The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-05-01
SYSTEMATIC STUDY
OF THE T[MBlORS
Every Jesuit College to Make
Careful Observation Of
Seismic Disturbances
Perfect Unity Will Be Special
Feature OF the Greatest 3
Scientific Value
Especial Dispatch 10 The Call

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SANTA CLARA. April :so.-Follow-
ing report which emanated from
New York a few days ago relative to
an order issued to all of the Jesuit
colleges throughout. the United States
to Install more complete chronological
apparatus with the end In view of ma
terially aiding SCIENCE toward a. more
complete. solution OF the earthquake
problem a Call representative today
interviewed Rev. Father Rieard, s.. j.,
head of the astronomical and .seisnlo-
logical departments of Santa Clara
college.
PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
When questioned regarding the au-
thenticlty OF the report and the various
improvements to be made by the diff
ferent Jesuit institutions in this coun-
try the learned prelate said: Pursuing
the Initiative of Rev. Frederick Oden-
back. s. j., of st. Ignatius college,
Cleveland, o., some II or Is Jesuit col
leges in the United, States alone have
formed chronological association
mostly within the chronological So
ciety of America. established on this
coast and now propagatihg all over the
world, mainly through the efforts of
Prof. A. @. McAdie of San Francisco.
This association OF Jesuit seismo-
logues will greatly commend itself
to the scientific world by the fact that
1t is ushered into existence not so
much by individual effort within the
Jesuit body. but rather because 1t is
prompted and fostered by the author
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PERFECT UNITY ASSURED
There win be a perfect unity all
through; the same Instruments, the
same seismograms, the same interpre-
tation of records, and all these quite
evenly distributed over the vast area
of the United States.
Some will be located on or near the
earthquake belts or zones and others
at great distances from. them. In this
way some recorders will. inscribe the
great oscillatory movements near their
center, while others will act as micro
seismographs and make known TO the
world how a big shake in San Fran
cisco is no stranger In Massachusetts,
or Louisiana, or even in Europe.
Professor Lawson, head of the geo
logical department of the state uni
versitY and now president of the
chronological society of America, has
highly recommended the Wiechert ma
chimes made at Gottingen, Germany.
Professor Odenback of Cleveland, him
self an adept in Instrumental seis-
mology, also declares that the Vie
ebert machines stand infinitely su-
perior 70 those which have hitherto
been in use, not excepting the efficient
machines of Professor Omiorf OF Tokyo.
Japan.
INSTRUMENTS FROM GERMANY
ut was therefore natural that the
order for the new instruments to be
used in all of the Jesuit colleges should
be sent to Germany. Santa Clara coll
lege has already ordered one horizontal
and one vertical seismograph, together
with contact clock that may be
regulated to the sidereaI time of the
observatory or the standard time sent
here from the Mare island observatory
or the Lick observatory.
cit is hoped that by such a con-
centration of effort as is possible In
the united Jesuit colleges the predic-
ton of seismic phenomena may be mi
tiated and perfected, and people may
be nationally put on their guard with
out an undue effect on. their morbid
sensibility of the fearful. Ignorance
breeds fear; science dispels TT