The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-08-09
BUREAU ISSUES
NIGHT REPORTS
Director Evans Begins Double
Daily Service, With Read
ings at s p NJ.
RICHMOND IN PRESS LIST
Local Temperature to Be Pub
lished in Newspapers i'll All
Leading Cities.

For the first time since its estah-
lishment here. the Weather Bureau
yesterday inaugurated a double daily
service on local METEOROLOGICAL condi-
tions. sending out night reports, which
Will put the Richmond weather in the
newspaper list printed all over the
United States.
Director Z. y. Evans has been at
work on this plan for some time. be-
lievins that i; would add greatly to
serve a greater purpose than hereto.
fore. Ii means, of course, additional
labor. but that fact did not enter into
the matter. the idea OF Director Evans
being to keep Richmond IN the front
rank.
Bureau Branching Ont.
The bureau has been branching OUT
at every possible turn. Occupying its
own home on Chimborazo Hill, 1t is
fully equipped with eN'-y scientific de-
vice known by the government. and Is
supplying needrul information to the
people ~ all hours of tho day.
that he was highly gra;:tied by the
fact that his efforts had heen success
full y Richmond man, for instance.
may be visiting in any city of impor-
morning paper the exact temperature
at home on the preceding day. Last
night at o'clock the aureau tele-
graphed Washington It's temperature
at that hour which was in turn tele-
Eraphed to all other stations and news
papers.
BY the use of the telephone, the
farmers in various parts OF Virginia
receive forecasts every day from Rich
mond, and these in the main have been
remarkably accurate. The table print
ed daily in The Times Dispatch will
hereafter give conditions up to $
Keeps Up With Demand.
In speaking yesterday of the new
service. Director Evans said
Beginning tonight. the Weather
Bureau will inaugurate a full double
daily service on local meteorological
observations. Heretofore one observa-
ton OF this kind has been taken-that
at y. NJ The change is in line with
Bureau-increasins the. scope OF the
work TO keep abreast Of the demand. .
This general plan has been carried
along ever since the station was To-
Gated in Richmond in 1895 and one
by one different lines of work have
been taken up as the need for them
developed, until now the local bureau
has grown from n one-man. one-room
station to a fully equipped plant,
housed in its own building, and carry
ing on complete series OF reports,
besides its supervisory and executive
work as the central station OF the Vir-
sinia section.
The needs of the city people are so
varied that they probably beneht as
much by one branch of our work as
another In agricultural communities.
however. this is quite different.
Public WANTS Forecasts.
I'VE find the major part Of the de-
mand relates strictly TO the weather
forecasts. Our fros; warnings and cold
wave warnings are found TO be very
servlceable 10 farmers, especially at
critical periods in crop growth In the
spring and fall. Very recently, in
deed. a special arrangement has been
entered into with the Southern Bell
Telephone and Telegraph Company.
whereby that company gives free
transmission to our weather forecasts
over some of its farmers lines-this
for the benefit of its subscribers on
such lines
some thrty-odi telephone companies
IN Virginia that are cooperating with
the local office of the Weather Bureau
In distributing the regular and special
forecasts to the farmers. In this way
we are now supplying about 10000
Virginia farmers each day with the
weather report. They get 1t between
1890 \. NJ, and noon
II cite this rs one Of the many ways
in which the bureau keeps IN touch
with the needs OF the people for
weather Information.
The addition OF a night observa-
ton for the beneAt OF our local inter
ests will make for increased efficiency
OF the service"