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New York —Two of the most sensa
tional divorce suits ever filed in a
court of law recently ended by decrees
being granted in Denver, Col, to Su
san Smith, wife of Milton Smith, a na
tive of New York state, and to Aimee
Hargrove, daughter of A Neres
heimer, former diamond merchant of
New York city, and wife of Ernest
Hargrove, secretary of the American
Development and Improvement com
pany, of which concern the divoicee's
father is president
On December 15 a decree of divorce
was granted to Susan Smith, based on
a complaint charging cruelty and neg
lect, and In her statement to the jury
the plaintiff supplemented the original
charge by adding -that a too great
fondness for othei women was at the
bottom of her domestic troubles.
Tried Behind Closed Doors.
The cause of Smith vs Smith was
tried after working hours and behind
locked doors Into a diml lighted
courtroom the fair plaintiff went, sup
ported in her ordeal by her sister, Mrs
W Maitland, and her brother-in
law, Mr Maitland, who is general
western agent of the Fidelity and De
posit Insurance company of Maryland.
The hearing was had before Judge
John I Mullins The decree included
the gning of the little son and daugh
ter to their mother's keeping Should
she die they are to go to her sister,
Mrs Maitland, and in the event of the
death of both a sister of Milton Smith,
In whom Mrs Smith reposes the
greatest confidence, is to be made
guardian—but under no circumstances
are they ever again to be allowed to
li\e with their father Added to this
the decree provided for a comfortable
settlement on the wife
When Mrs Smith and her relatives
left the room, time enough to change
the air was taken, when a side door
opened and the six jurymen were told
that the action of Hargrove vs. Har
grove was to be heard. In it Aimee
Hargrove sought freedom from Ernest
Hargrove on the ground of cruelty.
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The decree asked by the woman was
to contain also an order for the cus
tody of the two children and an obli
gation to He placed on the defendant
to pay sufficient alimony that the wife
could maintain her present style of
living and suitably support their chil
dren.
Collector's Motives Were Right, but
His Judgment Was Faulty—Inter
view with the Head of the Firm
COUPLES ARE REASSORTED
BY THE WILES OF CUPID
Scientist Absorbed in Books and Learning
Proves Less Attractive to Wife Than
Dashing Leader of Men and
Director of Active Work
MILTON
Divorce Quickly Granted.
Wrapped to the ears in costly furs,
Mrs. Hargrove tripped into the court
room and took her place on the wit
ness stand. A few questions revealed
the fact that Ernest Hargrove inter
fered entirely too much, according to
TOO QUICK IN ACTION
Not Altogether a Pleasant One—
Record of the Sad Collapse of a
Really Bright Idea.
"I always did think I was a donkey,"
remarked the bill collector, "and now
I know it"
"How did you guess it?" asked the
sympathetic friend.
"Boss told me so," replied the col
lector, smiling sheepishly. "It was
this way: We had been having a heap
of trouble with an old man named Ja
cobs. He had a habit of ordering
goods from* our firm and then letting
us Sing for the money. But the boss,
Mr. Brown, you know, finally got sore
and turned old Jacobs down cold told
him no money, no goods. I was awful
glad, and next day I sauntered past
old Jacobs' place to so if he was still
in business. He was wide open all
right, and there war a big delivery
.wagon unloading stuff in the back end
of his warehouse, and as sure as the
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the mother's notion, with the bringing
up of their children, and she could no
longer live under the same roof with
him Milton Smith appeared for Har
grove, conforming to the established
order by asking a few simple ques
tions, after which the court instructed
the jury to bring In a verdict for the
plaintiff, giving the children into her
care
Ten days later Milton Smith, friend
and attorney for Hargrove, announced
to the latter that he was going to
marry Aimee and hoped there would
be no hard feelings. Then Hargrove
began to wake from his dream.
