Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-31
PROMISE WARM
WELCOME HOME
FRIENDS OF DICK FERRIS AND
WIFE BUSY
After 1t Is All over, Soiourner in Min
neapoIis Will Proceed to Buck
international Cloud OBJ
serVations
OMAHA, Neb.. Aug. 80, 1882 p. m

OMAHA, Neb., Aug. 80, 1882 p. m.
To The Los Angeles Herald:
On the rail, headed for Home, swee
Home, railing at the rail and crying for {
skybolt. DICK FERRIS.
Dick Ferris is going to buck the
International Cloud Observations, and
if that isn't flying high, what is?
Mr.. Ferris was in Omaha yesterday
and will be in Los Angeles at O'Clock
tomorrow evening on the Salt Lake
Limited when PIP friends will greet
him at the station. Captain Ryus will
send up a balloon and John B. Elliott
will make a speech of welcome, eX-
planning that since the Ferrises adj
journed to Minneapolis, Los Angeles
has been made 400 miles long, from
Deadman's island to Round valley, and
that the distinguished incomers are
welcome to all of 1t. Otheman Stevens
has been appointed grand marshal of
the parade, which will form in auto
mobiles and street cars to proceed to
the Alexandria.
Mrs. Dick Ferris (Florence Stone)
and Miss La Cigale Ferris will arrive
with Dick During all the hot spell
they have been having a matinee ev-
cry afternoon, a performance every
night and a rehearsal every morning.
In spite of that Mr.. Ferris has been
taking time to dictate five page letters
to his friends, telling them how heav-
emily Los Angeles looks about 1000 miles
away.
when we do get back" he said in
one of his letters, Il am going to ask
Chief of Police Dishman to grant me
a permit to carry a revolver with the
avowed intention of shooting the first
man that suggests my ever leaving
there again"
But about those International Cloud
Observations-they are a book, or,
rather records, embodying concerted
observations on the direction and Yc-
locity and height of clouds made in
ternationally by eminent meteorolo-
gists. By getting a line on the clouds,
the authorities collected a vast amount
of information about the prevailing
eastward drift, but at the end were
forced to admit their limitations be-
cause they could not get up in the air
enough about it.
All these international observations
were taken painstakingly and scien-
tifically, even to the extent of 'includ-
ing in a definite notation the constants,
the thermodynamic and the hydro
dynamic formulae pertaining to the at
mospheric physical processes and mo-
tions, by means of which the work of
the several authorities can be reduced
to one set of typical equations"
Not any of that for Dick Ferris!
Characteristically, he is going slap
bang up against those clouds to poke
them in the Stats and find out if they
really do indicate that air travel is
possible eastward to Abilene, Texas.
or Hockachonk mountain, Ark, at an
average drift of ninety miles an hour.
Maybe Mr.. Ferris will verify by nos
ing around in. the upper attitudes what
the international observers have call
culated scientifically-and perhaps he
will most unscientifically bust the
theories wide open.
At any rate, Mr.. Ferris will be back
tomorrow night and, before the week
end he will have the actor-manager
garments in the mothballs and the
cloud chasers uniform hanging on the
family clothesline on West Adams
street