Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1921-02-24
Water Flows Across the Deck and
Enters Stateroom - Visits the
Great Volcano
FIREWORKS TAME IN
COMPARISON WITH CRATER
Company Dimes on COcOanuts
Fresh From the Trees as Trip
Is Made by Automobile

Miss Jennie Baker Of Prairie du Sac
has written to The News OF that
place about being in storm on the
sea along the coast of the Hawaiian
Islands. The water washed over the
deck while she was above and it was
necessary for her keep her feet
on a bench. They baled the water out
of the staterooms and at night the
boat rolled heavily. Most of the things
on the boat were soaked. The officers
on the boat declared it was the worst
storm in years.
Concerning her further experiences,
in part, she says.
DesoIate Black Lava
| had bought a round trip ticket
and was in company with two gen
tlemen and two ladies with our lug
gage and a driver in 7-passenger
Cadillac. We rode 100 miles to this
hotel. We passed through the most
desolate black lava flows! / was
surprised to find that lava flows up
hill as well as down. We could look
up and see hill rising above hill all
covered with the rought black mass,
and it flowed down into the sea and
nobody knows what became Of it
there. Our driver told US that after
the flow of two years ago he went
out in a boat with a friend and
cooked fish were floating on the wat
er and his friend stuck his hand in
to the water and burned it. We saw
one little green oasis in the midst
of the black desolation. 1t was lit
tie more than an acre in extent the
men said Sixty steers took refuge
there from the flow of two years
ago, and were not hurt although
they suffered from the heat and
were badly frightened After a day
or two the lava had cooled enough
so that men could get them off.
The houses of three settlers stand
about 100 feet from the edge of the
flow. They never left their places
as they could see the flow was not
headed ther way. The river of hot
lava breaks off the small trees and
surrounds the large ones and sets
them on fire, we saw two or three
burned trunks lying near the road
There is good auto road the entire
100 miles. Along the way there are
many stone fences-all made of lava
rock. Near the lava flow of 1868
think there was a good five miles
where there was a fence of stone on
either side of the road. One of the
men in the auto continually exclaim-
ed at the expense Of making such
a fence. The land it enclosed looked
so worthless, much of the land
seemed to be shallow soil over the
lava rock
Money in Stock
One of the old inhabitants that l
talked with on the boat has a stock
farm at an elevation of 1000 feet
He raises horses and grade Hereford
cattle. I asked him if the business
paid, and he asked what I thought it
would when you sold for Fl cents a
pound and they fed themselves all
the year around.
We left our baggage at the hotel
and drove. seven miles to the volca-
no. This is not a separate volcano
but crater called Kilauea at an ele-
vaton of 1000 feet on the slope of the
volcano Mauna Loa which is 1855
feet high and which was hidden in
mist so we did not get sight of it.
The crater Kilauea is about eight
miles in circumference and 600 feet
deep. The floor is dry lava and in the
center is a pit about 1000 it. in dia.
which is called "Halemaumau" (the
house of everlasting fire") This is
filed with burning lava. Scientists
measured this burning lava by let
ting down an iron tube made in lay
ers with asbestos between the layers.
1t bent at a depth of 45 feet, so they
say that is the depth of the molten
mass which boils and bubbles as does
anything you cook in kettle on the
stove. The boiling lava is a gorgeous
flame color 1t is not red as the color
ed picture postals are. 1t is not orange
but looks like thick fire. Sometimes ii
boils harder in one part of the cal
dron and again in another In some
places it is just a quiet red glow. In
Others it boils up 10 or 20 feet and
throws out spatters on the rocks. In
places it is covered with at solid sill
very grey scum that sometimes will