The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-05-28
De Prepared Today With Smoked
Glass.
This Is a Chance You
Should Not Neglect.
1t Will BE Many Years Before
You viii Have Another.

Portanu pcople tousty Will w "'ie
to see, besides part OF the solar eclipse,
demonstration of swift travelling
which, il il could be employed by us,
would land party of sightseers from thi'
city ut the Paris Exposition inside of two
hours 1t will be made by a giant shadow
about fifty miles wide, travelling at the
rate of 1880 miles an hour, and which
will make one of the greatest heavenly
spectaeles witnessed In many genera
lions.
The path of totality of the solar eclipss
begins in the Pacific ocean, about six
hundred miles southwest Of the southern
extremity OF lower California, crosses
Mexico, enters the United States near
New Orleans, and, passing In north
easterly direction across the Southern
States, leaves the American continent
near Norfolk, Va. Crossing the Atlantic
ocean, 1t enters Portugal, near Coimbra
leaves Spain at Alicante, enters Africa
near Algiers, and trayersing the northern
part of that continent, ends in Egypt,
some three hundred miles south of Cairo.
At the western extremity Of this path
the middle of the eclipse-the brief period
Of totality-will occur at sunrise; at the
eastern extremity at sunset. In the
United States 1t will occur at different
morning hours, according to the observ-
er's location.
Since the : sun rises on May 2S
at about 4.30 a. m, it will be high enough
above the eastern horizon to be well OBJ
served, weather permitting, at all Of the
United States stations.
AT stations selected for observation on
will then be at about the same altitude
in the West as it is with us in the
East. The time occupied by the shadow
in passing from the western to the east
ern end of the path above described is
three hours and twenty minutes. 1t
sweeps from New Orleans to Norfolk in
little less than twenty five minutes.
Outside the path of totality, the aver
age breadth of which is about fifty
miles, the eclipse will be partial over
the whole of North America, with the
exception of small portion of Alaska,
and over a small portion of South Amer
lea, and it will also be partial, where OF
total, over the whoie Oh Europe 'he por
tioh Oh tne sun uisc opso'ie pvins ~
every case iess the TURNER INC oo'ei'''
is from the path of totality.
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'iiisie''uihS' IN 'ne hrs' pi'oe, M"eh 'he
moon Covers 'ne sun anu an Hsh' Is eA-
tihguisheu, .he moon euge Is apparently
surrouhdeo ny narrow ring Oh scarlet
ilames' varying III intensity irregular
III shape anu uinerihS III heiSh''
Inns comparatively .nih soarie' fringe
Is tne sun chrohosphere' never Visipie
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Is composer Vi ino'haes
ceh' sases- 'uroseh' hei''ih anu oaioi-
UNI oh'eiy n'uroseh, give
priSh' reu VI scarlet hue' Is rom
five to ten thousand miles In depth, but
the irregularities that appear in il in the
form, of nrotprharances and nrom,rancas
f-, -.
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from one hundred thousand 10 TOUR nun
dred thousand miles from the suns disc.
While the scarlet rinpe is one of the ex-
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traoruihafy sights Vi TOTAL eciipse, 'he
most surpr Using phenomenon Of all to all
observers is the silyery corona which sur
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VARYING much at different eclipses the
corona, wings and ravs sometimes stretch
So, re s,',, 90, ,i,nas tha annaran,
out from the sun een ti'iies .ne appareae
width of the eclipse disc. The corona is