The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-04-10

perhaps, to melt all the ice In the Arctic
circle if it could be transported there
and put on ice, so to express 1t. Then
to the north, the frozen north, as every
body likewise knows, is a great deal OF
cold, lots of cold, immeasurable guam
titles of cold, cold to burn, so to speak,
in the expressive slang OF the day.
Meanwhile, betwixt India's coral strands
and sands and Greenland's icy foun-
tains and mountains, is the rest OF the
world, and mostly the civilized part OF
it, including New Jersey and Scituafe.
Now the fact is that while the II OF
tentot of the tropics and the Eskimo OF
the Arctic get along very nicely, despite
the weather extremes, simply because
their weather has been steady for good
many years and they know what to ex-
pect from day to day, and week to week,
we in the civilized temperate zone are
kept in a constant state Of unrest by
reason of frequent and violent changes
Of weather, good, bad and Indifferent,
that require an elaborate and expensive
bureau to take care of and which is a
fruitful cause of worry, business losses,
lack of appetite and is in near or re-
mote way associated with most of our
physical and mental ills, influencing, as
does the weather, every concern OF life,
the commerce Of great nations, and the
Sunday school picnic alike paying trib-
ute TO its vagaries.
Now, evidently. if we could have set
tied weather all the year around it
would be we'll worth settling for. III in
heated and fetid summer We could bring
down a few carloads of Arctic atmos-
phere and distribute it about the neigh
borhood, and thus bring the reeking at
mosphere up to body normal, and IT,
furthermore, in blasty winter we could
fan up breeze from the topics to mel
low things down, such an arrangement
would be exceedingly nic'. And this is
just what the London electrical man pro-
poses to do. Pipe lines and electricity are
the mainstays of his proposition. Every
body knows that oil is pumped from the
oil regions through miles of pipe line to
different distant cities, and why isn't 1t
the simplest thing in the world to con-
struct a pipe line to Greenland, another
to the Equator, put in your blowers,
start up your electricity, and pump air
into the United States to be distributed
from a central station by subsidiary
system of pipe lines all over the country?
The establishment of such weather
controlling system-and as the London
engineer points out its construction
would cost less per mile than railroad
coupled with the success of electrical
devices for starting mp rain storm, will
evidently give us very nearly absolute
control Of the weather, although we
have not heard of any Investigations
looking to the stopping of rain storm
after it is once started, either
by natural or artificial means. or
course the control of the weather as
thus pointed out would have to be left
with some central authority and should
be kept free from politics. 1t would
evidently not do to have the weather
valves too numerous, as, for instance, to
be in the hands of town or even State
governments. The federal administra-
ton should be the sole authority
in control and should regulate
the thing according to pre-
conceived system that should be
| published in the almanacs at the
beginning of the year-so many days Of
clear cool skating and sleighing weather
in January, controlling the annual thaw
| by turning on little of the Arctic
blast at the first symptom thereof; a
gradual and evenly regulated warm
ing-up period through February
AMI March, a period which, we
should say, would demand the
most delicate adjustment and most
skilled handling of the weather machin-
cry; general pervasion of mildness
through April, simply drawing on the
tremendous forces of Nature at the fur
ther ends Of the pipe lines to gently
regulate. not to pervert, the April
conditions, permitting the showers to
flow freely and interfering in no way
with the ripening of the flowers and the
clans. Aud so on from May TO
| December the National Bureau
of Weather Control could give us well
regulated periods of sunshine and
shadow, days of rain to start the crops,
days of heat to ripen and reap them,
and for the rest of the time con-
servative temperature that, like the
mugwump, would be neither hot nor
cold but that, unlike the mugwump,
would be universally accept
able. 1t might be possible
to make arrangements for local
application of the Arctic and tropc