Salt Lake Tribune | 1899-11-06 | Page 7 | The Most Unique Observatory in the Universe

THE MOST UNIQUE OBSERVE 1 1 TORY IN THE UNIVERSE ben nevis one of the greatest meteorological stations in in the world likely to become a government men institution edinburgh oct 22 2 owing to the rn movement 0 ement now belna being started which is hau behind it some of tile the most pro prominent in i 9 ailts lilts ax as well isell as of other tier dersom of note dote in the united kingdom to baa ben N neils Is observatory atory turned into v r Cover government arn e Is L institution this I 1 lit it tle heard of but most moat notable place fulton fud ton ass assume s international importance th the a ume P flenoild service dono done liy by th IN observatory during the pa pait litt it lew few years has called for or repeated comment in the he reports rt 3 of the transactions rt of the iho royal of r edinburgh and at the scottish meteorological society set S little hur hub eter beell brittell or board abo about at tills fainot anious tio and unique a apol POE that a description of 0 it at the a r sent time lime will doubtless prove of 0 a greatest ae in Anier lc at ac the outset I 1 it on may ay he be stated slated that byi the E B n nevis observatory cannot by sm ani of tile imagination ha be 1 cal ballod od a 1 icorn buried far j away up in the mist of the mounta moun Lalni insI its ll 11 cen in summer nummer sufi pett gest little to art all act tile I 1 in n I 1 deed decd the topmost heights or the mountain I 1 tie nip alboy wreathed in snow show aridi and 11 1 l 41 1 71 Z K TZ 7 1171 1 1 m 1 t x I 1 i I I 1 j i 1 I 1 I 1 c 4 L 11 1 t 1 t r it 4 1 I 1 t 1 1 I 1 N 2 y V t 1 Z ri S il 1 I 1 I 1 A ir 65 tl i y 1 I 1 I 1 ak 15 N 1 N I 1 t S I 1 I 1 I 1 ar I 1 I 1 0 3 gk L I 1 zt J 1 I I 1 1 I 1 I 1 i 1 V N I 1 I 1 I 1 11 I 1 I 1 ill I 1 I 1 I 1 Y r 1 I 1 ig I 1 I 1 70 f 0 1 1 41 r 0 1 I 1 tl I 1 s f 93 ij 4 i I 1 V Z tyma q I 1 L i A ak M i t i N 1 41 1 I 1 I 1 1 1 f ill t I 1 I 1 4 k 1 i 1 it 1 l I 1 1 1 I 1 1 4 I 1 V a C lc 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 4 I 1 I 1 C I 1 I 1 j 1 I 1 is I 1 i e eit V it W I 1 A a I 1 I 1 1 v I 1 z 7 1 L A r 71 1 I 1 I 1 IV t i F lafr if rr i 4 ll 11 I 1 IF I 1 A I 1 E I 1 ef I 1 I 1 I 1 4 m II 11 7 rw T V if 12 dijt li jt 1 I 1 1 11 Z la f b I 1 Z I 1 U 1 i e I 1 I 1 a ir I 1 1 E I 1 J i 1 apin 1 4 I 1 I 1 1 t 10 I 1 di 11 f te 0 h 0 11 11 U i 1 me 1 1 laj ji I 1 r 1 11 1 1 I A 1 I 1 1 11 1 n oi o aj I 1 cr 0 2 I 1 10 i I 1 r 1 r I 1 L ef I 1 11 a L lo 10 I 1 I 1 arrom a the weather tower completely covered COT ered with fog crystal the hardy staff digging their way out on it a winters morning ajl there re la Is a fog foff overhanging tile observatory tho the staff uc at the upper rt illon or of which I 1 consists of only three persons two observers ob tb servera and one cook their duties to nn an ordinary individual bo be considered hut but to meter the sug BUR agostion would bo blasphemy tit th ol all server in e take tak the night watch cono at ai i a 0 clock and it laan ing for eight or hours when out on tho the first oliv tour of ills his match the observer tabes mith him an empt rain gauge this lot IB changed for the on that hii han ten out duiane ohp lh previous hour ahl li in covered up hold and taken back to tile the ab nb the next duty ot of the vcr la is to 10 climb up a ladder lindder to lo tho the roof of tile oh nh e atoru and ahert face uce the nind rs irv arely as a possible immediately art ir m litch the ih icle alc ll it I 1 it t corded by t icv he ane an diameter la is I 1 no iw that tile the por bonal observation vailon Is IB checked next the clouda must muel le be look l after anti and the fact baci noted it at both r they or are upper or av lower r nat and te it nhat hat species of ol 01 either cither also tho the orea area of jweied vied v by then them beyond thirty from tile horizon th r rd fiust fsr state uli whether ether it too IR jr ining 0 or r if tile the sun lt Is shining clearly through ft a land loud pr or not