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\ 6 PAGES POL. xxxvu. "l>OTi'M< 1 • " tin fTT'M'T'Q by carrier MM II Kit 230 1 ivlLJll • O\) KjEjIX ID PER MONTH EXPLOSIONS KILL 100; HURT SCORES; WRECK BARRACKS Three Thousand Pounds of Dyna mite Let Go While Being Loaded in Wagons OFFICERS' FAMILIES PERISH Pinar Del Rio, Near Havana, Is , Scene of Disaster— tal Rushes Help , i [Associated Press] HAVANA, May 18.—Two almost simultaneous explosions of dyna mite, supposed to consist of 3000 pounds, completely demolished the rural guard barracks In the city of Pinar del Rio this morning. Fully 100 persons were killed and nearly as many wounded. ' Most of the dead are rural guards, but the entire families of several of ficers of the guards, it Is said, were killed, as well as several employes of the public works department and resi dents of the city, on which fell a de luge of masonry and debris. It is not known whether the ex plosion was an accident or was due to an act of conspirators, but the former hypothesis is considered the more probable. Several relief trains carrying sur geons, officers and rural guards and government officials started this afternoon from Havana to the scene of the catastrophe, 108 miles away. Captain Alfredo Ravena and-Captain Oaspar Betancourt of the garrison and their families are reported to be burled In the ruins. The barracks was a massive build ing- of Spanish construction and occu pied an eminence in the outskirts of the city. During the late Interven tion It was the headquarters of the eleventh United States cavalry. In consequence of the alarm over race disturbances, the government or dered all dynamite In the vicinity In the possession of contractors for road construction and other public work to be removed to the barracks for safe keeping. This afternoon the work of removing the dynamite from the barracks for shipment to Havana was begun by em ployes of the public works department, assisted by rural guards. They were loading cases of the dyna mite on wagons when the explosions occurred. The central court In which the work was goln on was strewn with dead and wounded. The work of exhuming tho dead and searching for those who still miiy be alive Is going on tonight, but It Is greatly retarded by the destruction of the electric light wires and the fear that a quantity of unexploded dyna mite may remain In the ruins. FAMOUS BRITISH POLO PLAYER ENDS HIS LIFE Captain De Crespigny, Guest of Lord Brassey. Shoots Self \ LONDON, May IS.—Capt. Claude < Champion do Cresplgny of the Second Life Guards, a member of the Hurling ham club polo team, which recently visited the United States, committed suicide today by shooting. The captain was found, revolver In hand, seated at the roadside near KliiKSCllffe, in Noarthamptonshlre.e where he has been the guest of Lord Brassey. The suicide Is a son of Sir Claude Champion do Cresplgny and was 37 years old. He served with the British army in South Africa in IXIW-1900, and with the West African frontier force in 1903. He was twice wounded and wafl twice recommended by his command- Ing officers for the Victoria cross. NAVY LIEUTENANT TAKES BRIDE ILL IN HOSPITAL Daughter of Former Owner of a San Antonio Daily Marries SAN FRANCISCO, May IS.—ln a flower decked room of St. Luke's hos pital, Lieut. J. C. Walker, U. S. A., stood by lite bedsldeif Mrs. E. C. Jonei yesterday as the Rev. A. C. Hans read the. service that made the couple man and wife. Ths wedding was to have been celebrated last Saturday, but was Interrupted by an attack of ap pendicitis from which the bride was sufficiently recovered yesterday to per mit the holding of the ceremony. Mrs. Walker is the daughter of the late Col. Bryce, who was the editor and owner of the San Antonio Ex press, Texas. The groOm is a native of Galveston. LOS ANGELES REALTY MAN'S WIFE IS GRANTED DIVORCE Mrs. Ada V. Strong Separated from F. M. Strong in the East KANSAS CITY. May 18.