Show A BIG TELESCOPE yerkes is dedicated a at t lake geneva LARGES r il in THE object gliss gl iss has a clear aperture of 20 inches length is ys 75 feet LARY LAKE GENEVA wis oct 21 specs s athe the greatest telescope in the world ass as medicated here today it is as the eez g f to the university of chicago of hares T yerke the much maligned e F rest reet railway baron but who corwith no with eluding the trials and tribulations to v 0 b h eh ch he has been subject of late years gj riven given to two thirds of Chi cagos area af aa ho he greatest street car system on rie lace face f ff cf f the earth and in doing EO ais s contributed to the cites develop e to au an extent tuat will warrant i ure ura ge generates bermio is in regarding him as aa a public benefactor F ve years azo ago the tha street streetcar car magnate r funded the yerkes observatory at this i 0 tc o which at oace took rank amon among 9 a institutions already in exis re ce and today he capped his benefic ot 0 by handing to the representatives ibe be university the deeds to a teles pe jpe thit has a diameter on one ninth area and a light gathering gather power oear oearl one fourth greater than that of is camons lick tele telf cope at mt hamton in california until today the most i aeiful glass in the world A 1 il I description of mr yerkes gilt gift to science w would occupy a page of a metropolitan pi litan paper in aref br ef it may be said that it will pierce the secrets of the eliea as has no other lens and that thai already it has partially ally unmasked hitherto unseen worlds since it was p aced in position prof barnard has been able to yiew view with unusual distinctness le s most of the objects connected with t 19 18 nebula lyra the great cluster in hercules fier cules and the dumbbell nebula glass of twenty inches clear aperture is placed in a tube which with it its access orits has a total length of not less lesa than seventy five feet the instrument complete com posa possesses esses the en amous weight ot ol sixty cons tons the tube alone weighs six tons ane polar axis which carries canes ca nes the entire weight of the tube and its s attachments weigh five tons the daiv ng clock which is to nave automatically this immense tube velh 5 motion mation corresponding correspond ag ig to the exact arent motion of the star being 0 Ser weighs one ton the weight 0 of the column supporting the mechanism yf of the is not less leas than thirty t na it la is seven by ten feet in d men siona and height from the flour t i the center of motion is over forty feet the dome of the observatory is eighty five feat in diameter the in ent is 13 provided with wita all the corn coal plicate tei i ni motions eions which are nace sary i such each a large tele telescope cope the mae biney affixing eaf aff ding iding chii virie variety t y of movement can re oe operated by the hand of the as io To nomer or by electric motors at the of the observer the electric are governed by a small switch board which can be placed on the para tors table or in ill any other con enie ct position the magnifying of the new instrument ranges from rom to diameters and is twenty wenty five per cent grater than that of the he lick telea telescope coPe the outlay ino gilve alve lin i in the building and e huiping if i 4 f the observatory and its minor and qan acnam telescopes is a secret with the d dinor n or but it must haye have been enormous enor moua the dedication exercises took place this morning at nine oc ock the final session cession of the international astronomical angress was held one hour later two cecial trains arrived from chicag chicago 0 tri bringing nging visitors from other states prominent men an a ad women of the city i he board of trustees students and quests guests of the university of chicago A procession was formed and march taken jp p to the observatory grounds after prayer had bad been offered and a musical selection rendered the oration of the day was delivered by professor J A heeler Kee lerL L L D directory of the allegheny observatory at the conclusion of his address mr charles T yerkes formally presented the deeds to the institution to dr W L harper president of ehe university of chicago and the latter made an eloquent and impressive address of acceptance this concluded the simple exercises and after luncheon had been served to the guests an hour was devoted to inspecting the observatory this afternoon the tors departed for chicago october 21 1897 will hereafter be a red letter day in the calender of astronomers throughout the globe |