On January 15 there appeared be
fore the Rev. Matt S. Hughes, of the
Grand Avenue Methodist Episcopal
church, of Kansas City, Aimee Har
grove, 24 years of age, spinBter, and
Milton Smith, accompanied by an aged
man giving his name as Mr. Hargrove,
presumably father of the bride, who
was witness to the marriage of the
couple.
Hargrove Alleges Conspiracy.
Thoroughly awakened to the trick
that, he says, has been played on him,
Ernest Hargrove, student, dreamer,
theosophist, has ordered his attorneys
to petition the court to set aside the
decree of divorce grantel to Aimee
Hai grove on the ground, he is said to
allege, that it was obtained by con
spiracy on the part of both the wom
an and the judge and asking that the
custody of the children be awarded to
him without delay.
The Neresheimer-Hargrove families
went west and established themselves
in a splendid home in a fashionable
Denver thoroughfare about two years
ago and at once became the cynosure
of all eyes because of the beauty of
Mrs Hargrove, her stunning gowns,
her splendid furs, laces and jewels,
her fearlessness as an autoist and the
large amount of money the family
seemed to have at their disposal.
"We will do a little entertaining for
my clients and their wives," Mr. Smith
said to Mrs. Smith "A few dinner
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parties, an evening or two at the the
ater will rehabilitate me in the eyes of
you/ friends, my dear, and make a
good impression on our new friends
Wife Gently Protests.
Mrs. Smith, a woman of rare charm
of manner, beauty of face and a dig
nity that commands respect, protested
gently against any lavish display until
the friends who had ever stood loyal
ly by her should become willing of
themselves to again receive her hus
band, who had wandered so far away
from the conventional paths. He was
obdurate, however, and the Hargroves
Lord made little green apples that
wagon was from Brown ft Co.—firm
I'm with, you know. My Joy turned to
grief as I realized the prospects ahead
of me of collecting our bill. That it
was the new shipping clerk's fault In
letting the wagon get away, I had no
doubt. See, he wasn't quite on to the
ropes. I could see that poor fellow's
finish, and had a mental photo of him
as he went home and broke the news
to mother.
"But just then a bright idea pierced
my skull. I would foil old Jacobs'
game yet, save the shipping clerk his
job and myself much shoe leather. It
was a bold scheme and a little out of
my line, but by Jasper I would do It,
anyway. I sneaked across the street
Beating the Devil.
The Arab tribe their fields had tilled,
Then down to them the devil sped:
"I claim half of the harvest yield.
Since half the world is mine," he said.
The foxy Arabs, grave of mien,
Replied: "The lower half be thine
To which the devil with a grin.
Said: "No, the upper half is mine."
Then sowed the Arabs beets galore, A.
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Became the honor guests at a series
of functions given by the Milton
Smiths. Wherever one couple was
seen the other would put In an appear*
ance.
Mr. Hargrove, his studious mind ab
sorbed In great problems, saw noth
ing In the conduct of his young wife
and his best friend and attorney to
cause alarm.
Never did man have more implicit
faith in the woman to whom he had
given his name than Ernest Hargrove
had in his wife.
When he had first met her she was
16 years old. It was at a luncheon
that Mrs. Hargrove, with her cold,
aquiline English type of beauty, told
of her meeting with her scholarly hus
band.
Her Story of the Meeting.
"It was really quite romantic," Mrs.
Hargrove is said to have remarked. "I
was in swimming at the seashore with
a lot of girls. Ernest came along, un
expectedly, looked at me as I cowered
in the water, and from that day to this
he has adored me utterly. I ran away
from the convent in Canada to marry
him, and now—well, he is the dearest
of men, but he knows so much, and I
know so little, and every time I say
anything impulsively he glowers at me
and makes me afraid."
When every woman and child who
lived in the Hargrove neighborhood
were discussing the friendliness of
Mrs. Hargrove and Milton Smith,
Ernest Hargrove's ears were closed.
