DAS' VISIT
TO ISLANDS OF
SOUTHERN SEA
Naval Drydock Dedicated and
Trips Around Tropical
Country Enjoyed by
Navy Secretary
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HONOLULU, Aug. 20 (by mail).—
Secretary of the Navy Josephus Dan
iels, who came to Hawaii for the ded
ication of the great Pearl Harbor
naval drydock, and officers of the
battleship New York and destroyers
Chauncey, Dent, Philip and Waters,
which brought him here from Cali
fornia, today saw all phases of Ha
waiian life and industry in an auto
mobile ride “around the island” of
Aahu, a 90-mile drive famous the
world over.
From the modern skyscrapers of
Honolulu, the visitors in a few hours
were whisked to tiny villages where
natives still live in grass huts, used
in Hawaii for 1500 years; they passed
the royal mausoleum where lie the
bones of many of Hawaii’s native
rulers; they drove through tens of
thousands of acres of growing sugar
cane and through enormous pineapple
plantations.
Leaving Honolulu the motor cars
for six miles climbed up Nuuanu val
ley, which terminates abruptly at the
Pali in a narrow gash with towering
mountains on either side with a sheer
drop of 1200 feet to the pineapple
fields on the plains. A wonderful
panorama of land and sea is dis
closed without an instant’s warning.
The greatest event in Hawaiian
history occurred at the Pali. When
Kamehameha the Great invaded Oaku
from his owm realm, Hawaii, in 1795,
his warriors engaged the army of the
king of Oahu in Nuuanu valley. After
a desperate encounter the Cahuans
fled in a wild rout up the valley, the
Hawaiians closely pursuing. Rather
than suraender, thousands of Cahuans
plunged over the Pali to instant
death. A bronze tablet at the Pali
tells the story of Kamehameha’s vic
tory, which resulted in the unifica
tion of the islands of Hawaii and the
foundation of the Kamehameha dy
nasty, a succession of kings and
queens ruling the group until Queen
Liliuokalani was deposed in 1893,
when a republic was established. An
nexation to the United States fol
lowed in 1898.
The trip took the party to Laie,
the Mormon settlement, wdiere a mag
nificent new temple was recently com
pleted. Here some 500 native con
verts to the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter Day Saints work a big sugar
plantaton and railroad, the property
of the church. A visit w-as paid to
Schofield Barracks, the largest mili
tary reservation in Hawaii, where ac
commodations are available for 30,000
troops.
Visits Volcano.
Kilauea, the world’s most active
and most accessible volcano, was to
day viewed by Secretary of the Navy
Josephus Daniels, and officers of
those vessels of the Pacific fleet
which brought the cabinet members
to Hawaii. The warships came here
from Honolulu where Secretary Dan
iels dedicated the Pearl Harbor naval
drydock.
Not the least interesting part of
today’s excursion was the 30 mile
auto drive from Hilo to the volcano,
which took the secretary and naval
fleers through sugar plantations,
quaint native villages, with all the
atmospl-tre of ancient Hawaii; and
miles of gigantic trees, ferns and
forests of other tropical plants and
trees. Hawaii, geographically, is the
youngest of the group of islands
which take its name, and is the only
island which still has active vol
canoes.
Kilauea, the volcano, is on the
slope of Mauna Loa, a mountain peak
towering 13,675 feet, at an elevation
of nearly 4,000 feet above sea level.
The main crater is nearly eight miles
in circumference and 600 feet deep,
inclosing an area of 2,650 acres,* a
solidified sea of lava which takes
most fantastic shapes. In the center
of this vast sink in the mountain
slope is Halemaumau, or “the house
of everlasting fire,” a great pit over
1,000 feet in diameter where churns
and boils a sea of liquid rock, with
waves and billows of white-hot lava
eternally tearing at the confining
walls.
The molten lava of the central fire
pit rises and falls at certain periods
of the year, sometimes falling 600
feet or more below the rim and at
other times rising until the fluid rock
gushes in great streams over the floor
of the main crater. In recent weeks
the volcano has been particularly ac
tive, and Secretary Daniels and his
companions found much to interest
them.
Near the crater of Kilauea is a
sandy plain, covered with huge
boulders vomited up in the eruption of
1790. It was here that the army of
King Keoua of Kau was destroyed by
this eruption when on its way to at
tack the forces of Kamehameha the
, Great, who made himself the first
' king of all the islands. This historic
plain was traveled by Mr. Daniels and
his party on the way to the fire pit
of the volcano. In modern times no
one has lost his life at Kilauea.
GORDON F. HAMBY
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Gordon Fawcett Hamby, alias J. B.
Allen, taken from Tacoma, Wash., to
New York to he tried for the murder
of two men when he robbed the East
Brooklyn Savings bank last December, I
admits he has committed two train rob
beries and thirteen bank holdups.
ARRIVAL OF FLEET
AT GOLDEN GATE IS
CELEBRATED IN SONG
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 2 (by As
sociated Press).—“Lords of lightning
and steam and fire” are they who
manned the Pacific fleet when it
swept through the Golden Gate yes
terday, in the words of Albert Rupp,
shipyard poet.
Rupp, a “bolter-up” in one of the
great plants across the bay from San
Francisco, attracted considerable at
tention by his writings on war-time
ship building.
The arrival of the fleet yesterday
he celebrated in these verses:
The Arrival of the Fleet
(By Albert Rupp)
Mother of oceans’ mighty tide!
Here, for thy empire-building pride,
The Golden Gate is open wide,
O’ercanopied by clouds of glory;
And here for a new immortal day,
To our mountain-locked magnificent
bay,
Welcome the fleet, whose power shall
sway
Our fate in civilization’s story.
Hark, as the bells in the steeples
ring,
And our eager millions loudly sing!
Come in, oh, Fleet! and your blessings
bring,
For the peace of our majesty and
splendor!
With your masters of air, and wizards
of wire;
With your lords of lightning, and
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steam and fire;
Woe to the foe who dares desire,
To be our sacred land’s offender!
Gallant heroes of sky and sea!
Guards of our precious liberty!
Stalwart sons of our homes of the
free,
Whose deeds have filled the world
with wonder!
Thrilled by the glow of your noble
zeal,
Great are we in our wealth of weal,
As ye man our country’s walls of steel
And speak for us with their throats
of thunder!
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