The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-10-12
WINTER IN THE CLOUDS.


The Proposed Rncnmpment on Mount WASH
A correspondent of the Boston Journal
writes from theWhite Mountain House, dating
October 3:--
Professor @. H. Hitchcock and Professor
j. II. Huntington we're here on Friday and
Saturday making further arrangements for
the winter sojourn of the latter gentleman
and his party on Mount Washington. The
necessary supplies are all at the railway
depot awaiting transportation up the mountain
side. The railway company have generously
offered to carry them up, and will resume the
running of their cars for this purpose as soon
as the new rails are laid at the lower end of
the road The supplies consist of eleven tons
of coal, two stoves Zone for cooking pur-
poses), cooking utensils, provisions of various
kinds in numberless barrels and boxes, a
variety of scientific instruments, a small
snow sled, show shoes, and such other
articles as are indispensable for comfort and
scientific investigation. Half dozen or more
trips up the mountain VIII be necessary to
transport the supplies to their destination.
''The party will consist certainly of three,
and possibly four persons, and two of these,
Professor Huntington and Mr.. A. f. Clough,
photographer, of Warren, N H., have
already fitted themselves for their severe task
by wintering residence on Moosilauke.
Professor Huntington and his daring asso-
ciates propose to go into their elevated win
ter quarters about the tenth of November
AS the lessee of the Tip Top and Summit
Houses objects to the occupation of either of
those buildings for fear of their destruc-
tion by fire, the party have made up their
mind to fix their residence near the ne rail
road depot, which, though less adapted to
keeping out the cold than the other struc-
lures, can doubtless be made comparatively
comfortable. 1t is proposed to partition off
an apartment and make it so far as possible
impervious to the effects of the weather.
''The results of the investigation to be car
ried on at the summit of Mount Washington,
like those instituted last winter on Moosi-
lauke, are likely to prove of much value to
science in the way of affording new facts re-
garding barometrical and thermometrical
variations, the velocity of winds, the philoso-
ply of storms etc. Observations will be
made in regard to storms, in connection with
the system now being organized under Gov
ernment auspices, and arrangements are
making to have all the Investigations, in
whatever direction made, as full and complete
as possible. AS the ordinary telegraph wires
running up the mountain can be of little if
of any use, telegraphic cable will be used to
communicate with the outside world.
Professor Hitchcock and his assistants
have been carrying on their geological inves-
legations in the mountain region and in the
northern extremity of the State with great
dlngence Tor the past few years, and have
made many interesting discoveries. Only
few days since, Professor Hitchcock Disco
vered, in a bed of lime rock in Littleton,
some fossil coral. This is the first discovery
of the kind, we believe, ever made in the
State, and it has an important bearing upon
the geologic construction of the granite hills.
A careful survey of the State is also making
under Professor Hitchcocks S direction, and
carefully prepared map of the mountain re-
gion, based on detailed and accurate surveys,
will be issued in the spring 1t will be on
the scale of two and one-half miles to tina
inch, and uniformly with map eventually
to be published of the entire State.
ga model of the White Mountains is also
in preparation at Dartmouth College, under
Professor Hitchcock's direction, the easterly
section being, in fact about completed A
large model will be kept at the college, and
smaller copies will probably be furnished
other institutions desiring them. Professor
Huntington, as we'll as Professor Hitchcock,
has spent much time in exploring the noun
tain region, and also the section of the State
lying north of the mountains in the direction
of Canada, often spending days and weeks in
tracing out streams and notches, and in
geological Investigations. He has, doubtless,
visited many spots in and about the noun
tains, where no white man-not even the
deer-hunter, who scours the seemingly mac
cessible parts of the country in the winter
season for game-had ever been before him.
He is to appearances, the very man, of all
others, to undertake the bold adventure of
spending the winter upon the bleak summit
of Mount Washington"