New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 24, 1925, Page 13

¥ , Ing the two minutes, four and six ' Press)—Lifted. a mile closer to th: WONDER PICTURES TARPY PINAY Los Angeles Gets - Great Vi 0l Eclipse —_— \board ~ Ngval Dirigible Lo | \ngeles from Nantucket, Mass., Jan U4,~(By wireless to The Assoclate: sun by the naval dirigible Lo: Angeles, the United States naval ob servatory astronomers had a perfec view of the total lnllr. eclipse, Dur. tenth seconds of totality not a cloud married the magnificent spectacle o @ sun completely blotted out by the moon. The ghostly radiance of the «eclipsed sun turned the ocean, hori- | zon and the clouds below into a | / Savings Bank of New Britain 178 Main Street Assets $17,080,610.41 . Organized 1862 Surplus Fund $1,000,000.00 Facts Shown by the Annual Report of the President ‘ January 1, 1925 This Bank has deposits (21,369 accounts) amountmg 107 60 000000600500 508 With which to pay these deposits it has: First Mortgage Real Estate Loans $15,977,140.78 8,816,714.00 “Shooting the eclipse” was accomplished this morning by .0. Collomb of 69 Churc! street, who succeeded in making a good camera study of the moon’s progress between ! the earth and the sun. j vivid picture In yellow purples and grays while observers drew pic- Loans secrred by Anproved Collateral Loans on Personal Security 855,724.00 900.00 tures of the corona for science. i 18 Photographs Th . % o : A e e i o g 0AllS OI1 X CIH0ilal JCCUIILY .. .v vvvnivinany A battery of four astrapomical | hese pictures were taken at the cornmer of Trinity and Bassett streets with a 4 A cameras secured 18 photographs | camera owned by George Bean of 3 Trinity street. Mr. Collomb is a former press and Loans to the Clty of New Britain ........ 50.000_00 and two motion picture cameras | motion plctule photographer. He is the owner of the lens used on the camera. He used U . o0 8 ] ':';“i s :{;::Hfi::uhm‘;;:er‘:c:;);:;“a:'e | an 18-mch focus and a 10-inch plate. nlted Sfates Govemment Secu rities ..... 2.146.190.14 spectrum lines of helium gas M i et Lo v st T lidge I Foreign Government Bonds .............. . 1.312.658.80 Hydrogen, which hellum superseded, | 8 B ey e o wegep [ Angoie. The Lo Angeion now a1 ol 8% FROUES 1 : City and Town Bonds ..................... 1.544.650.00 and hydrogen' occur in the outer o x > . el il g b o o o B e g, g, s Wi e o e et Railroad Ponds ....... crsan o arrecrnnnns TASSSA813 20 | Woodrow Wikion at the Co ontral | § I Perhaps when the plates of to- B | I 4 I D | minutes with President Coolidge to- | Presbyterian church, of which Mr, | day's expedition are developed @ day and told newspapermen that he | Wilson was a member. Bank Stocks ......... tlgaa e ki . 240.412.00 | new secret will be revealed WM"JJ ? Baperiien (hne ; . 0 | secret il aled [felt_compelled to give a stock an- 1 Ui R useiin ikl it o) eamohse 1oLt monde 50 R Wi Public Utilities Bonds ..................... 23,506.25 {all inquiries. Washington, Jan. 24.—The house | g HPAH solar collpae long before £ vas| N il s o L B0 HETD Bt Bank Building and Lot ......... .. e 100,000.00 known on earth. A speclal course was laid down by Ca J. H. Klein of the Los Angvles during the eclipse and at ECLIPSE WONDERS photographed viewing the eclipse of | decided to lay hefore the house the | 8 the sun. . fuil report covering charges of mal- | g Tt's just like a democratic de-|aqministration in the office of the Cash and Deposits in Banks .............. 