Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1892 — FINEST TELESCOPE ON EARTH. [ARTICLE]

FINEST TELESCOPE ON EARTH.

— 1 ' v ''t'" ' ' 7 ‘ Street Rati war Xacnate Terkee Will Bfe ▼tie CKUsgo with a SSOO.OOO Glass. Chicago IS to have the largest and most! powerful telescope in the world.- It is the gift of Charles T. Yerkes. the great street railway magnate, to the Chicago Cniversl tv. lie authorized them to build the, Snest telescope on earth, quipped with everything to make it the best They were explicitly told not to mind the qusstion of cost Alvin G. Clark, the famous telescope maker, was telegraphed for and has already undertaken to cast the glass, which will ho forty-five (niches lb dfame" ter, eleven inches more than the glass at Lick. If all goo* well it will probably be turned on the skies for the first time from the Chicago University in the autumn of, 1895, The outlay which Mr. Yerkes will meet is estimated at a round half million dollars. 110 made no conditions except and when the expense was ascertained to send the bill to him.