Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-16
ARBlTER OF BARGAIN SALES
Colonel Welsh Calls the Turn on Jim Grow
LOng- Distance Prophets,
UNCLE SAM HAS THE ONLY TRUE SYSTEM
Local weather Forecaster Makes No
Claims at Predicting what
the Coming summer
VIII Bring.

'The weather outlook for the coming
summer said Forccaster Welsh In his
Office Monday In reply to a question. The
temperature during the coming summer
will be higher than during the winter Just
closing. We will have warm weather in
July and August There will be rain at
various times. Thunder will be heard and
lightning SEEN may even venture the as
sertion that there will be some cold days
next December"
Colonel Welsh. having made this sibyl-
line utterance smiled bcnignly upon the
interviewer and continued:
Seriously speaking, long range fore
casts are not in my line. In fact none OF
them is reliable in the least. There are
several men In the United States who make
a good living out OF gullible people who
swallow the dope prepared for them in the
shape OF forecasts for a year ahead.
"How>is It done? Il is done with the
statistics OF the weather bureau and the
aid of a Jim Grow astronomer. The long
range boy finds the planets to be In the
same position this year as they were a
number Of years ago, He merely reprints
the weather conditions for that former
year and makes them his forecast for the
present year. Under this system one can
as we'll make "A forecast 1000 years ahead.
only True system.
Now, the government system is the
only true system, The people who know
about things rely upon me and my fore
casts l strike It right about nine times
out of ten. The weather is a very tickle
thing and It may depart from all rules at
the last moment and then the people, the
| ignorant people, give me the laugh. Why.
here recently when I predicted rain or
/ al wa hoa bgt hot I
heard the last Of 1t. My prediction was all
right, but nature made a peculiar dlvaga-
! ton from It's usual course and the people
laughed at me- They should have laughed
at nature.
! II tell you there's no class OF people think
they know so much about the weather as
those who know nothing of II. why,
there are thousands of people who think I
come down here in the morning, look at
the thermometer and barometer. open the
window and sniff at the air and them make
guess. But it's nothing Of the kind. It's
all a system, and once the map is made
out anyone can make the forecast.
"A large number Of business houses OF
Omaha rely on daily predictions. The big
gest houses here call up every day to
! learn what the outlook is. They know It's
dollars in their pockets I am the arbiter
/ even of bargain sales. often a store will
call up TO know the prospect for weather.
/ II l say fair, the store advertises big
| sale II say rain, It Is all on. This busi-
ness is a science and no joke"
Breaker of Records.
| The records Of Colonel Welsh's ONCE show
that the year 1907 has so far broken sew
eral records For example, March broke
the record for high temperatures, when on
the 25th the mercury registered 81 degrees.
March showed an extremely small rainfall,
the smallest in thirty-six years. 1t was
only 20 inch. The average for the month
is l.3S inches.
The temperature for January and Feb
ruary was higher than the average, while
the average daily temperature for the hrst
fourteen days of April is three degrees
lower than usual.
The rainfall for the first three months of
the year shows a deficiency of a little
more than half an inch. But, Colonel
Welsh points out 1t is the time Of rainfall
rather than the amount that counts in
reckoning the condition of the ground for
crops. If three inches of rain falls in March
on frozen ground and runs off, not as much
good is done as II half inch falls in May,
when 1t can sink into the soil.