The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-09-11
A TALK on STORMS.
Dr.. N. W. Harrington Lectures
to the Young Naturaiists.
THE STEAM ENGINE ELEMENT
How the Little Molecules Gather, a.
FOR Tea Party->ci~uce Clothed
In Poetic Gsrb.

An aols and instructive lecture On
Storms vas delivered last night by Or.
Marx u. Harrington. president q tra
University OF Washington. under the aus
psces o. the Young Nstarslssts IN .as1r
nall On he Old university grounds. The
subject - enc when The speaker IS par
tIcalarly well qualified 10 discuss net orly
% account % rs general equipment as a
sclentisS, bat also On account % his long
and faithful service IN meteorological. OBJ
sSrEaloa and research. A newspaper re-
porter cannot 30 justice 70 such a skier
the treat as hat which Tie eager audi
ence LIST alghi enjoy
The speaker vas gracefully introduced
by the president OF the sociery. Mss
Ade-la N. Parker. wAo spoke Of TIE wo~A
done b. he society n keeping alive is o.
ganiz2 Ion for seventeen years ~ d sup
port which came - IL merely from The
love Is members had for sclence and he
pleasure they derived from IL IN thauk-
Ing the audience for Is appreciation O.
the lecture 70 be given sne appropriately
introduced DR.. Harrington as fellow
member, he having sent IN his name fCr
mem cersalp as soon after his arrival n
this city as he learned OF the society and
its work
Dr.. Harrington frs. adverted - the fac.
that ne had already delivered a lecture
q this city on storms but sad that n
~
from the standpoint Of he weather map,
while In ths present lecture ~ would
speak % the s.eam-eng re element II
storms. top.e not perhaps so practical
but better suited the scientific interest
OF his audience.
Beginning his discussion Nth an explain
attot u re-" .ile 1@a- ~ At gets M
the atmosphere. he traced The process of
evaporation from water On The ear;h's
surface. whether from c~en bodies OF
wafer or from SOL or from vegs.a Ion, ore
Itlss alolecals from Lake Washington, an
other from g ar tree or from a piece of
bowed ground passing into the arr and
a. dispensing themselves II obedience -
molecular avs. Then he traced the pro
cess OF condensation. ard his. and indeed
al his scientific sta-eTnents. while made
with sufficient accuracy were d4llghTfury
free from he drv-as-9ust technique o. ina
laboratory and the lecture room The
lecturer spoke WITH AZ evident uas:s-y OF
has Theme. but Win ar easy tGlE4l arlfy
that male one think OF Holmes az. phrase
about sseArAs Vision clad in d-eAlg
gown and Science Il slippers" Describing
the forna ION N a ra-ndrop, he pictured
the a.sle molecules OF moisture aS s-agh-
er.rg ror tea party. drawn together By
some Enaccoun-ab.e impulse, or cogntng
Il response % al invitation. and has apt
poetic agure came Ike fash Of Light
from bT -gat pasture II a boys book Of
science. he tod hon these drops faI;
slowly. because Small and surrounded by
ii Am or Jacket Of ar. sometimes ot-y al
inch day. but SUI IA.
Gaeu ne t4rneG 70 the phenomenon Of
air n motion. and ter an hogr ,ne faces Or
his hearers we're lighted with eager tn
ieFes, as he tod of the mysteries OF tbs
tan I.t4ous motion. me eddy and the vo--
tex The latter he illustrated by smoke
rings, whether from a cigar or the smoke
stack q locomotive. and he told OF some
remarkable results obtained with smoke
rings n the laboratory by which 1t had
orea shown that, presuppoSing a medium
without friction. sach rings are in4sstruc-
tlose. ,2at TWO suca worthless linked toge Il
er wll not separate. thus limiting al tha
sflnlt!es OF chemical molecules, that Two
such Yortices repsl one another. and hat
ous O.. them may be repealed. driven or
guided by the motion OF a human hand
In discussing the storm as a vortex. ne
began with the simplest possible form.
At.ie dase Ehlri, seen SO often on a sum
me- road, and wiIh simple blackboard Il
lustrations illustrated the formation and
direction Il ar currents n the whiyl-
w.nd. the larger sand whri OF
the desert. and the formation OF
storm clo.ds q: The summit OF invisible
columns az air, re Invisible columns,
however. beng formed IN precisely the
same manner as the visible columns OF
d1s; ard sand. Some % his personal o.
ssrvations related at this point were par
&c Ilsrly interesting
The formation OF these columns by as
pi-atlon gave the key - RS explanation
% boIh the local thunder storm ard the
larger an, more general Storm. IN ihe
thunder storm he traced re suns Tavs
heating ne lower strata ot ar, which then
rosa - he level whore condensation be-
gan srf tod o. a cloud whlca he had
as f1t- 49,
Arbor. form 20 regularly thAs "A watch
csuis almost - So hv g." The heat -
thA day was pe-capEblx The cause o, u.
ard RE speaker fe}f sure nat While TO
ascending column couS - seer above the
Nt.1e pol s'Ti II ~ ccn6 have crossed
che space between AXE sne cloud - would
have feat the current going Up The cloud
vosI, f0--7 towards noon ant disappear
v3th sunset
'rnrz sep - st4p hr traced TIE forrua-
ton % he more general storm. which de-
-svpa = forces a1S elements from 40 large
an ar@a that q 6li ro- cease with sunset.
hus endured through days ans 7lEats and
suc-t aver thousands - miles. HIS *
rla-Atlon ~ Ire motion OF .he air cel-
tr~ns. ard - the rotary uot53n q cv-
clones was ssr-nle ard cor1pietS. Nlus-
f-~tssi s-e~}~ Aere ard -fer@ attn rapid
ta~Nes q chalk IN Ere BLACKBOARD wairh
os.-fEr', 30 repr ,,sucss Il printed cAaff 9.
because .nev wee n escH instance .tnke1
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