The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1922-11-10
EUROPE FEARS
ICY CLIMATE
Alarmed At Prospect Of
Gulf Stream Being
Diverted.


Petrograd climate and icebergs will
shoke the Mediterranean il an alleg-
I'd American project to divert the
Gulf Stream, by bridging the gap be-
rxeeu Key West and HAVANA be-
zones a reality, state alar>aed French
scientists
Newspapers in Paris devote col
~a.ns to the reported project of Amer
kan engineers to connect the Unit
cd states with Cuba by rail, Marcel
Pays In, Excelsior pointing out that
such a plan would turn the Gulf
stream back into the South Atlantic
and transform the epresent mild cli-
mate OF North eastern Europe into an
arctic one.
Here is certainly an urgent affair
tor Tie attention of allied states
mea.~ says Pays, "far more import
xut even than the settlement OF the
furnish problem or the payment by
Germany of reparations.
No one can doubt that the men
7Mti1 dug the Panama Canal are ply
Mca Hy capable of bridging the Straits
IL Coda In fact, competent author
aies have already pronounced the
yroject completely feasible owing to
the shallow sea bed of the straits. /
sUch railway would be a compile
EEgEr af the Florida East Coast, which
gurnects Key West with the main :
Rnd by viaduct, and its realization
rould mean direct trains from New
York to Havana and Santiago.
The Americans are essentially
IsiIitarian. They have already
shown that Europe does not interest
sF,s us politically. There is reason to
Believe that the advantages to them
II a New York-Havana railway would
outweigh the tremendous disadvan-
a1spx to Europe resulting from di-
gzrsiou of the present flow OF the
Eulf Stream.
Cuba Would Agree.
"Cuba's assent TO the proJe0t 10
naturally certain. Cuba Is utterly
5aueudent on the United States, poll {
4s.4IIy and financially. The Straits |
~ Cuba are practically United States s
territorial waters already, and they
weuId become so in fact with the
.,,,,, nletion of bridge across them. |
scientists show that the Guit a
Stream is a body of warm water Is t
.,nri,xz. from the Gulf of Mexico by =
way of the Straits of Cuba. 1t is red 6
from the South AT
Tartic which enter the Gulf OF Mexi-
IN INV wayy of the straits between
lam gisas and the South American IL
,oassf. The peculiar geographical Ii
rormation of the Straits of Cuba oi- e
xs,ts the Gulf Stream in Northeast d
ssty direction across the Atlantic 10 II
europe. where it bathes the coasts OF IL
prauce, England and on up to Ice II
and. "
'sBut tor this geographical forma- %,
lion of cFts Straits of Cuba the Gun
Stream might flow north along the
american Atlantic coast, giving New
york the climate Of London, or II
might descend circular-wtse south ~
xprd and re-enter the Gulf of Next
Il 70 saie uorth of Uruguay =,
"A bridge across the Straits OF
ruba could not be built on piles ike 90
IN ordinary bridge. 1t would nave 90
n be more or less a causeway pro- y,
aeted by gigantic breakwaters. These b,
iares,twaters would inevitably stop %
he passage of the Gulf Stream, SEND y,
r hack into the Gulf of Mexico ana -
,gs-.into the South Atlantic to cross
,erhaus TO Africa or even to continue ~,
down the coast of South w,
In
Europe Would Freeze. sh
What the result OF this would be pc
"a Europe may well be imagined. on
England and France, deprived OIL of
he meIIowing temperature of the 10
IuIt Stream, would return TO the fiji
glacial period. Icebergs would choke an
ne Mediterranean and the English WI
charmed. rendering traffic dangerous ca
iud perhaps impossible in certain er
pasons. 1t would probably become tn
to cross from Calais to Do bi
,er in winter across the ice. va
''The whole architecture of Paris.
.5uaon. Brussels, and other large
french and English cities would
have TO be changed to suit the new =.
.ondFtion and to prevent whole popu- u
attons from perishing Of cold. The -
Thames would become navigable for 10