—Mrs. Ada V. Strong, for forty joars the wife of P. M. Strong, a wealthy Los Angeles real estate dealer, was given a decree of divorce by Judge Thomas J. Seehorn lipre today. The woman charged her husband with inconsiderate treatment. Amontr ether allegations VU the Charge that she was forced for live years to re munerate her husband every month for the money he spent on her. The couple married in St. Joseph, Mo., in 1870. Mrs. Strong is said to m independent fortune. LOS ANGELES HERALD INDEX OF HERALD'S NEWS TODAY FORKCA.ST I/on Angetee »nd vicinity—Fair Thursday ; omtiih.l In morning;; Unlit south wind. Maximum temperature yesterday 60 degrees j minimum SO. __ LOS ANGELES William Garland, president of th* Realty board, Nubmits annual report. PAGE 3 Bait Lake railroad will reopen June 1. PAGE I Nearly 200 persona make application for farm lands In Palo Verde valley. PAGE 6 Clroelc play and Japanene lantern parade to be given Friday afternoon and evening at Y. W. C. A. fiesta. PAGE i Father given child born to wife after she had obtained Interlocutory decree of di vorce from him. PAGE 13 Program for memorial service In honor of late King Edward Is announced. PAGE 13 Court finds plaintiff In divorce suit against Isaiah Smith was never wedded to him. PAGE « Psychic high priest refutes theft charge. PAOHJ 8 President of the Merchants and Manufac turers' association refuses to Investigate roads. PAGE 8 Water companies fight charge* proposed by board. PAGE 9 I-»orln A. ITnndley, aspirant for cont;re*s, speaks on "Peace." PAGE 9 Dr. J. Whltcomb Brougher believes Un Angeles will get the Daptlst convention for 1!>15. PAGE 9 Dr. Haynes to stuy foreign mine death preventives. PAGE 9 Three-year-old-boy accidentally shot by father, has narrow escape from death. PAGE 1 Prof. Raumgardt says Pacific coast sus tained shock of world's collision with comet's tall. -;•:,•:• PAGE 2 Good Government organization to form new club this viyk. PAGE 4 Good Government candidates for council l.ssue statement regarding harbor and power bonds. PAGE 4 Many reception committees which waited the tall of Bailey's comet disap pointed. PAGE - Episcopal diocese of Txis Angeles opens fifteenth annual convention. PAGE 14 Citrus fruit. PAGE 13 Shipping. PAGE IS Theaters. PAGE D Sports. PAGE « Markets and financial. PAGE 7 News of {he courts. PAGE 8 Markets and oil. PAGES 10-11 Building permits. PAGE 11 Editorial. PAGE 12 Society, music, clubs. PAGE 12 Around hotel corridors. PAGE 13 City brevities. PAGE 13 Marriage licenses, births, deaths. PAGE 14 Classified advertising. PAGES 14-15 Municipal affairs. ' PAGE 16 SOUTH CALIFORNIA Santa Monica resident blames comet for loss of olothea and money. PAGES 14 Ix>ng Beach board of education mem- • V bers fall to agree on high school site. PAGE 14 Pasadena board of trade will choosu officers at meeting Monday night. '."LL'Vtv" . PAOB 14 Scenes of early times mark San Ber nardino's celebration. PAGE 9 * - COAST Earth passes through tall of Halley's comet with practically no unusual manifesta tion. . ■ . PAGE 1 Government geologists to leave for Alaska to survey coal fields. PAGE 3 Comet, sun spots and quakes are un allled says Hale. PAGE 1 EASTERN Three thousand pounds of dynamite explode near Havana, killing 100. PAGE 1 T.lcut. Col. Robert Ames to be court-mar tialed at Manila PAGE 3 American survivors of earthquake at Car. tago arrive In New York and describe experiences. • PAGE 3 Report of sales Is exaggerated on stock market. PAGE 7 Referendum taken as certainty In Den ver. * PAGE 4 Regulars In senate abandon hope of reaching agreement with Insurgents and seek aid of Democrats on railroad bill. PAGE 2 Miss Swift to marry Paymaster Auld, whom she defended In court martial. .. PAGE l FOREIGN Commander of American gunboat Pa ducah prohibits bombardment of Blueßelds. PAGE 2 MINING AND OIL California gusher land eclipses all other oil fields In the world. PAGE 10 Oil supply, If properly handled, can never overtake the demand. PAOB 10 TRIES NEW REVOLVER; LITTLE SON IS VICTIM Child Has Narrow Escape from , Death When Father Ex periments with Gun While examining a new automatic pistol at his home, 1412 Rich street, last evening U. Q. Hushes, superinten dent of an Irrigation sans at Whlttler, forgot there was a bullet left In the chamber, pulled the trigger and sllot his 3-year-old son Howard in the right side of the abdomen. Fortunately the shot was a glancing one, and although it was first thought the bullet had penetrated the body, ex amination at the receiving hospital .showed