The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-17
A Signal Station at Havana.

Three severe storms from the West
Indies have swept up the South Atlantic
coasts within two months; another
skirted Florida and "recurved"
out to sea before it reached this locality,
and still another made it's way up into
the gulf states Thus we have had five
severe storms recently, all of which came
from pretty much the same source.
When the disturbances arrived within
the range of the United States signal
service they We're ''picked up" their in
tensity measured, their probable paths
outlined and the people in those paths
warned as quickly as possible to be on
their guard against danger. And the
warning s.. in many instances were of in
calculable benefit But the warn
ings were not sent out long enough in
advance of therstOrms they foretold
That, however, cannot be charged up
against the signal service officials Under
the existing order of things they have no
means of ascertaining the approach of a
West Indian hurricane, except with their
instruments, until the disturbance strikes
the coast of Florida. Then it is too late
to give Florida, Georgia and the Carroll
mas warming in sufficient time to provide
for the safety of life and property. The
Middle and Eastern states may be
notified in time but the Southern sta ties
must take the weather "as it comes" and
hope for better luck next time
Had warnings of the approach of the
hurricane of Aug. 27-2S been received at
the signal office in Washington a few
hours after it began to show extraOrdin-
airy force in the West Indies. the City of
Savannah and dozens of other unfor-
tunate ships, the victims of that blow,
might have been afloat to-day At one
time the government had an arrangement
with noted meteorologist at Havana by
which the warning of the approach of
storms was sent to Washington These
warnings proved timely on a number of
occasions, thus demonstrating the en-
| tire feasibility of securing this informa-
tion where the proper means were re-
sorted to to obtain it. Why cannot the
service be restOredl 1t certainly should
not cost great amount of money to es-
tablish at Havana bureau from which
reliable storm news could be sent to
Washington. But, even if it did cost a
round sum, what is hundreds of thous-
ands of dollars to this great government.
when compared with the thousands of
lives and millions of property destroyed
| by the recent storms
!
| 1t is tradition of the Senate, scru-
Iulously observed, that no senator shall
make more than one speech upon the
! same subject. But there is no raw fbope
| in that. For not one of the long-winded
! silverites has yet concluded his original
speech. Each has merely suspended
| speaking, with a Ito be concluded in our
next" kind of a notification that he would
resume at the first opportunity. Even
| Senator Allen, after his great fourteen and
three-fourths' hour grind remarked
that he would take occasion to conclude
with a few additional remarks at some
| future time. Thus, while nearly every
one of the time-killers has bored the Sen
ate and the country unconscionably, each
is at liberty to get up as often as he re-
members to to drop the ito be continued,
line at the bottom of his grind, and talk as
long as he can think of a word This is
what the English would probably call an.
other bloody example of "bloomin' 80
| courtesy
A new and important industry that has
been added to New Orleans Quota of
manufacturing esta blishments is a plant
for the distillatlon Of alcohol out of syrup
The Ptcayuue says that besides furnish.
ing a market for the surplus syrup crop IL
will add nearly $500 900 year to the gov
] crnments revenues.