New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-06-29

wind was about 30 miles an hour spoonful Of spirits
AMI hard biscuit very acceptable at ths time
were all thoroughly exhausted. The guide enter
tanned with rolling stones down the other side OF the
mountain with orDybar and although they Numbered
down the abyss with awful crash, the amusement did
not relieve OF fatigue. Here and there. and all
about rs, looked away, mountains and noun
tains There plains doubt but they were so far
away that they could not be distinguished for the noun
tains seemed TO close them out and the smoke and fog
s5ood between The from the Peak il disappont-
ment first OF the wind and cold which pevenisa
clear and deliberate secondly because nothing can
in any direction but the tops of mountains The
guide said we could Nebraska, Kansas, Wyoming
New-Mexico. Uush, and don't know how many other
STATS aud Territories. "With glass" said lie. ION
clear day. trace tcsouFse Of the Arkansas for 200
miles," and he pointed IN the direction but II he could
have traced 1t 1000 miles, doubt II any Of our party
would have been interested
THE sIGNiL STATION.
On Pixies Peak there is the highest habita-
ton the American continent Major Pike took
the altitude and recorded az 5sl feet above sea level
but il escerained 20 be only 1896 II not gene
rally known That its summit Ia established an army
signal station II is the highest point for scientific OBJ
seryaon in ,he world records of the observations are
sent 10 almost every enlightened European nation On
the summit is a stone house. rudey instructed having
1snch walls about Il feet high This Is divided oil
into Office, which is used seepinS-room also, and
q kitchen,
rude shed attached where stored provisions,
wood, etc. ]. V. Brown, Observing Sergeant, is in
charge of the station, which Is the most important In the
service, and he has two assistants. One, strangely
enough IL J. = O'Keife, newsb0y and bootbiaek OF
New York who passed the competitive examination ana
forced ais way by his superior schoarshipnto Anmpos
and was subsequently expelled FOR hazng the coore ca
Diet The other Is r g. Bowls OF Cleveland very capable
and experienced man Nj Brown our guide and
not content with showing Us to the summit he took Us
back TO lodgings and the next day went tIudgDS
home 10 his dretTy station
81 have been here said he in answer 20 my questions,
since last March. did not Oren the station. IL was
begun in August 1873 the telegraph wire 30 Col
crado Springs laid Its object to learn some
tdag about upper currents Of the atmosphere. Little
known except from experience in balloons There is
much that is singular about this station said lie, con
tnuing. For instance, at level is well known
that the barometer the thermometer falls; and
the Thermometer rises the barometer falls; but at
this station the barone rises also does the Their
mOmeter."
What instruments have you here 2"
1--WE have the barOmeter which gives the pressure OF
tie atmosphere the thermometer. which marks the tenn
peraure; the hyeroueter which indicates the humidity
of the atmosphere; the with segeesrerng
attachment, which marks the velocity Of the wind OF
which We keep a continuous ieoOsd; and rain gauge,
which marks the fail of rain and snow"
What il the lowest temperature ever observed here y
\
showed 30 below and at the same time
the wind was blowing % miles hour. Al Mount
Washin4tOn which is less tlan half az htgh asPikc-
Peas, the wind is often 100 miles hour. This slanty
continued be- as ran my eye over the cunsily bullt
house, els really uusIfe. think 9ouile wind would
nr,of It and bo8 down The contractor I'd not keep
to his specifications"
ada you send daily reports OF your observations 10
WashngtOnr
Not now because the appropriation Is exhausted.
They we're sen three times day until last January but
presume they viii he resumed on the 1t OF July"
Continuing my inquiries asccrtaned that this desc
Int station which ia the hest weather in Summer re-
aures day to reach IL wholly cut of from the world
1orsevel months the year. Early in November the
thrce men house They lay in provisions 70
Lass Them until April Maj salt pork, eonhd boe canned
vegetables lard, -four. @ai groceries. Taey a!sO keep
fresh mea beef and mutton by buryne it in TIE snow
Wood Al a cord Is also laid H. in boundfd supply.
During these mouths not human face DO they see
They cn neither get down 10 tie living world, nor can
living world get M them Half the world my be
drowned and the other half burned for angii thy know"
Countries may change, may have blottcd ont geo
crsul ioundaIies II the telegraph wire works faith
fully whol it dDcs not always in that atmosphere, IA
scrap is occasionally obtained But at best II t.
a drciry, dead. proftless, thanlless life.
"Oae of the most remarkable phenomena seen On the
Peak" sud Mr. Brown in later conversation, ais the
electric storm. These storms generally hein with hsh'
and last On half an hour TO foar The whole
mosrhert IL full OF electricity. Sheets OF Ere are every
where sparks erese about your clothes and IN your
hair aud i'll tho baGlo robe, and The bedding Tie eec-
u1cty through the roof through the windows and
up from the floor. II seem, a. though yoa are III
battery II YOU 90 out doors cloud of electricity rests
on The whole Peak II comes the rocks III" clouds
are fun The lightning plays below in fearful i'll
ensity Tue el.ctrcyis FUSED through the atmosphere
and l. everywhere in the cabin. Ones hair literally
stands on enl and even the in the cabin are stiff
fv he re 4. al
toit" "No connucdhe III answer t. question. "ithas
no marked effect person except to give HIM violent
papttion OF the heart. 1t Also perhaps, has atigag
WINTER LIFE OF TILE PEAK.
Mr. Brown informed also tt the frJsts on the Peak
are very remarkable have scen the frJst' SID he,
more than foot deep a the summit, on windows,
doors rocks ana particularly metals Il has some
times clogred the ancmOmcter and stopped rs WORKING
have the frost covering the telegraph WIRE more
than eight inches deep aui IN long stretches 1t frequently
breaks the wrs anI stops communication" questioned
Brown a. to his predecessor his experience III reach
ing his post in March, and other personal matters
Ia appears predecessor, named Phoed"rs no" III
the main Office at Wdsln ston Wa Sood deal % nero
He was fond Of rolling big rocks from The summit down
into what are termed Crater and the B)uomiess
and he kept crowbar for that purpose Every day
he took his exercise ia this way. Ole very cold day
Pnoedorius was engaged in his usual recreation. His
crowbar was under IA rock, ami he was trying tn
raise IL with all his might. Suddenly his lever slipped
the rock remained firm, bat the scientific Hun
gaTian went whirling into the craer' no" ih1np
thousands of feet he in he does not know, he
meyer knew He pickeI himself up down in the cavern,
and the first thing be did 10 throw away MS crow"
bar He had no further for that. De was lame ana
bruised frghtfuy. But he had 70 send his observations
70 Washington at o'clock that night, and he could uot
take them from the bottom OF cavern :" Nc ooec'eu
his scattered AM hobbled OF How he got o'n'
Rron does not know bat the records Of the Office show