New-York Tribune from New York, New York • Page 44

THEY'RE BUILDING THE WORLD'S GREA TEST TELESCOPE "Young Genius''' Use Marvellous Instrument. Till', great, I. si In the WC is in pro-, constl Uctlon lore River, Mass. Tin. is mounting for the tnuimh which is to ticii'i up at the Mount Solar near Basaile cai, for the ass the -young gents to whom Andrew Carnegie lares i whole world will listen in a few yea will he one of the bj -products of shipbuilding firm which i turned OUI as staple products SU machinas as the North Dak.

the Nevada. Tie telescope tube will be big onoll to speed an automobile throngh. In- bal.Hice,i SO delicately that per move it The weight of the lens for which i pounds, will lie tested carefully that an i or of oi lllonth of an in. will be compli tely that 'icd an ordina yardstick The total wi Ight of ti ill 260,000 ounds, ii ting in SI the ehvatc rcury which I will coi a lot niOl i roper will welch in which tl in be 1 1,000 pound the north til anothei pounds, MUST BE KNOCKED DOWN MOVE. mounting, has he will have fi 1 "knocked down" into approximate! ton Iota, shipped acri tu to Caltfol i upon truel and wagons and hauled up the tral to observatory on of Mom Wilson, 'i' are dsi i acrid? nt a nd man and to the dell, ate me anlsm for a hi Elit r) HaU Mi le," la wait i Not v.

i long ago i vvii announcing i tu piale the in the world v. a by a lam i I), to whll ii the i outra? hat i .1. by ti gov ernment. And Quln papers i it, in Ignorance of Poinl rar largei tales Is undi i way in the i lani Industry, To indicate how great an ad va net will mark the astro? nomical world, it may be recalled that tic same Cleveland concern built in the la. telescope, which carriel iah us.

and 1893 Ii" Yet kos lies diameter, The um nt now used UPOn Mount by Dr. I i 00-Inch re or, whose mounting prepared I the Union Iron Works of Ban Fran i that built the battle. sliip Oregon. Tie instrument to be Toronto for whose mounting i Cleveland arm has contracted a 72-lnch speculum, or reflecting mirror. And the new instrument for the Californie will i any ni i of 100 inches.

1 v. I b. en expended in preliminary operation? for making this The oi der was plac? by le Institute for the Advance? ment of St i- al Washington, and the i Hale, I Walt? I Adams, and the other membert of his statt de tbe instrument. The proposition at Brat waa mien. v.

-inch Rector, But Mi Carni gle ame forward a Ith i i thusiastlc Buggi stion that tie- speculur a even Inches, ami thi dra most five ago. Then the design ere gi look for a build. Tl happi re .1 to hear that at loi. i the largest precision testing machin? the world had been built for the Bu? reau of Btandat Bub-contrai Just aa the ma chine had been installed at the nations capital Mount Wilson people saa II because of scientific intereoi In I Thai they Bubmitted their drawing! and hat they re a within the possibilities the Qulnc; plant. In Apt 11, 1912, the ordi I.

Yet, was it. task ol pi i he desl ens, that the first dt the mount Ing did not reach Foi until April. 1913. As a local co tor to supervise the the mounl Ing thi appointed Petci Schwamb, formerl) i chusetl- of Technoli Bi irloua minor i I which not afft ct the whole, the work has been delayed a In. but at the I'oi, River works the ai? in i.ess of ma hoped i hat thi mount II up complete from tinting will to a thorough test under rioll'h.

of eiiuii. lit i the mounting then i moled tor it lourni to the nie TI oublee of scientist who is trying to get perfei I mirror of great size are like th a speclallst who trying to fathom the mysteries of some obscure and baf? fling disease To gel huge specu? lum the French Plate Glasa Company at st. Gobaln cast and, one i another, were rejected, There were blemishes In each, bul at length, In view of all the difficulties of securing a thick disk of such size which should be free from bubbles or Haws, it.i li In on the first of the four hli had been laid aside temporarily. The grinding of the spherical surface proceded and the i ulishing and testing for ihff. 'eci tern ires.

At Mount Wilson finally aas determined that the errors were due largely to imperfection in i uppotl i the glass. Another thod WS tried, and now the lefl I le prartli ally ready for its tube Bui because cf the ver) great care ith a iu. sui ii lens? have to be handle.I. it is not deemed wise to tiring mim to Fore River to try out Ita mounting. Instead, th? mirror recep? tacle will be machined tos token from the bus.

and at the test the mil lor cage will airy a lena equivalent. The great tube -forty-three feat long is made much OH the l'ian a dty Bteei skyscraper, story rising above Story, and all made of -structural steel. BUt, instead of Blling UM tube witll solid materials, aa is when the tall building skyward, It is left so that the telescope tobt basketwork cylinder, looking somewhat th? basket masts of at naV) aid. THE SMALL MIRROR CATCHES EVERY RAY. A- the bottom tin- tube the specu? lum is placed.

