The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-11-14
TELLS Of
WORLD VOLCANOES
Large Audience Hears vOloan.
Olouist Discuss KiIauea in
Thorough Manner.
tTrom saturdays Advortlaorl

from Saturdays AdvertiEerl
That We are now nation OF vol.
canoes, and that such a nation should do
all possible to study volcanic phenom-
ena, was the statement Of Professor
Frank Perret at his lecture last even
ing, in the new Y. NJ. c. A. hall, dur
ing which he paid tribute to Honolulu
and Hawaii in that steps had been
taken to erect an observatory at XII
luea and have an observer stationed
there in the future.
ait is my first opportunity TO tell
an American audience of an American
volcano, said DIR. Perret, after he had
called attention to the fact that Amer
lea had become a volcanic nation
through acquisition of Alaska, Hawaii
and the Philippines, all of which had
active volcanoes.
1.-THE volcanoes of Hawaii are we'll
known in other parts of the world
phenomena, said DR.. Perret, "and
Hawaii and Italy are now called the
cradles of the science of volcanology."
Overflow Audience.
President Gilmore of the College of
Hawaii introduced the speaker to the
large crowd which filed the floor of
the hall at Y. M. c. A. and overflowed
into the gallery at the makai end
where the sloping floor and steps were
used as seats for those who could not
obtain chairs.
There were five times as many per
sons present last evening to hear about
volcanoes as came last week to listen
to Doctors Hobby and Currie tell of
the imminent danger of yellow fever
to the community.
DR.. Perret went into the actions,
composition and genesis of volcanoes,
naming Kiluea as a representative of
one extreme and Mount Pele as that
of the other, while the greater number
of volcanoes came in the great middle
class between these two.
OF Many Lands. ~
With the lights turned out, the
speaker started on his descriptive talk
of the different fire producing noun.
tains of the world while deliberately
colored views were thrown on the
screen by his assistant. Starting in
with Mount Etna, he told of his ex.
perience there during the great erup-
ton when the twenty-four craters were
active, and the most active one in the
lot was the nearest to the house from
which he was observing the phenomena.
From Etna he took his audience to
the StrombOli eruption of 1907, to
Teneriffe in the Canaries in 1909, and
then to Vesuvius, where he was for q
considerable period during the 1906
eruption.
Down to Hawaii.
After describing the actions of these
famous craters DR.. Perret brought his
audience to Hawaii, and with more
than one hundred views he told them
of the wonders of Kilauea at their
very doors. His collection of photo
graphs of the wonder of Hawaii is ex-
tensive and covers very many phases
of the activity of the volcano by day
and night, and when the first night
slide was shown the audience gave /
long gasp as the beauty of it struck
home to them.
Gave Plain Talk.
There was nothing technical about
the talk which the famous volcanologist |
gave last evening, and to the large
audience he urged better acquaint- |
anee with the volcano at its threshold,
as the varied and beautiful sights he |
mad seen during his few month"; stay
by the side of Madam Pele were Of |
common occurrence and were visible to !
any who would take the trouble to
study the volcano.
In closing DIR. Perret wished to |
thank his friends in Hawaii who had
done so much to aid him in his work,
and make his stay pleasant while in
the island.
He predicted that the lava in the
pit would be on the rise for the next
two months.