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BABY STUART.
THE STORM.
BREAKERS.
MOTHER AND CHILD.
the result of that discussion I deter
mined the final form which I employed
And signed the same on Monday, Sep
tember IS.
Th« conclusions which 1 reached were
based upon my reading of the record and
were fortified by the oral analysis of the
evidence «nd the conclusions which the
Attorney General gave me. using the
notes which he had made during his
reading of the record. I was very sorry
not to be able to embody this analysis in
my opinion, but time did not permit, I
therefore directed him to embody in a
written statement such analysis and con
• en* as he had given me, file it with
the record, and date it prior to the date
of my opinion, so as to show that my de
cisicn was fortified by his summary of
th© evidence and his conclusion? there
frem.
Sincerely Yours.
WIL.UAM H. TAFT.
Hon Knute Xelsorv chairman committee
to investigate the Interior Depart
ment and Forestry Service. United
States Senate.
Kerby Statement a Boomerang.
That the Kerby statement regarding
the Laxrlor memorandum ill act as a
bomerang on the participants in the
Rnti-Taft-BaUlnger conspiracy is the
general opinion in Washington to-day,
especially in view of the full and com
prehenrive statement -which the Presi
dent ha« forwarded to Senator Nelson.
Th« course of ex-Secretary Garfield in
persuading a youthful stenographer,
who had been his ? proteg€ and who
had b#«en retained in a confidential i
relation to Secretary Ballinger at the
specifio request of Mr. Garfleld, to be
tray that confidence is severely con
demned on all sides. Even some of
those who are not in sympathy with the
fed ministration regard the course of the
former Secretary with serious disappro
bation because of the effect which the j
conduct of young Xerby, adopted at the
instance of Mr. Garfield, will have on
th« young man's future. It is remarked j
that the young man Is eimp'.y a stenog- [
rapher, with no business experience, and j
that by his public violation of the trust
reposed in him life has forfeited not
only the confidence of his present su
periors, but of all who might otherwise •
jtive him employment. That he has !
?'ven to the public nothing of value is
.shown by the President's letter, while
iiie fact that he assumed to exercise his
• wn discretion In the matter is likely to
!'<• seriously detrimental to his future
success.
That Mr. «;arfiHd should have ion
sented to take such a step is regarded
a* an evidence of the desperation to
which the- anti-Taft cabal has been
■ iii'*-n by the fruitless results of the
l'en£ing investigation, but there Is a
widely felt belief that the public will be
disposed to repudiate such methods and
to criticise those who have permitted
their animosity to the Taft administra
tion to lead them so far. It is remarked
i hat in the last analysis the American
people demand fair play, and that once
they conceive that any one is hitting be
low th* v b»-lt they immediately lend their
Fj-mpathies to the under dog. The reck
!fxjios» of the methods which have been
resorted to to destroy the reputation of
Secretary Ballinger and his associates
and to injure the President has been in
fisted on by Judge Ballinger on the wlt
refcs stand in vehement terms. He has
protested that a conspiracy has existed
to destroy Ins good name and blacken
his character, and practically just as
he concluded hie sworn statements to
that effect the action of ex-Secretary
Garfield came to light.
In Consultation with Garfield.
Kerby assorts to-day that not only has
lv> l»e»n In consultation with ex-Stcre
>»ry Garfieid, but that he has also been
siding Louis D. Brandeis in his efforts
to make his case against the Secretary
of the Interior and the administration.
Secretary Ballinger has long been con
vinced that there was a leak in his of
fice i: n.} that Brandeis was proving 1 as
Fir.art a detective as lie was a lawyer,
but at no t'me did the Secretary permit
himself to suspect young Kerby, . who
was recommended to him in the highest
terms by Mr. Garficld, who had brought
the young man into the Interior Depart
ment from the Bureau of Corporations,
of which Mr. Garfleld was chief before
he became a member of the Cabinet.
The practice of delegating to subordi
nates the preparation of letters for their
signatures is common with all the mem
bers of the Cabinet. In selecting Mr.
Trawler for this purpose. President Taft
was, actuated by th" fact that Mr. Law
ler was' in a position to verify every de
tail, so that no error* would appear In
the Taft letter. The President had made
up his mind on the case before he dele
grated the tai>k to Mr. L.awler, us is
shown by his J«:tt«r and by the fact that
he indicated clearly t<» Mr. Lairler the
line be desired him to take.
