THE CLARK OBSERVATORY 



By Mars F. Baumgardt. 



A Corner in the Laboratory. 



In the center of his spacious residence grounds upon the Adams 

 street elevation, Mr. W. A. Clark, Jr., has erected an Astronomical 

 Observatory and supplied an equipment which, in many features, 

 are unique in the endowment of star-gazing structures established by 

 private munificence and enterprise. 



The building surmounts the ground 65 feet, and, running around 

 its summit, under the Dome, is a graceful iron platform from which 

 an unobstructed view can be had of this beautiful quarter of Los 

 Angeles and of the great arch of the skies. 



The Observatory is octagonal in shape, constructed of red 

 brick and, rising in two stories, is super-posed by the copper 

 Dome thirteen feet in diameter, easily revolved upon a series of 

 roller bearing wheels. 



Deep below the surface of the ground, lies a great concrete block, 

 twelve feet in thickness, in which is anchored the steel frame which 

 rises to the level of the third floor, through the center of the tower, 

 but entirely isolated and disjoined from the surrounding structure. 

 Upon this stands theBrashear six-inch equatorially mounted telescope 

 with its driving clock. This steel tower within its disconnected 



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