New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-10
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
PROFESSOR WIGGINs AGAIN.
STORMS PREDICTED AND @OLD PROB" De
NOUNCED.
A MONKEY AND PARROT TIME" FOR SEPTEMBER
10, 1887.


A MONKEY AND PARROT TIME" FOR SEPTEMBER
10, 1897
TO theEdttOr Of The Tribune
SIR: The present system Of meteorology, as
have frequently is erected on false prlhc
Piles and is therefore failure No signal bureau mas ever
yet foretold hour in advance great OF dangerous
STORM or all the destructive cyclones when nave oo-
CURED during the last two years In the United 7''e'
neither the bureau at Washington nor that at Toronto
gave warning OF a single And why ' Because the
depression of the barometer cannot take place t tne
storm IS present Ali great storms are caused by paue
attraction operating in wedefned curves anu tue
planetary force which increases the weight Oh te
earths atmosphere also increases the weight Oh every
thing the earhs surface among these the mercury IN
the glass that the aerial and mercural columns con-
tinue to balance each other. Captain Adams OF the
steamship Arctic who out Newfoundland IN the
great storm OF March 8 last. says;
was In the ice when the storm-the greatest ever
sawmpassea oyer my snip hi nGt Of ifs an
proach till the storm upon us.
Captain Pike, OF the barkenne Flora who was AT tno
same moment 500 miles further south, says;
No vessel could possibly round in 1t and 1--we F0r
hours had been watching the barometer lot NlgElhss
Storm but strange 10 say IL gave no warning OF M dp
proach aud even during the gale underwent an ihcon
siderable decline.
Accordingly the storm signals not shown at Hall
fax till the storm the American coast 90 OF the
storm OF February 29 1888 which predicted; so OF the
destructive tempest March % just past so OF the storm
which I predicted begin Saturday evening last
which caused the Ohio cyclone and at this writing is
general (which said would decrease its force over east
America.
In crtcisng my letter to His Excecncy the President
OF the United States General Hazen said that no sgna
officer any one else could possibly predict storm
fortyeiGht hours advance, and the mere mention OF
this at condemns his burea-supported by the
Nation immense cost-as a useless luxury; for OF
what service announce to vessel-OWnerS danger
tempest few hours after their ships have gone out
to certain the time being too short 10
gain harbOr to clear dangerous coast buO
Notwithstanding his assertion what did the crafty Cen
eral do Seeing Wgginss prediction OF great storm 10
take place on September II, 1Ss2-the storm in which
the Asia with a hundred souls board went down IN
Lake Huron-he Immediately threw out. u ~eet "a a.
rance, signals all along the American coast ana by
this act Ihe:AmercdH Register tells us saved SsOOOOOG
worth Of United States shppug The British astronO-
mcrs ont 10 Kuerguen Island in the Antarctic Sea-
to observe the transit Venus in 1874 found that the
variations OF the barometer bore relation whatever 70
the recurrence Of storms.
have now to announce that have discovered the
periodic OF the great saxeby gale OF October = 1869
the storm which annhlated the forests OF New
England and the Maritime Provinces running their tim
Der interests This period tnd TO ne 4oI u!s 80 VA
70 viii be here september 49, I-S ana VIII DC tue
it, Greatest force will be on the afternoon OF September
20 when the forests the eastern coasts VIII IN az
probability 90 down before H. 1t VIII De accompanied
by eartnqakes and these will with great violence
the middle OF October in California and western LuCpe
Let no fral shermaL's bark then cast Its shadow INTO
the lookngg OF lwhat Horace calls hln the power
mi god of the sea Between that period and the present
the heaviest storms which will occur follows
Septenber 2O-23 1854.
October 2O-22, 1854.
March $50, 1850
September $50, 1856 very heavy.
March 2G-29, 1857
As never paid cent for advertising storms. ana TOT
nv storm predictions received one-the generosity
OF te press being reward for my efforts in the public
interest-I you will be good enough TO Keep thete
storms before and thus save millions or dOars
and many lives I shall not myself refer 70 them am
constantly 10 receipt or letters from persons ~ the
United states offering money, and in some cases large
rewards for reading their future from the planets aud
their destiny from the To these deuded people
have neither time nor inclination to reply other IMAM 10
saw that they yet out OF the superstition and g
no-once NJ the dark ages T. STONE WIGGINs