of cut |
ting corn that grew 10 feet tall back in I
Pennsylvania when the leaves were1
dead and edges sharp as knife and TO .
Keep our face and hands from bleeding
we kept them bandaged. At the Same /
time il was hotter than have ever
known it here.
Some of these people have made saw
'ngs and many could be brought here
shat would hu able Ia make cash pur- /
shasea "A once.
II loco nf these people We're brought I
mere lba daT ot their arrival would in- .
crease our assets 1000 patriotic cit- T
liens
tf .4..tl ..t..... .I.f. .,....t,., o. ,t ..