The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-01-21
Riker Presents Petition Seeking
Investigation of Gigantic
Scheme.

Washington. January EFF The
present Congress. or the next one pays
s sn,s1.Ien to the me Ps spito by Carroll
Livingstone Rlker. OF brooklyn, - 80.
IL will have on it's hands an inVestiea "a,
ton beside which the chasing OF sre
money trust" and the steel trust
and the Usage Indian biilion-doliaI on
land investigation and ali others pale
Mr. Riker proposes that Congress
shall pass a law TO create cohhliils
sion 10 study the feaslDllity OF rri
TO prevent the cold waters OF the Aic
tic Ocean from making their constant
onslaught upon the warm ana nie-siN
ing waters Of the mighty Our. Snrsfen,
To show how easy such proJeSt
would be. Mr.. Riker says ehse the ON. o,is
thing necessary would be 20 constIueC.
an STAND 200 miles i9hg ahd the base
TO three mil9s in width at the Bolil.'
This jetty. according 70 MI. hinei'
should stick straight on to the east,
ward from the coast 70 Newfoundland;
across the Grand Banks, which ""u'"
provide the foundation
Asked to start Inquiry. -,
Congress is asked To pass a Olii au-
thOriZipr an Investigation OF the cidlih
that tho cold Labrador current ls eia rr,
ually descending lower and lower upon
the world and may perhaps some Gay
overcome the strength of the warm
Gulf Stream with inestimable havoc 70
Mr.. Riker claims that the Our
Stream. IL allowed to continue nor .ha
ward without the Interference ol s ,nV
Arctic waters of the Labrador Sutr t, J. :.
d garden spot
Much of IN heat of which the Guli
Stream has been thus deprived hdti way
on its journey would pr9paplg DC ,,g,d
Zone which needs that heat; ana the
Torrid Zone the frigidity or capscity ~
heat. which the Labrador Current WpuaH
otherwise absorb from II, ana "hiCI
were neutrallzed when here eSchdnkeu
by the two currents midway, Denehtins
neither their destination nor their pat
tleneld but instead producing almost
continuous fogs at and near their meet
ing place and largely along the ehtiIe
coast southwark also orlnging the
bergs far south into the line oil trans
atlantic steamers, instead or being ineIted
by the warm water of the Gun StiS sdnn
near where they originate or oe, ,,Io
calving: the offspring OF these TWO
great currents are the mongreis INTO
which the Gulf Stream socB diVldeS, they
becoming aimless WANDERERS Wi WI ,',s,l
yious irresistible maj estic sweep anu
thus enfeebled. wholly unable 70 cope
with the head-on southeasteriy oppOs,
ing flow of the European polar current
after its projection 10 the surface ds II
surmounts the great mid Atiantlc oack-
bone 400 miles south o. Ire fsraosy
hills
Exclamation of Island.
In exclamation of the island which VIII
dam the currents. he says,
The magnitude of this project as u
appears at first sight. comprising as ~
does the control OF the two greatest OF
ocean currents, in themselves tne hosi
mighty of all natural phenomena, and
what would be the resultant dement's.
seem too vast TO be practical, II not
The construction of this. proposed
mighty lefty or peninsula of land ex,
tending 200 miles into the ocean ana
tapering from about forty miles IN
width az the shore end TO three at its
easterly extremity. and covering az area
of more than 1000 square miles. wnere
The water now rolls hundreds OF feet
deep. amid fogs and icebergs; and IN
view of the general attitude of old Nep-
tune when attempt Is MADE 20 encroacn