that a four-inch penetration of the abdominal wall resulted. The police surgeons state the child will recover. Hughes purchased the pistol yester day and last night was studying Its mechanism. He had removed the bul lets from the magazine, not realizing another remained in the chamber. Aa he was pulling the trigger the child, attracted by the click of the gun, playfully toddled toward his father. The baby was almost opposite when the bullet in the chamber was dis charged, penetrating the abdominal wall, but not the cavity. d lore leaving for the hospital the father tossed his recently purchased gun out of the window, vowing "never again." TO BE ROUGH RIDERS' GUEST NKVV YORK, May IS. -Col. Theo dnru Rooievelt has accepted the in vitatlon of the National Roosevelt Hough Rtderi association to be the Buest of honor at v luncheon to be given !n New York June 2" THURSDAY MORNING, MAY I<>, 1910. Principals in Naval Scandal Which Led to Love Match MISS DOROTHY HESLER AT LEFT OF MISS MADELINE SWIFT, AND PAYMASTER GEORGE P. AULDS WEDDING 10 END ROMANCE OF NAVY Miss Swift to Wed Paymaster Auld, Who Acted in Defense of Her Friend (Special to Tho HeraM) BOSTON, May 18.—The announce ment from Washington that Miss Madeline Swift, daughter of Hear Ad miral Swift, Is to wed George Percival Auld. paymaster In the marine corps, haa caused little surprise among Miss Swift's friends here. Since Paymaster Auld and Surgeon Robnett were court martialed for knocking down Dr. E. S. Cowles, a cousin of Hear Admiral Cowled, because, as the accused men charged, Dr. Cowles had Bpoke insinu atingly of Miss Dorothy Hesler. a Chicago friend of Misa Swift, who was visiting In Maiden, It has been known that Miss Swift had turned her af fections from Harry Puer Storer of Atlanta to Auld. when Storer arrived in Boston to make arrangements for the wedding he was informed that the ceremony would be indefinitely post poned, and at the court martial Miss Swifts testimony that Dr. Cowles had placed Miss Hesler in mi embarrassing position aided materially in the de fense of Auld and Robnett. Since the trial of the two officers Miss Hesler lias become the bride of Robnett and the announcement of the approaching marriage of Miss Bwlft and Auld will complete the romance which started when the prospective groom cham pioned the friend of the bride-to-be. BROTHERS TAKE SISTERS AS BRIDES AT BURBANK Phoenix Home Scene of Interest ing Double Wedding John A. Marxrr.iller. aged 26. and his brother, Frederick Marxmiller, aged :!l years, were the bridegrooms at a doublp wedding at Burbank last evening. Elisabeth and Hattie Phoenix, listens, aged 16 and 18 years, respectively, were the brides. John, the eldest brother, and Eltaa beth the youngest sister, piomised to go throiwh life together while Frederick, the youngest brother, was married to Hattie, the elder of the sisters. The Marxmiller brothers have been courtlnr the sisters for Beveral months and it was no secret to residents of. Burbank that the couples would wed The brothers are carpenter! and are now planning to erect residences for their brides. The double ceremony was performed at the Phoenix residence, which was prettily decorated with plants and flowers. After a short honeymoon journey to northern cities the happy young couples will take up their residence In Burbank. BECOME BIG LEAGUER? SWEETHEART SAYS NO! OXFORD, Miss., May 18.—Rather than lose his fiance, Robert Mitchell, regarded by many as the best college pitcher ever developed in the south, will abandon the Idea of starring in the professional field. Young Mitchell had accepted terms from Manager Chance for a trial with the Chllago Nationals, and was to re port before June 1. His sweetheart, however, delivered an ultimatum, and Mitchell has for warded his letter of explanation to Chance, telling htm that his days in baseball are ended so far as a pro fessional career Is concerned. ( KILLS BELF TO ESCAPE COMET ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., May 18.— Telling his neighbors that he believed the comet would destroy the earth to night, and that he dirt not want t<> sea the spectacle, Augustine Partial*, a wealthy rancher, committed suicide to day by drinking poison. STOPS SHELLING OF BLUEFIELDS Commander of Gunboat Paducah Orders No Bombardment . by General Irias ■_.