The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-03-24


sit on the rocks above and look down.
Card board screens with holes for the
eyes are necessary. AS we sat look
ing down, we noticed on the upper side
Of the inner wall, next the molten lake,
a thin line of light running horizon
tally. We had been there only per
haps ten minutes when an awful
occurred. ] fancy nothing
just like it had ever happened. From
top of the inner black lava down to
the bubbling fire it is at present writ
ing about one hundred feet. Some
times, it falls six hundred feet and
again rises to the very top. / no
ticed a great crack, slowly widening
along the top, about twenty-five feet
from the edge, and extending a quarter
of a mile along the circumference.
Fascinated and Mortified beyond the
power to move | saw that whole body
of rock topple over clear down to the
fiery surpace, and fall into the awful
abyss with crash I can never de-
scribe. Instantly the liquid in one
great wave dashed directly over
toward where [ was sitting. It must
have been at least forty feet high as
it dashed along. Striking the side
of the pit it returned and so continued
from side to side until in the normal
condition. Meanwhile the whole lake
had seemed about to rise and overflow.
AS this great wall fell, or just as it
started an awe-struck voice, over at
the left, shouted: "My God, the end
has come! What shall we doi' The
face of the rock behind that which
had just fallen, was a fiery red over
it's entire surface. From this, masses
of rock continually fell until we de-,
parted, most regretfully for the hotel.
Just why this side of the crater should
have become thus superheated not
even the guides could tell. All about
us where there were cracks in the lava,
the heat poured out from below. Post
cards were attached to the end of
sticks and scorched in order to mail
as souvenirs. By request the oblig-
ing Mine Host supplied my guide with
cold water and coffee, with coffee
pot Thus equipped there was soon a
most tempting brew made piping hot
by the subterranean fires.
AS the darkness deepened, the scene
grew more and more grand and impos-
ing The heat was more oppressive,
the boiling seemed much more active,
the sky and feecy clouds above were
turned a rosy red. The spectacle
was, indeed, one never to be forgotten,
and words are far too feeble to -con-
vey the faintest idea of what was be-
fore us. 1t must be seen to be ap-
preciated.
After sight seeing journey that, in
all it's windings and turnings, has COW
cred over thirty thousands of miles,
among the finest of earth, we unhesi-
tatingly declare that Kilauea with it's
Halemaumau, is by far, the grandest
exhibit of all this world s exposition.
Items Regarding the Kilauea Section
Sulphur baths taken direct from
volcano cauldron are served at the
Volcano House.
Mauna Loa mountain, nearly $4,000
feet high, is adjoining the burning
lake. 1t is an extinct volcano, and
nearly always snow covered.
All Hawaii island is lava, covered
with soil. In one place growing in
earth that covers lava deposit, are
trees, declared by experts to be one
thousand years old.
Adjoining Mauna Loa is the extinct
or at present quiet, volcano of Mauna
Kea, this is quite $4,000 feet high.
The pit of Kilauea in 1906 was en-
tirely emptied Of fire and lava, leaving
dark hole into the bowels of the
earth, one thousand feet in depth. No
one was ever able to explore it's
mysteries.
Hawaii has $50 inches of rainfall
during the year, but it comes nearly all
in the night time.
Extract from Volcano House: clog
Book, Sept. 8, 1907 cit is the pit of
He'll, 1 said. Yes, said Cartwright,
1T is the pit of He'll. Let US 60
down. and we went down. Jack
London. Then this came: '"and
where Jack goes there go l; SO I fol
lowed along.--Mrs. Jack
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