The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-23

they have beenl The first OF these was the
statue of Francis Scott Key, author OF the
"Star-spangled Banner" erected in Golden
Gate Park at a cost of $4,000. There were
eleven other philanthropie projects, as
follows:
Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton,
500, 600.
Protestant Orphan Asylum, San Fran
cisco, S25,0CO.
Protestant Orphan Asylum, San Jose,
SIS, 600.
Ladies' Protection and Relief Society OF
San Francisco, $25, eco.
Mechanics Institute of San Francisco
for the purchase of scientific and mechani-
cal works, $40, 900.
Society for the Prevention OF Cruelty to
Animals OF San Francisco $4,000.
Family monument at Fredericksburg
Pa, $4,000.
Old Ladies' Home of San Francisco,
with separate trustees to manage it,
500, 900.
Free baths on Tenth street, under sep
arate trustees, $4,000.
School of Mechanical Arts, under sep
arate trustees, $4,000.
Monument in City Hall Park, 500. 900.
The trustees consider securing the great
36-inch lens and the completion of the
observatory on Mount Hamilton as their
tention of the entire civilized world and
furnishing in fact as well as name. an en-
during monument for James Lick, marking
his grave as well as his memory.
Equipping the telescope was the first
work of the trustees. The deed called for
telescope superior and more powerful
than any telescope ever yet made, with all
the machinery appertaining thereto and
appropriately connected Herewith, or that
is necessary and convenient to the most
powerful telescope now in use or suited to
one more powerful than any yet con-
structed; and also suitable observatory
connected Herewith"
Although now the prospects seem good
for a 40-inch glass for the Yerkes tele-
scope in Chicago, yet when the trustees
set about their task the 30-inch Pulkowa
glass was the largest known. A 36-nch
glass was decided on and Alvin CLARK
IL Son of Cambridge undertook this
important step in the production of the
largest telescope. Consultations were had
with optical-glass makers in England and
France. After nineteen trials and q lapse
of two years Fiel 81 Sons of Paris were sue
cessful and made the great objective In
October, 1887, they reported that the glasses
were made, and Immediately thereafter the
same were placed in q Pullman car spe-
cially prepared for that purpose, and with
the greatest care transported across the
IL.
SwaZey of Cleveland, Ohio, made the
mounting machinery and the Union Iron
Works made the steel floor and the great
dome. The observatory building was then
finished, and in June, 1888, the same, with
all the instruments and equipments, was
turned over to the regents of the uni
versity.
The observatory, while the first work
undertaken by the trustees, was not the
first completed, fer the casting of the lens.
the grading of Mount Hamilton site and
other tasks took much time. Requests to
orphan asylums, ETC., the erection of the
family monument and the Old Ladies'
Home were all disposed of before the OBJ
servatory assumed permanent shape. The
tenth trust, the Old Ladies' Home, was
completed in 1884. The trustees for that
institution were named by Mr.. Lick as fol-
lows: A. B. Forbes, J. B. Roberts, Ira P.
Rankin, Robert McElroy and Henry NJ.
Newhall (now deceased), and they still
have the control and management of the
home.
With the recent opening of the Lick
School for Mechanical Arts, for which
$40, 900 was provided in the trust deed, all
San Franciscans are familiar. The school
promises TO become one of the best in the
State, having its chief value in offering to
the youth of the State free education in
the helpful arts of life. The trustees of
the school now are: Horace Davis, A. S.
Hallidie, John 0. Earl, Rev. DR.. Stebbins,
John II. Boalt and James Spiers.
1t was on the 10Th day of July, 1874,
James Lick made deed of trust to
Thomas II. Selby, D. o. Mills, Henry NJ.
Newhall, William Alvord, George II. How
ard, James Otis and John O. Earl, by
which he conveyed to them all of his prop
erty, real and personal. Under this deed
the grantees performed certain work in the
line of the provisions of the trust. On the
9th of March, 1875, this deed was revoked
by Mr.. Lick, and on the 21st day of Sep