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Knowing that the time for action had come, Ned sprang into the driver's seat. Collins looked vexed at the movement, but Ned laughed down at him. "I won't hurt your old machine," the boy said. "Get up here, so we can see how it rides." Collins obeyed, first giving Yerkes a significant look which was not lost on the watchful boy.
Yerkes had been too well occupied in exciting gossip with all his many acquaintances in the train and the station to notice. The conductor went along through the train. Yerkes, standing on the inside platform, called to him: "Have you seen Mr. Anderson?" The man shook his head, but another standing by, evidently an official of some kind, looked round and ran up to the car.
The powerful engine underneath the floor instantly responded. The experiment was begun. "I have set it upon a point about a hundred miles north of Tycho, where the Yerkes photographs show a great abundance of the white substance," said Hall. Then we waited. A minute elapsed. A bird, fluttering in the opening above, for a second or two, wrenched our strained nerves. Hall's face turned pale.
A few individuals a Widener, an Elkins, a Yerkes, a Whitney, or some other energetic private individual. One street railroad system, let us say, employs ten thousand men. They struggle to add one dollar per day to their pay. We help them with moral support and publicity, and they succeed. TEN THOUSAND FAMILIES have each ONE DOLLAR a day more to spend, or ten thousand dollars a day in all.
Yerkes and his associates, Widener and Elkins, had made many millions in reconstructing the Chicago lines at prices which represented gross overcharges to the stockholders. For this purpose Yerkes, Widener, and Elkins organized the United States Construction Company and made contracts for installing the new electric systems on the lines which they controlled by lease or stock ownership.
In October, 1892, Mr. Yerkes of Chicago offered an unlimited sum for the provision of the University of that city with a "superlative" telescope. And it happened, fortunately, that a pair of glass discs, nearly 42 inches in diameter, and of perfect quality, were ready at hand.
In Chicago, Charles T. Yerkes controlled mayors and city councils; he even extended his influence into the state government, controlling governors and legislatures. In Philadelphia, Widener and Elkins dominated the City Hall and also became part of the Quay machine of Pennsylvania. Mark Hanna, the most active force in Cleveland railways, was also the political boss of the State.
The making and the mounting of the Yerkes telescope have been assigned to Warner & Swasey, of Cleveland, Ohio, who are recognized as the best telescope builders in America. The great observatory is approaching completion.
Such a thing as a village or even a great single building would be plainly discernible. Professor C.A. Young has recently pointed out the fact that the Yerkes telescope, if it meets expectation, will show on the moon's surface with much distinctness any such object as the Capitol at Washington.
"Whatever is the matter, Yerkes? What is a sink-hole?" Yerkes looked round. "A sink-hole, my lady?" he said slowly "A sink-hole, well, it's as you may say a muskeg." "A what?" "A place where you can't find no bottom, my lady. This one's a vixen, she is! What she's cost the C.P.R.!" he threw up his hands. "And there's no contenting her the more you give her the more she wants.
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