Tl-.r custom of writing opinions as
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mentls, in fact, of almost dally occur
rence. Whenever immediate action is
needed, law officers of the government
render opinions verbally, or In the rough,
and then at their leisure reduce them to
writing- and date them as of the date on
which they were first rendered, thus per
fecting the records and* making it clear
to any one who might come after why
the action based' on such opinion was
taken. The custom of withholding
speeches for subsequent revision is prac
tised by almost every member of Con
gress. Even the Justices of the Supreme
Court frequently revise the opinions they
read from the bench before permitting:
them to appear in published form, and in
no instance is It ever suggested that such
documents should bear any data oth«r
than that on which they were originally
rendered.
If tho administration has made any
mtetakr In connection with the Lawler
memorandum it has been in not making
public ill the facts, as given by tho
President, as soon as it became obvious
that Brandels was seeking to secure them
through th<* investigating committee.
TROLLEY WRECK HURTS 13
Car Hurled Against Tree at
North Attleboro, Mass.
North Attleboro, Mass.. May 15. — Thir
teen persons were hurt, some seriously.
when the rear trucks of a car on the At
tleboro & Plainville Street Railway left
the tracks while rounding a curve at Elm
street to-night and hurled the car across
the street into a big elm tree. The car
was badly damaged. The cause of the
accident has not been determined.
PATROLMAN OUT ON BAIL
Arrested in Williamsburg on
Complaint of Wife.
Charged by his wife with attempting to
choke her and with holding 8 loaded re
volver at her head. Patrolman George
R. Little, of the Eldredge street station,
was arrested last night by Patrolman
Fellon. of the Herbert street station,
Williamsburg. and locked up on a charge
of felonious assault. He was released
later in SI ,OOO bail. He has been sus
pended pending the outcome of the case.
According to the police of the Herbert
street station. Little has been livng with
his mother, his wife and infant child, at
No. 6 Clinton Place. Williamsburg.
About ten days ago Mrs. Little left him
and went to the home of her mother at
No. 78 Devoe street, taking the child
with her.
On Saturday she appeared in the Man
hattan avenue court and asked Magis
trate O'Reilly for a warrant for her hus
band's arrest, alleging that he had
choked her and threatened her with a
revolver. Little hap been on the police
force about eight year?.
CONEY ISLAND JAMMED
More than 200.000 Wanted to
Celebrate First Sunday.
Before Coney Island fairly had opened
its official eye*: to the beginning of an
other season yesterday it was greeted
by a crowd of more than !JOO,Q<H) per
sens. They came by automobile, by
carriage, by trolley, by elevated and on
foot, and the human flood disgorged
Itself all over the resort, .even so far as
to invade the ocean in small ' numbers,
and every one had a good time.
The weather was rather cooler than
usually tempts the Coney Island, rec
ord-breaking crowds, but not sufficient
ly so to damp their enthusiasm or
chill their determination to get their fill
out of the thousand and one attrac
tions that beckoned them on every
hand. Dreamland and Luna Park and
the other prominent amusement centres
counted their tens of thousands as they
passed through the gates, and Surf ave
nue was jammed from curb to curb.
The predominating: keynote of all the
pushing, shoving, laughing mass was
"Be happy!"
With this spirit constantly on tap,
the police, under Captain Galvin, assist
ed by fifty extra patrolmen, had but
little to do. # Out of all the great throng
only three — a pitifully lonely trio — were
SO under the "influence"' as to require
attention in a ]>olice cell. As Captain
Calvin said, that was a pretty fair rec
ord for temperance.
Joseph MeMurray. of No. 12 s Park
Row, Manhattan, Mas knocked down by
an automobile at 10th street, when the
machine, going swiftly, struck him on
the sid*> and his collar bone was fract
ured. He was taken to the Coney Island
Reception Hospital.
PUSHING WARSHIP REPAIRS
The Cincinnati and the Raleigh Or
dered to the Asiatic Station.
Vallejo, Cal., May 6.— Under orders re
ceived from Washington repairs on the
cruisers Cincinnati and Raleigh will bo
rushed, and upon their completion the ves
sels will sail for tho Asiatic station.
The cruiser Denver Is in drydock ready
to be examined by a board of survey, which
will determine the e:xt«*nt of »!t<? repairs to
be made. Th* amored cruiser Maryland
will be docked at the navy yard on Mon
day morning.
