Burnham is unable to go. Walls of the basement complete. This view is looking east with Geneva Lake in the background. October October 9th, construction of the main hall and first floor begins. This view is taken from the same approximate location as the photograph above.
Geneva Lake is in the background to the right.
Keeler, Hale, and Hale's friend, Harry Goodwin, join Alvan G. Clark in Cambridgeport and spend the nights of October 17 to 21 observing with a make-shift telescope. The lenses are placed in a mounting set up on the factory grounds. This same mounting was used to test the lenses for several other Clark telescopes, including the Lick 36-inch. Keeler reports to Yerkes that both lenses are free from air-bubbles and spots of any kind. Two lenses, when set in a mounting with approximately a seven-inch space between them, make up the objective glass, the main lens assembly of a refracting telescope.