Near the top is a small mirror tilted at an) desired angle and so puses that every ray of light caught b.v the great lens below is thrown bau a In perfect focus upon Ita surface, and iti turn reflected a earners which is fastened to the side of the tube at the proper point to catch the reflection. By means ol the resulting photographe the study of the sun will be on Tims it appears that the designers are dealing with a problem focus arhen thej make the plans for a mounting like this one, which Indicates bos deli? cate it is and how ininut.lv To Be Set Up at Mt. Wilson Solar Observatory. their evrrv Rrili must be. This would shown'fV more mum pstveli If nthersessjBm making of camera scribed That the ohscr Bjgjgjj and move his point of AbservaCb any desired time rj to iny place it rnust be lilt and oseiila' fl notion, up and dowi east to west si from not it must swefy si easily in glrea fions as I rd the The tube is ir i mted.

tberefon twen th" two of of steei mg angks 1 sides of the yak together si ml and Bl ported in short den mad? of In tBCSa rri? rest like Hi upoa the liquid rcary, dSJOSS the frictmn a minlmuni. Tl vokes are mercury wlndi ai mts for th CaCy of balan ate! OSCfuBUOI BS in I he small scale. TANKS Or MERCURY ON PEO ESTALS These tanks an cast-iron structure tais. At the eeejtfa has his pfl.arrie? hie ne. ka--.

switchswardi and tieM tons ii.v win In i- moi ion th. delicate i moves the tl tion. Thus to may nil star and follow it hoUl slow moving the tub th? foi of Ins mirror tly 1 kght for purposes of 0 Two pedestals support In each tank rests o. voke Between the two sides of th hung the great open cagelike loe. to poised that the weight of the jiortKm betow tin pivot is just equal le the weight Of the portion above.

I pivey turning In vet dclicateiv roller and ball bearings. cur) tanks the telescope swayi and 01 the the telescope swn 1 tin whole sweep of the heaven? available io the BStronOSBI Two or thti times a yeai 1 llllll Will to he tak' cleansing This mak? I hi. includi il 111 ver ontract. Tie in a deep pit tile telescope tube. Thes.

are i hlef building the mounting for teh scope. 'I I tory was located upon Mount Wilson becanaa the atmosphere there el Flieh rematkahle clearness that the as? tronomer can count upon three h'in dred davs for work ea. observer, I ir. Hah onsidSfSl the world's great. on the sun and the sun He Is a prod? uct Mas Technolog).

from which tu re i.j usted th. it tag thesis, upon the Sol. Protubera 1 itei sa rs kind of work lu. he has wol of lus ta h. pial.

aid o. worlds .1 known i a 1 MINING FOR PRICELESS RADIUM ON COLORADOS CLIFFS -f hmka liki yellow sealing wax, doesn't it sad Bat low Willinarth. of MOntTOBS, Coi "Km it Isn't, my dear fellow; it is the I carnotite tbat has been found ta thi regios of thi Paradox Valley. ai on know, is the from which the world to-day is getting the bulk of Iba radium for which the I profei -'ti clamoring, lar? notite i- SO named in honor of the m. Presl li ut of France, having overed back in 1800 by two Frenchmen, Poulot and Voilleque, ta the dos Valley.

Ita dlaoov? ra went on their way unconcerned about Iheir Idental Und it is a pitv they didn't know- how much the stuff would i a orth in time b) a an a content. "The carnotlte-bearlng country at ked may roughly I a de acrlbed ai square two hundred miles to thi tha whole Ighbor Bhowi strikingly the erosive ac? tion water In the ages The native rock, win la largely sand? stone, has been cut, cut, i had worn their wav down i ling aea Pinnacles here and pon be plateau tower ak; ahowing where the general level must a gh ithout A YOUNG REASONER. best, i tin haa written a play," aal4 i the Club, of New gerk Voll know boa fat Chesterton is t.uirr than Ml Well, I'll tell a story abSUt LondOB litterateur has a lit lie son si ka a thumb. The litterateur day: 'Now your ft ou don't on'll i 11 up balloon and burst. Mind what 1 "I WSJ much impressed.