Orders under which the submarines l"ike
and Grampus were to have gone to San
Diego to-morrow have been revoked, and
the little vessels will not leave until tae
latter part of the month.
AUTO LICENSE ON FRENCH LEAVE.
Homer l'owell Hainsdell, of No. ] IJast
.;:-•«!. Htieet, a paper manufacturer, was ar
rai«i#-.i before Magistrate Permian in the
night court last night by Bicycle Patrol
man Sunington, of the West 100 th street
station, who wild he had found Mr. Rams
dell coming down Riverside Drive with no
license plate on th? r^ar of his machine.
Mr. Rarns«i*ll sale) # the nlate was in place
when he left WewtntraT ana that it must
have dropped oft en route. Magistrate
Barman discharged him aft«r he had
■remised to be mom careful in the future.
TRAIN HITS AUTOMOBILE.
[By Telegraph to The Tribune]
Rahway. N. J.. May 15.— The Seaboard Air
Line express on the Pennsylvania Railroad
struck an automobile driven by George
Schultz. of Penh AiiiU.y, nt the '<>iot:ia
cro«.sin«r. about three miles east of here,
this afternoon. Schultz received a broken
leX and numerous cuts aud bruises about
the body. He started over the crossing af
ter a frelcht train had paused and tho ex
press train hit the rear end of the machine,
overturning It. '
MOTORCYCLE RACER SADLY HURT.
Paterson, N. .i . m 3;.m 3; . 33 (Special;.— JJert
l4t\y, of Newark, one of the participants
in the motorcycle rac** at Ryle Park yei-
<#rday, ran Into a fence during the i^rog
r«sS of a race, an<S was tahen to St.
Joseph's Hospital unconscious. !t* raesv
fir<i contciou*ne?s to-day, but l.« «tiii in a
(•rltlcal condition from a . fracture of the
£kull and internal injuries,
NEW-YORK £>AlLr ' TRIBUNE, MONDAY. MAY 16, 1910.
REPUBLICANS UNITING
Higher Hopes for President
Taft's Programme.
TERMS AT WHITE HOUSE
Indications of Tolerance on Part
of Insurgents — Supreme
Court Decisions.
Washington. May IS. — Whether it is feas»
ibie at this late daj* to try to wipe out Re
publican factional lines and meet on some
common ground which would unite the in
purgents and regulars in Congress, sfc tho
question of greatest moment now agitating
the minds of the Republican leaders. It
was raised last night at a conference nt
the White House, which was begun at 10 :30
o'clock and continued until 1:15 o'clock
this morning.
A gi>eat many tilings were talked over "t
tho midnight gathering, and a revised leg
islative programme was made up tentative
ly, which it was believed would command
tike votes of practically all of the regular
Republicans. After that had been accorn
j.!ish<-<5 a discussion followed as to the pos
sibility of making certain concessions which
might attract all of the Republicans of tho
Senate.
Practically all the Republican Senators
from the West were present last night, ex
cept tfu- most radical progressives, namely,
Senators La PeUette, Beveridge, Cummins,
Dolllver, Brfstosr and Clapp. Among the
progressives who attended were Senators
rfalstm. Borah, Brown, Burkett. Dixon,
Gamble and Cx-awford. These men took a
leading: part in the discussions, and ex
pressed the opinion that the differences
between the insurgents and regulars were
not Irreconcilable.
The sudden amalgamation of Insurgents
and regulars of the Senate last Friday,
which resulted in the adoption of an
amendment to the administration railroad
bill* on the subject of long and short hauls,
appeared to have made the regulars more
tolerant of progressive views on the pend
ing: measure. The "getting together" was
made necessary by the discovery that the
Democrats of the Senate had formed a
solid front to secure the adoption of a
Democratic provision relating to long and
short hauls, which was to have been put
in motion after they had voted with the
iegu'ar Republicans to defeat the Dixon
amendment, favored by the insurgents.
It would be difficult to decide whether the
regulars or the insurgents were the more
surprised when they learned the plans of
the Democrats. A vote had been ordered,
under the unanimous consent agreement,
and there was little time for thought. Sen
ator Aldrich advised his colleagues that It
was time for the Republicans to pet to
gether. The insurgents, after learning the
situation, acquiesced, and both factions
acted accordingly.