It was in June that Mrs. Smith de
cided that she could no longer endure
the attentions of her husband to the
wife of his client. One afternoon at
the Country club, where the Smiths
and Hargroves had gone to watch the
Derby race from the piazza of the
clubhouse, Mr. Smith and Mrs. Har
grove walked away together and did
not return for two hours. Feeling ill,
Mrs. Smith sent an attendant to in
form Mr. Smith that she must return
to town at once either in his auto or
with friends. When the couple re
turned reluctantly, Mrs. Hargrove with
blazing eyes walked to where Mrs.
Smith was sitting and said:
"I am Bure, my dear, I don't want
you to think that I have any desire to
take your husband from you—not at
all, my dear, and in the future you
don't need to send for him."
"We are so glad daughter likes Mr.
Smith so much," said Mrs. Neres
heimer. "He is such a charming man
and we like him so much."
Mrs. Smith Goes East.
That night Mrs. Smith and her two
children, a most beautiful little daugh
ter and son, left for the east, where
they remained during the summer.
The Smith auto became practically
the property of Mrs. Hargrove. The
parents of Mrs. Hargrove encouraged
the visits of the attorney, feeling sorry
for his loneliness since his family had
gone away.
The summer passed. Every day the
Smith car, flying about with Mrs. Har
grove or her two lovely children
dashed through the streets of Denver.
The first of September Mrs. Smith
returned from the summer spent at a
peaceful out of the way nook by the
sea. Letters had been sent to her
telling her of the devotion of her hus
band to his client's wife—letters
and approached the driver of the
wagon.
"'Hist!' I exclaimed, in a Nick Car
ter voice. 'It is I, Snedkins of Brown
ft Co. Where is Jacobs?'
'"Gone upstairs,' growled the unro
mantle teamster.
'"Listen!' I continued in a hoarse
whisper, 'Unless we get this load back
to the house the new shipping clerk
will lose his job, and the boss will
just naturally raise a dust with every
body'
"Well," continued the collector,
sharpening a pencil, "my scheme made
a hit with the driver, and we pitched
in and reloaded that batch of stuff in
record time, and went clattering up
the street like 60. I was tired and
The Arabs kept the roots—no more.
For him the withered leaves lay there.
Next year, when field work was to start,
The devil came and said with heat:
"This time I take the lower part,"
Then sowed the Arabs oats and wheat
And when the fields again stood bate,
The Arabs took the grain—no more.
The stubble was the devil's share,
It made his fires flame and roar.
—Pram_the QejmajB.stBuck«rt --,
which, of course, were not signed, but
which even lacked authority, burned
into her very must
At the station .her husband met her
and the children. With a curt nod the
husband and father assisted them into
the auto. On his way home he is said
to have said to his wife:
"This has got to end, Susan, I want
my freedom. I have enjoyed my sum
mer, not having to account to anyone,
and I want to be free to go from one
to another. You know my weakness,
and I won't be bound."
Finally came the announcement on
the part of Milton to his wife that the
time had come for a definite separa
tion, concluding with an admission of
his love for Mrs. Hargrove. Before
granting the request, Mrs. Smith, hav
ing in mind the future of her little
ones, caused an ironclad contract to be
drawn up by which her husband was
obliged to pay her an allowance. Life
Insurance policies for large sums were
made over to the children, and in
three months $10,000 is to be paid in
cash to the attorneys of his wife for
her disposal. The education of the
children is to be his care.
About this time in the splendid
homef on Elizabeth street, Mrs. Har
grove appeared to the dreamer and
gave him a shock.
"You interfere entirely too much
with my discipline and bringing up of
the children. I don't love ytfu, and if I
have to live with you another hour I
shall die."
Hargrove Consults Smith.
Hargrove had always humored his
wife, and did so in this instance. He
went to his friend and attorney, Milton
Smith, and poured out his story. He
told how he loved his wife, how he
would willingly die for her. He told of
her moods and tempers, of her vanity,
her childish ways, of her impatiewja
at resrtaint, and asked for advice.
