The record-union., 1894-10-19
OUR EXCELLENT WEATHER SERVICE
Its Benefit TO the State, and Its
Slight Cost.
Director Barwick Speaks of Some OF
Its Features-Lt Advertfses the
Golden State Well.

81 have just sent off some reports to
| Daniel {. Sullivan of the Department of
Public Works in Chicago" said Director
| Barwick of the State Weather Bureau
yesterday, ''in response to letter asking
for information concerning the cIinlatol-
ogy of California.
''In connection" he remarked, with
the good the California Weather Service
is doing for this State, i'll bringing its eli
mate in statistical form before the people
of the outside world, and whose reports
are frequently called for by letters from
Eastern people, | would like to say some
thing of this service that is doing such a
vast amount of good at so little expense
to This State; and. as economy seems to
be the watchword of the California people
just at present, it will do no harm to
show how cheaply their weather depart
meut is run.
This service, although called State
Weather Service, is so in name only, as it
is really run by the United States De-
partment Of Agriculture Weather Bu-
reau branch), which, through its Director
at sacramento, collects ana taGulates all
the meteorological data that can be gath
cred from people who act as voluntary
| observers, the United States Government
furnishing instruments, TO a certain ex-
tent. Therefore, the only cost of this
State service to California is that of print
Ing the monthly and annual bulletins,
and during tile weekly crop season print
IEg the weekly bulletins.
To show the economy with which the
California Weather Service is run, and
which adyertSes the States climatic
features, q simple omparison with other
States, which appropriate $1,000 20 5000
per year to pay Tor instruments, flags,
printing etc., will be sufficiently con-
VIncing.
california, through its State Agricult-
ural Society, simply stands tho cost of
printing the monthly reports of tile State
service. Our Stnte Agricultural Soci-
ety's efficient Secretary has been for
| years past wide awake i'll fostering the
/ meteorological interests of this State. 1t
needs buL TO be stated that he has taken
/ this branch OF the niteu States Weather
Bureau under the care and assistance of
| the society during the past thirteen
| years. AS the annual reports Of that So
! cety will show, they are Tie only reports
| in the State from which past records OF
! California's climatic features can be
gathered.
Our State service compares very
! favorably with those States whose Legis-
! latures have appropriated annually sums
| ranging from $1,000 to u, 900, while this
! State has com piete meteorological data.
| and in as good shape Tor comparison, as
has the States OF New York Penusyl-
vania, Maryland, Ohio, Michigan Wis
| consin, Oregon, Illinois and others which
| have annual appropriations made and
provided tor such purposes.
''In fact, the California Weather Sery-
! ice. as managed by the State Agricult-
urul Society, is SO satisfactory To the peo-
pie and those whom they elect To make
! their laws that efforts twice made to es-
tablish the California State Weather
Service, by d law enacted Tor that pur-
! pose, failed of passage
TO show that the United States
! Weather bureau Department has not
been remiss in It's duties To California as
! one OF the States OF this Union, il is but
! Just 10 say there has been furnished in
1 slrumeuts Tor observations ranging from
one set 10 Delaware 10 titty-seven 10
Texas, which is the largest Stale in the
| Union, while California has been sup
/ piled with sixty sets OF Instruments to
assist in gathering climatic data of the
! only State IN the Union that can boast of
| perpetual spring and perpetual autumn
! within It's boundaries. owing To the eleva-
! tons above ana the distance from the
! sea.
1.-The people ought therefore to be proud
| of its State W Gather Service, as managed
! by the State Agricultural Society. and OF
| the little expense il entails, as compared
! to the great Deneiit it has done and is still
doing III spreading the history OF the
| Climatic peculiaritles OF this State 10 the
wide, wide world"
An Ample Fund of Pleasure aud Health
u.