Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-01-26
IVAN r. TANNEHILL HEADS
DIVISION WEATHER BUREAU

WHen the llSC OF prominent MOI
gan sons is made up, that of Ivan
r. Tannehill should be placed near
the top. Mr.. Tannehill is the oldest
son of j. B. Tannehill, now Of Wash
ington, d. c., and former editor of
the Morgan County Democrat When
boy he worked in this office.
He is a graduate of the McCon-
nelsville schools, and of Denison
University, Granville, o. He knows
as much, If not more, about hurri-
canes as any man in the U. S. His
first experience in hurricanes was
i'll 1915 when he was second in
charge of the weather station in Gal
weston, Tex, when that awful hur-
ricane almost destroyed that city
Afterward he had charge of that sta
ton for several years. During the
World War, he was put in charge
CT the only weather station in the
{. S., then in charge of the IT, S.
Navy. He is now head of one of
the divisions of the Weather Bureau
in Washington, d. c. Last fail the
government sent him to Europe to
meet other weather officials from
many countries. On that trip he
visited Austria, Switzerland, Czeeho
Slovakia, Belgium and England. On
Jan. 18th this year, he started on
government trip to South America
to visit several countries in that con-
tinent. He will be gone two months
Weather experts from many coun-
tries have their chief meeting in Ar
gentina, but they will visit other
countries there.
The following editorial appeared
recently in the New York Sun, un-
Ger the caption of ga Cat in
Storm:
'Stories continue to be told of the
hurricane that struck Long Island
and New England last September: so
many persons were affected and in
so many ways, that it will remain
alive in memory and discussion for
years to come, even though it does
not gain laureate such as Oliver
Wendell Holmes was for the Great
September Gale of 1915, which he
in verses including a la
ment that it blew away his Sunday
breeches from the line where they
we're drying. l. R. Tannehill, chief
Of the marine division of the United
States Weather Bureau, has just
published, in the Monthly Weather
Review and the Scientific Monthly, |
TWO discussions of last years storm
and promises more. In Science, A. |
w. Forbes of Worcester, Massachu-
'etts, adds to the general store some |
notes, including this:
"The first, within my personal |
-
our family cat. Previously she had |
insisted that her family be kept up
stairs, but as the storm approached |
she came down the stairs with a kit |
EN- in her mouth, hid it under a |
couch while she went to the cellar |
o find a better refuge for her fam !
ly.
''Wise puss! Perhaps sensitive is
more correct, but certainly devoted |
not the familiar of witch
md warlock which would welcome !
he approach of aerial disturbances
md the opportunity for fine broom
ide
''Mr. Tannehill expressed the be-
ief that the hurricane was the most
destructive in history, not because
[ was more furious than any other,
nut because it's path was through
uch rich and thickly settled re-
ions. He estimated the damage at
'etween 100000 and $780,
00,O00. The figures are large, but
mother excerpt from the article by
Ir. Forbes seems to justify them
'or week after the storm he
hought that his own building had
it, standing solidly, with
ardly a culver. Then he found that
he roof was beginning to weaken.
here had been enough motion to
tart some joints and loosen several
tanks. There were many degrees
# damage, and if depreciation of
tructures made slightly tremulous
e added to loss of those destroyed
n part or in whole, the total may
Xceed the figures which Mr.. Tame
ill accepted"