The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-09-26

system" said Sergeant Elias B. Dunn
of the New York weather bureau, in
explaining the bearing of the foregoing
facts. 1T is as completely systema
tiaed as the method of the police ip
tracking a fugitive from justice, with
the addition that this criminal cannot
hide his identity, and SO it is impossi-
Tble for him to escape US Knowing
where the storms originate men have
been stationed on some of the islands,
among which they form, and they re-
port to US as soon as they find that a
storm is collecting. These storms are
usually several days in gathering so
that we have ample time to learn
about it. We can tell from out daily
maps whether the conditions are fav-
orable to the progress of a storm along
our own coast. For instance, you see,"
pointing to the daily chart which had
just been made up from the Geographic
reports of all the weather stations, 10.
day there is no high pressure area
along the southern part of the country,
and if d cyclone should out in an an
! pearanee now there would be no bar to
( its progress.
/ FOLLOWING THE DISTURBANCE.
AS soon as the storm appears off
! Key West or wherever it may strike
our coast, all the stations along it's
( probable path are kept constantly in
! formed of its progress. This informa-
/ ton is at once made up and sent out,
/ and reaches every sea captain along
! the Atlantic coast at least "a hours be-
/ fore the storm arrives. The captain can
! either lie 20 and wait for the storm to
| pass by or. If he must put to sea, he
! can go prepared.
''As the storm comes nearer we are
! kept informed almost hourly of it's pro-
( gres5. and our own Instruments begin to
/ tell US whether we are well in its track
or not. In the middle ATTITUDES is where
( the storm recurYes, and when we find
/ how great this recurVe is we can tell
! almost to a certainty what its future
course viii Be- If the cyclone leaves
( the coast off HatteraS say, we at once
/ send out that information, and vessels
will be able to put to sea knowing
! where the storm is and now to
avoid it.
SIGNALS TO MARINERS.
IF the storm continues in its north
ward course we announce that fact ana
as a final precaution to the hundreds Of
vessels in or near the harbor of Greater
New York, we send ont the danger sig
nails by means of Il hashlight lantern
from our tower hundreds Of feet above
4 the harbor. The 1900 candle power of
LIS lantern tpIOWS DSnt JTldJ can he
seen 30 or 30 miles away and we have
found it very useful in warming mari
ners of the ranid approach Of a storm
when they cannot he reached in any
CHER way The shaft of light shot out
from the lantern carries its message to
every sailor on or near the coast, and
may have been the means OF saving
! many lives. can safely say that it is
impossible for one of these storms tc
take us by surprise now Every onl
that has occurred in recent years mas
been faithfully announced well in ad-
vance of it's arrival. BY the way" sale
: Mr. Dunn, laughingly, its fact thai
most people don't appreciate, but it.
) true nevertheless. that it's harder t
/ say tomorrow will befair, and be sur,
, of it, than it is to foretell a storm. Fol
the latter performance we are otter
praised. but the former, which is really
} more difficult. is taken altogether as
[ matter of course. There may be some
thing in that for philosopher, or i
may be due to the fact that people don