LEGAL HOLIDAYS. The following days have been established in Maryland as Bank Holidays: 1. New Year's day, January 1. 9. All special days that may be ap 2. Washington's birthday, February 22. pointed or recommended by the Governor 3. Decoration day, May 30. 4. Independence day, July 4. 5. Christmas day, December 25. 6. Good Friday. 7. General election day. 8. Congressional election day. Labor's Holiday. Labor's Holiday, first Monday in Sep tember. of this State or the President of the United States as days of thanksgiving, fasting and prayer, or other religious ob servance, or for the general cessation of business. 10. Sundays. Saturday Half Holidays. By act of Assembly, approved April 7, 1892, it was declared that every Saturday By an act of the Congress of the United in the year after 12 o'clock, noon, shall States, approved June 28th, 1894, it was be a legal half holiday, so far as regards enacted that the first Monday of Septem presenting for payment or acceptance or ber in each year, being the day celebrated protesting and giving notice of the disand known as Labor's Holiday, was made honor of bills of exchange, bank checks, a legal public holiday, to all intents and drafts, promissory notes and other negopurposes, in the same manner as Christ tiable paper, and for these purposes shall mas, the First day of January, the Twen- be treated and considered as Sunday. ty-second day of February, the Thirtieth Paper maturing on any half holiday Satday of May and the Fourth day of July urday shall be payable on the succeeding are by law public holidays. secular or business day. The Governor of Maryland, by virtue In 1894 the Saturday half holiday bank of authority vested in him under Article law was extended to the city of Anna13, Section 9 of the Code, may declare polis, in 1898 to Montgomery and Baltiand proclaim the first Monday in Septem- more counties and in 1900 to Cecil county ber a legal holiday, and recommend its and the city of Cumberland. observance by the general cessation of business. Defenders' Day. Repudiation Day. The General Assembly of 1894 made November 23 a bank half holiday in FredSeptember 12, known as Defenders' erick county, under the title of "Repu Day, a municipal holiday in Balti-diation Day in commemoration of the more city, in memory of the successful repudiation of the stamp act in 1765. resistance of British invasion in 1814. Under/Article 18, Section 9 of the Code, Arbor Day. the Governor may declare September 12 The Governor of Maryland is authora legal or bank holiday by proclamation, ized to designate by proclamation one day and recommend its observance as such in April, every year, for tree planting, throughout the State of Maryland. X to be known as "Arbor Day." NO DAYS OF GRACE. By Act of the General Assembly of allowed on notes, drafts, checks, acceptMaryland, approved March 27, 1896, days ances, bills of exchange, bonds or other of grace were abolished. The act provides evidences of indebtedness, but that they that unless there is some express stipu- shall be due and payable as tuerein exlation to the contrary, no grace, according pressed, without grace. It is expected to the custom of merchants, shall be to abolish days of grace in all the States. 2 26 8 46 2 53 9 28 24 W. 5 19 12 25 Th. 5 17 12 26 Fr. 5 16 12 27 Sa. 5 15 12 28 Sun 5 14 12 29 Mo. 5 12 12 30 Tu. 5 11 12 4 3 556 55 2 42 3 5 3d Sunday after Easter. 3 34 3 57 Antares rises 9 31 P M. 4 22 4 452 sta'ry. of sup. In the above table, A. M. times are in light and P. M. times in heavy type. The times of high tides given are for Fell's Point, Baltimore harbor. To find the times of high tides at other points, see the table of "Chesapeake Tides," on page 4. The time of low tide is nearly midway between that of the preceding and following high tides, or about 6 hours after a high tide. This difference will vary, but will on the average be about 6 hours The times of highest water are about April 7th A. M., of 1.4 ft., and April 20th A. M., of 1.5 ft. The lowest water will occur about April 5th A. M. and April 19th A. M. and P. M 5 43 11 16 Low Sunday. S. 8 20 50 P.M. 8 26 8 52 2d Sunday after Easter. 12 1h stationary. 1 2 3 Arcturus 11 59 28 P.M. 7 Aldeb'n sets 9 14 P.M. ECLIPSE OF THE SUN MAY 28, 1900. Seldom has a total eclipse of the sun The Lick and Yerkes Observatory parties occurred under better conditions for ob- secured some results, but most of their servation than the one which was visible spectroscopic work was unsuccessful. May 28, 1930, in parts of North America, In Spain. Sir Norman Locyer is reEurope and Africa. Clear and beautiful ported to have been entirely successful weather prevailed throughout almost with his spectroscopic work, but in Althe entire belt of totality. geria, Evershed, who secured such beauAstronomical parties were scattered tiful results in India in 1898, found himthickly throughout the totality belt, self, through an error in the tables of the which began in the Pacific Ocean just British Nautical Almanac, to be a few west of Mexico and extended through hundred yards outside of the limits of Mexico, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, totality, instead of, as he had believed Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina