The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-10-22
TO MAKE THE ARTIC BLOOM
AN ASTOUNDING PROJECT FOR
CHANGING GULF STREAM.
Would Convert Liberia Into a Sum-
mer Resort and Start Ice Fam
inc in Labrador.

If we may credit a deep sea SCENT
ist il will cost less than $3.50, 0O0,-
600 to make Siberia a summer re-
sort, start ice famines in Labrador,
give Scotland an all day summer,
with a temperature like Japan's;
change the climate of the Atlantic
coast to one like that OF southern
California. melt all the ice on and
around the North Pole and open 1t TO
truck gardening.
All that is necessary to accomplish
these results is to build a riprap Jetty
about zoo miles long across the
shoals extending eastward from New
foundland. near Cape Race. That
would stop the Labrador current,
whose cold is capable OF making
100000 tons of ice every. second,
from running right into the Gulf
stream, whose heat is equal to the
burning of 100000 tons of coal
every minute.
The great warm flood of the Gulf
stream, 40 miles in width and 1900
feet deep, with a temperature above
73 degrees Fahrenheit, is like hot
water pipe warming the Atlantic
coast and adjoining regions as 1t
flows northWard.
The Labrador current, 250 miles
wide and 200 feet deep, sweeps down
from the Arctic with a temperature
below 80 degrees, or freezing. 1t
meets and robs the Gulf stream OF
its heat in the meeting on the Grand
Bank.
If such jetty were built the Lab
rador current coming down from the
Arctic would be turned eastward,
and would be sunk so far when the
Gulf stream met it that the latter
warm blue river of the ocean would
pass over the great cold river from
the North Pole The warm Gulf
stream would continue in almost UNI
diminished volume to the northward
and the Labrador current would run
a mile deep through the great depths
of the Atlantic, making the torrld
zone about the equator cooler, while
the Gulf stream would require only
three months to melt every inch or
ice around the pole,
Every detail of the astonishing en-
terprise has been worked out by Car
roll Livingston Riker, of Brooklyn,
who has made critics swallow their
scornful prophecies in other enter
prises. He built at No. s. Dey street
in 1874 the first mechanical retrlger-
ating plant on board the steamship
Celtic, which carried to Liverpool the
first cargo of American dressed meats
ever landed there.
When the federal government de-
cided to make Washington, the ma
tional capital, sanitary by dredging
the Potomac Mr.. Riker designed and
built the largest and most powerful
pumping dredge ever constructed up
to that time. 1t pumped up solid
block of granite weighing l,3O0
pounds as if it were a pebble, lifting
it 80 feet above the water, and then
snatched a big steel safe from the
river ooze with the same ease. Then
he built wharfs and jetties from Bar
Harbor to the Magdalena river and
salved the steamships st. Paul, OF
ranto and A. A. Shaw when they
went on the beaches in famous
wrecks. He was one of the Amerl-
can government experts who exam
ined the dredging for the Gatun dam
at Panama: he surveyed Havana mar
Dor for the Spanish government and
prepared the system for disposal OF
Havana's sewage.
His record is not that Of a vision
airy, and the respectful interest ac-
corded him by his worldwide cores
pondents on the Great Bank Jetty
project indicates that he is Well
known to the scientific world.