The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-22
Is 1t the Same Barometer?

Is II the Same Barometer?
What is this hidden and mysterious
instrument whereof the wisdom is with
held from the newspapers and the public
by Frequently False Weather Prophet
MOORE as if its readings were secrets
of the Rosicrucians?
Is vt the same old barometer from
whose mystic outgivings Professor
MOORE deduced the %subjoined forecast,
which he proclaimed unoffloially to a
heat stricken and fear haunted com
munity through the columns Of a yellow
newspaper?
" For the intensity OF It's heat, the extent OF It's
mortality md the length OF It's stay the present
heat wave win exceed anything in the history OF
the United states weather Bureau. and the result
or termination OF the present hot spell cannot even
now be guessed AT. The only thing certain about
It is that the present hot spell cannot be broken
for at least three days. Each day will be hotter
than the previous one, and the mortality will be
fearful"
Such was the unofficial prediction
which frequently False Weather Prophet
MOORE derived from his sacred bar
ometer On the evening of July 2, 1901, a
day when the temperature in this town
had reached 80 degrees Fahrenheit. 1t
was the hottest day in New York, with
a single exception, in thirty years.
The strain of the previous heat had
been terrific. Frequently False Weather
Prophet WILLIS L. MooRE's unofficial
prophecy Of worse to come was in itself
alarming enough to help bring about
the fearful mortality which he and his
barometer foretold. The only thing GER
tain, he told the nervous and apprehen-
sive population, was that each Of the
days Immediately ahead would be hotter
than the previous one. This is the
actual record for the period covered
by Frequently False Weather Prophet
MooRE's dreadful prediction:
July ,ss'
July
July so
Juy 'ss'
July
Is it the same barometer that led
Frequently False Weather Prophet
MOORE to put forth through the news
papers on the eve of Inauguration Day
five years ago the present month this I'M
official or extraoffioial announcement?
The weather o.morrow. Monday. March l..
will be the nneSt ever experienced on the lnaugura-
ton OF a President. The sky surely will be clear
and the temperature warm and bAlmy-a At meteor
illogical climax TO the magnificent work done by
yourself and your able assistants.
WILLIS l., MOORE.
Chief United States Weather Bureau"
Long after MooRE's name is forgotten
people will remember the tradition of
the chilling, soaking, tremendously tor
rental, pneumonia breeding rainstorm
which drenohed the crowds at the second
Mckinley Inauguration.
Is this the barometer responsible for
the frequently false and often ridicu-
lous predictions which, under Professor
MooRE's administration. have made
official weather prophecy a thing of
derision and contempt throughout the
country? Or is the trouble not so much
with the barometer as with the FIRE.
quently False Weather Prophet himself
he who undertakes to ~monopolize the
Interpretation of its sacred outgivings?
In the one case get a new barometer
and run it for the public benefit, wide
open. In the other case, for Heavens
sake get a new Weather Prophet
The Weather Bureau has lost the con-
fidence and a~fIectionate esteem Of the
public, won for it years ago by "Old
Probabilities, beloved and lamented.