This rule, if passed, will put an end to the horrors of Dead Man's
Curve, as the Fourteenth-Street curve has come to be called, for at this
slow pace the passengers will have no difficulty in keeping their feet,
and the pedestrians will easily be able to get out of the way of the
cars.
It will be two weeks before this rule can be made part of the Sanitary
Code, and during that time arguments for and against it will be heard by
the Department.
If the Health Board will only follow this rule with another, forbidding
the overcrowding of cars, New Yorkers will have a chance of getting
comfortable service from the car systems.
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We told you about the great Yerkes telescope some little while ago.
It has, if you remember, the largest lens in the world, and with it
astronomers can look farther into space than with any other glass now in
existence.
At the end of last May the big telescope was in position, and the
scientific world waited anxiously to hear of the wonders it would
reveal.
Professor Barnard, who is in charge of the observatory, stated that it
was impossible even to guess what discoveries might be made with it.
He stated that it allowed the observer to penetrate one-fourth farther
into space than the famous Lick telescope. It was therefore to be
supposed that some new knowledge about the moon and the planets would
soon be obtainable.
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