Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-12-12

WASHINGTON Dec. S-Now that they have been
w added the national park system of the
Hawaiian volcanoes are going to become as much
part national life Niagara Falls and the
Old Faithful geyser.
The law creating the Hawaiian National Park,
which congress recently enacted, at time when
public both in national parks and in Hawaii is
particularly the administration of Stephen
T. Robert Sterling Yard, the value OF the
national parks vacation land has been emphasized
by every agency of publicity, and the public has
responded with enthusiasm More and more thousands
are pouring Yellowstone and Glacier and Mount
Rainier all of the other western national parks
every and constantly increasing percentage
of them go to stay while
No doubt the exotic Hawaiian mountains will
have upon native Americans the hold as the
western mountains and deserts, the conquerng and
crossing of which was one of the great romantic
dramas history. But weird and startling
spectaces, the Hawaiian volcanoesNa the acknowl
edged superiors of them all. One need not be nature
student an artist to appreciate the beauties Of
Kilauea Haleakala. They are dramatically over
whelming they impress themselves unforgetably
upon intelligences. and find in the
most prosaic minds.
Kilauea a lake of molten lava, liquid the
thousand feet long, surrounded by cliffs 300 feet
high of fire dash against the cliffs like surf
on beach, fountains of liquid squirt fifty feet
into air. spraying the cliffs with molten rock while
vivid blue lights play over the surface of the lake The
volcano is continuously active The molten rock rises
falls churning itself into whirpools, and often
great of rock fall into it from the banks.
creating islands in the sea of fire.
Kilauea is in a state of continuous change, which
gives endless fascination. Many persons live
in Hawaii make regular trips the great volcano o
the sunrise it, while they and heat
coffee the hot assures in the rock.
of the best features of Kilauea. the
point national administration,
volcano quite harmless 1t Kisses and rumbles
and writhes it does strike. never over
flowed it's banks. A few foolhardy adventures have
fall hay been in he
of lava that lie its TANKS, proba-
bly, less of menace to human life than any
active volcano Despite the great the crater
climate on the summit of the mountain is COOL
and many Hawaiians spend the warm months there 1t
is traversed by numerous trails and there cottages
and rest houses.
The volcano itself by the only feature of
the which is worth setting aside public
treasure. The lower slopes of Kilauea tropical
forests like others in the world There several
species that found nowhere else and the
wonderful ferns, with single leaves twenty feet
long, here reach an especially perfect development.
Other parts of the slope parklike country,
dotted with tropical and shrubs The whole
is rich in tropical bird life.
These slopes have suffered most from lack
of protection. timber cut, the
used as pig food, birds shot driven away.
this will be changed when the land under the
jurisdiction of the interior department Both the forests
and life will be protected at all times of the
year, and there will be guards to enforce the rules
Mauna Loa and HaleaBala are not nearly so we'll
known as KiIauea, they accessible,
many travellers consider them remarkable Mauna
Ioa the largest active volcano and mountain
the world it has poured out lava the past
century than other volcano the globe. erupts
with considerable regularity about years,
between eruptions is a great park capped with
snow all the around. and ahording every
variety O. climate between its base summit
from tropical to subarctic
The eruptions of Mauna consist in a pouring out
from the crater and from riffs in the side of the