nt at oil all at the films not a agle faai C t in connection with the con condition of at tho veather meather fr must buor b ah omitted should 1 thore th ro be clou clouda or fog foff tho the fact must in us t b he noted are arc ih there a re e loud t bolo bolow C 01 be th the mount mountain in are the they mist mini or fon fog ilow how thick Is the fog os and how preal great the distance at chich you ou can discern objects through it IL if charn are GlEi c oriC rift ti halos fog fofi bows bowa amil ruch ilko I 1 bogs the fact mut must be b noted rne sibly t the lie elsi Is so BO thin that thai you can sec nee all oner nor the summit of f ben elen eleen acres ot at letter or there may bo be in jt ft g iving glimp seq of sonic some of the krand grand ost of scotch scenery Is it clearing or threatening thra utne to rain are arc tho the clouds traveling fat fast or cr Is there thunder or lightning perhaps tile thi to top r of the mountain Is lira i rapped aped in a lurhl lame flame and the together tog thor with every post poet and pole ond and the iho observers pencil even are arc ou all hissing forth electricity now for another departure dp arturp rs nf q ill ob erp renfors a little blittle tower door atod dec c 11 ds a ladder into a small noon loom i here ia I 1 n one of oc the most curious features in the observatory and that 11 probably entIre entirely lv unique it Is the tit ln pren tous invented Invent edby by mr john aeiken by menns of nf this the at observer counts ex acely tho the number of dust duet particle per cubic ter of f air 1 a cry important department nt 0 study rollah ins ing 11 his 1 laed course aich by tha way ta is ato inva invariable diable am aa the th I 1 latt of certain nations t ilic lie abs of er le berends rends 1 aft tlc ape jhc and measures oft off the amount ot of rain that has betit collected in the elie gauge brought in by him should there be anew allow in it this must first bo be melted this completes tho the list of 0 regular observations ions ta the extraordinary ob observations servais include the reading once a day the mati maximum linum and minimum ter leimomi lers tile the black bulb thermometer lit in acao the depth of the snow show and other small but important duties in tile the Inte riat before making another hourly round the observers hands arn arft busy copying out tho the observations that he lias has made on ills his hourly blip on to the dally daily sheet this sheet holds hold all tile the observations taken by the superintendent in and assistant on the night watch match after midnight often set act of twenty four hourly observations 15 1 5 added up and the nican mean taken the elie maximum and minimum um for or each jay day be bc ing noted dated another duty chich comes in to till fill up these of time Is the kerp keip ing ine of the monthly record sheets can slitting of Kepa sheets for sunshine mind lie i lp lit in the barometric sheet theio are twenty four column and along the top tat line of each hours houra observation Is nt mot down the for the u hole day thus thu the vertical ond and horizontal tabulations on the shoots shan hoft tho memi mean either way for the e month this routine work mork although F pomp fine ine what t ti tuii 13 eallis attention iod to in gc t the a summer 11 n r sor or jn ili fair weather but I 1 when the rigors bigora of the winter set in the hie life iff of the observer becomes be coines one of con ald hardship and unremitting labor thru then it IL la is that the hourly trio ties lias to b be e taken in an outfit of c a and net sou som hoots boots and ami pelting ff hall lain and dula must be fared faced without any what hat the winter n ter work at th tha observatory is may a almost be the else dometer steens I 1 lam in gauge anil and ath other r instruments instrument art re stationed at a ditus altane dl tane a rie from the gamse tro tie that thai no ila 1 loca C 8 1 influence shall afflec them and 1 A M 0 in hanl lillon it if its in either dark or foynoy a ky the observer hais hag to plod foith lafter