Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-19
FOSTERS WEATHER.
High Tides on All Our Coasts
Late This Month.
OUR NEXT STORM ON THE "a.
Mistakes of the Orthodox Scientists.
a Proctor and His Theories-Mr. FOs-
ter Tells Something of His
Personal History.
lcopvrtgbted. 1892. by ". n Foster.1

Copyrighted, 1892. by ". II Foster.l
ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, March 1S-AIy last let
ter gave forecasts of the storm wave due
to cross the continent from the 10th to the
I'D and the cool wave from the 18th to the
29d. The next storm wave will be due to
reach the Pacific coast about the 22d, cross
the Western mountains by the close of the
23d, the great central valley from the oath
TO the Goth aud the Eastern states the 9th
or 2Sth.
This storm viii be very dangerous on the
coast of the Northeastern states on 9Th
and 2Sth, and if it should not reach the
coast till late on the 2Sth the highest tides
that have been known for years may be
Respected. The tides will be very high on
all our coasts on 2Sth, but if this severe
storm shall have passed out onto the At
lantic on that day the northeast winds will
materially lessen the tides on the coast of
Maine and Newfoundland. Keep of the
oceans and lakes about that time.
The fishermen about New Foundland
/. wo uld better take day or two of about
that time and remain away from,the waters,
and along the coasts of the Bay of Fundy
preparations should be made for destructive
tides and storms on the 27th and 2Sth.
That dangerous storm wave will probably
continue on the routes of the passenger
steamers between New York and Europe
from the 28th to April I'd, and those who
do not desire rough passage should select
some other time.
At the same time, not far from the 2Sth,
"a dangerous storm viii be developing on
the Pacihc slope. The Pacific coast storms
are not usually very severe, and this one
will not be of such great force as will that
on the Atlantic coast.
There are two other storm waves moving
around the earth in these ATTITUDES, one of
which will probably be not far from the
81 A.,
ElectrO-planetary meteorolOgy indicates I'M
usual disturbances all around the earth
whtrever these four storm waves may be
from 9th to Goth.
1sChe last storm wave of March will reach
the Pacific coast about the 2Sth, cross the
Western mountains by the close of
the goth, the great central val
leys from the Goth to April l and
the Eastern states April or 3. This storm
will be at its greatest force about the 2Sth,
and will decrease in energy as it moves
eastward.
Cool waves will cross the Western
mountains about the 25th and 31st, the great
central valleys about the 9th and April 2
and the Eastern states about the 29th and
April f. A blizzard is expected on the
northern lakes the 9th or 2Sth. This
storm will also affect the weather of the
Southern states with probability OF tor
nadoes.
The disturbing influences have been so
great this year that the storms from the
tropics have moved up on to the continent,
and as 1 am not yet able to calculate these
tropical storms they have, in two or three
cases, knocked my forecasts out. l hope
that my readers will be charitable, how
ever, for am determined to conquer these
tropical storms, or their records, so as to
be able TO forecast them also.
MISTAKES OF ORTHODOX SCIENTISTS.
Among recent astronomers Professor R.
A Proctor was, in the United States, the
most widely known critic. He spent his
life in discussing and criticising the theo-
ries and discoveries of others, and in adj
vancing his own peculiar theories. He was
a forcible writer and most of his work has
been well received, while a part of it has
been severely criticised. One of his hob
bieS was that the heat and light OF the sun
is kept up by meteors falling into 1t, but
this has generally been discredlted. 1t
would have no foundation left if the cleo
trio theory should be accepted, and there
fore his friends are doing all they can to
check the growing belief that electricity is
the cause of heat and motion.
IN his discussions of other worlds than
ours Professor Proctor dwells long on the
Of Mercury, basing his argu-
ments on the superstition that Mercury re-
VolVed on its axis In about twenty-four
hours, making the days and nights of that
orb about equal to those Of the earth. But
recently 1t has been discovered that Mer-
curry revolves only once in about eighty
eight of our days. Therefore, its days of !
sunshine would equal about forty-four of |
ours and its nights would be of equal |
length. This would cause heat sufficient to |
boil water, and would so change the condi- |
tons of the weather on Mercury as to |
make it impossible for animal life to exist |
Professor Proctor's long argu- |
ment on that subject is left without a |
and this failure suggests that |
be may have been mistaken also in his op- |
position to electro-planetary meteorology.
When Professor Proctor criticised the |
theory that the planets influence our |
weather, he did so without any knowledge |
Of what the theory is. He appeared to en- |
terrain the common English idea that no |
valuable scientific discovery could be made |
by the Western people who inhabit the |
valley, and therefore he never |
himself on this subject But he |
made mistake either in opposing the |
theory or in admitting il basic principles,
md this propose to prove by quotations |
from his writings.
Electro-plGnetary meteorologists hold |
hat electricity and magnetism are the
same. but under different conditions; that |
hese elements affect the earth, its atmos-
1here and its weather through one process,
while gravity affects them through another, |
Ind that gravity is an effect of electricity |
Ind magnetism. In effect Professor Proc
or has admitted these facts, which 1 will |
proceed to prove,