New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-06-15
TUr UrlrHER or THE Future.

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ccrooon, Dunn Of our local weather bureau,
,i,,cs il as his opinion that the climate of this
vicinity is gradually changing. and that the
weather for the next ten years, say. VIII diilcr
considerably from that for the last ten. His
G,ures show that the winters are slowly hut
surely growing warmer, and. 70 Use popular
illustration. that the man with the three hundred
dollar fur ovcrcoat will soon find himself fiat on
his back his garment done up in camphor and
the thermometer at eighty IN January. The
sergeant sugcly suggests in his private capacity
tina, this man would do well 10 work of hi,
costly oyrrcoat on u friend. and invest in lawn
tennis suits and high white hats.
Naturally if our old weather Is gone and some
new weather has crcpt IN on Us, people will de
,nand an explanation Sergeant Dunn is ready
with fine desired article. He fnds the reason for
fine change in irrigation in the far Wcst-n the
irritation Of the land with water. the sergeant
basicns to explain rather than IN the irrigation
Of fine marched throatS Of the natives with sod-cou
yhisJcv This irrigation in Colorado and
Wvolnine and parts Of Kansas and Nebraska causes
81 wet streak in the atmosphere rs il were, through
c,ouora,ion and a storm coming along in the
uoishborhood naturally drops into il; for u
storm. according 10 the sergeant, dearly loves 10
travel through wet streak. The dampncSs
mbiicatcs It's passage. Now the point is that
when these Western storms pass through this
area of wet irrigation bitches they are caromcd
of I'm q norihwcst"rly direction. ana pass 10 the
coast through tie Queens Dominions. and never
once touch Ncw-YorS Furihcr-and this is really
the great point after Nll-whilc these storms are
tearing along mp north of MS they cause scarcity
81 5ir-an area OF low barometer the sergeant
NUTS it-and the air To the south rnshcS up in
Il
Formerly. when the storms, or many of them,
rosSed of south Of us the air came down from
fine north and gave ms cold north winds This
Il fine whole idea, So simple that the man who
selects the reading matter for the NcwYorI theatre
nrocrammrs might possibly be able to grasp it,
Hut what of the practical benefits of the ser
ocent's ideas? the reader may ask They would
COON 70 be inany We cannot see why. with the
aid Of a small National or State appropriation,
s,ornis may not he cNtcrminacd. Take a region
where storms are wont 10 orginatc-a sort of
brceding-ground for disturbances i'm the weather.
ike Dakota, for instance. Let two long irrlga-
zion bitches be constructed in the form OF II
capial letter V, with the opening toward the
southwest from which direction, If our mcteoro-
logic knowledge he not nj fault, the storms in
that region usually come Just before the bitches
came together they would round out and make
4 small circular enclosure. A Storm young and
ambitious, comes hurrying along headed straight
for Ncw-York All at once it strikes obliqucly
against the damp streak one of the irrigation
bitches and BEGINS following il. If it gets suspl-
cious and crosses over To the other side IL runs into
the other damp streak 4 storm can't turn back.
II it hesitates it is lost II can only keep on
going down between the gradually converging
wet strcaks. Till in an hour or so it Is safely