The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-27
The Drift of the Waters.

What Is the cause of the Gulf Stream has always puzzled philosophers and it is quite impossible for one to dilate here on the many theoretical speculations which have been advanced. It need not be pointed out here what is the drift of the Stream. as this is given in all school primers. but in its course 1t describes the path of a traJectory-that Is to say. it de- scribes almost the arc of breat circle.
 As the stream leaves the Gulf and finds its way to the ocean waters it begins to vary in it's condition according to the sea sons, the limit of it's northern edge, as 1t passes the meridian of Cape Race (see any school map) being in winter about latitude NI, and in September, when the sea Is hottest. about 45.46 Its head Is confined between the shoals of the Bahamas and the Carolinas.
 Scientists are not agreed upon the point whether the trade winds are the cause of the stream. or whether, as the waters go from their fountain source, they have their specific gravity in state of per- petual alteration in consequence of the change of saltness and change of tenn perature; but that the stream affects the weather is pretty certain.
 have said earlier that the temperature of the waters can readily modify the se- verity of the winter months under certain conditions: and in a measure this is also true of. and can be applied to, other sea- sons of the year. Here is an analogy showing how the Gulf Stream raises tenn perature and thus materially determines the weather in Europe and particularly in the regions of the British Isles.
 The furnac ce is the Torrid Zone; the Mexican Gulf and the Caribbean Sea are the cauldrons; the Gulf Stream is the conducting pipe. From the Grand Banks of Newfoundland to the shores of Europe Is the basement-the hot-air chamber-in which the pipe is fiared out so as to pre- sent large cooling surface. Here the circulation of the atmosphere is arranged by nature. It is from west to east Con- sequently 1t is such that the warmth thus conveyed into the warm air chamber of midocean is taken up by the general west winds and dispensed in the most benign manner throughout Great Britain and the west of Europe. The mean temperature of the water heated air chamber is about 90 degrees. The maximum temper ature of the Gulf Stream is S6 degrees. or about 9 degrees above the ocean temperature due in the latitude.
 Increasing It's latitude 10 degrees. it loses degrees of temperature; and. after hav- ing run 3,000 miles to the north. 1t still preserves, even in winter. the heat or summer. With this temperature 1t cross es the 10th degree of north latitude ana there. overfiowing it's liquid banks It spreads itself out for thousands Of cquare leagues over the cold waters around GOV ering the ocean with a mantle of warmth that serves so much to mitigate m Flu rope the rigors of indictment weather' Moving now more slowly. but dispensing its genial influences more freely, It nnally meets the British Islands, and pracucaHy makes our weather.
 Every west wind that blows crosses this stream on its way to Europe. IL s tne influence of the stream upon the climate that makes Erin the "Emerald Isle or the Sea" from the meteorological standpoint that clothes the shores or Aloloh III ever green robes; while in the same latitude on this side, the coasts of Labrador are fast bound in letters of ice. It must al ways be borne in mind that the cnleI regulators of weathers are the winds and currents. Both must act together,
 The Atlantic ''Weather Breeder"
 Now the Gulf Stream is a factor in the