He lk himself a i tuii.it thai i dined tha lilt that st enlist seeaej I tha Uttla chap Hme in. i okid at tort I started Me Then he up ta I laid a i su youi you, exception the under nn overburd or att I ol sandstone. It sei Heve that the uranium came from sandstone overlying or underlying the ore bod), having bet leache i from these and ow ntrated with the vanadium, "Ordinal lly the minera only the 01 nlum "Ni tsera will take noth ng low this Lim it does them to work lv, the miner product I 1100 a ton for of this gradi. and a big end of the prop rule. It i thirty daya to dig out i i the add.

ting it pai haul. t. the railroad. a ton of p. cent oi of uranium oxide, an from this the refiners nroi montlis befi i h)Eician or the the end ol dn, or 6.5 milligram ol thi "Why don Impl) beca i betti i "it my thi de bat bai t.

and It -o, but fen ruck po ket from which the eampk i you w. re dug. That on ontah aetoaiahing an int full) i of uranium oxide, when heretofore tha ged betwe? a 2 and Bt! if ore of this richness existe then si rea? son to belli be found bountifully elsewhere in the aan gion. And boa do wa know that the Parad otite industry ol is Indebted arellnigh exclusive i to the, at or perilous work of the proa-. pei tor.

We depend mainl) I I stake i the profils. Some of th" trails hading tO til' the Till I of 1 otlng along he 11 neb 11 of no d-opplng i Ipitously hundn ds on hundn feet. Il i almost nStUI 6 hoi trad make the lest to I Tie v. he ore don from it ii upon the of our little burros At turn it Ible to luid thirty or foi ol tl a along a much trouble, but ist es often into strings of six? teen all tied together, and then it Is ticklish task to lead them safe iound and doan the nanoa But that isri'i all: we have i our food otfa i applies up the moun? and thle is some work. Borne Ol or slat) mil.

swi from the i toni' "i railroad sti Mon. and a full h.in ui'h. "Oh, yes, 1 have heard that the car notlts minera are cured oi i umatlem, but. between you and me. I am a hit skeptical about the mineral having tag to do with i "Toil know that the richest I carnotlte "res that which is li? est in uranium oxide le the dual Into v.hi.h the mineral finis quick!) When knocked about in handling.

Therefore we pack the ore in bags al the ne "The lo? grade ore-, which wi ni stacking and proie, ting from the weather, nies that have no present market, will be valuable when the gov? ernment experts establish plants in the neighborhood, for then tins csrnotlte can be handled profitably, With ra? dium bringing from to $120 a mil? ligram, von see who is getting the lion's share of the profits when our labors bring us not more than a il ouid be gis gOVI i. torv the radium, bul ownership of the lands would bes mis it. let him is I I to the I in get his Step Into the Distant Past by Entering the Jumel Mansion TUEBJC aie sonn- kinds of work look more Interesting when illustrated In a museum than when demonstrated at home To the Rat-dwelling New forker passing glance at an exhibition of spinning and candle making is intensely amus? ing. "Hy tune subdued," UM odors of a kettle of tallow become romantic in i1 nostrils ami a Breplace a delight? ful reminiscence of other days. A bee recette onl) the joys of a gOSS P) afternoon, and spinning merely the development of a graceful forearm and a wrist.

The thousands of tiny Stitches ami the aching muscles are not ev idea o. taide from the historical Interest, fore a riStt to Jumel Mansion on West 150th near Amsterdam av ait.r Tusada) next, will bo of add. Interest. On Tuesday afternoon the annual garden part) of the Wash? ington Headquarters Association, Which has i barge of the mansion will be h. Id on the grounds.

A feature of the 0CI SSton Will he the exhibition of three rooms on the third floor which been furnished to illustrate the old Industries of quiltHsg, candle making and spinning. Fur months a committee consisting of Mrs. Allowav. Mrs. William Artowwmith, Mi- .1 Creeasnan, Miss Mary K.

Brackett, Mrs. Simon Buruoh ami Mrs. William K. Stewart, the president of association, have been preparing for the oxhihit. it took I in ee months of orresi ondence gel I pair Of wool ards.

They were I ightv miles south Asheville, her and are the Hoop of that difficulty that yvr bom who whet were -Xl Susan Bo.lOTCd eight) eai ernol wheel, was located, and MM Rit bard i nbi rg mi rated tint aba ouid run thi Tha contenta the arranged lo? after a bus) da) havi pad Por tost the at on the ream ntury. -II 1,1 period win calico quilt? vvere Bcsttered about the fraiw as if who have been gossll hiW Just arisen, are rush mod in dtsordered srrangement ras.h'1?*'^ shawls and poke honnetH I a tig rack, and ever In thi bnatoe umbrella with whaJeboai Fn.m the door lust rom the ornea the odor of tallow. No There is kettleful rAini the middle of the puncheon ioar, am ail around candles of vanrtag grass of fatness, dipped and UCt of tin moulds. Th, re an the rsc with airings of dipped 1 appear to have just hardened hwrani the dripping stag. Then moulds, reminding of amall pipes flrepls looks as If just done service In heatiag the tun? Then down the hall epteea door opening Into the Th? gentle sounds ol spinning what put TJ, nburg Aui buall) agaged In twisting the.