■-■. [Associated Press] j WASHINGTON. May Com mander , Gilmer of the United States gunboat Paducah has served notice on General Irias, who Is in command of the Venus, that he will not permit a bombardment of the city of Blueflelds, Nicaragua, and 'he has also notified General Estrada and . President Sf ad riz that he will not permit any armed conflict within the city. These notices were sent after Irias had given notice of his intention to bombard the city should General Es trada not surrender. ' General Estrada, It is learned, has refused to comply with the demand for surrender. Mr. Moffat, consul nt Rlueflelds. telegraphed yesterday that the Venus, with 300 men and mounted guns on board, had reached Bluefields. A demand for the surrender of the city and the customs house at the bluff were made through the gunboat Padu cah and the consulate. The demand stated that if the surrender was re fusal Bluefields would be bombarded. Commander Oilmer served notice that for the purpose of protecting the lives and property of Americans ami other foreigners in Bluetields he demanded first that there should be no armed conflict in the city: second, that only such armed forces not exceeding 100 men lie allowed in Bluefields as were necessary for purposes of police duty uni.il a stable government was estab lished) third, no bombardment of the city be permitted, since then was no armed force in Bluefields and such bombardment would result only in the destruction of the lives and property of American and other foreign non combatants. Mr. Moffat also reports that Estrada lias replied to Irias refusing to sur render. The steamship Dictator of New Or leans was Just entering the port when Mr. Moffat telegraphed and notice of the blockade was being served on her by the commander of the Venus. CALIFORNIA DEPOSITORS WILL BE PAID DIVIDENDS Judge Seawell Discharges Order Restraining Payment SAN FRANCrSCO, May 18.—With the consent of the rehabilitation commit tee of the California Safe Deposit and Trust company, Judge Be.iwell today discharged the order restraining Re ceiver Frank J. Symmes from paying a 10 per cent dividend to the depositors of the-wrecked bank. . . At the suggestion. of the court the receiver promised to pay the dividend on May 27 on which date the attor neys for the rehabllitators stated that they would be ready to reopen the bank with a payment to ■ the ■ depositors of 65 cents on the dollar. , It was announced in court that de positors representing »3.000,000 had consented to . the i rehabilitation ■ plan, and that before May 27 it is hoped to secure .the signatures of 75 per cent of the people who had funds in the bank. .:■• ,s ,•*.'■• V ..'"■'.'.: GRADUATES AT 70 FROM THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY NEW YORK, May 18.—The oldest theological student ever graduated from the Union Theological seminary here Is the Rev. Horoatune Jlnlshlan, who has just received his diploma. Mr. Jinlshian will be 70 years old In a few months. His wife and five children witnessed the graduation exercises. He Is an Armenian, and is older than any of the professors who taught him during his work In the seminary, where he has been a student for six years. Girl Looking for Comet is Slain by Street Fighters 400 Italians Kne<lin Prayer When Fire Ballon Ap pears in the Sky NEW YORK, May 18.—A child of n. looking for the comet through a broken bottle, the best telescope she had—was shot during a street battle tonight in Little Italy. Her ."-pine was snattered and she will die. No arrests were made. In another street in the same quar ter 400 Italians fell to their pi i when they saw bearing down on them from the heavens a bright ball of flame. There was a panic, in which many were trampled when the sup- I aerolite exploded into small fragments, Somebody had been unkind enough on this, of all nights, to send up a fire balloon. KINGS ARRIVE FOR EDWARD'S FUNERAL Thousands See Dead Monarch, but Doors Close on Levee Miles Long LONDON 1, May 18.