Show clie TIIE gan saji naji I 1 dwina ysland ISLAND i I 1 about a year ago at thet the imd time of the great earthquake and erupt eruption ioli at hawaii action in the old crater suddenly ceased simultaneous with the tremendous shock shook which shook the whole archipelago from rau to the internal fire ceased to burn and the bottom of the crater subsidy subsided from three to five hundred feet below its level it seemed as though the lava had been suddenly drawn off I 1 as was doubtless tho the case leaving the door of the crater craten caved in had it not been held together by its great thickness and strength no one can tell where it might have ha ve fallen id top p as no traces of the fire have since been seen until lately except in the oid old south lake which seems to be a funnel leading from the deep internal fires travelers who have lately visited the crater craten assure us that the old south lake is growing I 1 in 4 size and activity it increases its area not from overflow i but by the caving in of the surrounding rim at times immense m portions portion sot of the adjacent old oid and hard lava cave in and are swallowed up tip in the boiling lava iava of the fiery caldron in this way the active lake has increased from to boo feet over 1500 in diameter and is still extending extends g some think that thab it may continio continue contin ij to enlar eniar enlarge its borders until it engulfs the greater part from this it will be see sae seen saen n that the crater is undergoing a great change and that the internal fires are ard becoming more moye active though it mau mav may 11 be years before they acquire the foro forc necessary to produce another eruption its present condition is very similar sla sia lilar ilian to what whit old residents represent it to td have been in 1830 or thereabouts not only is this steady sterly increase indrea se of a activity going on now in kilauea Kilau ea but occasionally jets of lava are thrown up out of south lake to such a hight as to attract the atte attention nilon of natives living near or 0 passing by at some distance from the crater the southern part of hawaii fro from ni hilo to kau is still subject to earthquake shocks and scarcely a week passes without one these are not sufficiently severe bevere ho however weyer weTer to cause causel ally any damage but their existence creates p doubt aa as to the late ate eruption having heen been p 6 en so thorough as those tho e of former years in in pacify ing lil iri g the rebellious rebel lipus elements elemet its at antwork work under mauna loa those who wild have visited kilauea in former years will readily observe the great changes in inthe the depression odthe ot the floor of the crater as well as the comparative para tive activity of f ih tho the miten milen molten lava while a stra unger figer might n not at notice anything ny peculiar and pe perhaps haps be b even disappointed in M not ot nind find findling finding lilg the display such as his hii imagination had pl pictured compared oil ori spared with thi the occasions 0 of f great tt eruptions kilauea is iti sayi ja qu quite hid RID gref dormant and yet the changes we haye hayo noted will interest all who have ever visited this great outlet of the internal intern alcires fires jono fono tuu tub advertiser |