T nT j- i THE WASHINGTON HERALD SUNDAY SEPTEMBER Iv190f 5 I else although they know Chicago had an ninth moon in 1S8S and the tenth in r astronomer named Burnham among its He has been director of the oIMGrv tor noted citizens thirty years and in that time the Insti- ¬ j American Gazers Are Best tution has become one of the foremost m Star the United What exclaimed the States I attorney who had been a friend the world with reference to star pho- ¬ district of Burnham for a dozen years when he tography His direction has been note- ¬ OVERALLS AND INDUSTRY rise to his present eminence has been one heard the news Our Burnham the big worthy also because since h6 took charge the endowment and consequently the In-¬ l Eminent British Astronomer Discusses Work Done by of the personal romances of science astronomer I never heard him say a come have quad- ¬ Barnard will be fifty In December He word about it of the observatory many years re- ¬ rupled thus making It possible to extend Men on This Side the Newcomb was brought up In Nashville and was Ho did double work for of AtlanticSimon porting law cases by day stargazing by Its operations enormously By FREDERIC HA SKIN only eight years old at the close of the ¬ J b night making good use of the min- ¬ It was due to his efforts thAt an auxili- Ranks as Nestor of the Profession in This Country civil war He had to earn his own living utes he says lIe Is now profossor of ary observatory was established at Are whon only a youth and his first job of practical astronomy at Chicago Univer- ¬ qulpa Peru Thus the range of Harvards S W Burnham Has Discovered More Double Stars any consequence wits as boy In a photo ¬ sity and does a lot of work at the Yerkes astronomical observations extends from graph gallery Among other things his Observatory He was at Lick for some pole to pole Few astronomical enter- ¬ ¬ Greensboro N C September 190 the head of a com- ¬ Than Any time he selected Mount Hamilton as the prises have had suoh farroachlng influ- successful insurance Other Living Man Sketches of Others duties included looking after the prints Conti- ¬ pany and a loan company ¬ ences as this one was his Idea put Looking over a battlefield where and trust on the roof Somehow he got Interested- site of that observatory and he has dis It These more all the forth some years ago to form a trust in nental troops In buff and blue grappled fire instances of the benefit that Whose Work Gives Them High Rank In the stars he to covered double stars than manufacturing has and after that used other living astronomers in the world astronomical research in order to aid with scarletcoated Britons for American been to one town of cpond good deal of time night on the Piedmont In some ways it Is the l a at He is a member or associate of every observations In all parts of the world Independence is an inspiration but the the roof of the photographic studio The trust never has been formed but more striking here because of the fact astronomical society in existence and has true American will be no less thrilled by that the development making drawings won medals and other prizes aplenty In addition to the Peruvian observatory real did not begin ¬ the sight of acre and acres of looms until about twelve years ago with the By DEXTER MARSHALL I United States Naval Academy in 1S60 Js Meanwhile ho had determined to have In many quarters his work is esteemed Prof Pickering brought about the estab- one lishment Qf the famous one Flagstaff weaving blue denim to be made Into advent of the Cone family Moses H- of them See Is only fortyone ho a telescope of his own and by almost in- ¬ even more highly than Barnards at When Sir Robert Ban the Englishman Ariz where most of Pgroival Lowells overalls for the uniforms of the vast and Caesar Cone and others of the fam-¬ was born on a thousandacre farm in credible economy he saved up 5CO arid The Brothers Scnrle ily was in tills country last spring he said famous observations of Mars have boon army of working mon who have gained control the largest cotton mills and Montgomery County Missouri and it was got one Being a pretty good business One of the moslMlnterestlng of all the the largest cloth sales In that undoubtedly the United States is made for the United States the industrial business this expected that he would be a farmer like a stargazer as no one will dis- ¬ American astronomers Is the Rev George section They httve done much to develop the leader in astronomy and that the manfor Known for Novel Work supremacy of the world These are two his father pute he made tho Instrument pay for ST Searle now sixtyeight the brother of the town along practical lines and are eyes of astronomers world over are The observatory Flagstaff re sights to which Greensboro treats the the But as a