Wadsworth moves his family to Williams Bay and takes temporary lodging at the boarding house of William Loft. The rotunda, between the two entrances in the center of the building, will be a magnificent room. It is 21 feet across. The ceiling is in the shape of a dome, eight-sided and terminating in a skylight in the roof. November November 15th, installation of the telescope is almost complete.
Much progress is made by the time winter begins.
W. H. Wright, the first student to study at Yerkes, arrives from California. He was a former student of Barnard's at Lick Observatory. Ritchey is hired by Hale to be the Optician at the Observatory. If the lenses were his, Hale muses, he would take the risk because there is so much to observe. Barnard is especially disappointed.