Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-04-30
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
FUNDS BgooM1Na EXHAUSTED.

Like a great many other funds at the pres.
emit time, the Signal Service Fund is almost
exhausted, and the Chief Signal Officer has
Informed each Signal Service observer on the
Pacific slope that on and after May LIST there
will be no weather reports telesraphed from
their stations to the Chief Signal Officer at
Washington, d. c., and mono will be received
at any of the stations. The table of the con.
dition of the weather along the Pacific coast
which has been so long published at the head
of the RECORD UNIONS local column, will
necessarily be discontinued in its present form
after May Isl, but the local observations, five
in number, will be published in tsbulated
form, the same as the form now in use, with
the exception that where the name of each
Signal Service station now appears there will
Re the hour local tiIne) at which each OBJ
servation will be taken, viz 400 A. M, SOP
A. NJ, 1902 P. M, 400 P. NJ. and SOP P. NJ,
and the daily mean Of the barometer, Their
mometer and relative humidity, along with
the maximum and minimum temperatures and
the hight OF the river, with the change in "a
hours, which will give more local information
of the chaugesin the meteorological conditions
during every four hours from A. N. TO s P.
NJ of each day. 1t is matter of regret that
the Chief Signal Officer has found it necessary
to make this change in the weather reports,
and il is hoped that it will not be long before
it will be resumed. The reports that were
receivedfrom Salt Lake, Denver, North Platte
and Omaha daily at noon for the use of Sac
ramento wholesale merchants who ship per-
ishsbIe merchandise to the East, will be
missed very much by them, for the season is
now coming when these daily reports of the
temperature, direction of the wind and state
of the weather is of considerable value to
produce and fruit shippers. Sergeant Bar
wick states that the time of resumption of
telegraphing his local weather reports to Wash
ington is not known, but he is authorized to
"a. -.saue taking his daily observations as
usual and forwarding each days observation
to the Chief Signal Office at Washington on
the following day by mail Tie economical
measure to be put In force on and after May
1st is owing to the small amount of appro-
pristion st the command Of the Chief Signal
Officer. The pay OF themen of the Signal Corps
has nothing to do with the present reduction Of
expenses, for this comes from the army APP
preparation, and the Chief Signal Officer is
allowed only certain number of men, that
number being 500. A station is therefore
run as economically with two men on is as
one, and IN fact station expenses are 81 less
with two men than il is with but one. Con-
gress, at each session, makes appropriations
for the rent Of offices az stations, the fur
nishing of instruments, the paying of the
telegraph company for the weather re-
ports and for special messages and
all expenses of the Signal Service
excepting the pay Of the men. The Com.
mites on Military Affairs during the last
session of Congress approved bill for the
continuance of the appropriation.for the Sig
nal Service, and not TO reduces and cripple it.
The committee further said that "public coz
fdence in those reports and in the weather
forecasts hss continually increased, and their
character has improved yearly, until at pres-
ent there are few, if any, classes Of industry
which do not receive large benefit from them.
Statistics show that the storm warnings given
on the lakes result in a saving to commerce of
nearly 81, 000 000 each year. The committee
believe that this service ia now Indispensable
to the public, and that it should be continued
and improved as further observation and
experience may suggest.
During the floods in the Ohio this last win
ter the Cincinnati Daily News said that over
$1,000 600 worth of goods were saved in that
city by the warnings given by the Signal Ser.
vice department; each rise in the river was
foretold from twelve TO twenty. four hours in
advance, and the merchants promptly noti-
fed, thus enabling them TO remove to place
of safety. So highly pleased and gratifed
were bLl6 LSIC1aQbS directly Interested GnBJ
they rendered their heartfelt thanks to the
Sergeant in charge for his prompsness
in furnishing them with the bulletin
announcing the approaching rise in the
river, which took place every time il
was predicted by the Chief Signal Officer.
The yearly cost of the Signal Service, in
round numbers, is 100000. Ii that much
alone is saved each year to commerce on the
lakes, and If daring the food one million was
IN,
more in al the other cities south and west of
Cincinnati, then the economical fever that
struck Congressman in cutting down the Sig
nal Service appropriation is, by the above
quotations from the Military COMMITTEES and
the NeicS of Cincinnati, rather bad stroke,
for it causes the people all over the Union to
be affected by the imperfect working of the
Signal Service, owisg to lack of few paltry
thousands.
METROPOLITAN THEATER. = This evening
the Sacramento public will have an opportu-
nifty to witness the presentation Of Barley
Campbslps comedy, Friend and Foe." as
rendered by William J. scsnlan and the COM
pany appearing IS his support. Mr.. Scan
Ian has received much commendAtion from
the press, and is Of the J. K. Emmett class.
The plot of tue play. in brief, is as follows
An freshman in France, at the time CT the
Francc-P ruseian war, is in the family of
music-loving Frenchman, who loves him az q
SOB, and the Irish hero falls in love with the
daughter of his French benefactor. An un.
scrupulous French landowner desires the
love of the girl, aud threatens to turn the
family ous ct the house. just at that time
war is declared and the villain Is conscripted
He offers 10, 600 francs for o substitute, and,
to save tbs family, the Irish hero accepts it
nd ~. fkaf Ia io ed 49, H.
Germans as a spy and sentenced to be shot !;
but his French sweetheart assists him TO es-
cape from prison, and finally sill ends well,
with the prospective wedding of the two. The
same piece will be repeated tomorrow even
ing, which closes the engagement.
DIED FROM INJURIEs.-Sa.urday after
noon man named Ed. Moriarity fell from 3
pile-driver while az work on the railroad near
Nspa, and broke several ribs and sustained
severe internal injuries. He was brought to
this city on the overland train in the evening
and removed TO wagon to be taken to the
Railroad Hospital, but died before arriving
there, and the body was brought back to the
Coroner's Office. The deceased was single
man, about IS years Of age. His sister re-
sides near Woodland, and will arrive here
this morning. The Coroner will hold an in
It st 10 A. II. today.
BAsEBALI.-Yesterds the baseball club
from San Francisco known as the Reding.
cons played match game with the Union
aine of .his city. The game took place at
Agricultural Park, and was Witnessed By
over thousand people. A strong wind blow.
ing from the south MAIDS the day bsd one
for the game, snd some very poor playing
was done. Il resulted in a victory for the
Sacramento club by score of Ii to 3, the
Unions not going to the bat the last inning.