The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-11-12
FOSTERS FORECASTS.
NOVEMBER IS TO Be A EoETH gf
MANY FLEECE STORES
NJ. Foster Gives Sane More Ideas At'ut IL
Theory Of Ecrecastiag Storms, M're
Especially Ur.a tie Relation q
Electricity and Vacuum.

Paci fic coast 2 bout the 18th, cross the
central basin from The 18th to the l4:hr
ana reach the Atlantic coast about the
18th. Il will DC ferce storm when
il strikes the Pacific coast, and Will
continue to be so Until it has passed
the Mississippi rive. After the l3ih
il wiz decrease in fcrce and will not
he q severe storm on the Atlantic
coast The tides on that coast, how
ever, will be quite high about the
18th.
The center Of this storm wave will
not reach the Gulf states, but will
cause some rainfall there, and the
weather following it will not be very
cold TO- the time Of year, but cool
wave will follow it, crossing the conti-
nent from the 10th to the 18th.
All tie storms Of November were
calculated to be Of greater force than
usual, and this storm l.ave only Of
little less force than the greatest OF
the month, especially in the West.
ELECTRICITY AND THE VACUUM.
Readers OF these letters should fully
understand that they contain nothing
that does not have direct bearing
OF the ques. ion OF fOrekuOWledg OF
the weather. | am trying 10 get be.
L.. HA N
which TO build science Of meteor
OOgy, believing that orthodox scien-
fists have produced nothing that is
worthy Of being called d science Of
ueteurOlOgy. he weather bureau Of
the United States does not predict9ny
more than we predict when railroad
train Will arrive, merely estimating
how fast q storm center will move and
where it will 60 after they know
where it is and the conditions sur
rounding it. TO forecast the weather
we must know the causes Of weather
changes, and as 1 believe that cleo
tricity is tie immediate cause, am
discussing in these letters the nature
OF electricity.
Every part of them must agree with
every other part Of it, and readers Of
I' n,' 49, ,.i.'in,r bat,yoo, thn nn.i
stons of the planets. the nature Of
electricity and the changes Of the
weather.
Dir. Henry Raymond Rogers IS an
''Dt H t'i' 80 roo% hos'"o tLn G1aI,,
t',iI, LIS papT+, ~ N,nI.ini. IT,
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10 go ,yan tn the nnint tbet 7 onorG
from il. He saws.
"Thc best eXperimenters in cleo
tricitv are RAPIDLY coming to the con-
clusi0n that Vacuum is the most favor.
able condition for electrical transmits
sion. Indeed the foremost electricians
of the present day, like Edlund Of the
ROYAL Society at stockholm, Sweden,
and our own Edison, have declared
such to be the certain results of their
experiments. Mr.. Crooks OF the
Royal Society, London, has pub
lished striking experiments showing
the action of electricity in vacuum,
some of which confirm the conclusion
of Edlund and Edison. DR.. p. II.
Van der Welde, in a paper recently
read before the New YORK Electrical
society, describes experiments leading
to the same results. He details an
experiment which was contrived, con-
siStiDg of strong glass tune, two or
three inches in diameter and three or
more feet long, provided with brass
taps at each end, which could be con-
venieDly attached to an air pump and
exhausted. He tells US that as the
exhaustion proceeded the rarllled ar
in the tube became conductor Of
and this condUctIvIty APP
peared to improve i'll proportion as the
air was more exhausted.
GA legitimate inference from these
eXperments-thOugh one strangely
ignored by this WRITER'S that bad
the exhaustion been made complete
the perfection of electrical transmits.
sion would have been reached. In
other words it does not appear that
either tenuous air or vacuum is a con-
duct0r of electricity but that the trans
Of the electric current is in
to the rarlilcd condition OF
the air or it's total absence. Absolute
can neither aid or impede
the progress of the electrical current.
"From the abundant evidence which
,,,o no,U poccnce il is not too much TO