—Thousands of persons marched in double file on eith er side of the catafalque on which rests the coffin of Edward VII, passed through Westminster hall today, and when the doors were closed at 10 p. m., there were miles of them still in line. Throughout the afternoon, Victoria station was the scene of a constant stream of. foreign .representatives ar riving for the funeral, Kiu< Albert of Belguim and Kinp Manuel of Portu gal, were met by King Qorga and his eldest son, the duke of Cornwall. Other arrivals included the duke of Aosta, representing King Victor Em manuel of Italy: M. Plchon, the French minister of foreign affairs, represent ing President Fallieres, and King Fer dinand of Bulgaria, the crown prince of the Netherlands, Prince Charles of. Sweden, two Chinese missions, head ed by Princo Tsao Tao, brother of the prince regent, and representatives of various German principalities. Most of these visitors went to West minster hall after 10 o'clock at night, when the hall was; closed to the pub lic, to witness the lying-in-state, Queen Mn iv accompanying the guests. The German Imperial yacht llohen zbllern arrived at Bhearness this even ing, but at the emperor's request no salutes were fired. The emperor will land tomorrow morning and proceed to London. The official proerrnm of Friday's ceremonial, which wns Issued tonight, is a lengthy document, occupying five or six column!-- in the newspapers. Mr. Roosevelt, as special envoy of the United Statrs. with M. Piehon, Will ride in the eighth carriage in the procession. ROOSEVELT WILL ATTEND KING EDWARD'S FUNERAL Is Now Guest at House of Ambas sador Reid LONDON, May is.—Mr. Roosevelt is seeing many personal friends at Dor chester house, the home of Ambassador Reid, but is going out very little and is accepting no dinner invitations. On Friday he Will he present at the funeral Of King Edward in his capacity as a special ambassador of the United States. The appointment of Henry White, former American ambassador to Frame, as the diplomatic delegate from the United States to the royal obse quies, is regarded in court as a thoughtful act by President Taft, be hauae Mr. White had long known King Edward. Mr Roosevelt began the day with a long talk with his old friend, Seth Bul lock, deputy United Btates marshal in South Dakota. Mr. Bullock had lunch eon with Secretary Phillips of the American embassy. During the fore noon Mr. Roosevelt was received in audience by King Frederick of Den mark. Mr. White was received at the same time by his majesty. Colonel Roosevelt had an audience also with King Haakon of Norway, and met King George of Greece. With all the members of the American special embassy he wrote his name In the visi tors' bwoks of the king of Spain, Prince Henry of Prussia. Grand Duke Michael and other royalties. YEAR ON ROCK PILE IS PRiEST'S PENANCE OGDEN, Utah, May 18.—"Twelve months on the rock pile" is the way James Ambrose Ryan, unfrocked Cath olic priest, who renounced his vow of celibacy to espouse an Ogden telephone girl at Denver more than a year ago, describes the pantUKM he Intend! to suffer in order to regain his standing in the church. This was Ryan's statement last night. He has been released on bail from the city Jail, where he was placed Sunday after engaging in a fist fight with the father of his wife. He has employed an attorney to de fend him on the charge of peace dis turbing. ROBBINS WltL DENY MARRIAGE MEXICO CITY, May 18.—George C. Robbins, whose extradition to Los An geles on a charge of bigamy has been asked through the American embassy here and whose hearing was set for May 20, will make the plea that suffi cient proof has not boon adduced that he was married to (lenevieve Lindsay, who came to Mexico with him as his bride and who as one of his recog nized attorneys haß been aiding in the preparation of the defense. OTTVOTTT" POP TVQ* DAILY Se. ON TRAINS B«. OXIMjrJL/Jlj jIUIO . si;M>AY Be. ON TRAINS 10& COMET'S TAIL SPLIT ASTRONOMER SAYS SUN SPOTS.COMET, QUAKES, UNALLIED Director Hale of Carnegie Obser vatory Makes Observations of Ethereal Phenomena OLD SOL MAY LIGHT UP COMET Declares Recent Seismic Disturb ances Are Not Traceable to Sky Vagrant r Associated Pressl PASADENA, May 18.