The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-01-26
ERUPTION DUE
MAUNA L0A
Professor Iaguar win Stay to
s- Watch If It Comes Off
Now at Work.
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c3HILo, january %. = The Arst
steps towards the actual establish
.ment Of permanent observatory
at Kilauea began last week when Pro
r,fessor Jaggar, of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, took up his
residence at the Volcano House for the
purpose of beginning a permanent aud
uninterrupted recording of the actiyi-
tics of the craters of KilRuea and No
.kuaweoweo.
81 do not know just how long / will
remain here,h said Professor Jaggar,
whom he visited Hilo last Friday. "I
will probably stay here several months,
but when leave, l will leave the, work
in charge of an assistant, whom l ex-
poet to get about next week. As ar
rangements for such an assistant have
not been completed, cannot at this
time say who-it win be. On the other
hand, If there should be an eruption
OF 'Mauna Boa, i will remain here for
an indefinite period. 1t is quite pos
sible that there will be an eruption
'iof Mauna Loa SOON. 1t is due within
,fhe' next three years. Fl
1-H Permanent Observatory.
,'tIt is my plan to. continue to use
the hut erected by Mr.. Ferret at the
edge of the. pit as an observatory, but
in addition to this we must have per-
manent laboratory, which will be loca.
ted either by the Volcano House or
ON the Uwekahuna bluff, in which the
instruments can be kept and where
laboratory work can be done. This
should be a building Of about two
rooms, SO arranged that it could be
added to in the future, as the work
grows and more funds become available.
We will always have some one watch
ing "the crater, and our house will be
open for visitors at certain regular
hours We hope to educate public SEN
Ginent to bring it about that our sta.
tions and instruments will be left un-
disturbed. The Perret house has been
broken into a number of times, and one
cannot leave anything there; certainly
nothing delicate.
Trail to Mokuaweoweo.
owe also intend to have built, as
soon as possible, trail leading to the
crater of Mauna Loa, and to erect a
small building at Mokuaweoweo for use
at times of activity there. At present
we win study lava columns and get
ready data WUcn Will DC Oh uSo When
the next eruption occurs. We will
make systematic records, which will be
published. from time to time.
ct is our hope to be able to erect,
some time, n permanent concrete build
ing on the Uwekahuna bluff, as that
(, point affords an excellent view of the
pitt while it also gives, n fine view of
Mauna Loa.
"The work is at present being car
!, 5ied on under the Massachusetts lnsti.-
: fute of Technology and the Honolulu
committee which was formed to admin
lister the funds subscribed. We hope
TO place the organization on a definite
and permanent basis soon.
Professor Jaggar was much interested
in the report which came from Kona
during the last week of December, to
the effect that Thos. White, Allan Wall
and the latter Is cowboys, had seen
glow on Mauna Loa which made them
believe that there was an outbreak
from that mountain. He said that the
very fact that Mauna Loa was between
the Kona men and Kilauea would, un-
der certain cloud conditions, MAKE
reflection from Kilauea appear as if it
came from Mauna Loa. He felt quite
:! certain that there could have been no
eruption from Mauna Loa at the time
stated, as, had there been one, it would
not have stopped before more had been
heard of it.