The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-07-05
lin ECLIPSE SQUADRON.
o,exrlFIC ERRAND OF AMER
ICAN WARsHIPs.
corona and Alleged Planet Vul'
Among Mysteries to Be Solved
nv Government Scientists.

StAi'
,nong Mysteries to Be Solved
nv Government Scientists.
uoping to discover the alleged planet
,,.l.an to determine what the suns
IONA really is and to learn various
'V .sor facts about the heavens above us
~ the atmosphere surrounding, the
~ lrni+ad States government will dis
Itch to the northern coast of Africa
p p the Mediterranean shore of Spain
az .,,odron of three war vessels com
15o5 nv a rear admiral, says the
ronsas City Star.
Those interesting observations will
,.,odn in the old world during the to-
~, solar eclipse of Aug. 30 and 30,
10 the eclipse squadron" will sail
w. w., Washington early in July. Rear
,J~,ir9I C. NJ. Chester, U. S. N, In
an,maDd of the squadron, will nave
his flagship the Minneapolis, and
~ ~ oynadition will include about seven
.r,rars of the scientific staff OF the
TOD States naval observatory, of
s.tich he Is superintendent. A number
a. university professors and scientists
~ +bo civilian institutions of the gov
r,,oont will accompany him and CO
ao,o+o with his three field parties.
a. sunrise Aug. % those who dwell
a, Manitoba near the southern end OF
Tota Winnipeg will see mounting the
,ostorn horizon q weird heavenly spec
.ooo one which has maddened print
tiro man and frightened his betters in
n terrible religious frenzy. Instead of
.bo familiar sun, red and glowing
troneh the mists of dawn, there will
nornf these cool Canadian hills a
GREAT coal black moon, fringed on all
sides with great streamers cottony
rbita and attenuated. The earth be-
lov, will be black as night over
GREAT band 100 miles across, and this
nI,y shadow will sweep eastwardly on
narb of equal width across the Brit
Oh possessions, over the southern part
If lanes bay and the peninsula Of
I labrador.
About hundred miles above the
EASTERN mouth Of Belle Isle strait 1t
4 will enter the Atlantic, turning its
\ waves pitch black until reaching the
4 north coast of Spain. Thence the broad
shadow ribbon will sweep southeast
vardly across the peninsula of the
4 dons. passing about forty miles above
s. Madrid, suddenly throwing its black
8 night pail over Leon, Burgess, Nalla-
dolid ZaragOza and numerous smaller
settlements of men at midday. Leav-
ng the Spanish Mediterranean coast,
the ptchy band will cross the Column
bretes island, strike the African coast
about midway between the cities OF
Tunis and Algiers. stretch out upon
the white desert to Egypt, cross the
q Nile at Assuan and leave the earth in
central Arabia. Wherever it touches
the beasts of the field and the birds of
the air will close their eyes In sleep
while the same white crowned, white
bearded, black faced disk which rose
over the hills Of Manitoba looks down
upon them amid the twinkling stars.
Our eclipse squadron will land its as
rOnomers and their freight at two
Mediterranean ports-Valencia, Spain,
and Bona, Algiers Apparatus more
Elaborate than any devised for previ-
Ous eclipse observation will be upon
the ground in the path Of the shadow
from four to six weeks previous to the
phenomena. From day to day and I'M
ti the moon hides the face of the sun
drills will be repeated until every bit
pf apparatus works to perfection.
Arrangements for the eclipse have
been in the course Of making at the ma
al observatory in Washington for, In
act two years The billy park sur
ounding its white marble buildings
PRESENTS the appearance of a machin-
ry exposition The great instruments
Flth which the corona in its varying
masses is to be photographed or other
Use observed are all in place, as they
I'LL appear when installed in sunny
pain and scorching Algeria. They are
lus assembled in an experimental
lamp.
one of the largest cameras ever CON
fucteJ viii snapshot the corona as it
ppears over the Valencia camp during
Pc two and Il half minutes that the
h Is obscured there. 1t is seventy
Fet long from the front of the lens
Iecaan.sm to the back of the box, the
Tier being in reality little house or
frk room.
1ue plates will be isochromatic, Civ