—While wait ins for any manifestations of the (limit's proximity, Director George E. Hale of the Carnegie ob servatory trained the big telescopes and solar photographing apparatus today on the spots that now mark the sun's fare. He and his assistants found one large group of spots located approximately in the center of the sun, a smaller group which Dr. Hale says appears to be associated with the larger and a single small spot stand ing on the edge of the sun. The total length of the largo group is estimated to be about lOO.ftOO miles. The penumbra or shadowy rims of the spots were found to contain three umb rae or Mark areas, one of which was large than the other two. The smaller group consists of one spot with two umbrae and several smaller spots. Previous photographs were taken of the spots May 14 and these show the groups of spots near the eastern edge of the sun. Since then the larger spot has greatly increased in size. Til.' spots are of the tornado type— vortices or whirling volumes of , in tensely heated gases and metallic vapor.' highly charged with electricity, which produce strong magnetic fields, Dr. Hale said. These fields might dis turb the magnetism of the earth. But Dr. Hale added that he did not think the spots were responsible for recent seismic- disturbances. "You can say for me." he said, "that there is not the slightest reason to suppose that the sun spots have any connection cither with recent earth quakeS or the comet." Dr. Hale added Inter that the spots might have some effect in brightening the comet. "Eruptions associated with the large spots like those we now have on the sun," he said, "are supposed to send out electrons. If they pass through the comet they might increase its brilliance perceptibly " COMETAFFECTS WEATHER DECIDES PRDF. RIGKARD Santa Clara Astronomer Says the Sunspots and Long-Tailed Flyer Are Co-operative SAN JOSE, May 18.—Prof. J»rome S. Rlckard of the observatory of Santa Clara college tonight issued the fol lowing statement: After two months of rest, the solar surface is showing a recrudescence of activity, worthy of a maximum period, May IS, at 1 p. m., there could be seen a large, Intensely blue-colored spot, convex to lhe westward, concave to the eastward, in shape nearly like a half-moon. As a master spot, it had a retinue of fourteen little ones, or pores, follow ing in the rear of the eastern sick-, led by a vanguard of one taller and bigger than the rest. It was about twelve hours cast of the solar axis. West of the north and south line through the center of the sun, at a disc of a few degrees, stood another group of three spots, a big one and two small ones. The first and larger group is, say, eight degrees south latitude, and the second about ten degrees same lati tude. The largest black spot measures 236, --318 by 78,773 miles. The smaller group appeared May 12 and was single; then be. :inie, triple. The larger group was first seen May 15 on eastern limb as a family of seven, then of nine, May 16, or eight, May 17, filially of fifteen. May 18. Why this sudden change on the star of day? It may be held, it has been 'hold, it is well nigh demonstrated, that the rise and the wane of sun spots and faculae is due to planetary influence. The greatest of the world's long-ranee forecasters Is going by the planets' positions. I go by the sunspots and faculae. Our dates always agree. Therefore, planets and sunspots are indlssolubly connected. Halley's comet may be viewed and ranks as a formative planet. Therefore, it must have a reactive in fluence on the sun and consequently with the weather. Two slight and short seismic mani festations at 6:25 p. m., on the two in struments. SAYS DIAMETER OF SUN SPOTS IS 150,000 MILES ST. LOUIS, May 18.—Thirty sun spots, one of which was estimated to be 150,000 miles in diameter, were seen by Father Martin S. Brennan, astron omer at Kenrick seminary, this after noon. The spots, according to Father Brennan, indicate violent solar erup tions. "The spots on the sun," said Father Brennan, "were in three groups. I saw them at 2:30 o'clock. Twenty-six spots were In one; three in another and one (Continued on r««e Two) CENTS DIDN'T SEE IT, EH? WELL WE WENT THROUGH ALLRIGHT Auroral Lights and Dim Glow the Only Unusual Features Observers Noted TRIP REQUIRED FIVE HOURS Nebulous Wanderer to Become Visible Again Friday on Its Way Into Space [Associated Press} WASHINGTON, May 19.