Evening Star Newspaper, December 28, 1924, Page 21

ECLPSETOBRING NEAT INMORNNG United States to See Sun Ob- scured January 24—Will Be | Total in New York. December . usually vather reticient about ng out the laboratory and walking through the market places. Is €oing to stage the greatest show £ the century on the morning of wuary 4, 1925—free to 10,000,000 ople this country. with a cast cluding such universally well known tors as the sun, moon and the earth, with the heavens as a back- drap and a chor omposed of stars, real ones no less. Some credit for total eclip be given to the subscribing men tem, but to press this performance of the sun-—must regular habits of vers of the solar| the nomers re- agent glory of being advance. ‘Just here on the surface of be traced the dark moon a it runs fite throughout the daylight hours 1925, shutting out the at sunrise near Red n obliterating day- running southeast- Gireat Lake region, of night over New going out to sea over to follow an eliptical the Atlantic and blend true night north of the Hebrides.” Night™ rvelous the path in Morni accuracy of are popularly known vague sense, but it brings it when astronomers are able to ut the present eclipse rtly after § o'clock on the ng of January 24 the City of York ng to find something cing wrong with its sunlight. People way to work are going to > night they have just is prematurely set- Twilight will begin to high places will sce nt dragon of the Chi- the sun in its black ect will notice into the sky- increased chill ntil at scien- predictions ceping s. &n rowing stronger ck darkness has shrouded the mak it «sary to snap on and street lamps ght-in-day shall s and the sun reassert iteelf. New Yorkers have every right to feel casusl about the eclipse in ad- vance of its ar For they have is weird ver seen T last total eclipse er Manhattan Island was viewed by Indians, probably only a handful of then unprepared for a heavenly | pran and hence frightened to the depths of their superstitious souls. | Recur Every 330 Yeaes. tal eclipses occur over one given of once every a lucky gen- as | that section will watch the sun rise with the dark globe of n acr its £ For the ren finished e ay of the over the 1 then on until the West the s sun sets in the adow of the moon will trace an clliptical path over th th, %0 that the people living in that path | successively have the shadow over them. At any given would appear to time this shadow a detached heavenly dot on the sur- earth. This dot is the| conical shadow thrown | . and it is about 100 miles | The dot itself repre- a in which the sun will obscured to those within around its black intensity great penumbral area, a 0 miles in diameter, within sun_will be partially ob- at is, from the Amazon South to Greenland on the No this semi-darkness will spread out in diminishing fintensit; from the black dot of total obscurity rents the be totally it, but there is circle 4.5 which the scured. T! River on t Goes 1,500 Viles an Hour. This is well iliustrated by what is to happen here in New York. The black dot nd its shadowy penumbral i appears first in M esota, and its terrific race eastward at of half a mile a second— iles an hour 0 that the on- rushing wall of darkness will leave Duluth, Minn, at 8 o'‘clock and be in New York at 9:11 o'clock—and cut over the Atlantic tracks before you have finished your breakfast, provid- ing vou can think of breakfast on such an occasion. The penumbrial shadow will begin to appear over New York at 8 o'clock, when the moon will take fts first bite of the sun. Gradually the moon’s orb will cut deeper across the sun's face until at 9:11 total obscurity will , lasting here only half a min- ute before the moon slides off to the eastward and the sun's face is grad- ually pcovered agalin. This will happen at 10:28 o'clock, when day- light will be completely restored. That brief half minute of totality represents the time required for the black dot to pass over us, and be- cause we on its southern rim—its venter will be over New Haven—only the part of the city above One Hun- dred and Tenth street will be In the area of total obscuration, while the lower -half of tho city will be In the | darkest part of the penumbral shadow. That is, If you view the eclipse from the Bronx you will see the entire face of the sun obliterated, but if you watch it from the Battery there wlll be a golden crescent of sunlight apparent even at the helght of the eclipse. The further south or