Neither Republican faction got exactly
what it wanted, but the fact was shown
that the Republicans could "unite against
a common enemy." At the White House
last night there was some comment on this,
and it was argued that if this could be done
in relation to the long and short haul
amendment to the railroad bill, the case
was not hopeless as applied to other meas
ures on the administration legislative pro
gramme.
When the Senate meets to-morrow to re
sume consideration of the railroad bill, it is
expected there will be a number of iu
formal conferences. Senators Borah. Nel
son, Dixon and others, who have Toted
with and against the older Republican lead
ers of the Senate, are -?xpected to act as
the intermediaries where "go-betweens"
appear to be necessary. It would not be
surprising if some agreement would be
reached during: the coming week for the
fixing of a date to take a vote on the rail
road bill.
With this subject out of the way it will
be possible to speculate with, some hope of
fixing a day for final adjournment of the
present session of Congress. The in
surgents and regulars; of the Republican
majority in the House are now working in
come semblance of harmony, and- President
Taft appeared satisfied last night with the
prospects for his measures.
Except for the speech he is scheduled to
make before the World's Sunday School
Association in this city on Thursday, the
President has do Important engagements
for the week. He will devote himself, prin
cipally to conferences with Senators; and
Representatives regarding the situation in
Congress.
Many decisions, several of them of far
reaching importance, are expected; to be
handed down to-morrow by the Supreme
Court of the United States. The court has
been In recces for two week?, and the time
has been spent in the preparation of opin
ions. Among other decisions expected Is
that involving the constitutionality of the
corporation tax law.
PAINTER STABBED IN HOTEL
Victim and Woman Arrested Call
It an Accident.
Kmile Royer, a painter, living: at- the
Hotel Grand St. Bernard, at No 252 West
2Sth street, vast stabbed in the breast yes
terday afternoon in a scuffle with a woman
in a hallway of the hotel. The woman run
away. Later a woman who gave her name
as Mr.--. Bella White and said that Fh<- also
lived- at tlio hotel was arrested. Both in-
Msted that the stabbing was accidental.
Royer was taken to the New York Hospi
tal, where it was said that his condition
was not serious.
After be was stabbed Royer staggered to
a drug store, where he was. found by De
tective Klyiin. of the "West 37th street sta
tion. When he hnd sent the I painter to the
hospital he hunted tip the woman and
placed her under arrest. She told him that
she had been employed, for several years
as housekeeper by Royer, who, she said,
was an artist of some repute.
Recently be made the acquaintance oT a
young woman la whom he became very
much Interested. She moved away, and
when he asked Mrs. White for her address
yesterday she refused to give it. He then
s«lzed a bread knife and threatened to kill
himself union she gave him the address,
said Mrs. White. In the scuffle that fol
lowed he was stabbed.
Flynn took her to the hospital and got
Rfiycr to repeat his version of the affair.
The painter stuck to his story that the
stabbing was accidental, although he said
that Mrs. White had the knife and that the
accident occurred while he wan trying to
take it away from her.
HIT WITH MASON'S HAMMER
Four Italians Held for Fighting After
Their Heads Aro 3ewed Up.
Rocco Beantesari. Dominic Mollardi,
Angelo Alaci and Alphonso Beantesarl, all
of No. 523 East lOSth street, were looked
up in the East Jo4th street station last
night after each had several stitches taken
In his head for deep wounds Inflicted with
stone hammers.
The men, according to the last prisoner,
engaged In a general light over a game of
cards in the apartments of tlt<i ■caatesarts.
According to AlphbnHo, his brother held
him* while . Mi<|iar<li and Alacl pummelled
him with a mason's hammer which Roeoo,
Alphonso says, pot from a room 1> i th<j
flat. The fight attracted Ilia attention of
Ptitrolini«n McKl*rnan, of th« Kant JCtth
*.ir*"t station, who c&IIml up hjii station
house. He held ttw four men In the- apart
• -it until Detective Wry, Mmmrrn* nnd
Howard imrne »'.;■! took them to the. station
house, chc.r»?d wUli fighting.
TEN FIREMEN OVERCOME
One May Die as Result of Gas
Explosion in Cellar.
LIVES RISKED IN RESCUE
Clergymen Aid Brooklyn Men
Until Surgeon Arrives —
Fire Auto in Crash.