—At 4 o'clock this' morning Asaph Hall of the Naval observatory here said the earth would not pass through the comet's tail until some time today. PRINCETON, IK. a., May 18.—At » a. in. I>r. Henry N. Russell, professor of astronomy at Princeton university, declares that con trary to general predictions, the earth haut not yet passed through the tall of llalley'B comet, lie said that towards the east a dis tinct streak of light was visible, very much similar to the milky way. lie declared tha reason why the earth had not yet reached the comet's tall Is that the tall is curved away from the earth and although the head of the comet has crossed the sun's disk by four hours the tall will probably not reach the earth until later In tbo niornlng. THE comet came, the comet went, and this old earth is no worsa and no better, and thus far very little wiser. There was no collision, aa the super stitious and the ignorant feared, and now that the comet is headed auay from us there will be no recurrence of the manifestations of terror that were recorded to all parts of the world. The earth did pass through the tail of the comet, but nobody suffered from the deadly cyanogen gas. To the naked eye the tail of the comet was indeed "the veriest approach to nothing set in the midst of naught." None of the eastern observatories had anything of note to report either dur ing the day or the night. At Chicago and at Williams Hay, Wis., where is the great Yerkes telescope, the condi tions for observations .seemed the best, and the astronomers there were confi dent the negative as well as the posi tive results of their examination would be of lasting scientific value. 1 The whole performance took little more than five hours. Observers dif fered as to the exact time, at which the earth began to pass through the comet's tail, but the opinion averaged a moment between 10 and 11 o'clock at night, eastern time. The combined speed of the tall and the earth was estimated at slightly more than 46 miles a second, and the breadth of the tall at about 1,000,000 miles. Friday the comet will become visible again, headed away from us with tha tail sticking straight up out of the western sky, a little above the spot where the sun sinks. There will then Ije no light from the rising sun to dim the glory of the spectacle, and It is likely to be far more majestic than in the stages of the approach. At the end of a month good by for another 75 years. DISTURBANCE ON SUN MAY EXTEND TO EARTH VALI.EJO, May 18.— Prof. T. J. J. See of the United States naval observ atory at Mare Island tonight reported the following observations on sun spots: "Great sun spots were noted at 4 p. m. here today. The largest spot waa slightly northeast of the sun center. and was made up of three parts rough ly joined together by bridging, such as characterizes complicated spots. This seemed to indicate that the disturb ance of the sun is destined to last sev eral days. It appears to be Increasing in magnitude, and to be of the vortex, or whirlpool type, which often gives rise to disturbances to the earth's mag netism. "The sun spots will reach the sun's central meredian In another day or two, and if any disturbance of the earth's magnetism is to occur from this cause, it is likely to come about Friday. The spots now seen are not believed to have any connection with the comet, and if any aurorae or elec tric effects occur tonight we should probably ascribe them to the comet rather than to the spots on the sun. "The largest spot observed at Mare Island was estimated to be 60,000 miles long and 30,000 miles wide." AURORAL LIGHTS DISPLAY GREAT AT WILLIAMS BAY WILLIAMS BAY, Wls., Yerkes Ob servatory, May 18. —As the world d through the tail of Hallcy's comet, astronomers at tho Yerkes ob servatory tonight secured photograph! and accurate records of meteoric phen omena and varyingl heavenly illumina tion under atmospheric conditions nearly perfect for work with camera and telescope. Although a spectacular display of : -ora lights which reached across tha f: y from east to west was observed here, Prof. Frost, in charge of the ob tservatory, and Prof. Mitchell of New York, do not connect tho phenomena directly with the comet. "While the glow of tha corner* tall (Continued on I'aiia In/