Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-18

snite Of vigilance and ingenuity, the ty-
phoon is still a monster to be DREADED.
1t Is only a few years since ne swept,
unheralded, into the harbor of Hong
Kong packed With everything that floats.
from ocean liners to Chinese Junks, ana
tossed them about like playthings. piled
them up on the shores like klndling wooo;
and drowned or battered the lie out Oh
Algue's own territory there was ty-
phoon not long ago that killed 1900 peo-
pie.
"Oh. 1t was too bad they couldn't be
saved" exclaimed the priest and weather
prophet as he told about that typhoon.
They ought to have been saved.' 1t hap
pened years ago, that storm, put the
memory rankles Clearly, this archfoe OF
the destroying elements grudges every
single human life that his foe wrests
from him, and rejoices over every one OF
the million or more that he has snatcheu
from that foe.
The reporters first questions were about
the barocyclonometer so Father AlGue
deferred the description of his observa-
tory and his system OF warming the Ash
ernen and other people of Manila ana
around it, in order TO explain the lnstru-
ment which, possibly, will soon be part
OF the equipment OF all shlps piyAis oA
the Atlantic.
The barocyclonometer is an ingenious
combination of the barometer with
cycone-detectlng apparatus, Whlcn last
is Father Algue'S own lnVentlon. nc
kind of barometer which. with the new
apparatus, makes UP the instrument Is
known as the Faura barometer IT was
invented by Father Faura Father Algue
predecessor as director of the Phlnppines
weather bureau, whose assistant the lat
L L 1aar n
teen years ago.
barometer used alone. Will tell OF
the approach of storm, but will give
no hint as to the direction in which
the center or vortex of the storm Is
moving. 1t is this additional information
that the cyclonometer supplies 1t Is
needless to go into detail regarding
Father Ague's invention; that would In
yolve altogether too much technical Ian
guage and use OF mathematical formulate.
Let II suffice to say that the instrument
has met with success Wherever 1t has
been used in far eastern waters, and that
It's inventor has no mtsgiving as TO the
duplication of that success when 1t is
transplanted to this part or the universe
But when he speaks of his work as
director OF the Philippine weather bureau,
n
suits of the solidest kind are what he has
obtained there TO such an extent that all
Manila swears ny MN.
He's bigger than the bishop out there,
declared an American who has seen the
Father Algue ''on the job.
Il have a corps of eighty native as
sistants" ne said. These are scattered
all through the islands of the Philippine
Some are observers. others
telegraph operators, others messengers.
At Manila l am in direct communication
with A score of other weather stations in
the islands, and also with points far away
from the Philippines-Hongkong, for in
stance
The approach OF a typhoon is at once
to me at Manila in cipher
code messages. From there ! send II out
10 dozens of other places. The messages
that | send are then transmitted to dis
tricts far distant from the receiving sta
tons.
Sometimes messengers carry the news
on BICYCLES At other times a sort OF
town crier, provided with a cornet. blows
a blast in the public square of town
or village, and when all the Inhabitants
are assembled he tells them that the ty-