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r ▼HE LICK OBSERVATORY.
JK Californian's Munificent Gift to the
Cause of Science.
It is but right that a successful merchant
should on dying see to it that his wealth
should l>e distributed among the people from
which he collected it, and in the state whose
government protected him in the acquisition
of that wealth. So thought the late James
Lick, one of the most tightfisted old misers
©f California. James Lick was a Pennsyl
vanian by birth and a piano and organ
maker by trade. He began business life in
Philadelphia away back in 1820, this he car
ried on successively and successfully in Balti
more, Md., Buenos Ayres and Valparaiso,
South America, and California. He reached
this last place iu the early days of 1847,
“getting in on the ground floor,” as they say
in Wall street, in speaking of one who gets
a big hold of an enterprise on the start. Old
Lick kept cautiously hoarding mid in
creasing his pile until it amounted to some
S4.(XXI,(HK) in 1874.
“And then a wonder came to light” in the
shapp of a trust deed by which he conveyed
all of this fortune to a board of trustees to
be divided among public charities and for
tli® erect.on of valuable scientific institu
tions.
Among the other bequests was one of
S7OO,(XX) for the construction and equipment
of an astronomical observatory for the Uni
versity of California. This was a pet pro
ject with the donor. He even selected the
site for the buildings, and expressed a desire
to be buried near them. His wish is to bo
gratified, as it is intended to chisel a vault
out of the solid rock under the pier which
will support tho great telescope, and here,
twenty-five miles from civilization on a lonely
mountain top 4,285 feet above the sea, will be
the solitary grave of the man who was a re
cluse in life.
The spot selected for the observatory site is
the summit of Mount Hamilton, fifty miles
south of San Francisco. The Federal gov
ernment owned the land and congress made
n grant of all the land embraced within a
circle one mile below the summit. A road
over twenty miles in length has been con
structed from the nearest settlement at a cost
of $75,000.
VIEW OF THZ OBSERVATORY COLONY.
Work was begun on Lick observatory in
1880, the first being done was to cut off the
apex of the peak thirty-one feet so as to
form a flat surface on which to construct
She buildings. Our illustration from a photo
graph shows the present appearance of the
work, but it conveys no idea of the amount
of labor it was to get them there. All the
building material, tools, food, water and
workmen had to be hauled from the valley
below. There are already erected the ob
servatory proper, which is a building 287
feet in length, and three other buildings for
various other observations. It was a big
undertaking and it is now only waiting the
arrival of the great telescope to be com
pleted.
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THE GREAT DOME AND TELESCOPE.
This is the building that will be the center
of attraction for astrooexuers and scientists
the world over. In it will be “the most
powerful telescope yet made,” as ordered in
Mr. Lick's trust deed. It will contain a
thirty-six inch objective, the largest ever at
tempted and the largest the great telescope
makers, Alvan Clark & Soils, of Cambridge
port, Mass. The next largest objective,
measuring thirty inches in diameter, has re
cently been finished by the same firm for the
government of Russia. At the time of Lick’s
death the largest telescopes in existence was
the one in the Naval observatory at Wash
ington, D. C., whioh has a twenty-six inch
objective, and Lord Ross’ great six-foot
reflecting telescope in Ireland. Tiie im
perial government of Austria has just
constructed a very powerful telescope
with a twenty-seven inch objective, but it is
the intention of the trustees of the Lick ob
servatory to keep ahead of the world in the
power of their telescope.
The dome is well shown in this sectional
plan presented herewith. It will weigh fifty
tons, being probably seventy feet in diam
eter, though this cannot be determined until
the polishing of the objective is completed
and its focal length is found. This, it is
hoped, will lie accomplished this year, and
two years later this country can proudly
claim the best equipped astronomical obser
vatory in existence.
Chicago ijedger: When rue maiden is
young teach her bow to cook, and when she
If old her husband will cleave unto her with
gladne<a
Douglas Jerrold: A man never so beauti
fully shows his own strength as when he
respects woman’s softness.
Baked apples are finding more favor on
fashionable breakfast tables.
In Praise of Dr. Holme*.
Phillippe Daryl, a French essayist and
Critic, says of Oliver Wendell Holmes:
’Everybody who speaks English on the
planet has been enjoying for the past thirty
years the superior productions of this Boston
Frenchman. And yet the Latin world
mains ignorant of him.”
Photo-Engraving Project.
A London project is to make plates by
photo-engraving of the American illustrated
magazines, print them on a common qual
ity of paper, and get them on the foreigr
market at half price within four days after
the issue there of the originals.
Latest Form of Telegraphic Receiver.
The latest form of telegraphic receiver
is called the “sensophone” and delivers
signals by a series of slight pricks, the
finger being placed upon a button on the
instrument. —Texas Siftings.
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