The sun., 1890-01-12
BEE MAY NEVER COME BACK,
Weather Sharps Say this Winter
Mildness is Due to Changed Con-
ditions Away Ont West.
NEW ORLEANS OFFERS TO MAKE ICE FOR US.

Across the SOuntEy ms ShbubOa-
New 60 North of De and Pui Warm
Southern Blanket Up Over Us-SsrGonnt
Dunn says that ArtiheIAi Irrigation in
the Western Arid Lands May havs Gre
atod the New Storm GeAarator Whioh
has Upset tho Old syatem-HIHs the Now
order of ThinEs Como - stayS-The
Hottest Winter Ever Known In the
South-The Ice Supply Everywhere Al
most Exhausted - How Ice ls Mado
Cheapiz and suecensruily In New Orleans
New York has had no zero weather since
February. 1886. The year 1889 averaged
warmer than any twelve months for fourteen
years. Not since the blizzard OF March. 1888.
have we had any genuine winter weather, save
q sudden huke Of the thermometer late In
February OF last year, when the mercury
touched two degrees above zero one night and
then rebounded The absence Of snow has
been even more noticeable. Tho sleigh bells
were silent all through the season Of s-89.
and nobody has had q legitimate excuse for
appearing on runners so far this winter. Rain
fell moro copiously in 1889 than In any previous
year since 1868.
Do these facts!signify any permanent change
in the climate OF New York and the Atlantic
eoastp II is common saying among people
ofmiddle and advanced age that the severity Of
ayerage winter weather has much moderated
during tho past generation. Great snow storms.
they cay, were OF much moro frequent occur
renee thirty and forty years ago than they have
been during recent winters. The blizzard is
the only great storm within popular recoIlec-
ton, and that was really only local phe-
nomenon. coming out Of season and Affect
ing only o limited area around the me-
tropolis. Some people in discussing the
mild conditions which have since prevailed
during the winter months have argued that the
blizzard was great climatic cataclysm which
marked n new era in the meteorological his
tory Of this region. Others Of more scientific
turn Of mind have ascribed the change to an
inshore shifting OF the Gulf Stream. and some
Of them have noses acute enough TO detect
even the indescribable favor in the moist at
mosphere which they say the Gulf Stream
gives to the air of London. Lastly. the PROBES
eional weather shRrps declare emphatically
that the causes OF temperature and humidity
changes age not local or In any way connected
with marine influences. but that they are
located away OF in the foothills Of the Rocky
Mountains. and that-startling to contemplate
they may be permanent
Nobody has right to argue. say all the
scisntists. that because single season or two
seasons may be extremely wet or dry. hot or
A0ld thru n Nlimatf0 Obann0 Ia in
dicated. Natural forces are slow and some
times arratic. but after no matter how extreme
edig ression they almost always come back to
one general average. This rule may be relied
upon as long as thero Is no change In CON-
diions. But permanent local changes In oil
,Matic conditions sometimes have taken place.
and they have been accomplished By artificial
means. If water supply 10 turned into q
desert. nature herself Immediately coopeFates
in maintaining fertility where before was arid
sterility Vegetation induced by artificial
means perpetuates itself by providing
natural rainfall where before were
barren sands which produced no rain
clouds. Such o change in conditions, 1t is
said. 10 rapidly taking place In the extreme
West now storm-generatinR centre has
appeared there. and tho products OF the new
weather laboratory have for several months
been distributed over the country according to
general way that most New York weather
comes from tho interior rather than from the
ocean. Storms and cold waves In winter come
almost invariably from the northwest or south
west via tho Mississippi valley to the Atlantic
coast Formerly these storm centres passed
out to sea within about 200 miles Of Now York
Within few months they have almost invaria-
bly, followed new and extreme noKtherly
course across the Canadian provinces. The
W. haA hnaS 10 Aeaxr
over US moist. warm winds from the southeast
and southwest. and to maintain for months
very high average humidity In the atmosphere.
IL this new order OF things is to continue.
what Will be the effect upon the health and
comfort OF the people The climate that some
say is threatened is something much resem-
bling that OF London. Now. London weather
is something by no means to be desired. We
had typical London Deoember-foR. mist.
rain. furry Of snow. mud. rubbers, mackin-
toshes and umbrellas for about twenty-five
days out OF the thirty-one. But London Is not
an unhealthy town. New York ranks above It,
but the difference can be more truthfuliy as
aribed to greater destitution aud less efficient
sanitary precautions among the London poor
than to any superiority In New York's climate.
But whether there r. any difference or OF be-
tween the two towns as reRarda the eject OF
weather upon health. there Will be no question
in the minds of those who have triod the cii-
mate OF both citjos as to which has the best
air. tho III, at sunshine, and the best general
comfort giving weather.
1t is mistake. 30 all the doctors say, to hold
the weather responsible for the prevailing cpl
demIc OF influenza. The dlstemper RACED with
equal severity all over Europe. where they are
having average winter weather. 1t is true
that some OF tho sequete OF the Influenza have
been more serious because OF the unusual
weather. but the responsibility lies with tho
sufferers and not with the Thermometer. Peo-
plO have not accommodated themselves to the
new conditions. In clothing habits, and
general manner of life everybody is trying to
make tho calendar rules apply to the new con-
ditInna Nobody dhrea 90 back to aprinG and