Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-26
ECLIPSE On MONDAY.
Total Observation Of the Sun Nay
Be Observed Early Monday
Morning.
Astronomers Of the World Anxious
for tho Event-Lumsden's An.
ticipatory Description
High Schools Physics and Chsmis.
try Glasses Will Make Observa-
lions In q Body.

II the weather is favorable Monday,
Marshalltown people who care to he up
with the lark, or those who don't get
home till morning. will have the oppor-
stunity Of seeing one of the grandest as
Economical sights that has ever been
witnessed. Monday is the day on which
will occur the total eclipse OF the sun,
and the date has been eagerly looked
forward to by astronomers the world
over.
For this section the observation is
scheduled to occur a few minutes after
sunrise. which is now about 4:30 o'clock.
Thus it will be necessary to arise early
IL the phenomenon is to be Witnessed
Mr.. Barker. the science teacher of the
high school, has arranged to accompany
the senior and junior classes. studying
physics and chemistry, to the roof of the
high school building, where clear view
may be obtained, without the obstruc-s
ton OF trees.
G.. T.. Lumsden, r. r.. S. A., gives the
following glowing anticipatory descrip-l
tion of the features in connection with
the eclipse: Every eye must be turned
| to the west, for whatever else We sue
coed in doing we must not fail to see
the lunar shadow as it approaches. We
may not live long enough to witness
another eclipse under such auspices. Let
us make the most of this. Forbes. who
IObserNed at Turin the total eclipse of
1872, said that he was 20 COMPOUNDED by
the awful velocity of the shadow, which
swept toward him from the Alps. that
he felt as il the great building on which;
he was standing was sWayed beneath
him and began to fall over In the direc-
I3tion of the coming gloom. The rapidly
Iof it's motion and its black intensity
produced the sensation that something
material was flying over the earth at
/ a speed perfectly frightful.'
Striking, indeed. is the almost in
Simultaneous substitution,as in dissolv-
ling lantern, of one picture for another.
the one showing the sky with the black
ened sun like blot upon 1t, the other
showing the sky suddenly draped in the
mantle Of night, upon whose sable
bosom glow planet. star and coronal
/ halo, and also roseate jets of mean
descent gaseous matter leaping upward
! from and falling back upon the sun.
Now We photogra phi, sketch and color
most assiduously, not losing a single
llsecond. We lay down the position OF
planets, comets, If any. and of bright
stars. The eclipse is taking place in
1.-The constellation of Taurus, between the
Il fine red star Aldebaran and the Pleia-
A des. We look to see whether Aldebaran
4 Is able TO make It's presence known by
shining thru the gauzy structure of the
sI!stars in Orion and other consultations
lean be detected.
1--WE glance about the horizon and
note the rich color-tints ranging from
4 back, in the zenith, thru browns, par
aEple crimson and reds, to yellow lying
4 along the rough sky line thirty miles
with a partially hidden disk. We notice
4 1.-THE ashy tints around us. rejecting in
tour OWN faces.
.sI'ut a sudden glow along the west
4 ern edge Of the moon warns US tina,
4 totality has gone like flash and that
A we have only time for quick exposed
a watching another lovely dissolving
Il view, the fading out of the night before
q the returning glow OF all conqnering
a day. Almost instantly the landscape
Il briShtens and becomes familiar. Not
s only now, as we feel the warmth of the
4 solar rays, did we suspect passing
4 lchill New life throbE everywhere.
The black lunar shadow has swept
Z majestically by us and is already out
ION the Atlantic, rushing toward Europe
4 Its vast track behind us is sprinklec
II with thousands of people. spellbounc
by the wonderous vision vouchsafec
them by nature, who for a moment a.
.8Iit were. has lifted but a corner of hel
! rope and allowed them to gaze upor
glores the impressions of which viii
never fade from memory"
J. No,,c.