Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-11-23
SEA WEATHER SERVICE
Scheme For a Worldwide Fore.
casting System.
EVERY SHIP A WIRELESS STATION
Chief Moore of the Weather bureau
Would Have All Ocean Vessels
Equipped with New Telegraph De-
vice-How Ii Would Greatly Lessen
Dangers of Nnyigation-How Organ
ization Can De Easily Effected.

Willis l.. Moore, chief of the Ameri.
can weather bureau. hopes TO see the
day when every ship of any size that
sails the seven seas will he weather
observatory, equipped with instruments
furnished 10y the weather bureau OF
the department of agriculture ana
making daily reports of It's observa-
tons either directly to Washington or
10 some wireless telegraph station that
will transmit them to Washington. says
Il special dispatch to the New York
World.
AS corollary weather reports issued
at least daily would be furnished to
every ship having Il wireless telegraph
equipment. Then the dangers of navi-
CATION would be greatly lessened, for If
navigator can have twenty four
hours warning of n storm that is NOV
Ing In his direction he can take meas
ures to sail out of the probable track
of the disturbance or ii that is imprac-
ticable take steps TO have his shin in
such state of preparation that the
danger of wreck IL reduced to mini.
mum
BY the use of wireless telegraphv,
says Chief Moore, ii will be possible TO
discover where storms originate if that
point Of origin is within the regions in
which ships sail In numbers great
enough to afford opportunities for re-
ports On land and sea there are in
struments which measure within n few
feet of a break in an electric current
1t will be possible to figure almost as
closely with respect to destructive
storms.
The American weather service gave
warnings Of the approach of the recent
southern hurricane In time for all ships
along the coast above the southern end
OF Florida to get into shelter. The fact
that the storm continued eastward
after passing through the straits of
Florida instead Of curving n0rthward
and come boiling up the coast does not
detract from the value of the warning
The storm simply failed to go where II
would have caused the greatest de.
struction had there been no warning.
III the wireless telegraph service had
been III existence all the shipping in
the lane leading from Europe to the
West Indies would have been warned
OF its approach. together with an ac-
curate statement of the direction # had
when it departed from the ken of the
observers on land. Navigators in that
lane. knowing that the storm would
not strike anything to again change IFS
course. would have been justified in
believing that it was coming straight
Tor them long before their haromesers
began showing them the existence Of n
disturbance somewhere near them.
mere Is good foundation upon
which to rear the proposed superstruc.
ture. Great Britain. France. Germonv
ana Spain, in Europe. and japan in
'he orient, maintain weather services
patterned after ours, the pioneer in
mat line OF research, with which op
exchange Of news is maintained. The
daily weather maps Of those countries
are sent to the United States govern
meht, and all the storms reported TO
them are carefully recorded nv the
forces employed by the United StAtas
government.
The other day in the bureau of ocean
me'eorology photographer was trans.
ferring the lines made by the Japanesc
photographers to a blank man of his
own. The Japanese record will he Of
use in the future to show what was
happening in the eastern seas on
given day. and comparison of sucb
maps will enable forecasters 70 Obtain
good idea of what will happen else.
where.
An international agreement either in