The Green Forest tribune., 1894-10-04
MARS SIjNkL|NG The EAR III.
IT is BELIEVED THAT INHABITANTS OF MARS
ARE TRYING TO COMMUNICATE With US.
Louis Gathmann Exhibits Model Of His Sec.
tional Lens Telescopes.

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company of twenty-five or more
friends and neighbor, who met at
his residence last night, Louis
Gathmann, exhibited amodcl Of his
sectional lens, telescope, He also
answered the objections made by
astronomers Hale and Burnham
to his announcement that he had
discovered what seemed to be
signs OF vegetation on the moon.
IN. awns wer to the objection that
astruno ers with excellent teles.
copes had never seen a green spot
On the moon, Mr.. Gatllmann said;
"There can he but two REASONS for
this fact. First, no first class teles-
copes were in use for making
observation the night I saw the
spot. Second, if observations were
made the telescopes were inferior
to mine"
Mr.. Gathmann said his sectional
lens had been examined by Prof.
Cobcrt, who said it had excellent
de etfinition and would prove of
great interest to the whole scientific
world. Many eminent engineers
had pronounced the sectional lens
instruments superior to any instru-
ment Of the same size.
GA twenty-inch built up lens"
Mr.. Ganthmann said, "with clear
giass with even density, will be
equal in power to any telescope
that has Il forty.inch solid lens"
He then spoke of his observation
of a green spot on the moon as fol-
lows. About O'clock in the even
ing of August II, in sweeping with
my telescope over the face OF the
moon. | saw aspot OF vivid green in
the midst of mountains, in the
valley of Roris. Green is a color
hitherto unknown to me among
the shades of the moon. thought
there might be an error somewhere,
but after chonging the eye piece
six times it was there each time,
well defined space of green. The
idea of it being an error OF the
telescope is out of the question,
because when allowing the. moon
to pass through the whole field of
the glass of the~strange spot kept
stationary on the moon with every
magnifying power used. Seven
persons besides myself saw it. and
it is not to be suspected that all of
us were color blind.
"If luna has fora it must be
far different from ours, because
the conditions of the moon are
vastly different from ours on earth.
Science has not progressed so far
as to know the atmospheric air
prevailing on the moon. In fact
all the elements Of the earth's at
mosphere are not positively known.
To say that vegetation cannot
exist or such large planet is to
make an assertion which cannot b.
proved. Lunar vegetation must
be very different from that of the
earth. That luna should be with
out animal life I cannot understand.
On earth, in the arctic regions,
where the cold is intense the year
around we find the polar bear, the
whale and other animals suited to
the climate and the conditions. 1t
men had never known of the ex.
istancc of these animals, and if we
common men were asked if such
animals could exist there we would
say: I'VE do not know But
most scientific men graduated from
our universities would simply say,
No Because scientific men diu
not know OF their existanco they
would conclude that such animals
could not exist there: That there
is vegetation on the moon is high
ly probable, but it does net follow
that the color should be green.
The greenish tint observed Angus,
IL may have been rare cxcep-
tion."
In conclusion Mr.. Gathnann
said he believed the inhabitants OF
Mars were making signals to the
earth, and that he thought commu-
nication between neighbor.ng
planets by means OF signals would
eventually be established.