Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-05-06

lava lake rose eighty feet in eight hours. Inc
main flow, 1900 feet wide, is running at the rate
of forty miles hour.
Police guards holding hundreds OF TOURISTS
and automobilists at a considerable distance from
the scene because of the danger of a greater out
burst.
And the spouting of Kilauea is one of the Won
der scenes of the world.
eThe Hawaiian volcanoes" writes T. A. Jag
gar, Jr, director of the Hawaiian Volcano obsery-
atory, 'are truly a national asset wholly unique
of their kind, the most famous in the world OF
science and the most continuously, variously, AMI
harmlessly active volcanoes on earth Kilauea
crater has been nearly continuously active with
lake or lakes of molten lava, for a century.
NIauna Loa is the largest active volcano in the
world with eruptions about once decade anG
has poured out 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. Haleakaa is probably
the largest of all known craters among volcanoes
that are technically known as active. It erupted
less than two hundred years ago. The crater at
sunrise is the grandest volcanic spectacle on
EARTH
tjIauea's Lava Lake
The lava lake at Kilauea is the most spectacu-
far feature of Hawaii National park 1t draws
visitors from all over the world It is a lake of
molten, fiery lava a thousand feet long, splashing
on its banks with 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 fires-s accessible
by automobiles almost to the very brink, and may
be safely viewed.
The trip from lIilo to Kilauea volcano is by au-
tomobile distance of thirty miles. From Hilo
the road gradually ascends through sugar cane
and pineapple plantations, to high elevation and
then pIunges into great forest of tree ferns,
whose fronds are thirty feet overhead and pro-
vide delightful canopy for many miles. AT
1900 feet elevation the trip ends at Volcano House
on the rim of the crater. Here are unobstructed
views of towering snow-capped mountains and
the great crater, Kiiauea, an enormous pit nearly
eight miles in circumference and six hundred feet
deep enclosing area of 1850 acres. Filling the
door of this vast bowl is sea of solicited lava,
twisted and contorted into every imaginable shape,
with Jets of steam, vapor and sulphurous fumes
rising from innumerabe crevices and cracks. At
most at the center is the active throat Of the vol
cano itself, called by the natives, Halemaumau,
sThe House of Everlasting Fire" This was, in
Hawaiian mythology the home of Pele, the god
dess of fire.
Greatest Natural Wonder.
This throat or inner pit is mile in circum-
ference and contains at all times a raging sea OF
molten lava it's white-hot waves flashing and gnaw-
ing at the imprisoning walls, and its vast foun-
tains of incandescent rock eternally Ringing thef
fiery spray in air. seething and roaring in aWful
grandeur The molten sea rises and falls perl
odcally at times even overlooking the rim OF the
pit and spreading out over the floor of the main
crater while red-hot crags and massive islands
rise from it's depths to either collapse in tumultu-
Gus avalanches or subside gently beneath the
surface of the lava The pit is fascinating by
daylight but at night the scene is enthfallng
And it 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
seouoias of Yosemite, Sequoia and General Grant