The sun., 1910-05-08
COMET PARTIES PLANNED
DEMAND FOR TELESCOPES HAS
INCREASED TENFOLD.

Peopls win CountFy Ho1ses Especially
Are Preparing % SHOW the Genet 10
Thslr FPlanas-From $50 70 nSOO
Cout Sf Coed Telescope 81 = Tripod.
A good many people viii take their
frst look through a telescope when tha
comet begins giving evening perform
Rnoes instead Of calling before daybreak.
some people who never owned such
thing as a telescope before have already
prepared themselves for the coming per-
formAnce by buying telescopes and are
sending out invitations TO their friends
30 enjoy II with them.
For Just about three months the dealers
In optical goods have been giving kinder
! Rnrten lessons In astronomy and par
tioularly that branch Of Il which has N
do with comets. Apparently nine out NJ
ten people who have suddenly evinoed
a great interest In the comet and want
10 get the very best possible view Of t
70 that they can tell their grandchildren
all about Il. haven't cared q rap about
star gaming before this and never cooked
their eye at the little end Of q telescope
before. Hence the men who sell tsle-
scopes have had their hands pretty full
explaining all about telescopes and how
10 see stars and comets.
II the information which some Of the
dealers have obtained from their Gus
toners 10 correct comet gAsing is going
! 70 be one Of the fads Of the early summer
season at country homes. It is from
such places that most Of the Gala for
large telescopes, the kind that stand on
tripods. have been coming. Comet
parties at such places will be one Of the
most popular forms Of entertainment for
June. Il would seem.
Only last week q man with . mag
nlficent country plaOs down on Long
Island dropped into one Of the uptown
optical stores 20 look over the stock Of
telescopes. He had come IN prepared
70 buy a hand telescope, but when his eve
| fall ON the brass instruments mounted on
tripods standing In the front part OF thu
store he forgot all about the smaller
kind.
aAIy wife suggested 10 me that u would
bs nice 70 get lot Of our frisnds down for
A Rok At the comet later on this man
explained 20 the dealer. 'and promised
her that I'D send down the proper instFu-
ment. Il will be sOmething 10 amuse the
children with after supper and instructive
a. well. I guess
After looking over the telescopes this
man picked outan instrument costing $50.
He could have paid $500, but hs decided
that ne could get all the comet he and his
friends would want through the cheaper
instrument. After buying Il he said that
10 get his moneys worth he thought bs
would have wesk end comet parties
beginning the middle Of May and lasting
ON through June with pieces Of the comets
tail for Gavors.
-Ihat man isn't the only ooo who has
cot the idea OF having . comet party
said the dealer in speakingo Of II aftsrWard.
we have already shipped . number of
fairly big telescopes 70 country places
for lust such purpose.
-Some OF these customers have homes
In the mountains and others on the sea-
shore Of course they aren't going 20
thrUw away their TELESCOPES Whon the
comet goes. I suppose u will become .
regular adjunct OF their country places
and they'll have moon parties as ven.
IL wasn't until tbe comst came slon9.
however, that they ever thouenS OF sncn
a thing.
"A week or two ago Nolnan ,,l, cs,Els ~
here n buy teiescOpe. Sns oson 10y
much about them ana one gA sne nr.s
questions she asked vas hoL y, o.E @ tne comes
would look through one on tnese eql@-
torial telescopes; une h.no ~ On ulPouL.
Madam, | sald, you VI oLlly 4. ~ 80. ~.
10 Sc part OF tne SolIlet \. Oysn .ss .aas ~,
Oh. Weil' doh want enon' sn7
said with some disg u~t'
when ! expAined 70 nor mat t1e zee, Oe,e-
SCOPE would magnify 30 20, mucn mat tne
comet would more than nj up me gas;
she changed her MIND ana uecioeu sue
like 10 have V Tor her piazza paruea
IN the country. .-,- At,
The demand Tor teleecopee, ! SHOULD
say, is just about ten ttnes Nn1e " ~ usu-
ally with US. fol every actual S.lstoILeI
there are about ntty persons VINO WrltS
In 20 ask about telescopes ana eApeot
us 70 give thcm lessons IN astronomy by
mail. Whether these inquiries Wsu m
crease or diminish atter the Gomez ACTUALLY
gets within view don't know. hoSever,
we're hoping that the interest VIII keep
up
The only time in recent years whsn
there was anything IKE Doom IN tslee-
copes vas about twelve years ago az tns
time of the Dewey parade ana the ocean
yachtsraces. The demand then, ACCORDING
10 the dealers, was Tor hand teisscope5;
which cost from p.SO up 20 50. The call
u ~ to-day and some OF the downtown
hanIara ara nrnrftcnNtW Nnld out new