Morning journal and courier., 1893-04-14
mErEonro DISPLAY.

| The HIeteor,s Fragments Are scat- tered Between Cupboard Ridge and Beaver Brook District-Profes- ser Newton,s Letter to Judge Brew. ster.
 Danbury Is bound to keep to the front, with it's Danbury News man, it's frequent fires and mysterious firebugs, its big an nual fair famed all over New England and | part of York state, it's hat factories, etc. | Just now 1t is enjoying itself over the ! furore the famous meteoric display 1t had January IS last is creating. The Danbury News speaking of that meteoric excitement says: s'It will be remembered too that the meteor burst and the explosion was heard by a half dozen well known persons. The fragments scattered and if they were not burned up are lying in that section be- tion between Cupboard ridge, and the bridge in Beaver brook district that crosses the swamp brook. It would be of great interest to Professor Newton of Yale col lege to know if any fragment of this ooero- lite has been found. Should any hunter or stroller find piece of meteorie stone in the section described 1t would be of con siderable value to the professor in his re- search. About the matter he wrote the appended letter to Judge L. D. Brewster of this city:
 YALE COLLEGE,
 April 2, 1893.
 NY DEAR AR. BREwsTER-I send by mail copy of the Danbury map on which I have marked the region within which the stone that formed the meteor of January 13 most probably struck the ground. MT. Lewis of Ansonis was, at the time of the meteor's passage, trying to get 6 photo graph of Holmes comet, and as good luck would have 1t he secured fine picture of the meteor's path among the stars. The line upon the map is the one in which the plans shown by the photograph cuts the board Ridge. saw, as he told us on Wednesday, that the meteor was coming directly toward him. Several persons in Boston and vicinity saw 1t go down at an angle of 45' more or less with the horizon. At Pawling 1t was seen to go down east of south. MT. Northrop of Newtown saw it go down north of west. Marcel Foubert, in Danbury, saw it disappear in the neigh borhood of the Phiades. Accounts from New York city, Newburg, Long Island and many other places arc in my hands. The meteor broke in pieces and these pieces were seen to go on for distance and dis appear.
 We cannot be sure that these pieces. any of them, came to the ground. I presume that some of them did, but 1t Is possible that they were all burned up before strik- | ing the earth. The stone was not very large. If 1t had been st first over two feet in diameter think there world have been heard a loud explosion for forty miles
  | the detonation.
 After breaking in pieces the fragments would drop, and in falling would be more likely to come down south of the line l have drawn in the map than north of it. But as the stones in breaking are
 often thrown off sideways we often find
 fragments scattered over 8 region two ol
 three miles in extent. The most probable
 place is within the oval have drawn or
 the map, but they may have been throwr
 out beyond the oval, or even may hav'
 fallen farther east or west than the ova | extends.
 Stones less than pound or two fallinl
 on hard ground would not penetrate tn
 earth, but a stone as large as one's hea.
 would be likely to go foot or two into tn
 ground, leaving hole like post hole
 Fragments would probably have 8 thil
 black crust, and surface that shows sign
 of burning. They are usually much heavle
 than ordinary stones, and are sometime , entirely metallic. It would be exceedingly
 interesting to get fragments of this Janu sry meteor, and trust some one will fin,
 them and bring them in.
 Yours most truly, H. A. NEWTON. The map sent by Professor Newton ind , cates that the fragments of the meteor fe | ,1,1 rvriA lD1E ;Io 1., from the highest point of Cupboard Ride Gust esst of the Upper Kohanza reservoir , to the bridge in Beaver brook (about fort rods south of the junction of the broo , with Still river), possibly within mil | east or west of the territory above d. { scribed.
 , The interest which especially attaches : the discovery of this meteor lies in the ia, 8 that it is, go far as known, the first metet f | of the kind clearly and distinctly phot' 7 graphed."