The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-13
Salt Lake and Arid West Share
Excessive Moisture With
the Effete East.

call II DeaStly. Some there are from Pu-
get Sound who deem it a sacrilege tC
hoist an umbrella when il sprinkles here
How long will il be before we have
a rain?" they ask. Many of these be-
mghted humans have lived in places like
Port Townsend, where one goes SIN
months without seeing the sun or any OF
his children, called rays; or in Port An
geles, where one never sees the sun I'M
less a passing steamer makes enough
smoke to crowd off the fog (Which is
rain in the embryo TO render the aper-
ture large enough for the glimpse. Ii
is said that Portland, Seattle and Tacoma
belong to the same class.
Here, Not There.
But il is here not on Puget Sound or on
the banks of the willamette, where
weather must be talked about. II is up
TO DR.. Hyatt to give the people the kind
of weather they want, and if DR.. Hyatt
doesn't do il the people necessarily must
appeal to President Roosevelt and get A
new fellow 10 make weather for them.
The records show that there have been
more wet days in June thus far than for
any corresponding period in the history
of the local weather office.
The best DR.. Hyatt can tell one at this
hour is that there is high pressure in
oicated, which means that the baTOme-
ter is climbing, and Furthermore means
that the dismal, dreary, damp and dank
Is about to end.
4 take it, said Dr. Hyatt yesterday.
THAT O'Clock Thursday afternoon, at
wet spell We have got the low from the
north Pacific coast, and we are passing
II along. There has been rain in every
part of the United States, practically, ex-
eept on the extreme southwest coast
There have been tremendous rains in the
mississippi valley and in the region we
call the lake states and the country south
OF Michigan and Wisconsin. clear to the
gulf, almost There have been rains i'm
the New England states, although we are
hlgh' at Boston today, but that indi-
Gates nothing. for We are having rains
at Washington. The rainfall is general
but Salt Lake is due for no more of il
after the present low passes off to the
eastward Then we viii begin to have
summer and then the people Will begin
10 pray for rain again.
That the rains are subsiding is indi-
Gated by the chart which DR.. HYATT and
his associates issue daily. There were
beyond the period that precedes the tenths
and hundredths In the decimal enumer1-
JiOn.
Says They Are FaIIacies.
DR.. HYATT was shown clipping from
the Chicago Inter-Ocean, in which il Is
stated that the weather is bad because
the planets are having a big fight and
each of them wants to get a lot of heat
and light, and the others won't let them
because they want the heat and light
thelr own selves; and that's why there is
HI to pay in the weather, saws the In
ter-Ocean, under New York date.
This is how the Inter-Ocean's CORE
spondence arrives at his conclusions:
The anomalous weather obtaining this
summer presents no mystery TO those
meteoroligsts who are guided in their
study of atmospheric phenomena by facts
rather than by theories long ago exploded
Exact knowledge is born of truth alone
and, according to DIR. Alexander Hamilton
Iaidlaw. the savants of the national
weather bureau, having based their sys-
tenn OF forecast on erroneous principles,
are now hopelessly astray.
DIR. Laidlaw, in the years I8i3 TO 1S45
was magnetic and meteorological observer
stationed at the Philadelphia observatory
OF the United States coast survey. He
was well acquainted with such famous
meteorologists as Espy, Professor pa
wilson and Chapman Under the instruc-
tions of Chapman, in particular, the phv-
stefan based his researches on ASTRONOMY,
and he learned that conditions on earth
were determined by the relations of the
planets to the sun.
AT the present time six planets of
which the earth is one. all moving around
the sun ar nearly the same angle are
pulling the heat from a narrow portion
of the solar disk They are all. so 20
speak warning with one another. the
usual polarization of light having gone
all aWry.
AS result neither the earth nor any
of the planets is getting the weather that
81 should have. BY fall the planets will
have separated and seasonable weather
The planets in question are. according
90 DR.. LaidlOw. Mercury. Venus. earth !
Mars, Jupiter and Saturn" 7
AS Clear as Mud.
The fellows who gave that ont for
publication are as crazy as are the the /
cries they present" said Doctor HYATT /
when the item was shown him There's +
always a lot Of fellows that want to get /
their names into papers, and eontinuaIlv
advance 1mnOSSlhlP theories
fact Is there is not a particle of inf1u- /
ence exercised on the earth's atnOsDhere
by any of the planets, except, of course. /
the sun-the sun is the big fellow that
runs the whole works. The earth's atmos- |
phere is purely local. and is not disturbed |
by the antics of any other heavenly bod
les save the sun, as 1 said. The the !
cries advanced by men who ought tn
know better have been dispelIed time and
again, and l don't see why q newspaper
of the standing of the Inter-Ocean would
monkey with such tommyrot."
The Polarization of Light.
Very well, doctor, but do you know
what the polarization of light means
that is, its full significance:''
Il have an idea, but ] could not say
what the fun definition of il would be =
Here 1t is, doctor; it is taken from the
Century dictionary"
Well, / guess that's what it means.
all right"
4
Century:
The state, OF act pro-
ducing the state. as having. as a raw.
duferent properties on its different
Sides so that opposite sides are alike
but the maximum difference is between
two sides at right angles to each other
rms Is the case with polarized light
Yes, | have no doubt that is true said
DR.. Hyatt. If you think it is Won may
quote me as saying that the definition is
almost as clear as an adobe wall
What Others Say.
Numerous members of the community,
Il the Oldest Inha bitant were seen nv | ,
he reporter for The Herald upon whom
vas saddled this entTancingly pleasant
oh. were in full harmony and accord I ,
With the Century dictionary. They had
10 notion, they said. that the Century die |
ionary could be wrong, especially when /
t described so clearly the relationship .
'etween one leg of a polarized right an l
lie and the other. and the antagonism !
hat existed between the negatives and I
'etWeen the north and the south poles [
nd each of them and both of them 1t