himself to be about two miles inside. and Virginia, thence crossing the ocean Nevertheless, he secured some very valuto Portugal, Spain, Algiers and traversing able results. Northern Africa to the Red Sea, where At Pinehurst, the Johns Hopkins men it ended. The belt was 55 miles wide. also secured valuable polariscopic obserThe United States Government had vations, which seem to show conclusively three stations for observing the eclipse that most of the light of the corona is in this country. These were at Pine- reflected sunlight Prof. Turner also hurst, N C., where the station was in charge of Prof. Aaron N. Skinner; at Barnesville, Ga., in charge of Prof. Milton Updegraff, and at Griffin. Ga., in charge of Prof. Stimson J. Brown. Capt. C. H. Davis, superintendent of the Naval Observatory at Washington, was in com munication with these officials by telegraph secured corroborative results in Spain. Prof. Ashmore, at Barnesville, Ga., secured what is probably the most accurate drawing of the corona that has ever been made during an eclipse. Crowds of sightseers went to Norfolk, Va.. for the great spectacle. Among them was President McKinley who made the trip from Washington on the dispatch boat Dolphin. The temperature fell, and at the period of totality there was a drop of 1% degrees The corona, with the plan ts Mercury and Venus shining near, was seen to great advantage. As the sun was darkened a weird effect was produced at many places. This led to some scenes of excitement, colored people in the South being especially affected. The United States Government also had a station in Tripoli, Northern Africa, where excellent results were obtained At Algiers a weird effect was produced. The color of the sea changed from deep blue to gray and the trees became purple. The corona and shadow bands were ob served under rarely favorable conditions The spectroscopic party of the Naval Observatory Expedition, at Pinehurst. N. C., composed almost wholly of Johns In Baltimore the shadow began about Hopkins men, and equipped with grat 40 minutes past 7 o'clock in the morning, ings made at the Johns Hopkins Univer- approaching at the southwestern limb of sity under Prof. Rowland's directions, the sun. The last contact, as seen by obtained very valuable results photo-observers in Baltimore, occurred at 14 graphically. The location of and extent minutes past 10 o'clock. At places in of carbon in the lower portions of the chromosphere is shown with a distinct ness never before known, and the same is true of many other metallic elements. The elements of the inner corona made their presence known by four very strong lines in the ultraviolet portion of the spectrum that were heretofore un- When a lunar eclipse occurs the moon known, besides, other lines in the visible overtakes the shadow of the earth, and portion of the spectrum that were al- her eastern limb enters the shadow first, ready known. The peculiarities of these so a lunar eclipse always begins on the lines show that there are, at least,two dis east side and ends on the west side. In tinct elements in the inner corona which a solar eclipse, however, the moon, in have a wholly different distribution. At Griffin, Ga., where again the spectroscopic party, with one exception, were composed of Johns Hopkins men. an accident prevented successful photographic results, but the eye observations seem to have been much the most success ful of any made along the line of totality At Barnesville, Prof. Lord secured a number of excellent spectrum photographs, giving much valuable data. Maryland west of Baltimore the contacts were made slightly earlier; at places more easterly, a little later. The time of maximum phase was at 57 minutes past 8, at which time. .91 of the sun s surface was obscured to observers in Baltimore. her eastward motion, overtakes the sun and conceals the western limb first so a solar eclipse begins on the west side of the sun and ends on the east side. The next important eclipse will occur May 17, 1901, in the East Indias, the duration will be of unusual length, and it is expected that a party from the United States Naval Observatory will observe it in Sumatra, where the duration of totality will be 6% minutes. 4 45 12 39 W. 4 45 12 30 Th. 4 44 12 4 44 12 3 267 22 3 337 23 3 417 24 3 497 24 3 2911 7 sets 2 22 A. M. 46 Fomalhaut rises 41 AM. 22 Rigel sets 8 3 P.M. 34th Sunday after Easter. 42 3 U. Mino. S. 11 59 52. 9 22 9 28 Polaris N. 9 28 10 P.M. 22 AT ♂ b°C. 17 Alc.(Pleides)sets8 8PM. Spica S. 10 13 40 P.M. Arcturus S 11 0 29 P.M. 8 12 40 8 1 31 Rogation Sunday. Aldebn.sets 8 11. 