the further north you go from the black dot the larger will be the crescent. At Albany 99 per cont of the sun's dlameter will be covered by the moon, at Cam- bridge, Mass., north of the black dot, the same amount of obscuration will be visible, at Chicago, Philadelphia. Detroit, Montreal and Toledo thers will be an obstructlon of 95 per cent or more, and the further away from the black dot the less will be the obscuration, so that the aligator hunt- er on the Amazon and the polar bear hunter in Grgenland will each see the eclipse as merely a tiny notch of black on the rim of the sun. Nature's Greatest Exhibit. Why so much fuss about the eclipse, whether it is partial or total? What has the ordinary mortal got to do with this thing that so excites those lonely watchers of the skies, the astronomers, in their earthly isolation and wrapt absorption in the doings of other worlds? Simply this, that, putting aside for the moment the sweeping practical applications of the knowledgo derived from eclipses, a total eclipse is one of the greatest esthetic experiences that nature vouch- safes to men, The reason that the difference be- tween a partial eclipse and a total one is so stressed is because there is 2 vast difference in thelr respective | Wes | the | the moon it Bootleg, in Youth, Puts Village in Darkness 4 Hours By the Associated Preas. LOWVILLE, N. Y., December 27. Bootleg whisky s believed to have been the indirect cause of four hours o darkness in this village last night. And the darkness was the culmina- tion of several hours of excitement. - Paul Arlette, an Indlan youth, who is alleged to have been in a frenzied condition because of exces- sive holiday potations, entered an ice cream Store in the nelghboring village of Naumberg and threatened to kill all the customers with a knife. He was bound with ropes only after 12 men hed joined in the fray. While on the way to the county jail here in custody of the sheriff and deputy Arlette got his feet free and kicked the sheriff through the | windshield of the automobile. The car went into the ditch, breaking an electric light pole and severing the electric light wires running from gel Falls to Lowville. After another fight Arlette was again over- powered and brought to the county Jail. —————eeeees of partial eclipse—the Woolworth Building, for instance: The city lies below you calm in the ! freshness of an early Winter morning At 8 oclock a glance at the sun through smoked glasscs—these are absolutely nec ary to prevent &ye | strain_and possible ~ blindness—a mi nute black tooth bites into the west- ern rim 6f the sun. This grows, and as it pushes its way across the sun with the terrible inevitableness of fute, the imagination is forced to reckon with this, as the moon, the| eracious, lovely queen of night, now gone mad by day, gone sterile and ominous until it is no longer the fumiliar thing of beauty, but a dead, inert mass that is showing us its dark side for the first time | Daylight to Disappear. The brightness of day fades, giving place to an unearthly twilight, an ashen dusk that is like none other we have ever scen Across the city below us play the shadow bands.| weird strips of darkness moving| slowly across the earth and resem- bling the reflections of sunlight on water. They are probably metero- logical—that is, due to conditions of the earth’s atmosphere as acted upon by the peculiar light filtering down from the crescent of sunshine. They may er may not appear. We don't know what they are and all attemnts to photograph them have so far been unsuccessful. Then, with more good luck. the observer of the partial cclipse that is | almost a complete one will see the Bailey's beads. These will mark the height of the eclipse for those who see them in the zone of partial ob- scuration. They are caused by the mountains of the moon through whose valleys at the moment of| almost complete obscuration blots of | sunlight sift through and fall tof earth as golden beads. After the ap-| pearance of Bailey's beads the ob-| gerver of a partial eclipse will see the crescent of sun Iimmediately begin to enlarge until the moon slips completely from in front of it.