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A TABLE
DELICACY
The pineapple industry of the
Hawaiian islands Is a thing to be
marveled at, not so much that It haa
developed Into a mammoth business *dn
so comparatively short a time, but
rather because the production of?«uch
really choice pineapple products*,wa« «o
long delayed.
It is a marvel that we were satis
fied for so many years with the tough,
white, tasteless slices labeled pine
apple that were the only kind obtain
able before the advent of the present
luscious, melting, golden, canned fruit
from Hawaii.
No doubt there have been, and are,
pineapples grown in other places with
some of these appetizing attributes,
but it seems that only In the "Para
dise of the Pacific" is the fruit so uni
formly rich, tender, fragrant and Juicy,
and it is this uniformity that has en
abled the Hawaiian pineapple to make
such rapid strides in its attainment of
commercial supremacy.
From a pack of 1,800 cases in 1903
the Industry has grown to a probable
pack of 1,000,000 cases In 1912, largely
packed by the Hawaiian Pineapple
Co., Ltd., of which Mr. James D. Dole
is the head.
The pineapple has much more to
commend it to the favorable consider
ation of humanity as a food than the
majority of other fruits, in that it con
tains a pronounced and active veg
etable digestive element, which not
only renders the fruit itself easily
digestible, but actually extends its
digestive Influence to other foods pres
ent in the stomach.
This Interesting property of the fruit
is perhaps more noticeable in the bot
tled pineapple juice, which originated
also with Mr. Dole at Honolulu about
two years ago, and Dole's Pineapple
Juice today, in bottled form, is a staple
article in many parts of the world.
More than passing notice should be
paid to this particular branch of the
pineapple industry, because the devel
opment and perfecting of the juice Into
commercial form resulted in the placing
of an absolutely new and hitherto un
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known food product upon the markets
of the world.
Various attempt* have been made to
hold the juice from spoiling by means
of different chemical preservatives, as
physicians had known for years of its
great value both in health and disease,
but these attempts were all abortive,
and when Mr. Dole approached the
problem It was with the determina
tion to produce a pure bottled pine
apple juice or none. Even with the
choicest pineapples In the world to
work with, and ample resources. It re
quired much time and closest applica
tion to bring the desired result, but
this in the end was well worth while.
In bottling the pure Juice of the
pineapple fruit excessive care Is taken
to preserve as far as possible the es
sential elements of the fruit uncon
taminated by the addition of any
foreign substances, like sugar, water
or preservatives, that might In any
way interfere with the dietetic action of
the Juice, for while the canned fruit
and the bottled juice both lend them
selves to the gastronomic delights of
man, the Juice goes as well Into the
hospital ward and the homes where
sickness prevails, to sooth and relieve.
Truly, the American is a restless and
unsatisfied mortal, constantly delving
g
about In search of something newer or
better with which to add to his own or
other's happiness, or to produce a new
commercial product, and Hawaii, with
her peculiar soil formations and varied
climatic conditions, will surely have
more to offer for the entertainment
and help of the human race.
There are other strange fruits and
vegetables in these wonderful Islands.
Some that are daily food for the In
habitants are barely known across the
Pacific.
But for the Ingenuity and indomita
ble purpose of this New Englander,
James D. Dole, canned Hawaiian Pine
apple and bottled Pineapple Juice
would have been much longer delayed
In becoming the commercial products
that have placed them on the tables of
the civilized world.
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1912.
TO KILAUEA IN
SATIN SLIPPERS
Milady, Clad and Shod for Tiftri
Avenue, May Go to BrinK
Of Living Crater
Satin slippers were never designed
nor intended for traversing ragged,
rugged, jagged lava beds at the brink
of a living volcano. Neither did Madam
Pele. the goddess of all volcanoes,
whose home is in the famed crater of
Kilauea, in her wildest moments of
power Imagine visitors to her domain
would be recruited from amid the aris
tocratic, satin slippered neighborhoods
of San Francisco. New York, London,
Paris and the capitals of the world. But
satin slippers are now as frequent upon
the brink of the boiling, roaring, lash
ing lava lake of Kilauea as were the
brogans of the days before automobiles
and modern means of transportation.
