The morning times., 1895-07-04
Prof. Willis |. MnOre Selected to
Succeed Harrington.
HAS FAME AS A F0RECASTER
Proba biIity Thatthe Former weather
Bureau Chiefs Removal and Some
Congressional nvestigations-In-
teresting Correspondence.

The removal by President Cleveland of
Mark w. Harrington from the head of the
Weather Bureau, and the recent changes in
the coast survey taken in connection with the
retention of Recorder C. H. j Taylor in
the face of the denunciations of the civil
service commission are sure TO come before
the next House of Representatives in an in
vestigation intended TO light upon the
course of President Cleveland and the Demo-
cratic party as civil service reforners.
AT that time the correspondence between
DR.. Harrington and Secretary Morton, which
resulted in his removal is ex pected TO become
public and 10 make very entertaining read
ing.
PROF. MOORE THE MAN
Prof. Willis l.. Moore, for more than a
year In charge of the Weather Bureau
office at Chicago, is the man selected as
the new chief of the bureau. He was
educated at the Signal Service school at
Fort Myer, and ranked second III a grad
uatiDg ella IS of thirty. He was then
twenty-oDe years old.
He entered the Signal Service work at
once, aud has remained in it ever since,
i'll all twenty years. He was promoted TO
be sergeant in 1886 for devising new,
economical, expeditions mechanical meth
DDS OF issuing daily weather forecasts aud
maps" Later he took charge Of the
Minneapolis office, and then was transferred
TO Milwaukee, where he won special men-
tion from Secretary Rusk
Last year in a competitive examination
for professor OF meteorolOgy he was
chosen from thirty scieutific experts
and foreca sters who were ca pdidates
The examination was under civil service
rules, and the Dames OF candidates We're
not known till the award was made. The
examining boa rd was DR.. Harrington, DR..
Mendenhall, then in the Coast Survey, and
Major Dunwoody, OF the Weather Bureau.
PROFESSOR OF METEOROLOGY
Upon that success he was appointed pro-
fessor of meteorology, and soon after was
placed In charge at Chicago During the
severe winter he ordered 130 cold wave
signals with the phenomenal result that l5
were verified. He predicted the freeze in
December that ruined the Florida orange
crop. He displayed signals for thirty Sc
we're storms ia February and March, and
twenty were verified. He hasse
times been especially commended by DR..
Harrington.
Prof Moore has always been a RepUb-
lican, and his appointment is claimed to have
no relation TO politics. Secretary Morton
had expected TO appoint Mai. DunwOody,
whose rank as a foreCaster does not nearly
| equal T rOf. MoOre's, but at the last moment
| Attorney General Harmon gave it as his
| opinion that the appointment would not be
| legal.
| Prof. Moore has been in the city, but is
now away. He has been notified OF his
! selection and has practically accepted.
! His commission has beenFent to Gray Gables
and is expected here to-day. In the mean
| time Chief Clerk James X. Cook is in charge
OF the bureau.
II. j. Cox, now forecast official at Chi
! cago, is expected to succeed Prof. Moore
| there, although Edward b. Garnott and
! W. H. Hammon, OF the office here, are
spoken of for the place.