Word: kilauea
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...founders and managing editor of the Rockland (Me.) Daily Star. In 1894 he went to Hawaii as managing editor of the Pacific Commercial Advertiser, Honolulu. He served on the Territorial Board of Education and in the Republican Territorial Commission (1906-07). While Pacific Institute delegates met at Honolulu, Kilauea (largest active volcano in the world) erupted, flooded its eight-mile-around crater with molten lava. Visitors from Hilo (30 miles away) were driven back from the crater by dense sulphur fumes...
...more modern, though still semi-mythological explanation of Kilauea's outburst linked Pele with Dr. Thomas A. Jaggar, volcano-legist. Dr. Jaggar has spent many years studying Kilauea, and has resided in an observatory...
...away on a volcano-studying mission in Alaska. Natives maintain that Pele has grown fond of Dr. Jaggar and that the eruption is her protest against his absence. In support of this theory they say that when, in 1924. Dr Jaggar left Hawaii for a visit to New York, Kilauea promptly became rampant and that its last previous outbreak (1925) came while Dr. Jaggar was traveling in the Orient...
...Mauna Loa eruption may have been a blessing in disguise. It doubtless took subterranean pressure away from Kilauea and Mauna Kea, the neighboring volcanoes, whose eruptions would be truly catastrophic to the many settlers near them...
...University Museum is still closed to the public, but members of the University may see the exhibit of Kilauea by making arrangements with Mr. Sayles, Professor Woodworth, or Professor Atwood, at the University Museum...