| Much More. So much for the partial eclipse Those who are fn the black dot will see all this and much more. Sup- pose we plant ourselves on a hill up| chester way, well within the| zone of totaiity and high enough in| elevation to see for some miles over surrounding country. At the beginning of the eclipse we shall see the same phenomena us from the Woolworth tower, the sinister globe | of the moon encrouching on the sun,| the gradual spread of darkness. hen comes the greatest thrill. Look- | westward there appears the wall of the black spot itself, the cone o:! the moon's shadow, rushing at the observer at the rate of 1,800 miles an hour, looking like a great upper jaw that is snapping down unto the| helpless earth. | When the black spot has engulfed | the observer it remains over him for | a minute or so—it will last for two | minutes at New Haven where its cen- | ter falls—and during that brief time occurs the phenomenon which every | good astronomer hopes to see before he dies: This is the golar corona. No sooner has the last thin rim of sunshine disappeared simultane- ously with the rush overhead of the shadow wall than the corona bursts on the vision, an ashen halo encir- cling the black head of the moon. For distance of about the diameter of will extend on all sides, a different thing than moonlight, a different light from any that you have ever seen, with its glowing coral in- ner ring next the sun and its ghostly diffusion of eerie radiance out to its brush-like tips. It will have some- thing near the strength of the light of a full moon. Corona Still Mystery. What is the corona? There you have the astronomers. They know it extends sometimes as far as 10,000,- 000 miles from the sun; they know it acts directly over the areas where sunspots appear and where the leap- ing flames of ignited hydrogen, hei- fum and calcium of the solar prom- inences appear; they think it is the stream of electrons, luminous solar particles, light pressure—what you will—but they know definitely thay have had less than an hour to study it during the times when modern in- struments have been applied to it, and that they wish most awfully that clear weuther will occur January 24, 1925, and so give them another brief two minutes to make corona photo- graphs. FUEL BRIQUETTES $13.00 Ton COKE $11.00 Ton Nut Size $11.50 Ton Egg Size POCAHONTAS EGG $11.50 Ton FAIRMONT OR LOGAN $8.50 Ton Egg Size ANTHRACITE ALL SIZES SOUTHERN THRACITE See | Egg, Stove and Nut BITUMINOUS Run of Mine Georges Creek; Jenner; Yellow Run; New Riv- ver; Fairmont; Poca- hontas. FUEL OIL ORDERS RECEIVED 1319 G St. N.W. 1365 D St. S.W. 1200 R St. N.W. 1245 First St. N.E. 203 Seventh St. S.W. Rosslyn, Va. glories, the latter exhibiting all the Dbeauty of the partial eclipse, and in addition_providing for the brief mo- ments of totality the spectacle never to be forgotten—the solar corona. Hare iz.what a person would ses. from & commanding site in the area Bethesda, Md. PRAIIRA 4640 THE SUNDAY. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. DECEMBER. 28, 1924—PART 1. Levy & Co. ® Street NW. Prillp Paid tomorrow delivers any one of these ut‘\éfim Tomorrow is another big bargain day at the Phillp Levy Store. Hundreds of useful pieces of furniture left after Christmas selling will be closed out. sold at reduced prices and delivered for only $1. those who wish to shop before going to business. = $1 Delivers a Dining Tables Chifforobe R g i The holiday rush has left ai Attt e Tith e number of odd Golden 5oLy ine Ghifforoba that Qak Dining Tables in aifferent 1oy have needed for such a long sizes that we are now selling at reduced prices. 317 95 gt by g 533.75 . Ry : ican Walnut finish Yours delivered for N 3 $1.00. Prices startat Now guicpm ororly Sale of Dining Room and Bedroom Chairs Just for tomorrow you can buy Bedroom Chairs and Dining Room Chairs in American Walnut—that formerly sold up to $8.75, for only $4. each. The dining chairs have genuine blue leather seats. The bedroom chairs, rockers and benches have cane seats. .. Blanket Sale [Keeping a_step ahead of old man Bister 1s J3st & matter of stienditg our - yiry) American Walnut, to match the blanket sou need is gonme. $1_de your dining room suite. livers any ket in our stock. Your wagons equipped with o cholce ‘of many veautiful without drop leaves. 33.75 1 delivers yours. 