The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-14
TODAY IN HISTORY
Great Aurora Borcalls,
MONDAY, NOVEMBER "a. 1910.

Great Aurora eorcalis.
Years OF observation. covering many
centuries. and embracing all zones and
latltudes, give no record OF any display
or auroral glories equal In sublimity,
maenlhccnce and extent TO the aurora
oorealls OF November IA. 1887. The phe-
nomena attracted attention everywhere,
and most every locality had different
aspect OF the wonderful sight. Scientific
observations Of the phenomenon were
made by most of the scientists, and these
we're very generally published and at
tracted great amount OF attention.
Professor Olmstead of New Haven thus
describes II THE snow. which at sun
set bad covered the earth and all things
near 1t, with mantle OF the purest
WhIte. closed early in the evening with
a most. curious and beautiful pageant.
About o'clock, while the sky was yet
thick with falling snow. all things sud
ehtlre atmosphere tho surface Of the
earth, the trees. the tops OF the houses.
and. In short. the whole face OF nature,
were tinged with the same scarlet hue.
Al short intervals 1t alternately increased
and diminished In brightness. until. at
half-past s, only slight tnge Of red
remained in the sky
In the city of New York the display
was witnessed from an eminence which
commanded an unobstructed view Of the
horizon In every direction and the OBJ
beyond description There It was OF
very much longer duration. An observer
wrote: For time the earth was COM
pteteIy overarched by a perfect canopy
OF glory. The southern columns which
seemed TO proceed downward from the
corona, rested on an arch OF diffused
lsht' extending In great circle from
east TO west, nearly so, and being
about twenty degrees, or a little more
above the horizon In the center. The
southern columns were at no time as
bright as the northern but they main
tanned their position. after these last had
retired -
In the western part of New York state
the exhibition was most superb as seen
ana described at various points Of OBJ
serration. In Hudson, Ohio, at the West
ern Reserve college, especial attention
was paid to the phenomena by Professor
Loomls who wrote at length upon his
Impressions.
Strange. though It may appear this
beautiful and magnificent phenomenon
was visible during nearly the whole night
IN the neighborhood Of ST. Louis, and
was particularly brilliant between the
hours OF II and l, when the moon was
near its zenith. The commencement of
,ne phenomenon in Philadelphia WAS
sinlilar TO that observed in New York.
Ihe aurora was also observed in Mary
land. Virginia, South Carolina In GER
tain sections OF Georgia, and so exten-
sire was this magnificent celestial phe-
nomenon. that II exhibited it's wonderful
spiendors contemporaneously, TO the in
haoitants OF Europe and America though
the presence OF clouds greatly inter-
Iered with the attractiveness and gran
ieur OF the exhibition In the former
AZ half-past II. howeVer-says one of
The observers In England-a patch Of the
most intense blood-red coors ever seen,
was visible. free from the interposition
of clouds. The whole of the sky had
IN awful appearance; for the tinge of rcd
which pervaded the whole eXpanse as
Sumed In many points, from the depths |
'f colors above, the dark copper tint |
which is seen on the disk of the moon |
'nring lunar eclipse. Tt was such n |
hight as fills the mind with wonder and |
I'VE: and, in America at least was the |
most marvellous of the kind ever known;
hough that of August and September. |
$50. proved but little inferior In some
espects