The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-01-29
LORD CAMOYS TO ACT
AS USHER AT WEDDING

! Duke or Hamilton. and through her
mas become the owner OF extensive
estates IN England and Scotland, es-
! p.clally Of the Island OF Arran The
MARQUIS OF Graham has had a rather
remarkable career. For. barred from
the royal navy through his deafness
he entered the merchant marine and
served his apnren ticeship there, until
ne received his papers as master. max
Ing a number or ;rips as seccnd and
third officer.
Plus y. has just innuguraied what IS
practically a new institute for a.tron-
om!cal science. At the Vatican Fivo
years ago the present Pontft entrusted
the Jesuit Father John Hagen (who
Tor nearly two decades made his home
at Georgetown, d. c., as the chief OF
the observatory there) with the com
pletc rcorganization Of the so-cnllcd
SGp ,"..1 Ni.tican M, that Is TO say. the
the oldest one in existence. The Holy
Father gave him practically carte
blanche. helped him To ind the money
Tor the most modern appliances. al
lowed him to make the necessary
structural alterations in tho buildings,
and assigned TO his use and TO that
OF his assistants the so-cailed Leonine
tower or villa in which Leo XIII. used
70 delight 10 spend several weeks every
summer, the reorganization has now
been completed at considerable cost.
and. as have int!matcd above, IL las
i TRANSFORMED the ancient observatory
into practically new institute OF
| astronomical science.
The Spccoln Naticana is situated in
the Gregorian tower, where tho cclc-
DRAFTED commographcr, Father lgnacio
Dante. a descendant or the poet, made
his solar observations for the reform
Of the calendar In the seventeenth
century the Grcgorian and the Lconinc
| towers. which have just been united
by foot bridge, served for the
barometrical observations of Ia gl'Si.
But the scientific work or the Vatican
observatory was suspended throughout
he greater part OF the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries, until the Barna-
bite Father Denza wag persuaded to
revive it by Leo XIII., who not only
supplied funds generally for the pur
| pose, OF the purchase OF instruments,
but by turning the Master Of the Apos
tolic Palaces Monsignor afterwards
CARDINAL Pcrotti out OF the Grcgorian
tower, where he had taken up his
restored 10 its former purpose.
Father Denza gladly accepted the
invitation to unite with the astrono-
! mers Of fourteen other great observa
tories in various parts OF the world.
| in the making Of photographic map
Of the heavens. task on which Father
director Of the observatory is still
engaged. When Father DenZa died in
1891, Leo XIII. invited the famous
Paulist astronomer, Father Searle. Of
ican Observatory: lie accented, bur
changed his mind, at the instance of
his American friends and admirers and
the Spanish Augustinian Father Rod
rigucz took his place, and held it. until
lie was recalled TO the observatory Of
the Escurial In 1906, when Father
Hagen was appointed. Father Hagen
Is about 10 inauguratc a series of inn
portant astronomical publications: and
Wig orousIy supported by. Cardinal Nam,
Archhishop OF Pisa and president of
the Vatican observatory, occupies the
place filled in 5$3 ny The German
astronomer Widmanstadt. whose lee
tiira, given i'll the Vatican garden
before Pope Clement Viii. surrounded
by Il brilliant gathering of cardinals
and prela ties. on the helocentric sys-
TEN. and on tho movement of the earth
around the sun, still figures verbatim
in the Vatican records, and antedatcd
| by just 90 years the trial OF Calico
Father John IIagan is a man of
siXty-four, was born as an Austrian,
at Bregenz was educated at Bonn
Munster, and at Ditton Hall. In Eng
| land and came in $50 to America
whore he remained until summoned by
Plus y, TO take charge of the Vatican
observatores, that Is to say, for a
period of more Than quarter OF !;
century. so that he is to all intents
and purposes an American.
| Copyright, 1911 by the Brentwood
Company.)