A satin slipper visit to the crater today
is Just as easy as a trip to the Cliff
house.
Milady has but to step from her Fifth
avenue home into her limousine, thence
to the luxurious transcontinental train,
whirled across the republic to San
Francisco, across the city in a motor
car to a palatial Pacific liner, on which
she is carried to Honolulu, where motor
cars await her fancy. Then a short
channel trip to Hilo, on the island of
Hawaii, thence in a motor car along a
31 mile road of wonderful smoothness
to the famed Volcano house, which
overlooks the great expanse of the
crater. After a dinner at the hostelry
made famous by visits of Mark Twain
and other authors, princes, potentates,
statesmen, sea and land fighters from
At Kilauea. The upper picture shows tourists on the lava trails and below is shown a view of the crater.
every part of the world, milady again
steps into a motor car and soon finds
herself at the very brink of the world's
greatest natural wonder—a crater in
action. Her satin slippers, In which
she minced upon Fifth avenue, find
walks along the brink of the living
crater which are delightful. After a
soulful hour beside the pit of fire mi
lady returns to the Volcano house, and
her satin slippers are not a whit worse
for the trip.
WHERE LAVA LIVES
Milady's mind and gaze are concen
trated upon that fiery, shifting lake far
below. For two hours she sat upon
the brink, her back half frozen by the
cold air from the north, her face aglow
with the heat from the Pit. The Pit is
1,000 feet in diameter, with straight up
. and down walls. Where the lava has
spread to the walls and then dropped
down a few feet there Is a flooring 6f
half cooled lava extending from the
base of the walls toward the center.
The center is the hell hole. Gushers of
living, yellow hued lava boll up from
the edges of the flooring and start a
flow from west to east. Every 20 or 30
seconds explosions take place in vari
ous parts of the lake, the principal one
being known as "Old Faithful." There
the explosions are spectacular and awe
inspiring. As the lava flows the sur
face cools, and the surface appears to
be a ma"ss of floating black islands,
with red seams showing where the
cooling veneer is broken. Then the
whole mass rises as an explosion of
gas takes place and the black and
yellow masses mingle confusedly.
Sometimes the opening is a long slit.
Then the lava shoots up in thin sheets
like a fan. Again the opening assumes
the form of a cross, or a round hole,
producing striking changes in the ap
pearance of the flery display. By day
the scene is splendid. By night It is
magnificent, for then the eye is not
distracted by other scenes and the gaze
is concentrated on the restless, ever
changing, roaring, hissing lake of
liquid lava below.
Where else in the world can a vol
cano in action be -reached by wearers
of satin slippers, it Is the easiest trip
in the world, and It Is a trip to one of
the wonders of mother earth.
The volcano! That vast dead sea of
lava which once heaved and billowed
ALBERT P.TAYLOR
and then became cool with the billows
still in place, is graudeur by Itself.
Think of riding for miles across a
stretch of lava in an old crater and
knowing it was once a seething mass
of molten mother earth. Think of
stopping now and then to thrust a pos
tal card into a crack at the end of a
split stick and bringing it up scorched
and often times ablaze. Think of a
merry party stopping at a crack and
placing a coffee pot over It and putting
eggs In the pot and then making merry
over a volcano cooked dinner.
DANTE'S INFERNO AT HAND
Then suddenly a yawning pit opens
out in this vast hardened sea of cold
lava, and out of it issues clouds of
sulphur Impregnated smoke and vapor,
and from its depths roars and hisses
strike chilly upon the ear, and soon
there bursts upon the vision a living
picture of Dante's inferno. The vis
itor can well Imagine where the bible
writers received their conception of
the place of future punishment, where
hell fii-e and brimstone predominated.
Standing on the front veranda of the
I Volcano house one looks down over the
tops of red aigretted trees, to a black
arena such as Satan might employ for
the Saturday afternoon field sports of
a hundred thousand devils. The arena
is paved with twisted lava, on which
may be seen, when the air is cold, Jets
and puffs of steam. Away off in the
center is the Pit, from which sulphuret
clouds are almost ever rising, and about
the outer circle are vast precipitous
cliffs from four to six hundred feet
high. It is precisely such a scene as
Dante saw and Dore pictured; and one
may well understand, after looking
down the awful well of Kilauea, how
the early theologians got their physi
cal Idea of a place of everlasting tor
ment. There Is a brimstone lake, a
bottomless pit, the Are that never dies,
and all the accessories save the gentle
man with the horns and the hoofs.
