The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-23
CALDWELL.
YER AND
ESSEX TELLS
WORLD CREATION
WHAT ACKNOWLEDGES
O 1T. {
Wonders of the Science Under Advanced
Methods Described by Professor
Brachear in Montclair.

A large audience gathered in Club Hall,
Montclair, last night. to hear an inter-
esting lecture on World Building. or the
Evolution Of the Universe" which wat de-
livered by Professor John A. Dashear. Of
Pittsburg, Pa. The lecture was illustrated
with lantern slides, which were actuay
photographs taken by himself and other
astronomers by Photographic astronomical
telescopes.
Very little, he said. was known of the
solar system when the old telescopes onlyI
were used, but the Photographic telescopeB4
have resulted in the attainment OF much
knowledge on the subject. After showingd
a picture OF the new observatory at Aie-1
ghany, Pa, which has been erected at a.
cost Of $275,000, and which was fitted ouEI
with the best instruments, he placed a pic~l
ture on the showing a large por- (
ton Of nebula. which was very irregular
in shape and which, he said, was probably
to what our earth had one timoa
been, before light and motion had gsvenl
it its present form. He then showed this
same nebula taken some years later, which
showed that 1t was attaining more of a,
cone shape, having lost the large portion
of its irregular edges.
II believe" continued the lecturer. THAT
new worlds are being formed In the uni-
verse and that creation Is going on at q
rapid rate"
He showed a fine clear photograph Of a
group of stars, which he said were GOO light
years away.
And as light travels at the rate OF 1S6,000 /
In a second, you can figure up how many
miles 1t Is to the group" he added.
ION the dearest night" he continued,
you can count only 5000 stars overhead
with the naked eye. yet these Photographic
telescopes Ican produce pictures showing
over $1,000 stars. Just think of how
photography has advanced. The first photo
graph of a face that was ever taken was
that of Miss Dorothy Draper in 1910. and
she had to sit ninety minutes, while DR..
John Draper was taking 1t. Now we can
take a photograph of a flying object In the
one hundred thousandth part of a second
He spoke of the great discoveries made
by the American astronomer Barnard
81 remember Professor Barnard he said,
when he was a little barefoot boy with
hardly a rag on his back, when he was
working for forty cents a day to support a
widowed mother, and today he Is the great
est astronomer in the world
He then showed a picture OF a great
Photographic telescope which was planned
by Mr.. Barnard.
He took up the sun spots, showing a
number of very interesting pictures OF
them. Speaking of the intensity of the
suns heat, he said, that some day this heat
will be used for commercial purposes.
1.-The sun Is giving out one horsepower
for every yard of earths surface, so you
don't have TO have a very large lot to OBJ
tain sufficient power to run a factory"
said he.
He took up the moon and the principal
planets In their order and stated why as-1
ronomers thought some were uninhabitedl
and why others were inhabited. One hun
dred new planets have boon discovered
since 1895 by the use of Photographic tele-
gcope he said.
The lecturer was introduced by the Rev.
Harry Emerson Fosdick, president of tho
/ Outlook Club. under whose auspices the
lecture was given