The San Francisco call., 1897-11-10
TO SCAN MOUNT
HAMILTON STARS
A New Director to Be Chosen
at the Next Meeting
of Regents.
The Government May Establish
a Magnetic Station on the
Mountain.
Inferior Patchwork in the Construc-
tion Of the Gymnasium Shower
Baths at Berkeley.

The regents OF the university decided at
the session held yesterday to elect at the
regular meeting next month director of
the Lick Observatory to succeed Professor
E. S. Holden, whose resignation is to take
effect January l, 1898. In the regular rou-
tine of business yesterday Regent Phelps
announced that the committee on Lick
Observatory desired to submit some cor
respondence between acting Director
Schaeberle and Mr.. Holden. The COM
mittee desired the advice Of the board
on the subject.
On OCTOBER 90 Mr.. Holden wrote from
Washington TO Mr.. Schaeberle as follows
The Government will prob bly, seek to
establish one of several new magnetic sta
tions on the Pacific Coast. The site must
be forever protected from the influence OF
electric wires carrying a heavy current.
The matter is all in the air al present, but
something will be done before long" The
letter then suggests that the regents lease
Tor 81 year for long term a site of
twenty acres on Mount Hamilton at the
brlckyard over by the l8-inch refle ctor.
Professor Schae berle's advice to the COM
mittee was to The effect that an observer
under Government direction and inde-
pendent OF university control should not
be stationed ut Mount Hamilton. He sug-
gesteo that the regents should ask for a
detail OF Government observer, to act
under the direction of the Lick Observa-
tory management. Should lhe Govern
ment not detail an observer under these
conditions, it would be better, in the judg-
ment OF Professor Schae berle, for the re-
gents 10 carry on the work
Governor Badd suggest ted that it would
DC well to postpone action on this subject
until director of the Lick Observatory
was CHOSEN to succeed Professor Holden.
II move said he, "a refere ce of the sub
Ject to the committee on Lick Observa-
I torV The motion carried. The Gov
ernor then moved that the regents at the
next regular meeting elect a director of
the observatory. The point was raised
that no vacancy existed, as Mr.. Holde n S
resignation did not take effect until Janu-
ary l. The motion to elect at the next
meeting prevailed.
Mr.. Holden also wrote to Mr. Schae-
oerle that the Weather Bureau at Wash
ington would probably offer to print the
Meteorolog1cal Observations compiled by
Mr. Perrine in 1895. The WORK is un-
published on account of the lack OF money
under the control of the regents.
In the business talk over the allowance
OF money, the fact was brought out at the
session that some inferior work had been
oone In the construction of shower baths
at the gymnasium at Berkeley. The fault
was laid at the door of the architect
After considerable talk some one had the
sagaclty 10 inquire If the contractor had
been paid for the work. and the regents
We're informed that the bill had been
ordered paid
Ihe rules were amended providing that
the regular sessions hereaf after shall begin
at IL A. NJ. The morning session will be
devoted simply to reading the minutes
and allowance OF bills.
~ Ihe regents attending the session were:
l. u. Phelps (presiding). Governor Budd
A. ). Hallidie. j. West Martin, T.. A
Denicke, General Houghton, George T.
Marye, President Kellogg. Arthur Rodgers,
Phebe Hearst, John E. Budd and II. S.
Fooie. :