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London, Sept. 25.

THRILL FOR STAR-GAZER

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1934.

HUGE TELESCOPE TESTED

SUCCESS ASSURED BY EXPERIMENT

Corning, N.Y., Oct. 9.

Convinced of the feasibility

The amazing indifference of Londoners to the administration of. their city is one of a thousand facts emphasised among the wealth of constructing cyclopoan eyes of information in "London Statla-through which to view outer ties, 1932-33," which is the thirty-planets of the universe, a group of seventh auch volume published by glass cientists have completed the L.C.C. Though London local plans to build a new mirror for a authorities are responsible for the gigantic telescope.to be placed on yearly disbursement of about mountain top in California, £65,000,000,000, the LC.C. account- Pouring of the liquid glass into ing for about £30,000,000, the vota new heat-resisting mold is being ing at the last four County Council done now. Proof of the prac elections shows that not 36 per tlcability of the achome was ob cent, of London's milliona bothered tained from a "preview" of a 201- to go to the poll. The rapid inch, glass mirror, which was growth of London's traffic problem poured last March and allowed to. la clearly shown. Ita busiest slowly cool in an annealing oven point is Hyde Park, where a count at the Corning Glass Works. The taken by the police on July 11 mirror was almost twice as large last year showed that 81,857 as any now existing for telescopic vehicles passed between 8'a,m: and use, 8 p.m.

The The corresponding figure.

preview, witnessed In 1904 was 29,286. Passenger scientists, showed definitely that traffic in Greater London has the experiment was a success and -reached the enormous figure of the huge "eye," made of specially 8,890 million journeys. (947 million prepared bora-silicate compound, rallway, 1,038 million tramway, had turned out perfect in quality. and 1,905 million omnibus), equal to 472 journeys per year per head of population.

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Officials of the Corning Glass Works decided. however, to cast a new eye, because in the first pour, ing metal contren of several FIRST WASH IN YEARS. ceramic cores in the immense mold Tower Bridge has had a wash became loose from the tremendous this week-the first in her forty thent and floated to the surface. years of active service. During

extensive grinding which would be necessary to provide in- dentations needed to hold the The cores form the indentations mirror in place of the telescope.

Although the metal cores were the past few months workmen have removed, and did not affect the been busy with brush and awab. quality of the mirror, according Some lines on her face, lop, have to the preview, it was decided to been repointed, giving her a toilet our a new reflector because of

the at a price of £3,000. This ia not an "all in" tallet, however, and does not include her steelwork, which is painted every seven years. More fortunate, though, is her lifting machinery. The boilers are overhauled every six months, and the pumping machinery every two weeks. She does not have A holiday these days, though, because she has a dupliente of all machinery necessary for raising her 2,000-ton arms. Her six 14ff. draw bolts (invisible fingers which hold her arms steady for trame) however, are greased and refresh- od with tallow at 2 a.m morning.

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ANTI-SUICIDE, PITS.

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of London'k ground Railway Stations are now fitted with "anti-suicide" pits, and by early next year it is hoped that every station of the Bakerlon, Piccadilly, and Morden and Edgware lines will be similarly equipped. The Central London ine As fitted with a smaller trough, designed for a particular type of rolling stack,gome years: ако The construction of these pits between the ralla is an attempt to deter people from committing

discus throw, 5242 metres,,

suicide by hurling themselves H. Anderson, Swedish policeman, re front of the trains. The pits run

cently set a new world mark for the the entire length of the platforma, and are 18 inches deep and two to threo feet wide. A man falling on a track, if he is not hit by the during the cooling process, which train before he reaches the rails, takes almost a year. ahould be able to lie in safety beneath the wheels without danger

The new cores, or pylons, are so jeonstructed as to prevent their

of being crushed or electrocuted. loosening and thus produce a per- An additional advantage of these new pita is that in case of an ac eident or deliberate fall, the body' can quickly be removed without acrious delay.

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fect mirror without grinding the required indentations, he sald. hastened and temperatures of the Cooling of the first disc

molten glass reduced from 1,800 degrees fahrenheit to 120 degrees to permit the preview,

POLICE WIRELESS.

Scotland Yard is to have a new "What we saw within the an- broadenst station, and every police neater fa proof that now not only car is to be equipped with wire- 200-inch telescopic mirror fa leas. The site of the station assured but that even larger ones may be made successful from the low expansion boro-siliente glass,"

one of the highest points in London, on the top of Denmark 1. It has not yet been an one expert sald.-United Prens. nounced when work on the new transmittern is to begin. When

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the wireless scheme is put into street level. There will be affect the "Yard” will have at

control tower at the entrance

lenst 500 radio-equipped cars- from which all parking arrange more than double the present ments will be directed. A mator- number and it will probably not ist entering will be told to follow be long before all them are able coloured light. As he goes down to transmit as well us receive the spiral shafts this light will messages. Experiments with the guide him to his place. It will iroplane have proved highly suc-guide him out again when he Fasiul. A police observer has returns for his car. In emergency boen able to transmit messages 600 cars could be cleared in less from the air direct to patrol cars than half an hour, and it is likely that Scotland Yard will have its own air arm in the ucar, future,

UNDERGROUND PARKING..

