The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-11-15

" F we may credit deep sea sci
enlist, it will cost less than $780,
100000 to make Siberia sum-
mer resort, start ice famines in
Labrador, give Scotland an all
day summer, with 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 it to truck gardening.
To do so will be cheaper, much easier
and twice as quickly done as to build
the Panama canal, says the New York
Herald.
ALI that is necessary to accomplish
these results, some of which would re-
suit from tipping the old earth side
ways, is to build riprap jetty about
200 miles long across the shoals ex-
tending eastward from Newfoundland,
near Cape Race. That would stop the
Labrador current, whose cold Is cap
able 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. They meet now
on the Grand Bank, where the water
is only about $50 feet deep. The Gulf
stream is split up and spreads out
over millions of square leagues OF the
Atlantic.
Sink Labrador Current.
If such a jetty were built the Labra-
dor 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 undiminish-
ed volume to the northward and the
| Labrador current would run mile
deep through the great depths OF the
| Atlantic making the torrid zone about
the equator cooler, while the Gulf
stream would require only three
| months to melt every inch of Ice
around the pole.
| Fantastic though this may appear,
It has received the closest interest
from the foremost men of practical
| science in America and other coun-
tries. Every detail of the as
founding enterprise has been worked
out by Carroll Livingston Riker OF
Brooklyn, who has made critics sWaF
! low their scornful prophecies in other
| enterprises. He built at 81 Dey street,
| In 1874, the first mechanical refriger-
! ating warehouse ever constructed, and
| devised and constructed the refrig-
| erat plant on board the steamship Gel
tic. which carried to Liverpool the
| first cargo Of American dressed meats
ever landed there.
He designed and constructed the
first ice and cold air refrigerating ma
chine ever constructed. He was call
Cd visionary when he proposed each
Of these, which have proved pioneers
IN great Industrial equipment Of the
world.
| When the federal governpent de
cided to make Washington, the ma
tional. capital. sanitary by dredging
the Potomac Mr.. Riker designed and
hnilt the largest and most powerful
humping dredge ever constructed up
to that time. It pumped up solid
block OF granite weighing 1000 pounds
"a Il It were q pebble. lifting It 80
feet above the water, and snatcned 9
big steel safe from the river ooze
With the same ease. Then he built
wharfs and jetties from Bar Harbol
to the Magdalena river and salved the
steamships ST. Paul. Otranto ana a. a
Shaw when they went on the beaches
/ A. Famous wrecks. He was one OF tne
i American government experts VINO g
ahmed the dredging for the GatnI