Show TOTAL ECLIPSE OF SUN Government Expedition Will Go to Sumatra to Witness It Williams Bay WIs Feb IPror J E E Barnard the astronomer at the Ycrkes observatory will Icavo this week to Join the expedition which is going to the Island of Sumatra to observe the total eclipse of the sun on May 17h The expedition Is in charge of Prof A N Skinner of tho United 1 States naval observatory The party will fail from San Francisco on IVhruary Ifith on the United States transport I trans-port Sheridan to Manila From there theywill be taken to Padanc on the West const of Sumatra by a United Stains manofwar They will arrive there about the middle of March and will spend tho two montlH In getting their apparatus in ahaie The total eclipse station will boat bo-at halok about eighty miles inland along the mount IJII |