boy he was in de- ¬ at has greatly Intereet in the welfare work interested the itself twice over by discovering and Arthur Searle Phillips professor of a turnod this way constantly in order to ¬ cclvod a groat amount of attention from visitor In a room nearly a quarter of among the mill hands Recently Moses stars and when nine years old he tried scribing twelve comets for which he re- astronomy broth- ¬ at Harvard The Searle 00 see what is being done here Sir Robert to ¬ tho scientific world in bakers dozen mile long there are 2 looms which H Cone returned from a trip around the count them and all his school composi- ceived cash rewards of 1000 When he ers are London born but were brought- the himself Is an astronomer of no mean tions dealt with them Long before he went to the president of the American of yours since Pickering planned Low-¬ each year produce enough blue denim to world for pleasure He was tendered a to this country when Arthur was three it homecoming banquet Ability and great reputation being di ¬ entered the State University from which Society fozi the Advancement of Science ell who had the money to establish it make a pair of overalls for overy man by the business years aid and George was less than two men of the city through rector of Cambridge Observatory so that he was graduated in 1S89 it was apparent the latter hrugged his shoulders together with the and training to between twentyone and fifty years old the chamber of Arthur was graduated from Harvard In brains commerce praise from him is like praise from Sir that he had his own notionS as to his Very well said the great man after direct It has become thrdugh it one of east of the Mississippi River lifes occupation Of course ho mot with hearing Barnards i ory now youd bat- ¬ 1556 his brother a year later Both are Hubert the best known men In the whole world In the mill villages there are excellent opposition in wnieh nearly all the mem- ¬ ten stop stargazing and study mathe-¬ men of standing In their profession but mill Sir Robert say that there are Lowell Is Bostonian and The thousands who toll in this schools didnt bers of his family joined matics despite the fact that George M has de ¬ a a Harvard The buildings are erected by the more recognized achieve ¬ are all native Americans descendants of astronomers of They were backed by the president of did at Vanderbilt Uni- ¬ voted most bf his attention in graduate He Is fiftytwo years of age mill owners and the expenses are shared Barnard that another the colonists Every face is of the Anglo ment and reputation here than in any the college even an elder sister bfelng the versity where he worked his way through direction for nearly thirty years he Is the and lived in Japan from 1SS3 to 1SW Since between the county and the mill com-¬ Saxon type end not a foreigner Is to be other country probably because he didnt lender of the two 184 he has devoted almost his entire en ¬ panies Children of a certain age are re- ¬ ¬ seen They have como down from th think of Itbut there are He enumerated George M Searle born a Protestant be ergy to the study of Mars and its merit quired to go to school by compulsory I SIMON NEWCOMB I f2 years ho grandfath ¬ several of them giving credit to each for came a Catholic in six later farms where their fathers and methods Kindergartens are provided for his own special he joined the Paullst Fathers and was made ers have lived for a century grubbing- work but omitted the C the very little boys and girls One beau ¬ name of Simon Newcomb the Nestor ot first teacher of science in the Paulist Sem- ¬ E PICKERING a scanty living from the soil Too proud- inary and professor of mathematics- tiful graded school building has just been American stargazers whose work has later to accept work as farmhands because Catholic University In Washing¬ completed for White Oak village There at the i like personal service been of the greatest possible practical ton His progress as a young man was that too much is a social secretary who lives in a acceptable employment value to the world for many decades rapid he was assistant at Dudley Ob- ¬ they have found model house in the village Her house Nestor of American A servatory Albany N Y before he had under the operation of a system In the is externally the same as the ones occu ¬ college year there days they exchanged little crops pied by the operatives furni- ¬ Xewcomb Is seventytwo and has been been out of a and ho I old their mill Her discovered the asterlod Pandora In ISiS Ho at the country store for th necessities ture is simple and inexpensive She on the retired list for ten years He i3 I was with the United States Coast Survey any money The teaches the people how to keep house of the oldfashioned American sort He i of life and rarely saw