| Show H THE TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE M t Y 28 1900 s f fri t ri J JI J 0 ci I tL r ATLA IC I 1 l N NI 4 J 1 l ITY 2 MI MIL I V L GREATEST ON cz F d I II j vw THE ROUTE I e 1 7 c J aIL 1 f a r I J JI S ip M rA r rj I PERIOD OF j I MIN r e J Huas AM P M i 0 f fl r l O OB 55 EC C NI tl I J t N Th Thy or 1 MINI y 1 TION TIONE t tt i t M MOON E fI SUN su n I ICHART SUN CHART SHOWING THE PATH OF TOTALITY OF NE I IG r 0 a advance that bas haa made In recent can THE vt ba i better exemplified than In the prediction and calculation of tt e Ip r particularly of the tho sun one of which Is to occur on the ot of Ys 11 In Ia anent an time II when woe young oung anti through the thed thel l tt d an all ne R a ot of the wrath ot of v 1 Red and among primitive even enn at t the tho present time advent adent le Is thet the t ai M fat an outburst ot of fault willI excitement Within 20 O eor the for tor torl l tw a to the belief that some greet great dragon was wag de def der r f rt ng th the gd Ed ot of day prostrated ehe on en the ground In the attitude of af and beat tom toms to frighten the monster monter awa away When at Jut the sun eun fr tram m Us lis temporary concealment their jO joy woe was exuberant and the they U r that the horrible din tho they had driven away line me 1 the choice traditions ot of the Chinese le Is that the eclipse record t 14 II u barred hy by their In the year 2128 U D C nut their two pt e tl III HI and ond lb who were to observe It and ond prepare the people for tor fors s elected n theIr duties and got It drunk toeing their heads heade and their in rI n In the last century the made of the thet 1 t u ar 11 w day when the lIun eun obscured for tor a long time birds and ande I e r J cent t roost closed theIr petals and ond the chill chili ot of night earn came cn I AI I P phenomena have sorely disturbed the serenity ot of on thus r si IY and the recorded Umea a cloud ot of mystery hat has pI FI the doings ot of Old Sol It Is no disparagement ot of the attain r J f oar n to sa eay that even now there ort are some phenomena r i s li h 11 tb they are the dark Ft t t I 11 now that It le I known that an eclipse ot of the sun eun is II due to 10 Ito ob r n n frill rm the tenth earth by the moon meon either In whole or In part how differs r J IS ire ro re from that which was wao accorded It In ancient limes For Foru u and months oUr astronomers have been making ready for tor the great Ireat event cent The beet places l for tor observation have accurately been boen forecast even evento evento to projecting n a chart of the path ot of the he eclipse acro across the globe There will be hundreds hundred of trained upon the Bun eun on May 25 S Two ot o observation equipped In the United States will occupy eo far apart that the Atlantic and i portion ot of the Mediterranean will roll bt be between tween tw en them The path puth ot of the takes an erratic COUt n a portion of the glo globe starling In the Pacific ocean at a point of Cape St 81 Lucas In Lou Loner California and proceeding It wilt will first Bret be observed on land landon on the west rut coast of Mexico whence the moons moona shadow travels at a velocity ot of a thousand an hour being total at New at In the tho morning and on the Atlantic coast at al or near Norfolk about an hour later Th The United States observers have settled upon two taro Moore county N C and ond Pike county Gaall the very ery beet for ob owing In the place to their being right In the center ot of the path of and ond In the second to tM the clearness ot of the at atmos atmosphere mos phere there at al this aen on of the year To theae points thy they have transported tons ot of special apparatus and have bave reeled erected the largest l ever ner constructed for tor photographic opera opera done Each camera is II supported upon upun a pyramidal scaffolding and ot of II a gigantic canvas tube or box Inclosing a framework ot of Iron 50 10 tt rest In length This wilt will be light tight At the Ille upper end will be the enormous lenses lensu while the lower lover end Ind will receive the Immense Imen plat plates ot of upon which the Images ot of the tun un are to be projected It Is the I special ot of th the estron omen omers to obtain numerous photographs not only ot of the occultation and transit ot of the sun lIun and moon but ot of the various solar phenomena such uch all as the corona the photosphere and the vast ut seas lias ot of Incandescent guts geese which are said to extend mites on each ench side ot of the sun while hlll the jets ot of lame In the are thought to 10 rise rile to a height of miles Th The COnd American party ot of will take It Its stand tand at Tripoli In north Africa and III be similarly equipped for tor the most moat perfect to 10 and spectrographic work As AI the period of at totality In and aM Tripoli Is respectively 1 minute 10 seconds and U II seconds the t will but little time for tor work but tilt they urpo to make oake the belt beet ot of It I And An have electrical to facilitate photographic I Iiii iii as the totality In occurs occur at a m end In not until 51 p pIn pIn In the result ot of observations In the United States will be to the can party part for tor Its guidance arrangements for tor leaving open a Iloe of tele lele graph and cable linN lines along the of at the eclipse and II a cipher alpher cod ClOd for tor rapid transmission havinG been made In advance While the total eclipse will be visible only In places a arM erea arMand and for tor not longer than two 0 minutes at any on one of them a my be ed In Doston DOlton Chicago Cincinnati St Louie Ioula New York and other cities Although the l for tor this observation ot of a phenomenon lasting at atthe atthe the longe t not more 1 a rw few minutes haa ha entailed months of hard work and a voyage oYle halt around the world not to o or UI flu g u ue c a leula lions and necessary to a complete ot of the subject yet It If the da day be clear our astronomers will consider r themselves richly rewarded for their toll Should It all prove to line have been In vain aln the they will rill coned them themselves selves with the reflection that another and more complete eclipse Ic I ached to appear next year r which In the ot of Sumatra wm will be total during the pace apace ot of six long minutes thus thul an unprecedented time for tor ob All As not more than two Iwo eclipses can possibly occur In a year tar end and the sum aum to total tal In of observation limited ls to ont only a tw few hours houri In a the th wise mn men who piN their lives watching for tor shots at the sun ha have to be J alert and make the most moat ot of their opportunity when It |
