Show 1 GREA RE CANALS OF MARS MARi t RECENT PHOTOGRAPHS EST ESTABLISH BLISH B- B B- B LISH APPARENT ARTIFICIAL CONS CONSTRUCTION The Cameras Camera's Eye More Sensitive than the Human Optic Establishes s New Data Interesting Data Interesting Scientific Discoveries 1 Astronomers and scientists In Jeneral general Jen- Jen gen gen- eral oral are deeply Interested in the tile modest announcement made by Professor Professor Pro Pro- fessor lessor Percival Lowell and his associates at the Lowell Observatory In Arizona recently that after severn several partial successes and some complete failures the tile greater canals of the planet Mars had bad at last been photo photo- graphed Hitherto th the gen general genral ral p public bUc has heed been compelled to accept or to reject the existence of the Martian canals on the tM word of the stargazing fraternity But Bui with the accomplishment of the Harvard lIar Har vard yard observers in Arizona everyone evelyon will now have an opportunity to see seethe seethe the actual photographs in proof of what has long been considered as more or less of a theory While several photographs were taken talen of the canals some weeks ago It was not until a few days ago ago- that thai the solar photographers were were ready to announce the complete success of the tho undertaking Professor L Lowell welI In ia the following account of the achievement Is unreserved in his belief that the Martian canals closely correspond to the familiar waterways of the same sam general classification nn on this Up UP t to t the i present present ti time eh human man I knowledge e of Mars has b been en largely theoretical theoretical the the principal facts re regard regard- aldIn ald In lug Ins the planet being that it St is 1 miles mile from the sun and approximately miles from earth arth The he Martian l year lias has days clays Mars 1 is 42 O miles mUM In in diameter tile earth being Jupiter and the sun miles To photograph t tie tho e canals of Mars says Professor Lowell has for many years been a purpose of othe the observatory observatory observatory tory established and maintained by Harvard College In Arizona The first to o meet et 11 with h an an even approximate approximate approximate mate success U cess wa Vas 3 made In n a 1001 when a it more or less Jess satisfactory print was wal made of the fhE Mare pr A I pr gr or Lake a e of Acid Yet encouraging a that plo pioneer eer effort was no po canal could ouId then lien be e detected on on- the nega negative ive with absolute certainty day To-day we ta can ea state tate as s positive and final that there Ire are re canals on Ott Mars because the photographs ay say sayo ayRO so RO o nn and t ft n. photographic Is s nothing if St not ot truthful In my firm belief belle Jt it Is only p ft a. a question of time possibly of or months maybe be a few tew years when we shall beable beable be beable able to determine the exact nature and pr probable purpose of or the canals of our planetary neighbor o Meanwhile 1 we have a 1 number of ot excellent negatives which have served to bri bring g us a bit closer to Mars 1 than ever er In the past Tha 11 negatives thoroughly confirm the tho eye in Showing oWin pot only the existence exist ence of the canals but ut res-eal res m as ls continuous lines JInes of tens and nd even hun hundreds tn- tn of ot miles In length Of OC course Jt St StIs itis is yet Impossible Impossible- to say siy positively whether the Martian canals are of ot artificial or natural creation or exactly of what composition Is the liquid or molten substance In them But so far faras faras faras as we can at present conceive they appear as Jis corresponding corresponding- to our familIar famil- famil mr ar waterways classified under the leading heading of canal canals |