Ten firemen were overcome by gas In the
cellar of the three story building at No. 3034
Fulton street, East New York, last night
while fighting a fire that started about 10:30
o'clock. Four of them were taken to St.
Mary's Hospital, where one— Captain Hart
man of Truck 73-ls In such a condition
that he Is not expected to recover.
The building- In which the fire occurred Is
a tenement house, with a shoe store, owned
by Michael Gohlinger, on the ground floor.
Gohlinger also uses the cellar to store sur
plus stock, packing cases, etc. The tire
started in the cellar from some unknown
cause and was blazing merrily when Engine
127, the first company to respond to the
alarm, arrived on the scene.
Captain Salieson immediately led his men
Into the cellar and was about to turn off
the gas. when the meter exploded, and he
was hurled, senseless to the floor. The
seven men who had followed him were also
rendered unconscious. Captain Hartnmn
and Truck 73 and Captain Burtis and En
gine 152 arrived in time to hear the explo
sion.
Both men rushed into the cellar, but
hardly were they inside when they were
overcome by the smoke and the escaping
gas. Firemen went to the rescue and at
the risk of their lives dragged put their
comrade?. Dr. Delaney and an ambulance
were summoned from St. Mary's Hospital.
The Rev. John Dougherty, of St. Johns
College, who was passing by on a surface
car, jumped off and did what he could to
relieve th« sufferings of the men before
the arrival of the physician. Captain
Frank, of the Brownsville police station,
also did what he could. When Dr. Delaney
arrived he found that Captain Hartman
was the most seriously Injured, and sent
him off to the hospital at once. He then
worked over the other men and succeeded
in reviving all of them. He sent all of
them to their homes, except Captain Salle
son and Firemen Austin and Gibbons,, of
Engine 127. The ambulance made a second
trip for them.
Although the fire never got above the
street level, the explosion of the gas meter
and the fact that ten men had been injured
in the cellar caused a panic In the building,
and many of the tenants, in their night
clothes, ran out into the street, many
carrying garments and articles of value.
Two alarms were ser in, but the firemen
extinguished the blaze before it had done
damage of more than $1,000.
While speeding to a fire at Fulton street
and Saratoga avenue, Brooklyn, last night,
Deputy Chief Lally's automobile crashed
into a machine owned by Josiah Bridge, of
Newton, Mass., at Vanderbilt avenue.
Lilly's machine went along for about
twenty feet before his chauffeur brought
It to a stop. He turned around and went
back to find that Bridge had been thrown
out on his head, but had not been seriously
hurt. Ho was able to return to the Hotel
Algonquin with Ms chauffeur and two
women who were in the car with him.
I^allv's machine lost a tire in the "mishap,
but it was replaced and he continued to the
fire.
GIRL LOST IN WANDERINGS
Memory Returns After Month of
•;■ Aimless Travelling. ... . ..
j The story of . a young woman's wander
j ings, while suffering from what is sup
! posed to have been a temporary attack of
\ aphasia, from St. Augustine, Fla., to Chi
! cago, and from that city to Atlantic City
and finally to Jersey City, was made, public
last night by John Roberts, her brother, a
lawyer from Aslwville, N. C. who found
his * sister in Jersey City, after a long
search.
The young woman is Mrs. Dorothy Law-
I son, twenty-two years old, and the daugh
j ter of John Roberts, sr., of Asheville.
' Young Roberts said that his sister went to
j Florida about a month ago with her
' mother. She had been studying music so'
zealously as to cause a mental strain, and
It was thought that the change of scene
would cure her.
{ According to John Roberts, jr., his sister
j had be<»n in St. Augustine only two days
j when she escaped from the guardianship
1 of her mother and, taking $158 of Mrs. Rob
erts's money, she bought a ticket for Chi
cago. Just where she put up while in that
city or hoy long she was there is not
known to Mrs. I.awson. Bho told her
trot her that from Chicago she went to At
! lantic City, and from there came to New
Ycrk. She left a diamond bracelet at a
hotel here in payment of her till, having
run out of cash, and then went to Jersey
City. She does not know the name of the
hotel.
j On Friday morning Mrs. Lawson went
Ito the Pennsylvania Railroad station in
I Jersey City and telephoned to Asheville,
telling her rather of her plight and asking
that he telegraph her $30. When the at
tomlant asked for payment Mrs. Uwson
did not have the money, and was taken in
charge by the police. While there she com
municated with Mrs. Mary Goflracer, of
No. 31 Carleton street, who came and took
charge of her. yesterday the brother ar
rived from Asheyllje and took Mrs. Law-
I son to her home in North Carolina.
