The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-09-17
TRANSPORT THOMAS.

TRAN SPORI IHOMAS.
The U. S. Army transport Thomas
was scheduled to leave San Francisco
yesterday for Manila. She will in all
probability stop at Honolulu. The fol-
lowing, from the San Francisco Even
ing Bulletin of September 18th. gives
news of the sailing of the transports
and what they will carry, as well as
other news of interest:
THE band, headquarters and Second
Battalion of the Eighth Infantry, Major
Stretch, commanding, from Fort Smell
and are expected here the 10th. The
command consists of "a officers and 522
men, and completes the regiments
which have been hurried through from
Cuba to the Philippines. They will sail
with the battalion of the 9Th, and the
recruits on the Thomas the 10th of this
month
WHERE STORMS COME FROM.
United States storms, according to
Professor Bigelow, have nine average
places of generation. The great MAORI
ty form in Alberta, north of Montana,
and after coming into the United States
travel eastward. A few come in over
the north Pacific. A third group forms
on the northern Rocky Mountain plat
eau. A fourth forms in Colorado, being
born on the very high mountainous
elevations. A fifth forms in the Texas
lowlands, and catching the Gulf winds
and moisture moves eastward. West
Indian hurricanes form the sixth class.
The south Atlantic coast storms make
up the seventh class. Storms which
come in from the Pacific on the south
west form the eighth, and finally a class
of minor storms is generated in our
central valleys. Some of these storms
come across the Pacific from the Asian
coast and after sweeping across the
country, go out over the Atlantic to
Europe, and even to asia again, but
there is no record of a storm having cir
COMMUNICATED the globe. But no matter
where these storms are generated, they
always converge towards New England.
New England, in fact, seems to be the
stormiest spot in the United States. A
record of ten years ending with 1893.
shows 1143 storms, all of which headed
toward, and most of which reached,
New England
The forecaster must consider the
general configuration of the country in
reckoning for cold or hot waves, biz
yards, northers and other manifesto
lions peculiar to certain localities. An
inexperienced prophet might predict
for instance, long record for a pecu-
liar class of Pacific storm, whereas
many of them come in over the sea-
board, whirl violently until they strike
the Rocky mountains, when, in endeav-
oring to climb the divide, they are dried
out and dissipated in the upper air and
are never heard of in the valley be-
yond. Sometimes they break through
and head wildly for New England. But
the forecaster must know of these storm
gateWayS. He must reckon with the
climatic properties of the cold pole" of
temperate America, that peculiar region
surrounding Lake Winnipeg, where the
range of temperature is $50 degrees, the
thermometer rising to 105 degrees In
summer and dropping to As degrees be-
low zero in winter. AS Professor Bige-
low puts 1t, the giants of heat and cold
stagger back and forth across the
country in perpetual contest, and the
forecaster must be a good Judge of the
staying power of each."-Theodore
Walters In Ainslee's.
SATURDAY SHIPPING.
Many Island steamers arrived In mort
Saturday morning. The Kinau was at
her wharf at 1890. in good time to see
the sports. The Ke Au Hou, Mikahala
and James Makee also arrived in good
time. About IL o'clock the Rio de jan
GIRO from the Orient was sighted, and
shortly after noon she was at the Pa
cific Mail wharf.
Having discharged several hundred
tons OF freight for Honolulu the Rio
sailed for San Francisco about 1870 %
m.
The German ship Philadelphia was
towed to sea by the Fearless in the
afternoon. She goes to the Sound.
commodore Beckley and Capt. Clark
on the Kinau looked out for, visitors
ABOARD In the most approved style. The