Show ECLIPSE OF THE SUN SON OBSERVED IN SALT LAKE A Promptly at 61 51 yesterday after afternoon afternoon afternoon noon the astronomical the snipes of the sun made Its appearance as aa scheduled and was witnessed by many persons l in the city The eclipse was first irs I visible only In small portion but at ut 53 it reached Its maximum and at that time about oJie of ot the moen could be ben seen n In front of the tho sun The Th weather bureau burau bu au received no Mend end of ot telephone calls during the afternoon prior to the eclipse and while the moon was In passage One woman said she did not believe that there was an eclipse because It was not dark and another said she had almost ruined her har h r eyes ees looking at the sun trying to see the moon passing By Uy use of an ordinary smoked glass glas the I eclipse could be plainly seen and many man a youngster spent the early earl part of the day putting a coating of smoke on a piece of glass in preparation for the eclipse On the r roof of of the Dx Dooly Iy block where the United States weather bureau has Its instruments stationed a telescope was set IlEt up and by use of smoked glass glase an excel ex l lent view of the eclipse se was obtained The telescope used though rather small was of ot great power and sun spots could be made out the glass gla A dark segment was seen gradually en t n upon the bright surface of the sun the shadow slowly increasing until the eclipse reached its maximum t The next eclipse of the sun Is scheduled 5 for 1918 |