New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 30, 1925, Page 12

B[IUNDARY LNES | CHANGED G GREATLY Inter-State Borders Not What They Once Were Washington, Oct. 80,—~"Work re- cently begun to check up the con- dition of monuments marking the straight line boundary between New York and Pennsylvania, and to find how far the line varies from ity proper position, brings to attention only one of the scores of ‘boundary skeletons’ in the natlonal closet,” says a bulletin from the Washing- D. C., headquarters of the National Geographic Soclety. “It |s probably safe to say that | not one of the forty-elght states is now administering exactly the ter- ritory which supposedly belongs to It,* continues the bulletin, “In some cases the differences are only | matters of hundreds or thousands of acres. but in others they must be | measured by hundreds of square miles. These faulty boundaries are for the most part accepted now, especially In the states longest set- tled: but the agreements have not all been reached quletly, There have heen scores of dlsputes between neighboring states and territorles dozens of law sults have been | brought before the supreme court, | and In one or two cases bitterness | has been so great that clvil war has | scemed on the verge of breaking | out. Difficult to Draw Straight Lines | “The chlef difficulty is in drawing | etraight lines, Anyone can draw a| straight 1ine on a plece of paper. | He can construct a reasonably straight edged flower-bed or drive- | way. But try to lay out a straight | line some miles or hundreds of miles | long on the face of the earth, over | hill and dale, valley and mountaln, | and you are faced by a vastly more difficult problem. i “Many of the supposedly east and |3 west lines between the colonies, lat- er inherited as boundaries by the states, were lald out with on other instrument than the magnetic com- pass. The direction in which the| needle pointed varied as the sur- veyor advanced; but in some cases no account was taken of this, and in others {naccurate corrections were applied. The lines, instead of being straight and running in a true | cast and west direction, were traced | somewhat like rail fences between | their terminal points, or struck off | from the true direction at angle and | had to be bro#ght back at intervals | hy offsets, Plumb Lines Tead Surveyors Astray “Later when better instruments, astronomical methods and higher | mathematics were ueed the errors in | running boundary lines were greatly reduced. An absolutely accurate line hundreds of miles long through rough country has never yet been ! markvd out on the earth's surface, however, and probably never um! he—chlefly beeause surveying in-! struments depend on plumb line or splrit level to establish perpendicu- | lnre and these indicators vary “”h‘\ differer in density of the rocks m place lo place. The closest | approach to accuracy has been | made by ‘triangnlation system' | vhich the United States Coast and GGeodetic Survey has extended over |4 a great part of the United States. Iirrors «1iil erop up, but they are Imost negligible, Tt fa this trian has disclosed glaring inac- the earlier houndary tion sy r of boundary difficul- en beeause of mistake firet boun- at Britain Woods ‘on a due river Mississippi’ impossibility | miles north of the parallel and | the disputed territory in 1835 and bloodshed was avolded by the nar- rnwm margin, One of the most pecullar Plfl\!‘ boundaries in the United States the northern lfle of Delaware w! mm | !n the arc of a circle nicked out the | mulhom(l‘rn corner of Pennsyl- vanla. Laying out the Delaware boundaries was a rather difficult | problem {n geometry and surveying | combined. While the north line is | {an arc of a circle drawn from the | center of the town of Newcastle | with a twelve mile radius, the west line 1s In the main a tangent to the circle from the mid-point of a base Iine in the south between the At- lantle Ocean and Chesapeake Bay Mason-Dixon Line Nearly Accurgte | “No boundary line & more famous than the ‘Mason and Dixon line,’ which divides the north and the south, It {s ghe southern boundary of Pennsylvania and the northern boundary of Maryland. It takes s name from Jeremlah Mason and Charles Dixon, two famous mathe- maticlans sent from Fngland to gur. vey the boundary. The line estab- lished by Mason and Dixon is prob- ably more nearly accurate than any of the other east-west boundarles run in the eastern United States, “In contrast to the Mason and Dixon line {s the long east-west line | forming the southern boundarics of Virginia and Kentucky between the Atlantle Ocean and Mississippl river. This line is supposed to lie | along a parallel of latitude at 36 degrees 30 minutes north, The line as lald out s probably north it this parallel throughout practically fts entire course. Tenneesee river it is about 20 miles too far north. At this point there Is an offset to the south and the | short stretch between the Tennessee | and Mississippl rivers {8 approxi- mately on the theoretical parallel. | The southern boundary of Tennee- | isee Is only less inaccurate than the I northern. 1t dodges both north and | south of its supposed location along the 35th parallel. “North Carolina is among the states suffering the greatest lossce | on account of boundary errors. Its diagonal boundary with South Caro. : lina is supposed to extend to the 5th parallel before turning west, It actually makes the turn 10 miles short of the goal, then jumps 12 continues west. The net loss of ter- | ritory to the state is estimated at | Where it cuts the ! { between 600 and 1,000 ‘square miles." | |Miss Carlson Chosen to Bates Spofford Club | Miss Dagmar Carlson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Carlson of 774 | t street, this city, who is study- ing at Bates (ollege, Lewiston, Maine, has won the distinction of |being elected a member of both the Spofford club and the 4A Players in | Ler sophomore year. The membe |ship of Spofford is limited to men and women, all of whom I shown some unusual degree of pro- ficiency and originality In composi- | tion, and represents the highest li interests of the college, matle interests are by the English 4A Players, a group actively interested in the theory and | technique of play writing and pl production, Lvery year they pre- | t several one act plays on the 1pus, and its members are amor chosen for the annual college \hu Carlson is also an editor n( Student, the college newspaper, | member of the Y. W. (. ial committee, |Will Confer Tonight On Teachers’ Hal.u 0 committee and the o committee of the T hers' ¢ il a joint meeting tonigh the petition made some tir the teachers for an upv \ublie school sys ill not be tak erstood, the sole purpose for « ”V g it bein to hear fully the ! reasons in port of their cma VORM JAP (LY IKI( AL PARTY Te § (P—Formation of that woull coming clections s will ballot, is reported to he I by priests of hiren 2000 Lbs. of Fresh Country — PO LEAN FRESH HAMS LEAN PORK LOINS RN BONELESS POT ROASTS ROASTING CHICKENS FRESH NATIVE LEGS GENUINE EXTRA ALL SIRLOIN, SHORT AND ROUND STE \l\ FOWL . LAMB FRESH CALVES LIVE R DAY SPECIAL b 33C National Meat Stores (o. orre. NEw Telephone 483 HOTEY 70 West Main Street NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, e PIANO DEPT. i OCTOBER 30, 1925. 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