A HANSOM PASSES.

Those who chanced to be going down Knightsbridge one night last. week saw an accident whose like It is understood that plans ar may never be seen again in this practically complete for a vast country-a hansom-cab overturned underground car park and garage at the corner of Wilton Place beneath Leicester-aquaro. Ac- after collision with a motor-car commodation is to be provided for which was overtaking it. It look- between six and seven hundreded as though the cab will never cars. The scheme will cost £150,- nguin bo driven on the streets of 000. The plans have been apLondon, and thereby reducing to proved by officials of the L.C.C. | three the number of cabs which and the Westminster City Council. appear at theatre-closing time in Only techulen difficulties regard- the West End. There is seldom Ing the acquisition of land for the an evening. In which the drivers 'entrances and exits ure noiding up of these cabs do not pick up the scheme. It proposed to use several fares. Mostly they are the whole of the space under | young peonie, who drive in them Leicester-square as well na areas for novelty. On fine

summer In Panton Street and Green Street, evenings they are anapped up very The totul are will be one and a quickly after the theatres, but at third neres. The car park will be two or three o'clock in the morn- In two tiers. The bottom tier will ing they come back to Plesadilly he nearly 40ft underground. Circus and stand in Isolated There will be two high-speed Hifle corners. In the winter they often for conveying motorists to the do not come out at all.

BACK TO THE LAND

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Sweeping the streets dry in Tokyo åfter a delige which followed last month's dienstrous typhoon

landing ground near Leatherhead. When he landed on top of the His hopes were dashed, for where lions' cage wo rushed to the spot he actually landed was in Chess- and saw the llons attempting to ington Zoo, which adjoins his reach him through the top of the objective.

bars. It was not a pleasant sight, The lions had not been fed for but we could do nothing until the FRENCH-CANADIAN the morning, and immediately keeper, Hans Brick, arrived

Mr. Turner landed on their cage the scene. DEPRESSION CURE they jumped upwards and enden "It was fortunate for the man on voured to grab him through the top that the keeper was near; as bara. Vialtors in the Zoo were a matter of fact it was his day off, powerless to help, as Mr. Turner and he was dressing to go to Lon-! could not be reached, and huden for the day. Another five could not get to a place of anfety minutes and he would have been without exposing himself even on his way. No one else would more to the lions.

dare enter the cage.

WOMEN URGED TO FARMS

M. Camillen Houde, the French Canadian Mayor of Montreal, had evolved a five-year plan for the social and economic reconstruction of the Dominion. The plan in- cludes A back-to-the-land move. ment on a national scale, Dominion-wide adoption of Old Age Pensions, a tax of 0 per cent. to all incomes over $1,200, on create

the a fund from which Government would pay 50 per cent. of labour costs to property owners rebuilding or repairing their hold- ings, the elimination of women workers, and their replacement by men, a Federal minimum wage and maximum hour legislation, and a curb on the "financial buccaneers' by a law which would make diree- tors In each corporation civilly and criminally responsible for the acta of the company.

Mayor Houde says he would | convince the women that the only home for themselves and their children lies on the farm, and his #ottlement plan suggeste that groups of 100 people sociologically alike would be taken from the same parish or ward (speaking of Quebec) and sent to a colonisation district. The men would go first, build the houses, and have 10 to 15 per cent of the Innd cleared before being joined by their families. Grants of $500 a year would be made to each family, the cost to be shared equally by the Dominion, the province, and the municipality.

SURPRISE FOR PARACHUTIST

LANDS ON LION'S CAGE

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His parachute cords were

"The keeper at once went in, and

A sign of the times. Youthful football enthusiasts cautioned

against street play.

diffcult to remove, and in fear lest kept the lions at a distance while the should stumble nearer the the parachutist freed himself and

lions he remained perfectly still climbed down. at the highest point of the cage, where the bars were too close to-

"Not for a minute did the lions probably frightened at first when cease their roaring. They were

the man dropped on their cage, and then they were as angry as I

gether to allow the clutching paws A London parachutist had a nar- to penetrate.

TRAINER ENTers cage. row escape from serious injury recently. He jumped from Eventually Hans Brick, the aeroplane over Surrey, landed on lions' trafner, entered the cage have ever seen lions. They were top of a lions enge, and within aand kept the benats in a far cor-heard all over the countryside.". few seconds a lon and lionessner while Mr. Turner disentangled Another eye-witness said: "It were jumping up at him an he himself from his parachute and must have been a terrifying ex- sprawled across the bars above climbed down the side of the cage perience for the parachutist. Tho: them.

by means of a ladder.

lions were leaping high into the The parachutist was Mr. Ben A member of the Zoo staff air and dashing their paws against H. Turner, of Clarence Avenue,snid:-"Several of us thought the the top of the cage. Two women Now Malden, and he was hoping, parachutist was missing the field could not stand the sight, and to be the first person to land by and was coming over the Zoo, and were led away to another part of

airways, we were watching him closely, the grounds." parachute in the now

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