Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-03

weather instruments and weather lore.
and Delos r. Maring, who invented the
sunshine recorder.
Some of the eighty clerks at the
weather bureau are not meteorologists.
and among them IS Chief Clerk Daniel J.
Carroll, a Washingtonian by birth and
employee in the weather service for TWEEN
ty-nine years.
That Mr. Carroll has remained SO many
years in the midst of meteorological ex-
perts without becoming one himself is not
surprising. for meteorology is a science
that Is growing more mysterious every
year. and Mr.. Carroll has developed ex-
pertness along executive lines while his
associates were developing experiences in
old-fashioned meteorology. newfashiOned
meteorology, experiences as inventors Of
meteorological instruments, experiences in
climatology, seismology and even in aero
nautical science, for Henry r. Hersey,
weather bureau inspector at Milwaukee, is
one of the country's foremost aeronauts.
Mr.. Carroll is one of the busiest and most
capable of chief clerks for he has in adj
dition to duties which all chief c'erks per-
form, the care of the building and
grounds, the supervision of mechanics and
all employees not assigned to divisions. and
the custody of all administrative papers.
He division chief and assistant
chief clerk five years before becoming
chief clerk in 1903, and from 1879 to 1898
he performed various clerical, executive
and administrative duties here and al sta
lions.
The weather bureau has many employees
who have been connected with it for
years, and none but the most efficient
men have ever become veterans In the
service, for the duties are exacting and
not only is it out of order to put off until
tomorrow what should be done today. but
it is equally out of order to put off until
quarter past o'clock what ought to be
done at s o'clock sharp.
So much in Il general way for who is
and who Is not the weather man. What
he does is to prepare weather forecasts
that reach more than three millions OF
addresses of record. by telegraph. tele-
phone mail and other methods OF trans
mission. He obtains the information on
which these forecasts are based by dag
nosing every symptom of prevailing
weather with many kinds of instruments.
flying kites TO aid III the diagnosis and
acting in cooperation with weather men
throughout the northern hemisphere and
nearly two thousand observers on ships.
He invents new instruments and improves
those already in use, makes experiments
to advance the science OF meteorology;
conducts a river and flood service, fur
nishes Genealogical information 10 thou
sands; teaches his science at schools and
universities, and to class of young men
at the central station, and causes many
distinguished foreign meteorologists to
come to Washington TO get the benefit OF
his ideas.
In the words of Chief Moore in his 1907
report: 1t is probable that no other
branch of science is much indebted to
researches of citizens of the United
States as is meteorology, Redheld and
Espy, early in the nineteenth century,
having been the first to collect data, plat
II and exhibit to the world the cycIonic
action of storms. Utilizing the knowl-
edge thus made known and the further
researches OF the scientists of other
nations. the United States has taken the
lead in the practical application OF mete
geological science. our broad continental