"The thing for you to do," Smith Ss
reported to have answered, "is to al
low your wife to get her divorce. She
can do it all right, she has a clear
vase, and it will be best for you not to
fight it. Make a provision for her and
her children, and after a time perhaps
she will see the error 4n her ways."
Hargrove followed the counsel of his
attorney, engaged him to appear for
him and save all unpleasant publicity.
Half awake, Hargrove still dreamed.
Through an agreement with the
judge, the hearings were held at an
hour when the big courthouse was
empty. Where no suspicion of what
was going on could leak out, the bailiff
went out into the street and got six
jurymen. Mrs. Smith, borne down by
the misery of the affair, entered the
dingy courtroom, accompanied by her
sister and brother-in-law and in a very
shoit time she emerged a free woman
Will Fight for Children.
Finally Hargrove awoke and now a
very militant is preparing for war.
The accumulated gossip of two
years is being pounded into his ears.
He is finding out that his wife's name
has long been a subject of talk, ribald
and otherwise, wherever two or three
gathered. He is seeking vengeance.
Cost what it will, to regain his chil
dren, Hargrove, the awakened dream
er, vows he will give up his last cent,
and he has much to spend.—N. Y.
World.
dusty, but I felt Uke a hero. The boss
would surely think I was a bird, and
maybe, just maybe, you know, I
thought he would raise my salary a
wee bit. I always was a fool for
dreaming.
"Well, we finally turned into the
stable, load and all, and I proceeded
majestically to the boss' office.
'Mr. Brown,' I says, seating myself
on the edge of a chair, 'Through some
misunderstanding a load of stuff got
out to Jacobs' place to-day and was
unloaded. Fortunately, however,' I
continued modestly, I happened by
and saw through the whole thing,
and while Jacobs was upstairs I re
loaded the wagon and It is now safely
In our barn.'
"The boss just looked over his
glasses at me and smiled unpleasant
ly. 'Better see me, Snedkins,' he says,
'before you do that again. In the
meantime take the load back to Ja
cobs.'
'And why?' I asked, in amazement
«Why—why, you donkey old man
Jacobs paid for that load before it
ever left our house.' "—Kansas City
Star.
St. Paul, Minn., Feb. 8—After be
ing told that to pass a resolution to
day would he a slap at Senator Knute
Kelson, the senate voted 33 in favor
of the measure and 18 against it.
The resolution was the one intro
duced by Senator Canfleld several
days ago, and called up today for
final action. It is a memorial to con
gress asking that the bill limiting the
number of hours per day railroad
employes may work, be reported out
of committee to the floor of congress
for a fair show. The bill aims to de
crease the number of railway acci
dents by prohibiting overworking of
men. Senator Canfleld had explained,
on introducing the resolution, that it
was introduced by him on request of
United States Senator LaFollette of
Wisconsin. Senator Putnam secured
the floor and strongly opposed the
resolution. ''LaFollette came into
this state last election for the special
purpose of opposing and attacking
Senator Nelson," he said. "I for one
believe Senator Nelson stands for the
sentiment of the people of Minnesota.
The passage of this resolution would
be a direct slap at Senator Knute
Nelson and I am opposed to it." On
roll call several senators explained
they were voting for the resolution
because they believed in its subject
matter, and they meant no reflection
on Minnesota's senior United States
senator.
The most important measure, per
haps, which has been introduced in
the legislature this session was intro
duced in the senate today by J. M.
Hackney of Hamline and in the house
by S. O. Morse of Slayton. It pro
vides for an exposition at the state
fair grounds in 1908 to celebrate the
50th anniversarry of Minnesota's
statehood, the exposition to be under
the management of the directors of
the State Agricultural society. The
bill empowers them to erect neces
sary new buildings and acquire 80
acres more of land. The money is to
be raised by sale of state certificates,
similar to those issued for the state
capitol, and the certificates to be paid
off by the profits of the exposition
and ensuing state fairs. For the ex
position, the governor, attorney gen
eral and auditor are added to the
state fair directors.
