Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-05-12


lava lake rose eighty feet in eight hours The
main flow 1900 feet wide, is running at tho rate
of forty miles an hour.
Police guards are holding hundreds OF tourists
and automobilists at considerable distance from
the scene because of the danger of greater out
burst.
And the spouting of Kiauea is of the won
der scenes of the world.
"The Hawaiian volcanoes" writes T. A. Jag
gar, Jr. director of the Hawaiian Volcano observ-
atory, "are truly a national asset wholly unique
of their kind, the most famous in the world Of
science and the most continuously, variously, and
harmlessly active volcanoes on earth. Kilauea
crater has been nearly continuously active with
a lake or fakes of molten lava, for a century.
Mauna Loa is the largest active volcano in the
world, with eruptions about once decade, and
has poured out more lava during the last century
than any other volcano on the globe Haleakala
is a mountain mass ten thousand feet high with
a tremendous crater rift In its summit eight miles
in diameter and three thousand feet deep, contain
ing many high lava cones Haleakala is probably
the largest Of all known craters among volcanoes
that are technically known as active. 1t erupted
less than two hundred years ago The crater at
sunrise is the grandest volcanic spectacle
EARTH"
Kiauea's Lava Lake.
The lava lake at Kilauea is the most spectacu-
lar feature of Hawaii National park. 1t draws
visitors from all over the world 1t is lake of
molten, fiery lava thousand feet long, splashing
on its banks with a noise like waves of the sea,
while great fountains boil through it fifty feet
high. This exhibition of one of the most amazing
revelations of nature-the terrific and irresistible.
forces of the earth's internal tres-is accessible
by automobiles almost to the very brink, and may
be safely viewed
The trip from Hilo to Kilauea volcano is by
tomobile distance of thirty miles. From Hilo
the road gradually ascends through sugar cane
and pineapple plantations to a high elevation and
then punges into great forest of tree ferns,
whose fronds are thirty feet overhead and pro-
vide delightful canopy for many miles, A6
1000 feet elevation the trip ends at Volcano House
on the rim of the crater Here unobstruced
views of towering snow-capped mountains and
the great crater, Kilauea, enormous pit nearly
eight miles in circumference and six hundred feet
deep, enclosing an of 1850 acres Filling the
hoor of this vast bowl is sea of solldified lava.
twisted and contorted into every imaginable shape,
with Jets of steam, vapor and suphurous fumes
rising from innumerable crevices and cracks AT
most the center is the active throat of the vol
cnno itself called by the natives. Halemaumau,
'The House of Everlasting Fire" This was in
Hawaiian mythology the home of Pee. the god
dess of fire.
Greatest Natural Wonder.
This throat or inner pit is mile in clreunl-
ference and contains at all times raging of
molten lava, its whte-hOt waves lashing and gnaw-
ing at the imprisoning walls, and its vast foun-
tains Of incandescent rock eternay fnging their
fiery spray in air; seething and roaring in awful
grandeur. The molten rises and falls peri
odcaIly at times even overfowing the rim of the
pit and spreading out the floor of the main
crater, while red-hot crags and massive ISLANDS
rise from its depths to either collapse in tumultu-
GUS avalanches subside gently beneath the
surface of the lava. The pit is fascinating BY
daylight, but at night the scene is enthrallins
And 1t may be witnessed in perfect safety.
The national park system of the United States
contains several absolute unique natural wonders
such as the Grand Canyon Crater Lake and the
sequoas Of Yosemite, Sequoa and General Grant