Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-03-20
suns TOTAL ECLIPSE
Strange Phenomenon Will Occur
May % For Period Of About
Two Minutes.
Can Be Seen and ? Photographed from
Points in Many Of the South
ern States.
Circular Shadow of the Moon-lts
Scientific Importance Worth
Seeing.


Scientific Importance-W Worth
Seeing
The next total eclipse q the sun Will
occur on May %, 1900, and fortunately
for US, it will be possible 70 witness
the phenomenon from many sections of
the United States. On the occasion of
the last eclipse scientists who desired
| to study the sun during the brief pc
riod of totality hurried 70 Western In
dia, ana many of them were successful
in obtaining excellent Photographs Of
the great event.
This spring, however, it viii be en-
tireiy different and Anlerica's amateur
astronomers will be able to make their
A observations and use thsii. cameras
With the same facility as the most
4 learned scientists. On May rs, there
\ fore the circular shadow Of the moon
least by the sun upon the earth, and
about eighty miles in diameter, viii
come sweeping across the American
4 continent from New Orleans to Cape
\ Henry.
Along the center OF the path travelled
by this swiftly moving shadow the sun
'lawili be completely hidden for a period
4 u about two minutes More than forty
!, miles away, On either side of the track
the eciipsc will be partial, not total
80 M4e'lssss mrs astioli''iiiica' iiiaisNe'
y Il VII only pc necessary 10 take up
ia l position M .fie stare on MIS-
sissiil,i, e'eorgla, south Naroiina' Sortn
:. carolina, or Nlrgihla, As IL mas peeh
! many years since az isilse ma oc
4 Cured under circumstances SO favor
abie g American astronomers, II VII
, luhnouptsuls pe wltitessss' " siousaiitis
, Of students who have ret regret tha'
previous exhibitions haNt occurred a'
distances 50 great as 70 prevent seiie's
:. from Witnessing Inc 'NSiils-
An eclipse 81 the sun .hal WIN pt -
lpleste uS can occur only Wheh ttle'ilopi
Is new ~ thas ti'ile she passes eAa9ss4s
between Us ana tile sun. III an ecl 9ss
Should happen Wneh she Vas az mel
least distance from US SAY zz-.ooo niue
\ away, the apex u me shadoW Wpuis
pass over our heaas d d Instance 9
many thousands OF nliss In the mrs
instance the eclipse Viii be tolal aipns
the path made by the failing shadow
In the second instance ne eclipse Nj
i be annuar. az the moon VIII pc SO oil
unfinished mat at no tiins- VIII she y
aple 70 cofllpieteiy obscure ehs sun.
WORTH SEEING.
:, Professor Langley, VINO is an author
lily upon sun eclipses, IS enthusiastic Y
E anticipation OF the exhibition that IS I
g be sivsn next May Such ecilpses,
s he says. are impressive and aWiul !
the last degree ana must pc seen 20
appreciatea- y eoeai corpse q 'he 81
. IS worth journey rouhe ,the. World !
!, behold, and repetition does not auii IN
interest.
Accortiing 8 g the ealcuiatl9iis ~ iSfl
. fessor l-umsden' the round BACK snae
9w of the moen IKE a great arm WI
II sweep IN out of space soifs time ats
sunrise on tbs. morning OF May =. N
glgantlc arm VIII come lhlf cohlas
with the earth somewhere nea 7 IN 6 K
VITA dlsedo ISLANDS IN tine Pacill
ocean. With tremendous Nelneity N
J. shadow VIII rush Toward tlie mar
: land and viii enter MeXieo near Cal
II corlenSes, at a speed OF more than I
& mics q minute II elght minutes II WI
n have crossed the Rocky mountain
and BY 80 central or $50 eastern TIM
d it Will have crossed the Gull ana 81
I tered Mexico Ihen on II VIII pas
o oyer rs selected path, Until It IS 10:
/ AGAIN IN space
IF In order y witness this phenomena
n to best adVantagst one should pc IN n
IS center Of the ground oyer @tl4cn u
a shadow $ te faii The best position
~ upon the highest possiole eminence,
le under Jhose conditions one Is able
al appreciate the tremendous in1pressle
le caused by the shing upon Us of sue
lie stupendous shadow
ID The perio9 q totally Of the eclip'
l. varies az different points along u
$ track. Al the Rocky mountains 4
p spectacle VIII last but ABOUT thirty Sc
is onds. and - New Orleans ne perlf
er viii haze been heightened thirty-seys
" seconds. .At5tnion Point. Green count
S. Georgia, the center Of tie pain for y
A. United states the time OF totalitN ~
be ninety-tWe seconds while those WI
are al the Atlantic coast Just south
The city OF Noriplk, Will be able I" CO..
tinue their observations for ms second
le SCIENTIFIC IMPORTANCE.
While the occasion Win ne mo
IytarfSti,isr fSff.. To al Who arg. all,sl