St. Paul, Minn., Feb. 9—Interests
at Thief River Falls and at Bemidji,
both of which have had bills intro
duced in the legislature for normal
schools, have reached a compromise
and today had their special bills
withdrawn by Senator A. L. Hansen,
their author in the senate, and a new
bill introduced which contains the
terms of the compromise. That is,
that a new normal school be esta
blished at some point on the Great
Northern road between Duluth and
East Grand Forks, to be determined
by the state normal board. The bill
carries no appropriation but provides
that the town getting the institution
provide a five acre site for the build
ing.
Senator Albert Schaller of Dakota
county, introduced a bill unique in
that it makes cumpulsary the teach
ing of physiology, hygiene and nar
cotics in the public schools from the
third grade every year up through
the high schools. The bill calls for
special attention the study of alcohol
and its effects on the human body.
Teachers to be granted certificates,
must pass examinations on these as
well as the other usual subjects.
The event in the house today was
the presentation of what is known in
insurance circles as an "anti-com
pact" bill, that is, to prevent fire in
surance companies combining in fix
ing and maintaining rates through
boards of underwriters as is the pre
sent custom in the state. The bill is
introduced by W. H. Putnam of Bed
Wing.
As a "follow" bill to the one intro
duced yesterday calling for a big ex
position at the fair grounds in 1908,
S. O. Morse of Slayton today intro
duced a bill to permit county com
missioners to make special appropria
tions for county exhibits at such an
exposition.
The joint committee of fifteen mem
bers of both houses, appointed to
investigate all combinations in re
straint of trade, late today met and
divided into three sub-committees.
One committee will look into the
International Harvester trust. A
second will investigate the ways of
the Minneapolis chamber of commerce
and the Duluth board of trade a third
will look into the methods of coal and
lumber dealers in Minnesota.
Both houses of the legislature ad
journed today till next Wednesday
morning. This is to permit the com
mittees on state hospitals of both
houses to make the regular biennial
junket to some of the state institutions
those to be visited this particular trip
being the Rochester hospital and the
St. Peter hospital for insane. It was
planned to take quite a party with
the committees, but the Great West
ern line over which the junketers
will return, refused to grant passes to
the "additions", altho the Omaha
Is Cremated In Jail
Virginia, Minn.—A Syrian or Ara
bianpeddler, unknown, was burned
to death in the village jailatMcKin
ley. The man had been disorderly
about the railroad depot, and the
agent turned him over to the police
who locked him in the city jail. Dur
ing the night the building took fire
and was comsumed, and the next
morning the man's headless and
charred trunk was found in the ruins.
St. Paul—Prof. T. M. Hodgman
has taken charge at the Macalester
college.
St. Paul—Herbert F. McManigal,
470 Oakland avenue, is sending to the
Jamestown exposition a shoe the
leather of which was tanned by the
father of Gen. U. S. Grant at Galena,
111. The shoe is a foot and a half long
and weighs eight pounds. It was used
as a shoe store sign in Galena from
1858 to 1875.
St. Paul—Only fourteen of the fifty
four boiler inspectors inthe state have
filed their annual reports with secre
tary of state The law requires that
these reports be in-by Jan.1.
road, over which the voyagers atari,
was willing to be "good."
St. Paul, Minn., Feb. 13—By a vote
of 65 to 46 the house today decided In
favor of putting it up to the people at
the polls, whether or not women shall
be allowed the unlimited right to
vote. A majority of the committee
on elections recommended the Hig
gins bill for a constitutional amend
ment to permit women to vote, for
indefinite postponment. A minority
report recommended the bill for pas
sage. After considerable debate the
house voted with the minority of the
committee.
The house considered as a special
order this afternoon the W. A. Nolan
bill for reciprocal demurrage. Its
author asked for immediate action on
the bill. A number of addresses fol
lowed showing many favored the
principle expressed in the bill but
thought some of its provisions too
drastic. A motion by Ambrose Tighe
of St. Paul finally prevailed, calling
for appointment by the speaker of a
special committee of five to redraft
the measure and report it back to the
house in four legislative days.
