The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-14
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same principle as the rain-makers. In
fact, a cyclone producer always insists
upon his ability to produce rain at a GER
tain time, and a rain-maker declares that
his rainfall will carry wind with it, and
both are correct.
Every summer sees new ''rain-makers"
and new cyclone producers. Though it
is early in the season Weather Bureau
Moore has already received the custom
airy offers of assistance in making
weather"
The rain-maker, and also the cyclonist
work in two ways. One is by firing bombs
from a mortar into the clouds. These
produce a disturbance which, in course of
time, makes rain. Another is by building
a high chimney, out of which smoke pours
mysteriously for days. Before a week has
elapsed there is rain in the neighborhood,
which the rain-makers claim is theirs.
In defense of the chimney theory ex-
perimenters say that the smoke, as it rises
carries with 1t moisture that causes clouds
to form, which, in time, become over
laden and fall, discharging their burden
of water. The bombarding theory is that
the sudden alterations in the upper strata
tend to cool the air and form moisture,
which, in time, becomes released and
water falls. Both are rational" and so
also is the small hot air balloon which is
set free with a fuse attached timed for
certain minute, when the hot air balloon
shall have reached a certain altitude.
This also works, but, as yet, experiment
ers have been few and shy, presumably
from lack of both capital and encourage
ment. IL has been said that those who
want the GOODNESS and rain are too poor
to forward the schemes for obtaining it,
and those who are rich enough to for
ward them are wealthy enough to go
away and escape the unwelcome visitors,
heat and drouth.
There have been experiments conduct
ed along these lines ever since the days
of Plutarch, and none have been turned
into absolute ridicule The government
sent Prof. Dyrenforth to Texas five years
ago to lombard the clouds, which he did
with some success. Two years ago a
man named Walsh set up a shanty in Can
ada during a drought and poured smoke
from his chimney until rain came three
DAYS later. Last summer yankee genius
fired bombs from a tower long enough to
convince a party of New York capitalists
that he could cool and water a country
place IL desired. And not over eighteen
months ago one Prof. Donovan, out of his
own pocket money, stormed a white cloud
In the cearest and dryest of skies with
bombs from an old-style mortar, with the
result that rain fell twelve hours later.
The Oklahoma man claims TO have n
new chemical It is doubtless largely
carbonic acid, with an element of dyna-
mite. Bombs respectively OF the COM
pressed gas and dynamite. fired rapidly
one after another into the clouds, could
not fail to produce an effect upon the at
mosphere, and necessarily upon its heat
and cold.
During the present summer the Cyclone
maker" will experiment as best he can
with his invention, and may bring out
something good that will be OF benefit
His idea is one Of several that. though in
complete. are claiming a great deal OF
public attention One Is the flying ma
! chine; another the submarine boat: a
! third the horseless carriage, still incom-
plete, but now past the stage Of ridcule;
and. finally, the wind and rain maker,
which may this summer achieve a tri-
umph that will lift 1t into the legitimate
Inventions Grant Eldridge.