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Show Observatory Is Mecca for Thousands Visitors Throng Lick Memorial Memo-rial in California. San Jose, Calif. Although Isolated Iso-lated on the summit of Mt. Hamilton Hamil-ton at an altitude of 4,'JOO feet and accessible by driving 27 miles over n circuitous mountain hlghwny. Lick observatory has. become one of the most alluring trips for tourists tour-ists In this section of California. More than 10,000 visitors will Journey to the summit or Mt. Hamilton Ham-ilton this year to see the costly instruments in-struments through which astronomers astrono-mers nightly peer heavenward, seeking knowledge from the stars. If visitors, chance to climb the mountain on Saturday evenings, they are privileged to gaze through the 3G-inch reflector, which magnifies magni-fies the aureole of the astral bodies. Despite Us isolated location. Lick observatory has developed a model village atop the lofty moun tain. Its poulation has grown during dur-ing the past five years to fifty. The observatory, which Is maintained main-tained and operated by the University Univer-sity of California, consists of a main building, containing the telescope tel-escope domes, offices, computing rooms, a library of S.000 books and 5,0K) pamphlets; detached buildings build-ings containing safe deposit rooms and photographic dark rooms, houses for the workers; instrument shops,, pumping stations, and several sev-eral workshops. It was completed in 1SSS. at a cost of $G1,000. James Lick, who donated fuuds for building and maintaining the widely known observatory, was boru In Fredericksburg. Md.. August Au-gust lo, 179G, and died in San Francisco Fran-cisco October 1, 1S7G. His remains are burled In the supporting pier of the 3G-Jnch equatorial telescope, I which was the largest telescope In the world at the time it was con- j structed. - |