Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-10-15


great admirals went out on the ragln'
main 10 night the Spanlards one OF
we adinirals met the enemy comm out
or Sandago harbor. and wit his good
ships an the assistance OF Captain
Clark of the oregon he sunk the span
ish meet Well. what happened? The
man that done the nghtin' was only
commandin because the other admiral
was attendin to the social functions
attachin' 70 his great ONCE a-drinkin'
tea down 90 Cubyan Kensington
party. But what did the fightln' ad-
miral say after he wiped the Spanish
armada off'n the earth? why, he Just
set down and wrote a message sayin'.
We met the Spanish boats an sunk
EN- That's what he said
But what about the handsomely
epaulletted society admiral. what did
he do? When ne heard the news OF
the sinkin' Of the feet. he was sailin
down the Cubyan coast to sec where
his dern ships had gone 10. WeW'
when he found out what they had gone
an done, he set down In his stateroonl
an dictated the follerin' message To
the president OF the United states; the
fleet under my comrrand takes pleasure
IN presenting YOU with the spanish
war ships as a Fourth Of july gift
That's what he said Yes. IL was the
glorious Fourth. and what Schley done
that day Sampson took the credit Tor
which brings me back 60 what !
was sayin. that its easy enough 10 ge'
20 the pole " you only know when YOU
are there. The main thing II TO Know
when you're there y there's a sure
way OF tellln' too. accordin to what !
Jest been readin. All you've got To DO
Is TO have either a seXtant or theodo-
lite along with you. an YOU can tel
every time Just when you've reached
the pole. You've simply got to have
sextant. according 20 them astrono-
NOR fellers on n YOU haven't got .
right good sextant. a theodolite VIII DO.
In fact they say q theodolite Is prefera-
bic even to sextaut. but bran new
No. scxtant is al right FOR tellin you
when YOU arc AT the pole. The trouble
with n sextant Is that you haze ~
hoil IL In your hands While you'tell tiW
time by II, an a theodohte YOU can
jest lean up against the pole OF stand
ID on n chunk Of ice while you're keep
IN your hands in your pockets to
keep en- warm during the astrononi-
cal calculation. In the old days peo-
pie didn't have nothir' but seStarts,
an ts a fact that since theod0litcs
come out they have been discovcrin
the north pole more often
ITO successfully tell when you arc AZ
the north pole, you've got 20 knqN lust
how much horizon you've got under The
sun a. noon You know the sun gets
MP on the morning Of March Up in the
pole region and fools around for six
months. never scttin' At all during the
whole time Tho only way to tell when
its night Is TO notice when you begin
10 Nawn an you think It's about 10
O'Clock in the evenin'. but the sun Is
still shinn' an you have to cover up
your head in order to go To sleep.
"A ~ 4 he
horizon beneath the sun. YOU Just look
through the telescope in your seXtsnt
while standin' on tho pole. You look
INTO a little mirror set a little ways
away from tho end of the telescope
half Of the mirror being lookin glass
and the other half bein' just plain
glass An here the difficulty with a
sextant comes IN. II il happens your
hands are a little cold which they are
apt 90 be IN those latitudes. especial
~ early IN the morning an late in the
evenln' your hands win shake an you
are likely TO read just a leetle too much
or a leetle too little horizon an you
might think YOU are a hundred miles
away when you are standin' right there
all the time. Now the images reflected
In tho mirror is given back by some
colored glasses attached TO the sextant.
aud includes two stars which you are
supposed 20 see in the polar regions.
These bein' reflected in the horizon
glass. you then look down at the in
dex on the upper end OF your alidade,
just forward OF your back shades of
colored glass. You must BE- sure your
alidade Is IN good workin' order. for
can tell you great deal depends on
the alidade When your mirrors and
colored glasses and ali dade an all is all
plumb an workin' fine. then you've
got 10 turn to your microscope an read
your Nernier This Is very important.
Never fail e read your Nernier IL you
want 10 really tell IL YOU are at the
pole. The Nernier consists OF a little
ruler business that's marked with
notches telling you how much horizon
has piled up between the sun an what
you can see OF the earth. Now you take
out your watch an wait till noon. an II
after lookin' through the mirrors a
number OF times you find that the OBJ
Jet seen through these mirrors. which
Is perpendicular to the same plane and
the angular distance of the object from
It's Image Is double the inclination OF
the mirrors. then all YOU have to do
Is 10 dip your machine SOS one OF the
stars YOU can see Is nearly roincident
with the other star. then the reading Of
the arc will tell you the angle required,
an " IL reads. on March p. the day Mr..
Cook discovered the pole that the sun
Il II degrees an ~ minutes above the
horizon OF the earth, why there you are,
right at the pole
That's how you can tell when you've
found il. as | said. II YOU are workin'
with a sextSnt: but II you've got a
theodolte. why it's a heap easier. Mr.
Cook found the pole IN lust that way.
an year later Peary sees his tracks
and follows him up there I don't know.
but I think Mr.. Cook only had a sex
tant while Peary. bein more fashion
able. may have had a theodolite: an
for that reason ne thought he could
beat Cook 10 H. But he'll have 10 show
me, that's all"
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