J. P. Cummings today introduced
a bill aimed at the Standard Oil com
pany. It prohibits any discrimina
tion in prices in different sections of
the state. W. H. Putnam presented
a bill to establish a state training
school for girls within three miles of
the boys school at Red Wing. As
there is already a bill pending which
says such an institution shall be es
tablished at a town not having an
institution of the state, the Putnam
bill will re-open an old fight which
waged in the session of two years ago.
The session of the senate today was
unusually uneventful. A bill was in
troduced by Manly Fasseen establish
ing a college of education at the state
university, appropriating $150,000 for
a building, and $25,000 for mainten
ance for two years.
On motion of J. F. Calhoun, the
senate passed a resolution memorializ
ing congress to appropriate sufficient
money for the proposed Alaska-Yukon
exposition at Seattle in 1909.
The Sundberg committee of the
senate is holding same interesting
sessions investigating railroads. The
committee had A. B. Stickney pres
ident of the Great Western road, for
a witness. He told them no road
could ever be constructed with out
watering stock.
St. Paul, Minn., Feb. 14—The,Stokes
bill, oreating a special commission of
state officers to have charge of the
old and new capitols, was indefinitely
postponed by the house today. When
the measure came up for considera
tion John G. Lennon of Minneapolis
strongly opposed taking from the
governor his old-time prerogative of
custody of the state house, and de
clared "any man who votes for such
a bill is too small to be a republican
or a member of this house." Rackne
and Wells spoke along the same lines,
with an ultimate result the bill was
indefinitely postponed by a rousing
majority.
S. D. Peterson thinks it will be well
to investigate the Minnesota Ship
pers' association which is at the bot
tom of so many legislative investiga
tions of railroad matters. He intro
duced a resolution to this effect in
the house today but it went over on
notice of debate given by W. A No
lan. Incidentally it is said the asso
ciation opposed Mr. Peterson's elec
tion.
Representative F. C. Carlton intro
duced an "anti-cupid" bill in the
house today. It prohibits entry of
judgement in divorce proceedings one
year, which is aimed at preventing
any remarriage of either party until
a year after a divorce is virtually
granted. H. O. Bjorge introduced a
bill today to establish a Paseur insti
tute in Minnesota, the board of con
trol to expend $10,000 in so doing.
W. L. Case presented a measure to
prevent railway employes in Minne
sota from working over sixteen con
secutive hours.
Lieut. Gov. A. O. Eberhart "roast
ed" employes of the senate today for
being "late to business." He said re
ports of committees were much de
layed thereby that hereafter all em
ployes must report daily for duty at
9 a. m.
Senator Canfleld of Luverne today
introduced a general appropriation
bill for roads and bridges throughout
the state, carrying an appropriation
of $200,000. It will be apportioned
among counties late in the session.
The senate passed but few bills today,
the only one of importance being a
measure by E. E. Smith of Minn
eapolis providing pensions of not to
exceed $40 a month for disabled or
retired firemen.
The senate committee on the state
fair, recommended for passage, the
senate bill of J. M. Hackney for a
semi-centennial exposition at the fair
grounds and appropriating $1,000,00G
therefor.
J. J. Hill appeared before the Knut
son house committee today and ex
plained his iron ore deal in northern
Minnesota. He said he secured the
lands personally and then gave them
to the stockholders of the Great North
ern road, dollar for dollar of stock
held.
Going Insane Over Deed.
Duluth, Minn.—Daniel Aho, aged
twenty years, the youth who shot
and killed his mother at Tivoli, Minn.,
on Sunday, Feb.3, while intoxicated is
believed to be going insane in conse
quence of his grief over his deed. Aho's
lamentations are pitful to witness. He
says that he does not care what the
authorities do with him, as he could
never be happy again. Aho had been
drinking more than was good for him
the day of the tragedy, and became
involved in a quarrel with another
young man near the Aho residence.