524,310.09 . from Block Tsland off the east end | _ United Stafes observatory, are jubl- the time of totality. The ship was| (Continued From First Page) JW“" e sald. “The sun will shine | commissioner of Indian affairs here. | i e === again, No ind M practically on the center line of the | | | area of totality eighteen and three- | here today for the phenomenon in- made 1 TOtal Resources ------------- Gon a0 a0nnD $17 080 610 41 fourth miles from Montauk Point and nine and three quarters miles | of Long Tsland. Clonds Threatened Up until two minutes before te- tality, very high clouds threatened | to spoil the scientific ogservations | but just before th critical moment a clear space of blue sky flirnished a background for the eclipse. Below | the ship were clouds at an altitude | Jof 2,000 feet that would have ob- | scured the eclipse had the dirigible | been a surface ship. Flcelmx} phadows a few seconds before and after totality were seen, It may be that when the plates are developed it will be discovered that the | shadow bands were photographed for the first time in the history of astronomy. The astronomers under the directlog of Captain Edwin T. | of the| Pollock, =uperintendent lant at the results. Professor George H. Peters, voteran of four prevlous,:!hlc to see the onrushing sh eclipq@ expeditions all favored with clear weather, is happy that his eclipse batting average is still one cluding 2,000 girls from Smith and Mount Holyoke colleges who, equipped with light astronomical apparatus, took up their station in! Windsor, On the high campus of Trinity college 8,000 including many § visiting scientists of note, took their stand. No Static A group of radio experts from Harvard university made experi- ments at the broad the Travelers Ing during the progr At Station ance Co. here of the eclipsc and found that there was no static. ! sent a constant signal to the local station, !¢ Station WEAF of New York and it was found that there appreciable change in the inte of this signal, although it was jus 1 4 trifle less for a few minutes b totality. Sclentific observers at Glaston bury, near here, reported that ti thin clouds and the haze in certai portions of the sky made it impo |and the phenomenon of B Beads, and reduced the corona b ahout one-third. | autome )IH | nacher of We asting station of ! 'COASTER INJURED. William Dowling, 20, street, was treat ain general hos) ie first cohtact, on which he struck by an (8] - g 4 drive Ih(uml street, arrived at t at the same tim; ner would have nd was uninjured. NEW ¢ EDISH PREMIER. | {IBLE RETURN 3 R . N.J, Jan. er today was of Sweden to su ting, Who res; rom h d owing to ill- . 2 ho ) ed by @ cloud which pre- | . had it appeared two min- spoiled | £. Slocum said. 1 s 4~Iln, Deduct Reserve held for Unearn ed Interest Surplus left after paying all deposits in full In addition the market value of these securities in excess of the above values is as follows: United States Government Securities Foreign Government Bonds : City and Town Bonds .......... .. A Railroad Bonds Bank Stocks Public Utilities Bonds 75,000.00 $17,005,610.41 $1,028,469.63 58,080.96 . 41,226.20 67,047.00 158,649.87 140,263.00 556.25 465,823.28 thousand per cent. Thermometers here registered four All on board hope the observa-|degrecs below zero early this morn- | son, , tions of the eclipse on land were as | ing. $1,494,292.91 This surplus is held for the protection of the Depositors and they alone benefit by the income received from its investment. Actual Surplus Albert Steiqer, Inc, | | Hartfcrd Increase in Accounts — 332 Increase in Deposits Increase in Amount loaned on Real Estate Increase in Foreign Government Bonds .... $1,189,149.25 1,134,454.00 1,676.07 i Increase in City and Town Bonds......... 511,210.12 Increase in Railroad Equipment Bonds.... 121,835.86 | Increase in Public Utilities Bonds. ... ... ... 23,506.25 MOND AY : I Decrease in United States Government Se- § CUTTE 8 T e e, 359,736.72 Decrease in Collateral Loans ............. 123,301.00 Gross Earffings Taxes Exnenses Additional Reserve for Unearned Interest ................... $905,808.93 $31,049.40 46,247.63 10,000.00 DOLLAR DAY Don’t Miss Our Great Bargains 87,297.03 L $818511.90 $322,573.09 366,083.12 Net Earnings Dividends to Depositors— July 1, 1924 — 2Y49% Jan. 1, 1925 — 212% 688,656.21 Surplus Earnings § 129,855.69 Increase inj Surplus e e $134,970.28 E. N. STANLEY, President. ; ¢ Banking Hours: Saturdavs —9 A. M. to 12 M. Monday Evenings —17 to 8:30 OF AND FOR THE DEPOSITORS 9A M tod4P. M THE BANK