3 4 3 288 Superior. Årises 1044 h rises1051 total eclip.; inv.Balt. 9 2 1 31 7 18 7 44 1 52 8 51 2 22 9 34 2 5310 20 1 17 1 35 2 12 2 28 3 4 3 18 3 52 4 5 Vega S. 2 35 2 A.M. Whit Sunday. a cygni rises 8 37 P. M. 8 gr. H. Lat. N. ☐♂о Altair rises 8 47 P. M. 4 40 4 48 Antares S. 12 1 32 A.M. 5 24 5 31 Capella sets 10 34 P. M. 31 Fr. The times of high tides given are for Fell's Point, Baltimore harbor. To find the times of high tides at other points, see the table of Chesapeake Tides," on page 4. The time of low tide is nearly midway between that of the preceding and following high tides, or about 6 hours after a high tide. The times of highest water are about May 5th A.M., of 1.4 ft., and May 19th A.M., of 1.5 ft. The lowest water occurs about May 3d A. M. and May 18th A.M. 5 50 6 7 6 32 6 7 12 7 7 54 8 8 36 8 3 39 10 7 10 4 29 10 53 11 5 19 11 45 6 8 12 1 2 3 57 4 20 38 MASON AND DIXON LINE. Re-Survey Commission designated under Acts of the Legislatures of Pennsylvania and Maryland, 1899 and 1900. COMMISSION. Supt. U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey-O. H. Tittman. Maryland-Prof. Wm. Bullock Clark. Surveyor in Charge-Capt. W. C. Hodgkins, U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. The engineers in charge of the re-survey the line between Maryland and Delaware of the famous Mason and Dixon line were and Pennsylvania, the measurement of detailed in the year 1900 by the chief of a degree of longitude in Maryland. After the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey with- returning to England Mason and Dixon out expense to the States. The amount were sent to the Cape of Good Hope to appropriated by each State, $5,000, was de- observe a transit of Venus. Dixon died voted to the expenses of the subordinate in Durham, England, in 1777. Mason members of the survey; to the purchase came to this country to live in Philadeland location of the monuments and other phia and died there in 1787. contingent expenses connected with the actual re-marking of the line. The two surveyors arrived in Philadelphia November 15, 1764, and began their The original running of Mason and survey early the following spring. The Dixon's line was done according to the most difficult part of the survey was in terms of the final agreement between the fixing the line of the circle around New Calverts and Penns, concluded in 1760 Castle, Del., according to Lord Hardafter protracted negotiations. There was wicke's decision. They reported that a conflict in the grants of Maryland and this line as fixed by them would not pass Pennsylvania, and other complications "one inch to the eastward or westward affecting the titles. The Penns had of the points indicated by the Colonial friends at court and Calvert was finally surveyors several years previously'' and coerced into conceding everything Penn that the sighting along poles and the demanded, and this concession cost him rude chain measurements of 1761 and 1762 the richest portion of his domain. would have answered every purpose had the proprietary so thought." miles from the Delaware river and 36 miles short of the northwest corner of Maryland their Indian escort left them and they abandoned the work. It was completed many years afterward by other surveyors. The original grant to Calvert placed the northern limit of his domain at the On January 4, 1766, the party had 40th parallel, while the grant to Penn crossed North Mountain, in Washington placed his territory north of Maryland. county, and had reached the Little AlleSince John Smith's map of Virginia rep gany. There the work was stopped by resented the 40th parallel as running the Indians. The French and Indian war below the head of the navigable waters was going on, but the surveying party of the Susquehanna, and since the loca- had been protected by the escort of a tion of the line was found subsequently body of friendly Indians of the Six Nato be the neighborhood of Philadelphia, tions. When they reached a point 244 it was urged by the Penns that the spirit of the grant, based upon the assumption that Smith's map was used, should be followed, rather than the letter of the charter, which permitted Lord Baltimore to govern the inhabitants of the principal settlement in Penn's colony. Mason and Dixon did their work with The Baltimores insisted on the letter of the utmost care. Through the forests the grant. The matter was finally com- they cut a vista" eight feet wide and promised and the claim of a good slice of set up a stone at the end of each mile. Pennsylvania was abandoned by the Every fifth stone was larger than the Calverts. others and had on the north side the The line between Maryland and Penn- arms of Thomas and Richard Penn and sylvania was begun in 1760 by a commis- on the south face the arms of Frederick sion appointed for that purpose. The Lord Baltimore. The intermediate stones proprietors of the two colonies became are smaller and have the letter "P" on Impatient at their slow progress and the north and "M" on the south surface. agreed to engage Charles Mason and These stones were hauled as far as the James Dixon to complete the work. neighborhood of Fort Frederick, in While Mason and Dixon are described Washington county, and it was found as mathematicians and surveyors, or impossible to carry them farther through merely as surveyors, they were men of the mountains. The removal of many of learning and of scientific attainments. the historic landmarks left the boundary Both were elected members of the Amer-line between Maryland and Pennsylvania ican Philolosophical Society. Mr. Mason in doubt in places, and it is to remedy was at one time assistant at the Royal this, as well as to perpetuate the historic Observatory at Greenwich. Their work line, that provision was made for the in America included, besides running re-survey. |