Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-18

place. and 1 was amazed that Virgins
should appropriate the prediction to him.
self when l saw an account of it in the
papers"
"Are we to expect blizzard this win
ter?''
81 do not predict that there will be one
as severe as the one in March two years ago,
but we shall have all the wind that we want
before the snow goes off in the spring."
"Will there be any trouble with the ship
ping on the Atlantic this winter ?"
Eyes; there will be more trouble than the
Oldest sailors have any idea of. The waves
will rush upon the coast Of the Atlantic
much higher than they did last winter.
You will hear before spring of several great
disasters on the Atlantic"
LIVELY TIMES TO COME.
"Hcw will ii be in Boston harbor and
that vlcinity?"
''It will be exceedingly rough weather
during the next two or three months. OF
course Boston harbor is comparatively safe,
but take it along the coast and especially ih
New York harbor, there will be lively
times
Are you preparing book for publica-
tion on the weather?'
II have been at work on book of this
character for some years, and hope to have
it published during my lifetime, although
l am getting to be pretty old man. When
the work is published think it will open
the eyes of the people, especially of those
who think that guess at the weather"
Then there is no guesswork on your part,
Mr.. Beebe?"
Not bit of guesswork, My predictions
are all based on scientific principles /
Ennr VII n II oh thar 10
much of a science as anything else. have
been at work as this most fascinating sub
ject SO long that find that men can make
as many discoveries in weather as they can
in any Of the other phenomena of nature,
"Have you not had correspondence with
General Greely about the weather."
eyes, 1 have corresponded with him
somewhat and with his predecessor, but
these men have not learned the principles
of the weather that they should know in
order to stand at the head of the Weather
Bureau"
"Have you not found that they were often
wrong in their predictIons?'
Most certainly. have often smiled to
see what the weather bureau predicted for
the coming "a hours, when knew that the
predictions were all wrong. The men who
have charge of the weather bureau seem to
depend on the lower currents next the
earth, which have nothing to do with
storms These lower currents eddy about
in all sorts of ways, according to the sur
face of the ground and to other conditions.
The middle current, just above this lower
one, in which the clouds move, is the one
which governs the weather, as have said
before"
"what has electricity to do with the
weather."
ELECTRICITY THE PRIMARY CAUSE.
Electricity! Now yeu have struck the
keynote to the whole subject Electricity
has more to do with storms than any other
element in nature. Water, which is heavier
than air, never would ascend were it not
for electricity. The electric currents COM
mand the storms"
do you think the science Of electricity in
nature is we'll understood?'
by no means. There are men who are
getting some little knowledge of the science
at this late day. I have had considerable
correspondence with Edison on this subject,
and 1 am convinced that he knows more
about this phenomena than any other man
in the country"
"What has been the nature Of your cor
responGence with him?"
my correspondence with him has been
not so much on the effect of electricity upon
the weather as sin reference to its other
powers. know that heat and light depend
upon electricity, and I urprised Mr.. Edison
at ona time by writing him that if all the
machinery in the world was run by electric
force it would not reduce che heat one one
thousandth of degree or the light either"
Mr.. Beebe then went into quite a long
discussion in reference to electric currents
as we'll as air currents and showed that he
had made some original investigations, es-
pecially in regard to thunder storms. Mr..
Beebe said that he was one of the first men
in the country to announce that electricity
would burn. When he wrote electricians
that electricity would burn they doubted it.
He replied that he noticed that electricity
from the clouds burned up his fathers barn
mighty quick.
Mr.. Beebe said that it would be warm for
the next few days, and that he should not
disappeared for a time, but it would come
on again before very long.
WELL vERsED IN OTHER SCIENCES.
He said that of Iall the men who had stud
led the weather, LaPlace was the only man
that he knew OF who had made thorou gh-
| lv scientific investigation of the subject. He
was very familiar with LaPlace's works, as
| he is also with those of Huxley, Darwin,
41uuaA4 au0 tuS OtneE STcdt scieuIlstS Ol tne
| world.
No man can talk with Mr.. Beebe an hour
or more without being convinced that he is
a remarkable man, and while he has con-
fined his observations especially to the
weather for the past 30 years, yet he has not
neglected other sciences. It is somewhat
amazing that a man of his intelligence
would be contented on the top of Bear
town Mountain, one of the bleakest and
widest places in Berkshire county or in the
/ whole State, where the snow falls heavily in
winter and the wind blows with great veloc-
ity.
Mr.. Beebe said that he had more letters
than he could answer from people all over
the country, and some from Europe in refer.
ence to the weather. He said that some great
scientist in India, whose name he could moi
remember, had recently written to him, tc
know of his method of predicting the wealth.
er for three or four months at a time How
this man should know of his existence was Q
| great puzzle to him.
False Witnesses.
There are knaves now and then met with who
| represent certain local bitters and poisonous
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