The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-12-12
UNDERSTANDABLE 4
AID IN BOOSTING
HANAN'SWONDERS
National Park Service Publishes
Bulletin Describing MarVeis
of Island Reserve
PHOTOGRAPHS OF REGION
WILL BE SPREAD WIDELY
Bureau Lauds Beauties of Hale
akala and KiIauea As World
Attractions For Travellers

The favorable attitude of the ma
tiohal park service of the department
of interior, in advertising the Hawa.
iian National Park through the medium
of press memorandum and special illus.
trated bulletins which are being sent
broadcast over tnf mainland, is giving
another boost to the publicity which
is being given these Islands.
The promotion committee which has
been in active correspondence on the
subject of Kilauea and Haleakala Vol
canO park districts, has just received
from Robert s. Yard, chief of the ma.
tional park; service, acknowledgment
of a number of photographs which See
rotary Taylor sent to him recently for
use in the bulletin issued by the ser
vice, and has also received the first
memorandum for the press issued by
;he department, which gives in con.
3rete form an idea of what the new
HAWAIIAN National Park is and good
descriptions of both of the volcanoes.
Publicity Wide Spread
That the Washington bureau is In
earnest about giving publicity to the
new national park, is evidenced by the
activity it has displayed in obtaining
photographs for use in the first illus.
rated bulletin. kilograms were first
sent to the San Francisco office of the
promotion committee which sent as
many photographs as could be secured
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graphs has been forwarded from the
local headquarters. In acknowledging
receipt of the Hawaii National Park
photographs sent by the promotion com.
mittce. the national park bureau chief
stated that "these photographs are the
Nnly ones really descriptive of this Ter
ritory we have been able to get hold
of. a"
The promotion committee is further
advised that Miss Edna NJ. Peltz, pri
vate secretary TO Mr.. Yard, and a
! friend viii spsiid next summer in the
Islands and during the short time they
are here expect to visit KiLauea and
Haleakala and if practicable ascend
the summit of Mama Loa and also visit
! the canyons on Kauai. The visit of
the private secretary will assist ma.
terially in the handling Of correspond
ence between Washington and Honolulu
on the subject of volcanoes.
The following is the gst of the first
bulletin on the Hawaiian National
Park, which reached the promotion COM
mittee in the last mail:
Objects of The Park
1.-THE Hawaii. National Park, just
created by congress, is the first ma
tional park lying outside the con-
tinental boundaries Of the United
states. 1t sets apart three celebrated
Hawaiian volcanoes, Kilauea, Mauna
Loa, and Haleakala, and cntrusts their
protection and development as national
Eprctacles to the department of the
interior.
1.-The Hawaiian Volcanoes, writes
T. A. Jaggar, director of the Hawaiian
! Volcano Observatory, 'aro truly a ma,
tional asset, wholly unique of their
kind, the most famous in the world of
science and the most continuously
vTiOusly and harmlessly active vol
canoes on earth. Kilauea crater has
been nearly continuously active with
q lake or lakes of molten lava for Il
century. Mauna I.oa is the largest ac
tive volcano and mountain mass in the
world, with eruptions about once de
cade, and has poured out more lava
during the last century than any Other
volcano on the globe. Haleakala is &
mountain mass ten thousand feet high
with tremendous crater rift in it,
summit eight miles in diameter and
three thousand feet deep, with many
| hiDh lava cones built uD inside the
cater. 1t is probably the largest of al
known craters among volcanoes that
are technically known as active. Ha
lCakala erupted less than two hundred
years ago. The crater at sunrise is the
grandest volcanic spectacle on earth.
Lava Lake Feature
"The lava lake at Kilauea is the
main feature of the new national park
IT. draws visitors from all over thu
world 1t is o lake of fire a Thousand
feet long spIashing on it's banks with {
noise like waves of the sea, while grea,
fountains boil through it fifty fee
high see ing quantities of glowing
spray over the shore. Gases hiss anC
rumble and bloc flames play through
cTevasses.
"There have been occasional crises
Mr.. Jaggar recently testified before thu
house committee on the public lands
when the active crater was upheaveC
into IA hill and thereafter collapsed int
deep pit with marvellously spectacu
lar aValanches and fiery grottOes, cas-
Cades, whrlpools and rapids Of glow
| ing melt were common.
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