New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-08-26
OCEAN WEATHER MAP.
German Experts Plan to Lessen
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 neutrality-suspicious. liner
Kaiserin Auguste Victoria with
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
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 peripatetie
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
All that the meteorologists will need
after the esta blishment Of the rowing
sea stations is balloon or airship OBJ
servatorfes 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 1t strikes these parts
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 pier and ac-
companied him to Washington.
On the Kaiserin DR.. Polls expert
mented with his plan, keeping In touch
with the Washington weather Office on
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 al
weather map depicting 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 at sea, SO that
the navigator, whether he commands
sailing craft or vessels propelled by
steam or gasoline, may be warned
when in port or on the deep Of trouble
in his course
DR.. Polls wants the weather bureau
at Washington to use numerals instead
Of words in its wireless system In de-
scribing the force of winds. This is
called the Beaufort method, being
calm and IL hurricane. DR.. Polls
used a kite on the Kaiserin to get the
weather conditions Of the upper air
until stiff breeze carried the kite
Europeward.
DR.. Polls said that the danger of col
liston In fogs 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, he 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.