Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-26
How Government Officials
Make Their Forecasts.
Fine New Set Of Buildings Be-
inq Erected at Washington.
rour High Grade Experimenters, with
Six Assistants, Will Engage in
Mos. Interesting Branch of Very
Important Work.

Fr y
tory Of SIX buildings is now IN course
- obstruction at Bluemont, sixty
nitcs from Washington, on Il peak of
10 gIle Ridge Mountains. 1900 feet
.tove tie love! of the sea. and COM
,1ar1i.g - BEAUTIFUL view Of the Low
den and the Shenandoah valleys. A
tr,r, ~ .il.ely acres has been secured
+. the Government ana appropriately
rqm-d Mount Weather. Here four
Nth .rate cXpcriroe nters will be sta
tened gltu Six assistants, besides
cjr-s Of teanrst"r. and labOrers, all
ENGAGED II ore Of the most Interesting
braEefas OF y ork which the Govern
re.t has ser undertaken.
In spaak'rg in a popular way of this
york the other day. Professor Willis
|, Moore chief OF the Weather Bureau,
undar whose supervision the observa-
tory Is being constructed, said to the
Transcript correspondent: THE as
tronorner in measuring with his new
II appliances the activity Of the surface
Of the sun does not have in mind the
Il meteorological aspects o. these phe-
4 romena of which he is taking observa-
4 tons. The plly sicist, when he discov-
| ers 4 new form OF radiant energy. is
little concerned with its effect upon
precipitation in free air. The cleo
trician thinks little of our interests in
| electricity. our research laboratory il
4 designed to Correlate all these branches
/ Of Science For example, we would
| Ike 10 got ut the relation OF sun spots
1 and Of changes in magnetic conditions
-. th.a
logger atmosphere where we live. We
shall also take up recent discoveries or
the physicist. like the action of Ions
and of cathode particles, and deter
min" what function they exercise in
1 rliufJII and snowfall. In a laboratory
tmIav we cannot produce condensation
unless we lower the temperature Of the
mass ~ Iir down to the dew point. but
4 the physicist shows that If he allows
/ tin c"thoI" Particles to escape from Il
Trunk4' tub. a cloud will form where
4 ilisr are prnjnC ted into the atmospheric
| air, right around that stream of par
| ticlcg az they go out of the tube. with
4 out any lowering Of temperature and
| without the air being saturated. There
| Is thus = precipitation where. with our
Il former understanding OF the action of
1 a,;lI, ulis v,tpor and of heat. it would he
4 imposshl" to get it. Now the physicist
i il not much concerned with these little
water DROPS thnt gather around that
| stream of c"thuh. rays. but 10 the me-
4 t"urnln.;ist It Is Y important thing.
1 W. p,III pos. tn trace that relation and
l Md ont If "" can what is the function
/ nf the catholic rays. not in the labora-
i tony. hut in precipitation III the free
4 air"
4 II il ~ nn accident that people on
1 first meeting incline to talk about the
Il Weather. Il is HE subject of the larg-
j est r'lltinus to practical life. The con-
II ditinu III the crops from day to day is
II now th,. greatest influence I'm the politi-
II cal and The financial world. and yet
II ihs is almnat i study Of the weather.
III mmauurl Kant was wrong in his
III theory thnt tho weather was q good
II tone for strangers {" open 4 conVersa-
II ton with h'.rlus" il WIS not intruiing
ii the Speakers business or personal con-
u c"rns. nor d"lviuE into the affairs of
II IN" on" addressed in an Objectionable
III way The century since his death has
seen great changes. not in the weather.
II hnt in the, recognition of its relation to
N business.
stocks in rai,7 ,ads that traverse agri-
Il cultural regions rise and fall with
II W"1tn'r conditions upon which the
II busress depends. In some seasons
II this IS much more true than others. III
the "rnps are late I'm getting started. it
becomes OF tho iutcnsest concern to
watch the early frosts. Unusual mois-
tnrr or dreugIt have their important
Effects, \ f.w days often change great
crops into poor ones. with all the natl
nal prosperity which depends upon II
Nothing has had 80 much to do with
III" d"v"lupment OF races az the
Weather. The chief objection to the
Philippine lsl1nds as an American
acquisition today is that the climate
FEEDERS them unadapted for the home
white race. Governor Taft In 8
hrHWrll address said that there woult
never he more than 10000 Americans
@'de from tire army in those islands
NNe aggressive lingo in this town criti
cses him FIR this. saying that the white
's'e can live anywhere that anybody
,"h' The truth is that they can exist
Wy ulder such conditions "a that the,
WA never gain firm roofing. TIL
Ef'lsh experience in India shows this
ne effect upon the Spanish blood o.
feNerai generations in tropical America
NIte the intermixture of lower race.
a'ords further evidence. In short. thu
q 'lne mas long ago passed when am
.'ueism Of the climate of the Equator
vas regarded as a reflection on tn
republican party.
IN recent bulletin of the Depart
nrht Of Agriculture on the weather
rolessor Willis l.. Moore says tina
Northmen have usually been con
NaererS But if We consider the in
'S"r"'ng effect of cold air alone, h
says We might expect to find the mos
.es"ui'elui peoples in the Arctic Circle
-. Il We considered fruitfulness o
.ne sou we should expect the dominan
.sa :" 'he tropics. The fact is tina
.he greatest human DEVELOPMENTS occu
,SmMhere between the extremes Of
.o ou'.uafies which cannot be accuratel,
& ue''fr,ined by Parallels Of latitude. ex
~. ny saving that the most northerl,
of I'LL 'nSt viii produce an abundanc
o' cereal crops. is a pretty good MAJ.
We human race to devotion.
l"iessor Moore points ont tho