518.75 Tea Wagons Just a few Tea Wagons le fter the holiday rush—in be: patterns in elthor cotton or woul. Cotton bl ric 4 ed now for as 1 as Prices start at.... Genuine first-quality Gold Seal Congo- leum Rugs away below regular prices. These are floor samples with the edges slightly turned, but the usefulness of the rugs is in no way impaired. Size 609 . L. 3675 Size 7.6x9 . . . . $8.95 Size 9x10.6 . . $12.50 Size 9x12 . .. $14.95 $1 Delivers Each Piece in This Outfit The outfit at this low price includes a straight foot odd $79 50 bed in American Walnut, a chiffonier and dresser to match. A wool fiber rug, sanitary link spring, all cotton mattress and pillows complete this outfit. $1.00 delivers cach item Terms $1.50 Weekly $1.00 Delivers a Baby Carriage Sulkies in blue and ivory, former prices up to $12 ow to go for as low as....... port Tables, with oval ends, for as little as........ Long Mahogany: finish ¥18:3¢ $35.00. To close out at.... s .95 Beautitul Grand Rapids make antique mahogany 4-leg Period s 50 47- 5085 b 12948 Davenport Tables Davenport Tables, in period Library Table, finished in Mahogany-finish Daven- 311 75 designs. Originally priced walnut. A $67.50 value, now Blue Reed Go-Carts, worth up to $17. Will be sold for Park Strollers and Carriages, in blue, brown and ivory; $45.00 grade; now 5 Blue Gondola Carriages, worth up to $55.00; to close out for BOUDOIR LAMPS beautiful DA-BEDS Just for tomorrow you can buy any Da-Bed in A our entire stock and have model boudoir it delivered for only $1 slightly soiled cagh. One that opens up handling, selling re into a full size bed equip- for $8, ‘will be del ped with folding cot aud fomorrow for $1 a Dad priced speclal at low price of 11922 Parie Levy & G 735 Seventh St.NW —Between G &H. Heater Sale Tomorrow $1 cash sends any heater in our entire stock to your home. Your old_worn out stove accepted part payment on a new one. Guaran- teed: hot blast heaters $ 0.00 I = camel lamp from slightly rusted will be s0ld to early buyers Sale Coal Ranges In rummaging through our big warehouse we discovered about a dozen ranges slightly damaged by water {hat we can fully guarantee to you and still save you about one-half of what you ordinarily would have to pay. Your old worn out coal range accepted as part pay- ment. §1 delivers any § .50 range on sale here to- —— morrow. Prices start at Gas Stoves You can buy only 2 good gas ra in this swre. Notning vise. Tht why you should come hers early tomo row morning and have your gas stove delivered for only $1. Your oid worn out stovs accepied 8.75 pare “Gaymer. $ Tinkes "HHetd " an Terms $1 a Week GATE-LEG TABLES Come éarly if you expect to get in on the wonderful values in GateLeg Tables that you will find here tomor tow. ~ §1 sénds any size GateLeg Table your home. One in brown mahogany finieh now priced for s iittle as........ . v $2.50 Console Mirror with tractively stenciled 86 95 upper panel set in ma- hogany-finished frame, oW .. 59 .50 $37.50 Conmsols 1Mirrors Grecian raised side pillars; glass very slightly imperfect, oW Sooos. $16.75 Console ror in Blue and Polychrome frame with Pompeian effect at top, now priced at Mi with 17 TELEPHONE SETS Mahogany - finish Telephone Stand and Stool to match. Strongly made. Priced T ST P Mahogany Tele- phone Stand and Chalr with low Now priced 8325 Chifforettes They have over stayed their welcome! Out they go tomorrow. Beautiful two-door Chifforettes, in genuine American Walnut, that sold_regularly $57.50. Now bein; closed out at. Dressers Tomorrow $1 cash sends any Dresser in our entire stock to your home. Chiffonfers may be had to match any dresser if you should want one. Dressers in American Walnut § .75 finish priced up- = ward from. ... 28 Sale of High-Grade Mirrors All floor samples, of which only one or two remain in stock, will be Doors open at 8 o’clock Monday morning for the benefit of KITCHEN CABINETS Our entire stock of floor sample Kitchen Cabinets in both golden oak and white enamel models are reduced in 3 $1 lh'i\vr; 329 85 . o1 ) - - :-I' MATTRESSE ce every thirty days we hold sale of all floor esses. $1 will deliver A 43-pound all cot yours. $17.50 Mantel Mirror beautiful dulled P#ly- chrome Yrame and Pompeian effect at .00 Hall Mirrors with mas mitation gold frame that meas- s 10 inches in h, now priced .50 Buffet Mir- 59 75 rors with mitred ends built into richly col- ored Polychrome frames, NOW eeeeceves SEWING CABINETS Mahogany finish, alno solid mahogany $ 4 .95 i: la Sewing Cab- == inets. Prices begin at Martha Washing- ton Sewing Cab- inets in rich ma- hogany finlsh for only . . $1 Delivers a Phonograph Leave your dishes in the sink and come_ running if you expect to get in on these guaranteed rebuilt phono- Eraphs that Tormerly soid up to $113.00 ind are now offercd At leas than half price. Guarantesd up. right phonographs in § 50 mahogany finish priced Chd tomorrow for as little .