St.'Paul—JThe following report was
received by S. G. Iverson state audi
tor, from M. 0. Cutter, secretary of
the state board of control, regarding
the incomes derived from the state
correctional institutions during Jan
uary: Hastings asylum, $208.11 Roch
ester hospital, $543.40 St. Peter state
hospital, $914.28: Faribault school for
deaf, $177.96 Faribault school for
feeble-minded, $1,369.55 Red Wing
state training school, $20 St. Cloud
reformatory, $1,416.99 Stillwater state
prison, $8,932.27 hemp and twine
manufactured at the prison, $38,989.23.
In truth, a hundred-inch telescope
is no less than an innovation, and
many astronomers, knowing the im
mense difficulties which beset the
use of large Instruments, difficulties
both mechanical and atmospheric,
will be disposed to doubt the success
of this undertaking. The new disk
will be 13 inches thick. The 60-inch
Greatest
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YZ%K£& gQUATOJRJA^
The world is never satisfied. There
is always a hunger for something big
ger and better than the present pos
session and attainment. Scarcely has
the world become familiar with some
great achievement which eclipses all
former effort before still larger things
are in process of the making. The
20-story sky scraper is soon distanced
by the 30-story one which the daring
builder erects, and that by still high
er structures. The 60 mile-an hour
train is soon considered slow as the
70-mile-aurhour train speeds over the
country, and that in turn by the train
which makes still faster time. And so
it goes, until the world has come to
expect that the biggest thing known
will soon have a rival in the thing
still bigger.
So it has been with the instrument
which the astronomers use to search
the heavens. Years ago the wildest
dreams of the scientists would not
have thought a 60-inch telescope pos
sible, but when at last through the
years such-an enormous development
had been reached, was the scientist
content? Did he believe that he had
attained the Ultima Thule of telescopic
construction? Nay, verily. For when
the possibility of constructing a 60
inch mirror had been demonstrated,
the scientist at once began to plan
for still a larger telescope, and now it
is the hundred-inch glass that is the
goal of ambition.
The first step in such an enormous
advance in the size of telescopes has
just been taken by the officials of the
Carnegie Institution's Solar observa
tory on Mount Wilson, California. The
sum of $45,000 has been contributed
by John D. Hooker, of Los Angeles, to
cover the expense, and a glass disk
of unexampled magnitude has been
ordered made In France, and from
this disk Mr. Ritchey will construct a
mirror for a new reflecting telescope
100 inches in diameter. Mr. Ritchey
has nearly completed a mirror of 60
inches diameter in the shops of the
observatory at Pasadena, and hitherto
this has been looked upon as an un
dertaking of extraordinary boldness
but the 100-inch mirror will so far ex
ceed the 60-inch in Its power to grasp
the light of the heavenly bodies that
to compare them is like comparing a
full-grown man with a child. To
show this it is only necessary to re
member that the capacity of a tele
scopic object-glass, or mirror, to col
lect light varies directly with the
square of its diameter. The-square
of 60 is 3,600, and the square of 100
is 10,000 therefore, the power of the
contemplated telescope will be to that
of the telescope nearly completed as
10,000 is to 3,600, or nearly three times
greater! The famous Lord Rosse tele
scope, constructed in Ireland in the
middle of the last century—and still
in existence, and to some extent in
use—is 72 inches in diameter but it
is so imperfect in figure, and in re
flecting quality, that it cannot be com
pared with either of these two Cali
fornian giants.
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disk is eight inches thick, and weighs
a ton. These facts give an indica
tion of the enormous weight the pro
jected mirror will possess, and sug
gest to those who are familiar with
the mechanical problems involved in
the mounting of huge telescopes some
of the practical difficulties that will
have to be overcome before this new
astronomic eye opens its mighty lids
to penetrate among the yet undiscov
ered marvels of the starry universe.
