Show THE MAN IN MARS professor barnard discusses the of ble telescopes o 0 oct 16 prof barnard the astronomer and former head of the bicic california arrived in chicago yesterday to his position head of alio astronomical department part ment of the university of chicago owing to alie delay in the cobis 0 the observatory due to the present lack of building Iron Prof barnard will not active work in the until boine time in january but will devote ida imp during the autumn quarter to writing nd lecturing under the auspices of the university eity ex tension department when questioned the pw of he great telescope ami the advantages or of its location at lake j geneva the aae inclined tobe j conservative in his remarks let us ditties the idea concerning the of a new and great telescope commonly 1 I 1 and stick to the aarts farts he said in i the first place as to the moon no tel will ever be built eliat will elv us much additional iri formation about it no telescope no matter how powerful it may be will ever show the moon clearly at an apparently closer range than to miles as been by the baked eye in regard to hie statement made by one of tho newspapers new papers not lone ago that one important thing the great forty inch telescope was expected to do aas to clear up the mystery of alie ignal discovered upon mare with the preat lick ti and which were supposed to be a dig natch attempted upon alie part of the inhabitants inh abitante open up communication with the people of the earth this project must fail utterly athen it no such signal lights were ever teen upon scarp willi the lick telescope but in all probability were seen only by an and keen lighted newspaper newt paper man the fad ie the man of mare and ecial ew ial must be forever undiscovered we expect to bain tome knowledge in die eludy of the of and and in the raudy of the double stars and alie satellites of the different planet there are till many unsolved problems concern iii fixed 1 revolving binary elars and solar encee we have everything every thine to expect tor an excellent of great alie very location of the 10 inch lens at lak geneva may have an important on the future of great telescopes though as to the meteorological conditions that prevail at genev I 1 am as yet unable to speak |