Evening star., 1918-01-27
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ranches and plains, whsrs the stock -
hurried from the ranges to shelter
upon notice OF blizxards. northers or
heavy SHOWS. these reports are welcome
assistants to the stockmen In saving
thousands Of dollars and helping to
keep tho markets Of the world supplied
with meatA
reau in Washington u between and
8 o'clock In the morning. and at the
same hours In the evening. The West
ern Union Telegraph Company puts aside
from i ali parts Of TT the ~ Country. Alaska
and the West Indies are received. Fore
cast centers have been established at
Chicago. New Orleans. Denver. San
Franciseo and Portland. Ore. at which
prepared. The Chicago district com
prises the upper Missis.ippi valley
and the northwest; the New Orleans
ss sns oalahoma tn. Denver dssles
Utah, Colorado. New Mexico and Arf-
Eona; the San Francisco district. Cali
fornia and Nevada; the Portland dis
trict, Washington. Oregon and Idaho.
for all portions of the United States
not included In the other districts.
Within two hours after the morning
observations have been taken the fore
casts arc telegraphed from the fore.
cast oenters to about 1900 principal dis
tributing points. from which they arc
further disseminated by telegraph.
telephone. wireless and mail. There are
10000 OF these mailed daily. the greater
number being delivered early In the
pm. Of the day Of issue. They arc
available to more than 5.5oo.o00 tele-
phone subscribers within an hour Of
the time of issue.
ately after the morning forecast is tele-
graphed. Autographed maps are made
at the weather bureau. When Presi-
dent Wilson goes to his office In the
first object on his desk that .greets his
eye. The salient features OF the map
are current weather conditions
throughout the country. graphically
journey those in charge Of the arrange
ments for the Presidents trip consult
the bureau. and particular attention
Is paid to forecasts when water trips
are to be made.
The climatological service is OF vast
importance during the crop-growine
season. Each Of the forty-four local
sections-each section as a rule COW
ering a single state and having for its
center a regular observing station
receives weekly reports OF weather and
crop conditions from numerous corre-
spondents. During the season Of
April to September the central ONCE
in Washington issues national
weather and crop bulletin containing
summary Of weather crop conditions
for the entire country. as well as In,
dividual summaries for the varioIS
states.
The library Of the weather burenu
contains $4,000 books and pamphlets
which are available to all bureau Of
fcials and students Of meteorology
generally. This library is either conn
suited personally or through CORES
spondence. DR.. Marvin spoke of the
value of these books to students and
the research work in aerology. He
said: Upper air observations by means
of kites. free and captive balloons havV
been in progress for the past seven or'
eight years. The kite ana captive bal.
loon work has been done at Mount
Weather. Virginia; the free balloon
work at Omaha, Indianapolis, Huron,
8. D.. and Avalon. Cal The wonderful
benefits reaped from this work are now
showing practical results in the Army.