Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-01-30
TIPS ON THE WEATHER
Scheme For Posting Accurate
Data For All In Streets.
OFFICIAL BOOTHS TO BE USED

kiosLs Containing Most Improved Type
of Weather Recording Instruments
Will BE Placed by the Weather Bu-
reau In Centers of All the Larger
American Cities.
"Old Probs" purposes to court popu-
larity by bringing his records and pre-
dictions down to the street level and
giving the loiterers in City Hall park,
New York, and similar places all over
the United States direct % ial intel
ligence of the state of the atmosphere,
its warmth and density and its prob
able disturbances, says a Washington
correspondent of the New York Trib-
une.
Professor Willis L. Moore, chief OF
the United States weather bureau, has
perfected plans to set up kiosks con-
tanning thermometers, barometers and
weather recording instruments of the
most improved and accurate type In
the centers of all the larger cities, in
the crowded business districts and in
the parks chiefly frequented. 1t has
long been the habit of most persons to
reject the figures of the weather bu-
reau during particularly hot or cold
seasons because its thermometers are
placed on high, breezy buildings or
protected from the biting blizzards of
the street levels. Thermometers of un-
certain scientific value which are af-
fected by soda fountain sales at drug
stores and other business places have
been readily taken as the criterion of
heat and cold, with the result that the
masses do not realize the value of ac-
curate figures and have to get their
ideas of temperature through unrelia-
BILE sources.
In order that this may be obviated
as much as possible the weather bu-
reau will erect small kioslls, in which
the best thermometers, both stationary
and recording, will be protected from
the suns rays and exposed to the pub
lie. There will also be constantly on
exhibition standard barometer,
which will enable people to possess an
intelligent idea of atmospheric condi-
tions for themselves. Besides these in
struments, weather maps and such
data as are of popular information will
be displayed on the sides of the booths
and will be kept up to the minute by
boys on bicycles.
The booths, or boxes, will be built so
as not to exceed two feet square and
six or eight feet high and with a view
to making them as slightly and as deco
rative as possible. They will be made
to conform as much as possible to the
surroundings with the idea of making
them as familiar articles TO the public
as the mail boxes or fire alarm sta
tons.
The weather bureau has a general
appropriation which will cover the ex-
pense Of establishing a limited number
of these kiosks, which, according to the
present plans, viii be distributed
among the larger cities and in those
districts where such instruments are
likely to be most appreciated. In order
that ample protection may he afforded
the delicate and expensive instruments
they will be combined with the letter
boxes, so that the same police regula-
tons which govern the United States
mails will restrict any injury or dis
fgurement of the booths or instru-
ments. 1t is expected that after the
booths have been established laws will
be enacted which will insure further
protection to the property.
If the plan is greeted with the popu-
lar interest which is expected, 1t is
probable that the weather kiosks will
be established all over the United
States.