Show CLIMAX MAY 18 Five weeks hence and comet com t twill will make mak its nearest approach to the earth and a shower of ot meteorites is ex expected expected expected to enliven the occasion Then the heavenly visitor will recede and pass Into obscurity for another sev years The Th earth will pass through ugh the tail t n of the comet about May IS 18 and the scientists will wUl take advantage of the the opportunity to tt make a ns Chief C et Willis Moore Mo re of ot the weather bureau has hilS h s Instructed tho the section directors dl dIre cors and all others othera Under him Mm lob to be prepared to gather j all iU l possible I Information for for the t e eUSe use of ot future generations ge er lons The last it co cof f time comet appeared preparations preparations for tor were not so ex extensive extensive extensive and the data secured scoured did not amount to much It will be different In Inthis Inthis inthis this year rear of ot our Cord rord If any stray facts get away it wont be the fault of the scientists Few men now alive remember Hal leys bYs comet In 1835 Those who existed at that time were either so young oung that they cannot recollect tIre the th circumstance or orso so old now that they th y have forgotten all about it ft There are a few exceptions exceptions exceptions Fernando Jones of Chicago Is Isone isone isone one who saw the comet tail tall and all of ot a century ago and has given it out quietly that he ex expects expects poets to see it again years y ars hence John Bigelow and Julia Ward Howe both still vigorous Intellectually also remember the excitement caused by the appearance appe ance of the strange light In the sky in the long ago From now on until the climax on n May 18 y we shall hear henr more or lef lets leia a about the Halley Bailey comet |