BOYS ARRESTED IN SUBWAY
Ten Sent to Children's Society and
Two Fined $3 Each for Rowdyism.
Thomas Brown, special efloer In the em
ploy of the interborougli, arrested twHve
boys on a subway train last evening on
charges of rowdyism.
Ten of the youngsters wore under aixtfen
years old. und were therefore sent to the
Children's Society for arraignment in tlic
Children's Court to-day, but two older ladg
were taken before Magistrate Herman in
the night court.
These said they were Michael Michaelson,
eighteen years old, of No. <w Forsyth
street, and Louis Napper, seventeen years
old, of No. 57 Fortyth street. They de
nied the story told by the detective that
they had annoyed women in the car and
sworn at the condnctor when he told them
to keep quiet. Magistrate Herrman !*•
lieved the detective and fined the boys $3
each.
The mother of Mk-haelson pakl the fines.
The magistrate warned the youths not to
repeat tht: offence.
OPPOSITION TO OWEN BILL
National League for Medical Freedom
Formed.
Washington, May The Owen bill pro
viding for the creation of a federal depart
ment of health, the head of which would
be a member of the President's Cabinet,
will meet with opposition when it comes up
for a hearing before the Senate committee
on Thursday of this week.
The opposition .iv btiuß crystallized in a
new organization, the 1 National League for
Medical Freedom, with headquarters in
Kay York. Charts W. Miller a state
representative, of Jowl, is ono of the lead
ers in (he organisation, which contend* that
the deman.l for such a department has
teen niHiiufaotur'd by the actlvlti™ of
•what Mi. Miner .term* tho "political doc
ii- dealarei sueta a ilep!»rfnmit. would, in
fringe the rlKhts of th.> states to cart for
their own j>ubll<j w«U««i. ---...
m 10 GREET COMET
Preparations Made at the United
States Naval Observatory.
TALK OF METEOR SHOWER
E. F. Naulty Opposes Professor
Hall's View — No Danger
from Gases.
i Washington. May Halley's 'comet will
be greeted on Wednesday on 111 closest
approach to the earth by a bristling bat
i tery of telescopes, flanked by r*R»<l-ure
lenses, in the celestial cameras of the
Naval Observatory, the only national ob
servatory in the United States. The gov
ernment observers are prepared for the
great star which is rushing through space,
and elaborate calculations have been made
as to the minute and second the flying
comet will be at given places in toe
heavens, where it will be observed and
photographed.
Among the scientists there is some dif
ference of .opinion as to the effect on the
earth, but the differences are minor. Pro
fessor Asaph Hall, of the Naval Observa
tory, would not be surprised If there were
a shower of meteorites.
Others, and they appear to be in the ma
jority, expect that no disturbances will
mark the passing of tha comet. Edwin F.
Naulty, of New York, who has been at the
observatory making telescopic and speotro
; *eopie observations of the visitor, takes
Issue with Professor Hall, and contends
that the tail of the comet is. composed
neither of gas nor meteoric bodies, and thaf
such a shower as Professor Hall deems
j possible could not follow.
"The tall of Halley'* comet to all in
tents and purposes, is a celestial search
light," said Mr. Naulty to-day. "It is noth
ing more than sunlight condensed from
radiant solar energy and processed through
the solar system, precisely at) a lense fo
cusses, condenses and transmits light."
He asserts that the tail of the comet is
not composed of gas or of minute particles
of matter, or of meteoric bodies. The en
tire solar system, Mr. Naulty says, is filled
with gases in varying states of density.
All these gases, poisonous and non-poison
ous, are present in the earth's atmosphere
In dense form.
The changing spectrum of Halley's comet,
according to Mr. Naulty's theory, is due to
tho fact that as the comet's great tail of
light Bweepg through various parts of the
solar pystem it lights up differing layers
of gases, conveying the impression that the
tail itself Is gaseous. Mr. Naulty says the
spectrum of reflected sunlight is always
present In head and tail of the comet, thus
proving that both parts of it are by sun
light alone made visible.
