The age-herald., 1900-10-07
WIND AT EIGHTY
 MILES AN HOUR
From the Chicago Record.

From the Chicago Record.
 On September 8, 1900 10:30 D. m, the wind at Galveston blew from south with s110 miles an hour velocity" after having been from the northeast up to then. It then kept blowing northward until on September Il, ?. m., at Chicago it blew with eighty four miles an hour" The distance is in air line 1900 miles from Galveston to Chicago. The wind was blowing almost directly from there. It was cyclone, with '110 miles" at Galveston, with ninety miles al Houston" with eighty miles, in Oklahoma, with seventy niles through Kansas, Missouri eighty miles" through Iowa. "eighty-four miles, in Chicago, etc., certainly an aver age of eighty miles, CD. What does eigh- ty-four miles velocity an hour mean? It means the distance travelled per hour if the rate were to be always the same. Now from Galveston to Chicago 1t blew con- stantly. The wind traveled, first hour, Gal weston to Houston; second hour, Houston to Fort Worth; third hour, Fort Worth to Fl Reno; sixteenth hour, arrived in Chi cago CD
 If the wind had any such velocity as measured" 1t would have been in Chicago sixteen hours after 1t left Galveston, be- cause at eighty miles per hour 1t makes 1900 miles in sixteen hours. But it required two days and seventeen hours, or sixty-five hours. Its average velocity was therefore exactly twenty miles! And that is about what the average wind in Chicago was on September Il. Its maximum burst for about one-fourth minute observed at thir- ty miles.
 The grandiose, big liar always gets a more ready audience than the plain truth teller If I catch ten pounds of fish (say perch) made up of sixty little two and U half ounce whelps, feel little pride in tell ing, but everybody will listen to my story of a 10O0-pound sinner towing a whaleback from which I was fishing, along with my fish line.
 How could one measure the wind veloci- ty accurately? Thus: A tall building 210 feet long, built north-south, has a still taller chimney at the south end. Wreaths of nice Schubertian black smoke came out. The wind from the south drifted them along the peak and the curls could be timed and followed quite well.
 l timed the following instances among many) at height of Tuesdays storm: One curl, six and one-half seconds to travel 21D feet; one curl, four and three -fourths sec onds to travel 210 feet; fastest curl four and one-half seconds to travel 210 feet; average steady blow, seven seconds to travel 210 feet.
 Now, if the wind takes four and one half seconds to travel 210 feet it means forty-six feet per second, or forty-six times 3oV0 feet per hour-Aquals f65 500 feet A mile is 52S0 feet; 600 feet are therefore equal to thirty-one and four-tenths miles per hour, result which is absolutely cor rect because not 1ncumbered by any ap- paratus. The building and chimney are about 120 to 140 feet high, no obstruction in any direction. I am therefore sure that at no time, even for four and one-half seconds did the wind velocity exceed in this vicinity thirty-one and one-half miles per hour during the maximum blow Tues day. September H. 1900, at p. m., only one-half mile from Auditorium The gov ernment's wind gauges are pretty toys, ut terly worthless for real truth, and all built to foster the popular mania for grandose things. From this I even conclude that there was never a hurricane or cyclone in which the speed exceeded sixty-fve to seventy miles per hour.
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 There are dozens of other data which prove that no city can exist in a region where there ever occurs even a fffty-two smile per hour hurricane. The wind pressure of wind with certain speed per hour against the sides of buildings, windows, steeples, trees, is, according to unques-