Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-09-19
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German Experts Plan to Lessen
d. ShipWrecks.
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Or, Polls to Interest Weather Bureau
In an international Foreeasting Plan.
+. Which, Makes Every Steamship an:
Observation Station Tried on Trip.
DR.. Peter Polls director Of the me.
neurological observatory at Aachen,
Germany, arrived at New York recent
" by the Hamburg American liner
Kaiserin Auguste Victoria with a.
scheme by which the world ashore and
afloat may be informed BY daily bulle-
tins Of weather conditions on the At
lantic just as folks Of the United States
are informed of atmospheric transfer.
nations on this continent Il /. #as.
Heretofore the prophecies Of the ex-
perts frequently have received black
eyes by cyclonic disturbances that have
cavorted in unexpectedly from the vast
that is without local forecast stations.
It is the plan Of Dr. Polls, says the
New York Sun, to make every steam
ship fitted with wireless a peripatetic
meteorological station and to issue
aboard ship and on land charts pictur-
ing. after the manner of our own
weather bureau maps the weather Of
two continents and the sea between. s
All that the meteorologfsts will need
; after the establishment Of the rowing
sea- stations Is balloon or airship OBJ
iservatories by which they may trans
late the meanings Of the upper air cur
rents, Then they will defy the ele-
ments to" brew storm that cannot be
foretold accurately maybe a week be-
fore it strikes these parts. s
DR.. Polls has been in the United
States before studying the American
method Of collecting data about the
weather ashore, and he has adopted
many features Of the American system.
A representative Of the Washington
Office Of the weather bureau met him
at the Hamburg American pier and ac-
companied him to Washington.
On the Kaiserin DR.. Polls expert
mented with his plan, keeping in touch
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the latter half Of his 5000 mile trip.
He was in communication with nine
liners, and all Of them told him exactly
what the barometer, thermometer, by
grometer and thermometer were doing
in their respective localities. With
these facts he readily constructed q
weather map depicttng the sea changes.
He hopes to get the United States 'to
cooperate with Germany and possibly.
other nations in the work Of charting
the progress Of storms atSsea, SO that.
the navigator. whether he commands.
sailing craft OR vessels propelled by
steamss Or gasoline, may he warned
when in port or on the deep of trouble
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DR.. Polls wants the weather bureau;
at Washington to use numerals instead
of words in Its wireless system in de-
scribfng the force Of winds. This Isl
called the Beaufort method, 1 being al
calm and ~ hurricane. DR.. Polls
used Q, kite on the Kaiserir to get the
weather conditions Of Athe upper air
until 9 stiff breeze carried the kite
Europeward. \ TX N St.ss J. 4
Dr.. Polls said that the danger Of col
liston In sfogs and peril IN unheralded
storms would be eliminated by the
new system Of sea prophecy. The
scheme involves the publication both
on land and sea Of charts telling the
weather conditions and the probabili-
ties. While DR.. Polls does not expect
to do away with shipwrecks, be ex-
poets to reduce them so materially that
they will be SO rare as to be regarded
as sensations even by the ship news
reporters. 55ts 81 I.