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Show of FUMING HYDROCARBON HAS Astronomers Note the Internal Activity of the Nucleus Which Is' Making Gas at a Terrific RateOld Tail of Comet Is Fading Away Chicago, May 21 Forty decrees or new born tall for the comet, and a doubling of Its luminosity owing to flaming hydrocarbon gas were recorded record-ed by the astronomers at the Williams Ray observatory last night after the jpecrographlc negatives had boon developed. de-veloped. Prof. E. B Frost, director j of the observatory, announced the results re-sults of the computations. "Four of us, after independent calculations, cal-culations, agree that the new tall of the comet Is 40 degrees long," he said. "Tho tail was visible long after the head had set. Tho darkening of the sky by the eclipse of the moon helped greatly In the observations j "Observations by the hand spectroscope spectro-scope showed carbon bands In tho head of the comet. These are confirmed con-firmed by the development of the ncg-ntlves ncg-ntlves made with the twelve-Inch teb-icope. teb-icope. The internal activity of the omet is in full blast. It Is making .".as at a terrific rate," j Prof. Frost said he did not expect to nee (ho old tall In the east this morn- , inir. i "The old tall must disappear," he ndded "When detached from lis rource it ran only condense or fade sway ss the end of an active tall nlwavB does " Fine weather for observing prevailed pre-vailed throughout most of the night at Williams Bay, although! It wai "londy and rainy over Chicago. During Dur-ing the total eclipse, the moon presented pre-sented the appearance of a dull rod disk In the heavens. This, according to Prof. E. E. Barnard of Yerkes ob-rervotory, ob-rervotory, was due to the red rays of .he solar spectrum, which had the property of bending Inward. Beautiful Sight Los Angeles, Cal , May 24 There was one spot In wuihorn California liom which the sight of HalleyY. convet during tho eclipse of the moon last night was not -obscured by fog or clouds. From the observatory on Mount T-owe a fine view of both phenomena phe-nomena comet and eclipse was obtained. ob-tained. Outlined against the dark heavens, the comet's streamer vvtw een in all Its brilliancy for more than n hour. It stretched upward pBSt the zenith and was of a yellowish glow, though the nucleus was almost white To the thousands of spectators who ascended the mountain, the comet com-et appeared like a gigantic search-light search-light and its train, a gradually widening widen-ing glare, shot across the sky. NO APOLOGY FOR COMET. Ixs Angeles. May 21. -Speaking of the common idea that American cob leges and universities lire losing their democracy. President Arthur T. Had-ny Had-ny of Yale, at the southern California Califor-nia Yale Club banquet :isl night said: Increased wealth as we witness It tcday does not mean the loss of old Ideals of democracy, either In Yale ns a university or In the United States as a nation. The only chance Is that the problem of conserving democracy has become greater." Dr. F. B. Kellogg, president of the chili, proposed the toast "The President," Presi-dent," and this was followed by cheers for 'Tafi. '7S."' Dr. George E. Hale, director of the Mount Wilson observatory, said that the astronomers of the world bad no apology to offer for the recent eccentricities ec-centricities of thi tail of lialleyV comet. |