The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-07-14
WEATHER EYE OPEN
Old Probabilities Means to
Annex the Antilles.
WILL PLACE OBSERVERS
To Catch the Tropical Tor
nadO at its Tricks.

Washington, July 13.-The most radical
improvement in the weather bureau yet
| made will be operated Immediately by <ls
government by the establishment o. O.
| complete system Of weather stations on
Caribbean SEA for the beneff; of ali ma
tons whose interests lie in that region.
Between ten anG twelve new stations will
be organized and corps to insurgate the
new service and tie stations will be dis
pa ,ched to the field in few days. The
following dave been selected for these
iraDortan: posts:
In chsrge-Prcfcssor Park Morrill,, of
,he weather bureau, Washington, and W.
E. Stockman, o: the Cleveland, Ohio. Of
fee.
Local ctnc's!s-Franklin C. Tingley, of
Indiana, John ". Towers of this city;
Thomas Crawford o. Jacksonville. For
ida: Frank a. Davis, of Philadelphia;
Louis Dorman Of Pittsburg and John NJ.
Rykor Of Galveston.
The others have rot yet ben finally Sc
Iectei All are 10 be trained observers and
expert weather sraks and arc to be taken
exclusively from the present srrIcc.
" ME uHCEE tfle general super Hlol u u
Chief Moore Of the wea Their bure&L, .n6re
vi be a central station located prtba-
bly, AZ Kingston, Jcma. ca, but po is:n'y
at either Santiago OF Guantanamo. Cuba,
instead, which will CT institute TIE head
quarters Of Messrs Morrill, and Stockman,
who will be in direct control. There are
three stations now in operation, Havana,
with which weather warnings are now
exchanged every day between the two
countries, surprising as it may seem, and
Kingston and st. Thomas. The location
of the new stations is contemplated to
include Barranquilla, Columbia, St. kits,
Southwest Of st. Thomas), Trinidad, Cur
acao, Martinique, San Domingo and the
Barbedoes. There will be several stations
on the north coast of South America 1t
has ben found that tOrnadoes. which are
especially to be looked for, beginning
around the equator, frequently either cut
over past the Windwards, in either of
which directions the earliest information |
will be secured by the new service and |
rushed ahead with a gain of many hours |
over the relatively slow moving storms, |
whose course of invasion in the next "a
hours could be easily defined in quick |
Geographic warnings. Reports, forecasts |
and warnings will be regularly issued |
from all these stations through the GEN.
trail station to the bureau in Washington |
and thence wired from there generally, |
and vice versa Those in charge of the |
central office, seeing the premoitory SYM
ptoms Of tornado about the Barbados
or Trinidad, in such contingencies will be
to order the observers at the
points involved to send reports at inter-
walls of two hours so for the benefit of
the commercial interests. The object of
this sweeping extension of the weather
system is to gather all regular observa-
tons, to make weather charts of that re-
yion, locate storms and make and spread
forecasts and warnings not for the Uni
ted States alone but all nations in that
quarter Of the globe, the weather author
ties explaining that the service is aim
ID at the future great commerce expec-
I'd TO be built up there. The work will eff
'ect a complete chain Of agencies for
weather intelligence, that embraces the
entire section from Central America east
% the Caribbean Islands and from the
southern coast Of North America to the
forth coast of South America 1t will be
begun at the earliest practical moment.