The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-03-24
Good Progress Being Made on the
Kau Road with Labor
from High Circles.
(speeial Correspondenee.l

VOLCANO HOUSE, Hawaii, March
20.--Life at the Kilanea Volcano Hodss
just now is L continual round Of long
walks and the shivers In temperature
ranging officially from 10 to 81 degrees
out Of doors and comfort within. The
sun has even been slow in appearing
when the mercury Is 50 low, and Thurs
day was the first day In more than
week when Mauna Loa was visible.
Show.capped Mauna Kea was seen for
a while ON Wednesday. Steam from
the crater has quite shut out the view,
for the wind has been from the south,
and the sulphur fumes have made it
disagreeable at times. But the sulphur
is the reminder during the day Of some
thing doing in the crater, while at
night the glow and the periodical out
burst of flame from s"old faithful
confirm II. Wednesday night the view
from the hotel yeranda was one of
sublime grandeur
Steam Clouds.
All over the landscape, including the
pit of Kilanea and the surrounding
country to the northwest, is Il mass or
iutting steam from the innumefable
cracks. This frequently shuts ont the
quarry site, mile distant, where many
of Hawaii s grafters are engaged build
ing one of the finest roads in the Ter,
ritory-a road that needs a touch Of
only three miles TO join with that ut
the closed Crater Hotel
s.s Distinguished Laborers.
On the Kan side Of the Volcano
House the new road will be on more
of d straight liner an ugly grade curve
will be eliminated at the cost of a
couple of feet OF the Volcano House
flower garden. The avoidance Of curves
on the entire line seems TO have been
the object Of the surveyor, and with
good results, for it will mean greater
safety for automobiles, of whom there
are many. During the week last past
but two teams have been seen passing
the HOTEL, while Of machines the going
seams to be continuous.
There are two gangs OF prisoners on
the road-sixty-two in all-with graft
ere about equally divided in the gan gs
The little old chap who dynamited the
house OF the deputy sheriff at Laupa.
hoehoc and got n stiff sentence works
faithfully, showing stones into the
crnsher; couple Of Kona men whose
public accounts were mixed with pri-
/ vate funds and used are at the same
work. Over near the Jail some of the
better known Hilo office holders are en-
gagged in bodybuilding, for there are
no favorites.
Boosting for Heen.
In IIilO, among some Of the men
whose business takes them around the
courts, there is an expressed wish that
Deputy County Attorney Heen BE- given
a deputyship In the attorney general s
department. He bears an excellent rep
utation here for ability and desire
to make good
Parsons Not worrying.
Judge Parsons, whose commission
/. was renewed by President Taft aud
not confirmed by the senate couple
OF years ago, is indifferent as to his
own appointment, and has so written
the Governor. II is said that when
the list OF Recommendation was pnb-
lished and the Judge found his name
mot among the others, he wrote the
Governor that the omission was quite
satisfactory under tho circumstances
that be was a ulliean, and If the
appointment was controlled by politics
he would remain Republican, whether
or no.