Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-07-12
FORECASTER DUNN RESIGNS
Claims That BE Was Forced to This Action
by Professor Moore.
He Says Moore Has Exceeded His Au-
tholity-Prof. Moore Makes a
Statement.

ForecaSter Dunn of the weather bureau,
stationed at New York has sent the fol-
lowing letter TO Prof. Willis L. Moore, chief
of the weather bureau:
II have the honor to state in reply 20
your telegram of the 9th instant, giving
me the choice of either going to the West
Indies for an indefinite period or taking
charge OF station at Cleveland, Ohio. that L
have no desire to go to the West Indies for
an indefinite period or for any length of
time, as previously stated in my letter of
the LIST instant in reply to your letter of
the 90th ultimo. IN which you directed that
l hold myself in readiness to proceed to
the West Indies in a week or ten days for
en- indefinite period. / quest ion your right
to order me from the United States. At
other stations volunteers were called for,
but TO me you give direct order to go to
the West Indies. or to be relieved from
New York station; and further, you say
that the Secretary of Agriculture directs
that the fact of this detail be not given out
by me for publication.
Questioning your authority to order me
out of the United States, or, as an alterna-
tive, a reduction from New York to the in
ferior station of Cleveland, hereby tender
my resignation as local forecast official OF
the United States Weather Bureau, said
resignation rendered under protest.
Il desire that said resignation take effect
at the earliest date possible.
''E. p. DUNN"
What Mr.. Dunn Says.
To an interviewer in New York yesterday
Mr. Dunn said he had resigned because he
could no longer work under Professor
Moore. He claimed that Professor Moore
had shown himself inimical to him from
the first, and that for year past his posi-
tion had been almost unbearable. He said
Professor Moore had blamed him because
Professor Moore's signed dispatches had
not been used by the New York newspa-
pers, although Mr.. Dunn explained that he
had duly given the newspapers the dis
patches. Finally he had forbidden Mr.
Dunn to give out interviews or write aru-
Giles for magazines or newspapers until they
had first been submitted to Professor
Moore. Mr. Dunn claimed that the plan to
send him to the West Indies was designed
to force him from the service. He said
that except in his case, volunteers were
called for to go to the West Indies. but he
was ordered to go there for AN indefinite
time. He claimed that Professor Moore ex-
ceeded his authority in proposing 10 send
him out of the country, and ne intiuated
that Professor Moore had told him 10 keep
quiet about the order. He assumed, there
fore, that Professor Moore had acted with
cut the knowledge of the Secretary of Agri-
culture.
Dunn's Excellent Record.
Mr.. Dunn was one Of the first employees
OF the weather bureau service, which he
entered in 1873, when the service was
four ded. He made record in 1854, at the
time of the great foods in the Ohio, when
his forecasts and warnings saved great
amount of property. He was formally
thanked by the Cincinnati chamber of COM
merce for this service, and promoted by
Gen. Hazen. For many years he has been
in charge OF the weather station in New
York city. He init oduced weather maps
into the public schools and interested the
public in meteorology. He gained extensive
knowledge of the local weather conditions
of New York.
Mr.. Emery Appointed.
Eben H. Emery of New York, first as
sstant in the New York weather station,
today was appointed Mr.. Dunn's successor
as local forecast official at New York.
The change is operative Immediately, the
new appointee taking charge of the New
York station today. Mr.. Emery is a native
of Athens, Me-, and is thirty-eight years
old He is a graduate of Bates College,
Me. He has been in the weather service
for fourteen years, and has had charge OF
a number of important stations. For four
years he has occupied the post of first as
sistant at New York 1t is a civil service
appointment.
Prof. Moore today refused to discuss the
affair. =,