The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-08-19
.HALEAKALA IS
NOT EXTINCT
Swiss Scientist Believes That
The Great Crater Is Merely
Sleeping.
IT RESEMBLES TENERlFFE
viii Investigate Craters of Oahu
Next Week Before He
Sails Away.

WAILUKU, August 16. - Doctor
Bruins, European scientist, whose in.
vestigations Of volcanoes have brought
him worldwide renown, returned yester.
day from brief sojourn in the crater
of Haleakala. He makes the very inter.
esting statement that Haleakala is not
an extinct volcano-indeed, he is quite
sure that it has at least one more good
eruption left in it.
Doctor Bruins, who is a wealthy man,
has published several works which show
the result of his research. He halls
from Geneva, Switzerland. Besides
being famous scientist, he is an
Alpine climber of much note
He arrived in the Islands in July,
coming direct from Geneva, his object.
i've point being Kilauea His particu.
lar motive was the analysis of volcanic
gases found in the crater, where he
spent two weeks.
According to Doctor Bruins, the whole
crater of Kilauea is very hot, the TEN.
perature ranging from so deg. cent?.
grade at the Volcano House to melting
point at the pit of Halemaumau, which
is HOO deg. centigrade. Temperatures
at various points are as follows: Hale.
maumau, HOO deg. centigrade; center
of Kilauea crater, 120 deg. centigrade;
sulphur banks, 90 deg. centigrade;
Kilauea Xxi, so deg. to 60 deg. cent?.
grade; Volcano House, so deg. cent?
grade. Fifty degrees centigrade is 100
deg. Farenheit.
Asked as to whether the crater of
Kilauea was getting hotter or cooler,
Doctor Bruins said that could only be
escertained by number of visits and
comparative work, such as would be
carried on by an observatory.
The doctor had contemplated visiting
Mokuaweoweo, but was unable to pro-
cure guides and horses, greatly to his
disappointment, because he had been
assured that he could obtain both with
out difficulty.
81 think they feared for their
horses" remarked the doctor, with
naivete.
However that may be, the fact re-
mains that splendid chance to learn
more about Mauna Loa and its wonder
full font of fire has been thrown to the
winds.
In Haleakala.
Doctor Bruins took his silk tent, COM
Portable bed and very complete camp
ing equipment into the crater of Halea-
kala, remaining there two days, then
passing out of the Kaupo gap to Kipa-
hulu, and thence to Wailuku by the
Koolau ditch trail.
The investigator states that in his
opinion the last eruption of Haleakala
took place about one hundred and fifty
or one hundred and sixty years ago, the
newest crater being the westernmost,
which is responsible for the under
ground flow issuing at La Perouse Bay.
The pit crater near the Lauulu ridge is
also stated by the doctor to be very
new.
Not Extinct.
'Haleakala," said Doctor Bruins, "is
not extinct, and 1 am quite sure that
it can give new eruptions. The crater
bars a remarkable resemblance to that
OF Chahorra, on Teneritfe, which erupted
last year after being quiescent for over
century. The eruption of Chahorra
previous to that of last year occurred
in 179S."
Doctor Bruins found no gases in the
crater of Haleakala, but took away
many specimens of soil, rock and lava
for analysis.
In Honolulu, where he will arrive on
Saturday, he will visit Punchbowl, Dia.
mond Head and Koko Head craters, be-
ing particularly interested in the latter
for the reason that the sea gives good
vertical cut of the crater, which is help
full to investigation and which is moi
found in other local craters.
Doctor Bruins intends to depart fol-
the mainland by the Siberia, leaving
Honolulu on the 2Sth.
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