One or two other comparisons be
tween the projected instrument and
certain famous telescopes now in ex
istence may be of interest before we
consider the question of what the
great new mirror may be expected to
accomplish for astronomy. The Lick
telescope on Mount Hamilton, for
many years the most powerful in the
world, is 36 inches in diameter, and
its successor in the leadership of giant
astronomic instruments, the Yerkes
telescope of the Chicago University,
is 40 inches in diameter Both of these
it is true, are refracting, not reflect
ing, telescopes—that is to say, they
depend for their power to grasp the
light of the heavenly bodies, and to
bring it to a focus where a magnifi
able image of the object looked at is
formed, not upon a concave mirror,
but upon a convex object glass—but,
nevertheless, the amount of light that
they can collect depends, just as in
the case of a reflecting telescope, upon
their "aperture," or diameter. Conse
quently, leaving out of sight as of no
material consequence for our purpose
the relative capacities of the two kinds
of instruments for utilizing the light
that enters them, we may, as before,
base the comparison upon the squares
of their diameters. Then, the square
of 36 being 1,206, and the square of
100 being 10,000, we see that the new
Mount Wilson telescope will exceed
the Lick telescope in light-grasping
power almost eight times and, the
square of 40 being 1,600, it will exceed
the great Yerkes telescope, in like
manner, more than six times. No
more is needed to demonstrate the
truth of what we said at the begin
ning, that this ambitious Califorman
project marks an enormous step in
advance for the size, and, it may now
be added, the power of telescopes
But the great advantage of the 100
inch telescope will lie, as already in
timated, in Hs enormous light-grasp
ing capacity. This, independently of
any question of magnification of the
image, will endow it, to an unexam
pled degree, with what Herschel called
"penetrating power," i. e., the ability
to look deeper into the profundities
of space than any eye has ever yet
been able to range.
Bellboy Was Foxy
Had Evolved Shrewd Scheme to Savs
Himself Trouble.
George C. Boldt, the noted hotel
man, said in the course of a recent ad
dress before an association of hotel
clerks in New York: "A spirit of will
ing service, of eager helpfulness, goes
far toward bringing success in the ho
tel business. Let me illustrate the
spirit I mean by an account of a differ
ent spirit.
"A hotel man in New Hampshire
was surprised to see one of his women
guests come downstairs several nights
running, fill her pitcher from the wa
ter cooler in the hall, and return
quietly to her room again. At nrst he
thought the lady had some special
reason for this queer performance.
Then he thought he had better speak
to her. Accordingly, on the fourth or
fifth night, he approached her politely,
took the pitcher from her hands, and
filled it himself.
"If you would ring, madam.' he
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Prof. Hale expects that the new
telescope will greatly increase the
possibility of finding intermediate
types of stars, which have hitherto
escaped the ken of the largest instru
ments, showing the transition from
the so-called solar stars, which resem
ble our sun, to stars of the "fourth
type," which appear to be suns nearly
extinguished. Thus it will give indis
pensable aid in establishing a knowl
edge of the course and steps of stellar
evolution.
The Last Straw.
"Van Millyun is completely ruined
financially. He was even compelled
to sell his automobile."
fjtywtwMjyw**
said, 'this would be always done for
you. There is no occasion for you
ever to come down yourself for water.
A ring—'
'But I have no bell,' said the lady.
'Oh, madam, of course you have a
bell. I'll show it to you.'
"And he carried the pitcher up to
her room for her, and pointed to the
bell beside her bed.
'That is the bell,' he said.
"The lady started in surprise.
"That the bell?' she exclaimed.
*Why, the bellboy told me that was
the fire alarm, and I wisn't to touch
it on any account excapt in case of
fire/"
Senator Knox's Graceful Speech.
Senator Knox is quoted as saying
when Informed that lets son had
"eloped" and been marrtad as simply
as a rustic clergyman could do it: "i
find this morning that I have acquired
a very charming daughter-fa-law with
out any of the trouble indiental to a.
conventional wedding."