Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-11-28

CLOUDS, was most brilliantly lighted
up. The color was of the same deep
red, but it did not extend down to
the horizon; and this had scarcely
continued four minutes when the
whole region north of the zenith to
within about 8 degrees of the horizon
was again Redeemed and glowing, while
beyond these limits, either north or
south, no vesetige of the aurora was
visible.
IN HUDSON, Ohio at the Western
Reserve College, some of the earlier
displays of the phenomenon were no.
ticed by Prof. LOOMS. This was some
minutes after s, when he observed
that small pile Of light, of a red
dish hue. lay upon the horizon. in
direction little north of northwest,
and similar pile in the east Of north
east. Between these there was a low
faint cloud, bounded by somewhat
ill-dehned arch. rising in its center
about 10 degrees from the horizon.
Above this arch a diffused light
streamed upward toward the zenith. in
one or two places being somewhat
more condensed, forming beams This
light increased rapidly in brightness;
it became of more decided crimson
color. extended up to the zenith and
at the same time light began to shoot
up from several points in the east
and somewhat south of east At
quarter past six, meantime. a pretty
regular arch was formed, extending
from the pile Of light in the northwest.
This arch was rather irregular in its
outline and had slightly crimosn
color. In about five minutes another
arch of white light partially formed
in the southern sky and had nearly
the same direction with the preced-
ing, but this arch was never COM
plete and soon vanished entirely. The
great arch, however, before described,
frightened up again in very nearly
the same position as previously. About
half-past 8, light of crimson color
was observed to shoot from the eastern
horizon toward and beyond the zen
18th, nearly in the position OF the
former arch. The heavens were now
nearly covered with thin, cirro-cumu-
lus clouds, and the contrast of the
ordinary clouds with this crimson
auroral light produced very singu-
lar effect. The sky remained cloudy
during the night.
Strange though it may appear, this
beautiful and magnificent phenome-
non was visible during nearly the
whole night in the neighborhood of
ST. Louis, Mo-, and was particularly
brilliant between the hours of IL and
l, when the moon was near its zenith.
Time in St. Louis being rather more
than one hour earlier than in New
York, this midnight display was con-
temporaneous with the latest return
of the aurora in the longitude of New
York; but this, which was the latest
energetic in the latter, appears there
to have been the most remarkable.
The commencement of the phe-
nomenon in Philadelphia was similar
to that observed at New York. At
later period the lights were again
visible, and, between 9 and 10 o'clock,
exceeded in extent and brilliancy any
thing Of the kind ever before wit
messed in that region. A broad field
of crimson flame, stretching from
nearly a western course, and reaching
the eastern hemisphere, encompassed
the heavens with a brilliant glory, of
indescribable beauty, hanging, as it
were, suspended from the blue vault
above, like an immense curtain over
the earth-while, from almost every
point of the compass, shot up rays
of rich and gorgeous light, spreading
and intermingling with a wavy trem-
ulous motion, and exhibiting every
hue Of the clearest rainbow. The
richness, variety and delicacy Of the
colors were surprisingly beautiful. as
was their prismatic brilliancy. The
sky itself was remarkably clear and
cloudless. and through the celestial