The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-18
PROF. WILLIS MOORE, UNCLE SANpS GREAT WEATHER
 SHARE 57 TODAY

Old Brer Groundhog and St. swithin used to be considered about the nifti- est of the weather prophets, but their noses have been put out of Joint by 1 the recent activities of an impertf- nent poacher on their preserves, one Willis Luther Moore, chief of the Uni ted States Weather Bureau. Prof. | Moore got his start in life at Scranton, Pa. just fifty-seven years ago to-day, Jan. IS, 1856. The weather is always and everywhere a fruitful topic of conversation, but most people can, when occasion demands, talk of some thing else. His first remark, say Scranton o1d-timers, touched on and appertained to meteorological condi- tions, and he has been at it ever since, except for a brief space when a lad of eight, he Joined his father with Grants army at City Point, and sold papers to the soldiers in the field. By en then, 1t is related. his cry was, l "'Wuxtry! All about the weather!"
 Medicine Hat used to be considered the source of all the weather prevail | ing on the North American continent, but of late years the Alberta city has l had a worthy rival in Washington, D.. 1 C., owing to the activities of Prof. l Moore. The eminent meteorologist was educated at the B1ngharnton, N Y, public schools, and then spent if teen years studying weather under the 1 scientific staff of the Weather Bureau. He then entered the signal corps, the predecessor of the present Weather Bureau, and in 1891 was given the | job of forecastfng what sort of wealth CT might be expected in Chicago and vicinity. He made good, and four years later was appointed chief of the United States Weather Bureau.
 All cynical statements to the con- trary, Prof. Moore and his assistants
 
 mense value to the agricultural and maritime interests of the United States, and to those of Canada, Mex tico and the West Indies as well. The chief of the weather sharps has been bitterly attacked by the muckrakers
 who aIlege that his predictions are
 mot worth shucks,'' but statistics '1o not bear out such allegations. Friends of Prof. Moore have been active o1 late in urging Presid ent-eIect Wilson to give the weather chief a cabinet position as Secretary of Agriculture
 any many such petitions have also
 been signed by members of scientific and commercial bodies.
 Prof. Moore's pet project is the es- tablishment of an international weath-
 CT bureau and declares that wher this plan is fully worked out the cross ing of the Atlantic, so far as storms
 are concerned, can be made as safe as a street car trip. By aid of the wireless, steamers could be warned ot destructive gales, and by changing
 their course could escape the full flu
 ry of the storms. Even now the weather bureau is in a position to be l l of great value to shipping
 Olga Nethersole, numbered amons
 the greatest actresses of the English speaking stage, was born in KenSing ton, London, some years ago to day That this is the anniversary of Mts:
 Nethersole's birth all authorities agree
 but as to the year there is a decided difference of opinion, the guesse! ranging from 1863 to 187O.~ He1
 father came of an old kentich fam fly while her mother was of Spanisl
 descent. She began her artistic ca reer as a member of 9 barnstormint company that toured the Englisl y "provinces-' Her first London ap G pearance was in The Union Jack a the Adelphi Theatre. After a tou ] of Australia and several seasons il . London Miss Nethersole made he s American debut at New York in 8 Q In 1902 she produced f'Sappho'' il
 New York, and was given much ire ' advertising by the police, who threat l. ened to stop the production.