There the satin slippered one stands
upon the edge of an abyss that goes
straight down for half a thousand feet
to a hot floor of which she has glimpses
through the whirling vapor—a floor
covered with small hillocks, each with
a tiny crater of its own, which may
at any moment pour out a torrent of
liquid rock. Milady poises upon the
ledge of cracked lava, ready it might
seem, to carry her into the depths. B'lt
nobody ever gets hurt, and yet every
bouy wonders why.
The heat of this caldron of nature Is
almost unrealizable to human calcula
tions, although science has demon
strated within a year that the lake
sends the thermometer up to 1800 de
grees Fahrenheit. The instruments
lowered by the scientists of the Mas
sachussets Institute of Technology and
the Carnegie Institute of Washington,
D. C, were instantly changed into va
por as they touched the lake. Science
triumphed in the end and the heat was
recorded.
Science has got a foothold In the
era +T, for volcanologlsts have found
that Kilauea is the only crater in the
world which may be safely and easily
studied. Vesuvius and Etna are almost
inaccessible, and when In eruption are
not to be approached. Quite the con
trary with Hawaii's volcanoes, which
have been tamed.
SCIENTIFIC STUDY
Kilauea supplied science with its
most important discovery, since vol
canology became a science, for from
the floor of the pit four scientists, in
cluding Doctors Day and Sheperd of
the Carnegie Institute, pumped gas into
glass tubes from a cone less than 40
feet from the "lashing, roaring lake,
while every moment there was a pros
pect of the half cooled floor collapsing
Into the fearful depth*. Those gases
astonished the scientists, for water con
densed in the tubes is a phenomenon
which has been denied by the new
school of volcanologists, but rigidly ad
hered to by the older school. The com
position of the gases when the analysis
is complete Is expected to prove that
they are sufficient in themselves to gen
erate heat and to keep the masses of
Kilauea boiling over and over again,
thereby proving that Kilauea Is Inde
pendent of all other volcanoes. When
the craters upon the mountain of
Mauna Loa are active there is no
change in the activity of Kilauea.
Year in and year out the flaming
waves break thunderlngly upon the
rocky coast, dashing molten spray hun
dreds of feet In the air. The fires glow
balefully. The gleaming cracks take
the form of crosses and stars, and at
Intervals run zigzag through the dark
mass like flashes of chain lightning
caught and held for a moment upon a
summer sky at midnight. At intervals
the cracks open widely, giving deeper
and more terrifying glimpses Into the
depths. Only the beating of a sea, the
pulsing heart of a world,, could have
shaken the lofty cliff as those fiery
waves did. And the sound of their
breaking, sullen, full of nameless
threatening might have been a mani
festation of the anger of God.
Faf away in the westerly corner of
the Pit always gleams a point of this
fire that man never made, that might
be overlooked because of the manifes
tations o f Old Faithful." Its waves
surged an' b (Ice, and as the black cov
ering was - v.n off the fires lighted
up the Pit . . that every rocky outline
was defined. The surging of the molten
sea beneath the black surface, which is
broken so frequently, makes a glow
that lights up the clouds. As milady
retreats from the brink of the Pit and
returns to the hotel, miles away, she
turns, as did Lot's wife, and sees the
pillar of fire by nipcht, fascinating and
awful, and from the hotel veranda the
wonderful glow fascinates just as it
does close by where the roaring and
hissing can be heard.
The first glimpse of the great crater
M Kilauea is inspiring. The crater has
been described in almost every lan
guage known upon earth, by men of
scientific mind, who talk learnedly of
geological causes and effects, and by
the mere laity who can only tell, in
part, what they feel upon seeing It.» It
has been painted and photographed by
amateurs and artists. No human being
can descripe Kilauea. The sight is an
emotion —and emotions do not lend
themselves to description.
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