Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-06


The present year of seismic and tor
nado disturbances which to date have
proven so disastrous to the Pacific
coast, were predicted more than four
teen years ago by w. A. Spalding, a
longtime resident of Los Angeles. The
predictions were made in Los Angeles
before the teachers institute on De-
cember 22 1892.
Mr.. Spalding's predictions were based
wholly upon scientific calculations.
They We're entirely void of any second
sight" features or the popular "inspira-
tom methods. Several teachers and
professors who attended the institute in
1892 are still living in Los Angeles and
remember Mr.. Spalding's address dis
tinctly.
The truth of his theories has as
serted itself within the past two
weeks in a most remarkable manner.
BY reference to the accompanying
chart it will be seen that like influences
disturbed the earth during the years OF
1901 and 1902. 1t will be remembered
that it was in the year of 1902 that the
Martinique cataclysm occurred when
Mt. Pelee and Soufriere claimed 10000
victims Shortly after that the catas-
trophe in Japan followed when 1000 per-
sons perished.
Mr.. Spalding does not attempt to
specify where the severest visitations
will be felt. He looks at the situation
purely from a scientific standpoint. 1t
is his opinion that equally severe dis
turbances have occurred in the deserts
hundreds of miles from a human being.
From a scientific point these are fully
as important as those which occur in
inhabited localities.
The earthquakes that have been felt
Hon nf a
United States bear similar weight with
the predictions of Mr.. Spalding. No
matter where seismic disturbance may
be felt it all indicates but one thing to
Mr.. Spalding-that his theories are
correct and that his calculations have
been made with the greatest accuracy.
This is further proven by the news
that two earthquake shocks were felt
in Somerset, KY, on the night of May
4, last Friday In this instance hun
dreds of windows in the city were
broken.
Convinced OF Correct Theory
"In view of the fate that has over
taken the metropolis of western United
States and the effect that it has had
upon the inhabitants of the United
States at large, Mr.. Spalding is reluc-
tant in discussing his predictions of
nearly fourteen years ago.
Like every person who heard the ad-
dress delivered by Mr.. Spalding on De-
cember 22 1892, the incident had es-
capped his memory until recently, The
eruption of Vesuvius reminded him of
it first and the catastrophe in San
Francisco convinced him of his own
predictions, as we'll as appalled, him.
"Following are extracts from Mr..
Spalding's address delivered by him on
December %. 1892, before the teachers
institute, held in the high school build
ing on December 81. % and %, 1892:
Tells of Equinox
"You are well aware that when the
sun crosses the line we have our periods
of equinoctial storms. They are so well
known as to have passed into our
weather proverbs.
"In March, when the sun crosses the
equator going north, we have our Ver-
nal equinox. and March is a stormy
month in the northern hemisphere Even
in our exceptionally fine climate, March
is the coldest, rawest and most dis
agreeable month of the year. When the
sun crosses the line going south, the
unusual storms occur in the southern
hemisphere.
'fSeptember usually brings pleasant
weather throughout the United States.
1t is a time of Indian summer, so
famous and so enjoyable in the east.
Force Is Electrical Energy
''Thus, you see, in trying to trace
the causes of increased violence in our
storm movements, this study of
meteorology has led us to the con-
sideration of other worlds than ours.
''It is said that no man lives for him
self alone and 1t is equally true that
no world makes its own conditions of
existence. We are floating in a great
sea of force-a sea, we will say, which
has its normal tension when every
thing goes along smoothly and its alb
normal tensions above and below the
smooth average.
''There are people who believe that this
sea of force is electrical energy, dis
tributed not only throughout our PLAN
etary system, but throughout the uni
verse.
You have heard our system compared
to a great dynamo. with the planets
whirling round and round the sun, cut
ting its magnetic lines of force and
causing an endless flow of electrical
currents back and forth.
Il cannot go very deeply into this
subject here. But whether the energy
which actuates our solar system be
electric or not, several facts are mani
fest.
Spots Cause Reaction
"While the sun exercises a controlling
power over all its planets and satellites
and asteroids, II Is none the less true
that these exterior bodies exercise In
turn an influence upon the sun.
The energy acts and reacts. The uni
versal laws Of gravitation enjoin this,
for we are told that vitation is the
attractive force existing between any
two bodies in the universe and that 1t
varies directly as TO mass and inverse
~ as 10 the square OF the distance.
snow, il Is conceded that when per-
turbations ooepr IN these revolving