after hla him clutis giitl lii tl s the I 1 I 1 lr r set C ills have to bo be clonnen of art it sno a 01 dug due out of shota now drafta an ni I 1 I 1 iho he re ins efty v ho be talen to lo I 1 th he h house use to be rt out in this call a 11 diw in PC set t of instruments must be put into th the e box and I 1 if t I 1 here Is ia a raging this a must bo be lashed oil 10 1 a I stand erected for tile the purpose in re foiring to tile of the v asians made at bon best nels neill J 1 I goro F R A a roce nth irked tile tho vital importance or of thermometric alo observations Is emphasized by the circumstance cum rum stance stence that without them the barometric observations are arc of com coal ively small value no approximation to in ft 0 knoll knowledge ledge of the temperature temperature of the she air stratum between high an and low level observatories ta ing fait lil lers nevis Is IR the oily thill that liaa has hf roped coped s mith this all important deportment department of the work PC a high level observatory and ons ana cannot admire the lie iw role endurance endur anro alth which ilia hie observe pra era have made the hourly observations by night slid and by day lit in all seasons these years past up to the present time ben nels IN co Is e observatory b atory oryo which consists of two pia lira lions the high and low levels has boon been under tile the auspices of oc the scottish a meteorological te society eor lety supported by contributions and by v volun niti ifer ter wol v kers il t buttons to meteorological nt science leave e during the past seventeen bews yews B been of the most valuable character and it Is i thought that the gov should long conff ago nave have nihed tho the institution in some way or another nother i C I 1 4 J I 1 1 esst 11 to 11 4 oi 01 ol I 1 l LIIV irk t ia 1 l S etli 0 1 sS e pla A t I 1 J e St 1 I WR i it f 11 ac vl 7 ext I 1 jl V y im 1 1 1 IN i J I 1 st 41 it I 1 an aa 1 I 1 1 44 A at P t I 1 fe r 1 e I 1 i 1 I e 11 I 1 t 1 i 2 t I 1 1 6 11 L vf I 1 1 11 40 V 4 C I 1 A I 1 N ji I 1 1 1 I A 91 Zit 7 Z x d y C si X sost sos t da d A r t I 1 e rr t 1 l Ps sa I 1 af l te ir f J p iz t 1 14 1 4 F 1 1 y alps gl I 1 1 I ava r I 1 it tri 1 1 I 1 li 1 I J I 1 I 1 1 I 1 1 vv v r e A J I 1 I 1 1 A I 1 4 q 1 I 1 I 1 Z f ma A A V 7 it 1 I 4 rl 1 6 4 0 Z m m vj r I 1 2 1 r or 6 7 k C i I 1 e is F F az I 1 Y it fw 4 I 1 ar if y t 11 w inn A 1 I 0 r I 1 1 0 7 os d nw L A ra grav as I 1 I 1 Z 67 1 1 7 t WA AI y w L 4 U I 1 A 3 y 1 4 1 Z I I 1 1 I I 1 r I 1 I 1 4 ji m rf I 1 N tit tt I 1 1 J y J at s 1 1 I 1 i I 1 ij I 1 1 V I 1 lk Z ali 0 vii A 1 A i 4 6 4 I 1 la 14 1 am r M k 1 4 za 1 it 4 1 w l oia te c w I 1 4 A J Y i f is t 4 11 y ilav tt e oi I 1 P f ilyf ij yf P ald i k 7 IV AV 1 7 f 7 0 42 V s ii 1 4 1 1 i it I 1 T I 1 k i I 1 N 1 T Z sra 10 i I 1 11 OJ i 1 r I 1 1 1114 1 I 1 jr js 6 it I 1 k I 1 i I 1 4 i ii C AV X F li s ra il c A 1 41 C I 1 1 I 4 17 g I A I 1 V ir W I 1 11 5 1 i CI w I 1 v I 1 tej I 1 t li i I 1 V or 11 14 i 1 I 1 il 4 Y y i 5 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 et 4 4 ia F rv J V 1 1 t I ire II I 1 fe J k 1 I 7 atu I 1 e r 1 I 1 ba ti pit af r Z r 1 1 t 11 ta te n X r 11 r at k pl m L 4 I 1 Z t 1 11 t 11 1 1 ayi jrz L aal 5 4 i amt ar r m 14 11 I 1 I 1 qa p 3 ia 1 n CU I 1 I 1 14 ai i r 1 I 1 1 I I 1 s 1 I 1 tr rp y 14 aqile k 4 x es r I 1 kyrtle A I 1 1 ar AA y 2 1 I g I 1 0 i I 1 a 5 esz E A i 04 1 0 7 k aal V Is V X I 1 t V T A 1 I 1 W r I 1 J c I 1 ill e ov i T I 1 1 e f 1 aa I 1 ish y A iiii 0 V W i C 1 i I 1 r E b I 1 1 y m i I 1 i 46 X 1 4 i 4 L I 1 iff af pf a i I 1 1 w 1 00 rort Rv I 1 rt 1 I 1 1 0 I s n I 1 f I 1 Ks anh 19 1 4 11 II r 5 t ft 0 I 1 f I 1 Is it arti a I 1 J s I 1 F I 1 yet Y ua 7 w et irron sv ben nevis netis as a it looks look in ila tho the winter wh when all but the tower and the th screens are K buried under I 1 the alte snow A description of bt this interesting observatory which will be made one of the worlds world chi or f I 1 weather stations Q no Is given in III the accompanying 1 I 1 I 1