"The sweeping of this cometary cone of
solar force docs cause disturbance in th«
solar system," said Mr. Naulty. "The
earth and all the planets are affected, not
only when they come within the actual
cone, as the earth will on Wednesday, but
also by the ethereal waves eet in motion
by the comet's tail. It is the constant at
tempt of the earth's mass awl its atmos
phere to adjust themselves to this disturb
ance that has caused the prevalent earth
tremors, storms and similar phenomena.
"The climax will be reached this week.
There will be no collision of the earth and
comet, nor will the earth be enveloped in
poisonous gases. The effect of the passage
may be to cause great condensation of
atmospheric vapors, so that automatically
the earth will be provided with a sort of
shield which will act like a lead screen
used to protect X-ray operators."
At the Naval Observatory the scientists
have been watching the comet through the
powerful telescopes every morning just be
fore sunrise, when "it is brightest." The. ob
servers each day can. note- the broadening
of the tail and the enlargement of the head.
The heavenly body will increase in appar
ent size and brilliancy until Wednesday,
when it will begin to decrease, and irr a
few weeks will disappear into *psce; not
to be seen again for nearly a century. r \
HEARD LOWELL ON COMET
Fellow Passengers Enjoyed the
Astronomer's Talks.
The American liner New York brought
only eighteen first cabin passengers from
Southampton yesterday, but the monotony
of a dull passage with such a email passen
ger complement was greatly relieved by
observations of Halley'* comet. The hand
ful of voyagers were fortunate in having
among their number Professor Perclvai
Lowell, the Harvard astronomer, who Is
particularly an authority on matters per
taining to the planet Mars.
The comet was observed on three days,
and Professor Lowell gave several interest
ing talks to his fellow passengers on the
history of the heavenly traveller.
Professor Lowell, who has be* lecturing
in London, Paris and Berlin on astronomy,
■was received with j?r*at enthusiasm by the
various scientific bodies which entertained
him abroad. While in London he lectured
before tho Royal Astronomical Society and
the Royal Institution, and was entertained
at dinner at the Royal Society. His lecture
at Berlin wps in English, but translations
of the lecture- were printed and distributed
among Germans who wtr» not familiar with
English:
Professor Lowell'*; lectures in rrance
were delivered at the Sorbonne. th© Theatre
Richelieu, th«> Bureau dcs Longitudes and
the sociSte AetronomiQuo de France. He
said his planetary and cometary photo
graphs were well received, and made for
him many convert? to his theories.
After a visit to Cambridge Professor
Lowell will go to Flagstaff. Aria., to make
observations of Halley's comet.
ALL CALL COMET HARMLESS
But Astronomers Disagree as to
' Luminous Display.
Boston, May 15.— Agreeing that no harm
ful effect is to be experienced next Wednes
day from the passage of the earth through
the tall of Halley's comet. New England
astronomers appear not to concur as to the
possibility of a luminous display similar
to northern lights. Professor David P.
Todd, of Amherst College, thinks the au
rora effect probable; Professor Robert W.
Willßon. of tho Harvard College observa
tory, declared to-day that there may be a
'darkening of the atmosphere, while Pro
fessor Edward C. Pickering, head of the
Harvard observatory, said: "I doubt if
there vill be any effect at all."
Professor Willson said further that "there
may be a shower of charged particles, very
snail, lut numerous, which may affect
wireless telegraphy. There Is no cause for
alarm or fear. Cyanogen exists only near
the comet's head, and the tail is a good
vacuum," Professor Todd declares that
there will bo no more sensation than that
caused by the rays of light from a distant
candle on a person's hand. There is an
equal amount of cyanogen gas radiated
from each, proportionately, he says.
Leon Campbell, another of the Harvard
astronomers, thinks a luminous display
probable. ;-*: ;
The increasing- brilliancy of the comet as
it approaches the earth was shown to-day,
when Harvard College astronomers found
that the body, with the coma or envelope,
had reached proportluns of nearly a zero
magnitude, the highest Mage of stellar
brilliancy. The rate of Increase in brillian
cy Is indicated by t^ro photometric meas
j urements taken at th« Harvard observa
tory. ' The first, on May H. showed the
nucleus T to >* »f-1,« magnitude. Another
on rHtjay, Just a week later, showed th«
mafjnUufl© to i, c 4..41. an increase in appar
ent else of |4| degrees.
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