Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-08-28

1 thinking Of the worlds breakfast table
where so many millions of people
sweeten their food and drink, all un.
mindful Of the wonderful process Of
converting sugar cane into raw sugar,
end of the weary laborers In tropical
countries who in the sweat of their
brow, toll faithfully to supply the
needs of countless people, and to stock
the market with one Of the most i'm.
portant articles of food.
An interesting account of trip
to the Volcano appeared In the Need
ham Mass Chronicle, as follows:
A Hyde Park girl, Miss Margaret b.
Scott, has written a letter to her
father, Walter Scott. from Hilo, Ha-
wall, giving an account Of her re-
cent visit to the famous volcano at
that place. After reading this
sketch, you may conclude that the
crater of a volcano Is a somewhat
bigger affair than you have suppos-
ed It to be: Here we are living on
the brink Of one Of the biggest vol
canoes in the world. The trip takes
ION an island steamer) from Tues
day noon until Wednesday at 10 a.
m, when we reached Hilo. We
stayed two days in Hilo, got team
and drove to several sugar planta-
lions. Robert knows them all
through doing work for them In the
iron works. On Friday morning we
started for the volcano. The train
took us up twenty-five miles and
we came the other nine miles by
stage. II Is up hill. and the horses
take over two hours to do It. The
Volacno House, or hotel, Is built on
the brink Of the outer crater and the
trail goes down in front OF the hotel
500 feet to the lava bed or floor as
they call II. Then we have to walk
three and half miles across this
lava bed to the inner crater where
the activity is. The horses were
then tied up In n sheltered place
and we went the rest of the way on
foot. Indeed lots walk all the way
from the hotel. We did one day. but
It is so hard coming up a part Of
the trail.
well, as I said, we walked the
rest of the way. and of course was
just wearying to get my first look
into the crater. Robert had seen 1t
last June. Well, ! did and II Is Just
awful. That seething, boiling mass
of redhot lava and It Just roars like
the sea or waves beating up on the
shore-that seems the greatest won
der to me; then 1t will lash itself
up and flow over on to the inner
rim, that il OF course 200 feet down
from us. A great mass OF liquid lava
will seem to flow in mass then
suddenly break and burst up In the
air, fountain OF fire. They say
that they rise to thirty feet. but one
would never think SO from where
we stand.
1T is grand by day and bright
sunlight, but imagine 1t. II you can,
as darkness comes on and that glow
begins to come In the sky from II,
and the walls are all lighted. II IL
Observation-Disclosures hate to leave II
and go home. There is little
shelter house where we have coffee,
which has been warmed over the big
heat cracks. We have to jump over
these cracks before We come to the
main pit. All around the hotel are
steaming cracks. The whole ground
steams, but these cracks l speak OF
are not steam. It Is Just pure heat
We stick postal cards down into
them and they get scorched.
I'VE are thinking OF saying an
other week here. The change Is SC
great from Honolulu. II is 1000
feet above sea level. SO you can SEE
It is good and cool. There has been
n good deal OF rain since We came
up, but we put on our rain coats
and go right ahead"
4 4 +
The personnel OF the COMPRESSION
al party that will arrive Monday
from San Francisco is different from
the party as originally made up b!
Secretary Mcclellan. For one rea
son or another more than half O.
those who were first invited ant
accepted dropped out and new mem
bers were added by Mr.. Mcclellan
The list as given In Mr.. McClel
lan's letter Is as follows:
Hon. Chas. F. Scott and wife, o
Kansas. Chairman Committee Agri
culture.
Hon. j. NJ. Miller and wife, OF In
terstate and Foreign Commerce.
Hon. II. Olin Young and wife, y o
Michigan, Rivers and Harbors Com
mittee.
Hon. w. r. Bliss and wife, of Ore
gon, Ways and Means Committee.