Hurricanes Not New
Columbus Knew Them
Hurricanes Are Not' New, But
Florida Resorts More
Numerous.
A hurricane, has to have some
thing to blow away—or how can it
demonstrate that It is a hurricane?
Thus the U. S. Weather bureau
in reply to suggestions that West
Indian Tempests, winding up with
a lot of damage at Florida east
coast resorts, are becoming extra
ordinarily frequent.
In the opinion of bureau officials,
the storms are no more numerous
than ever they were.
The Florida east coast resorts are,
however.
uoiumous tost some vessels in a
West Indian hurricacne. The archi
pelago was cyclone swept as long
as that, at any rate.
Storms played smash with the
buccaneers for a couple of centuries.
Weather bureau records show 197
tropical cyclones in the West Indies
between 1887 and 1915. There were
unsettled before 1900.
But southern Florida was practi
cally unsettled before 1900.
Hurricanes doubtless were sweep
ing the east coast regularly, as far
back as there was any east coast
but what of it?—until people began
to live there?—and build cities?
Today, when a hurrican hits the
Everglade state, it destroys millions
of dollars worth of property, maybe
kills some hundreds of inhabitants,
leaves several thousands homeless
and, more important than all else,
scares the daylights out of several
multi-millionaire colonies.
Islands like Porto Rico and the
Virgins, to be sure, were well settled
long before southern Florida was,
but this country was not responsible
for them until comparatively recent
years—not for Porto Rico until we
took it away from Spain; not for
the Virgins until still later, when
we accquired them from Denmark.
Consequently, although hurricanes
had been laying them flat about
every so often, from away back in
the 16th century, we never paid any
particular attention to their trou
bles earlier than the latter part of
the 19th.
Now, as possessions of our own.
their difficulties are ours, too, when
disaster befalls them.
A hurricane? A cyclone? A ty
phoon?
All the same thing, according to
the weather bureau.
A tornado is a different breed of
kittens.
A tornado is one of the “twisters"
such as we are familiar with on our
western prairies—and sometimes
elsewhere, but in the prairie coun
try in particular.
It is a local disturbance and rela
tively a small affair, although ter:i
filc in its violence, where it docs
strike.
Popularly the tornado is often re
ferred to as a “cyclone," but never
by a meteorologist. To him a cy
clone is a storm of large propor
tions, from 50 to 500 miles in dia
meter, which may travel hundreds
of miles from its point of origin,
until it dissipates itself.
The cyclone is. indeed a vast whirl,
just as the tornado is a small one,
but a whirl in a direction the re
verse of a tornado and at no such
frightful velocity as the latter—in
fact, at a rate of speed comparative
ly so moderate as to be spoken of
only as a “wind," though sometimes
a very high wind.
uycicaies are constantly traversing
the globe, usually as quite ordinary
storms, worthy of no especial notice
beyond what is customarily accord
ed to day-by-day weather changes.
The creations of cross currents In
the air and conflicting tempera
tures, it is only occasionally that
the right combination occurs to kick
up a really destructive manifesta
tion—hurricane, torrential rain,
blizzard or what-not, dependent on
season and latitude.
The tropical hurricane is the
most violent type.
Its genesis Ls in the vicinity of the
equator, where just the elements
prevail of heat and moisture which
appear to be necessary to give it
fury.
Moreover, the globe's spin na
turally is swiftest at this point of
greatest diameter, at right angles
with its axis, so that the earth's
surface, in a sense, literally is jerk
ed out from under the gathering
storm, giving it its initial impetus.
Exactly where the tropical cyclone
Is born is a matter of controversy.
In the western hemisphere it cer
tainly is somewhere to the east
ward of the line of the West Indian
archipelago, In the eastern hemis
phere it appears to be in the neigh
borhood of the Island of Guam.
In the West Indies the customary
term lor these storms is the hurri
cane,” in the orient, the “typhoon.”
The difference is purely one of
nomenclature.
Theoretically it may seem as if
there is no reason why a cyclone
should not be brewed at any point,
the world around, in the equatorial
belt, sweeping thence to the north
westward—the big tropical storm's
Invariable direction at the outset,
though subsequently generally more
or less deflected by atmospheric and
other conditions which it encount
ers.
In point of fact, when the cyclone
Crosses a large land area, its charac
ter is changed, presumably by the
friction of the earth and the ob- J
structicn of mountain ranges; so]
that great portions are reached on
ly by those spawned in a few rather
limited areas.
America naturally is mainly inter
ested in the cyclones which first
make themselves felt on her own
coast, and less in the typhoons,
which spend their forces along the
Asiatic littoral.
Blows like the latest West Indian
and Florida hurricane come tearing
their way out of a little-navigated
stretch of ocean in the general di
rection, from the southern West
! Indies, of the Cape Verde islands.
! and generally are assumed to have
: originated somewhere between the
| two longitudes.
| Lieut. E. H. Kincaid, until lately
! of the United States naval hydro
’ graphic office has evolved the the
j ory, however, that they are born
1 primarily of the hot air of the
J Sahara.
As a means of testing his hypoth
i esis, Kinkaid has invented a device
! known as the static recorder, soon
to be installed at coasts points scat
tered from the southeasterly tip of
the West Indies to the neighbor
hood of the Virginia capes, which
it is hoped will give advance notice
of approaching disturbances with
| absolute reliability.
The Storms are depended on to
[ furnish the static and the converg
i ing lines from the various stations.
! if the theory is sound, will establish
j the position and movement of them
| centers.
The same natural laws which af
fect storm conditions in the north
i ern hemisphere of course produce
| similar effects south of the equator
i modified by the considerably dif
ferent arrangement of continental
areas "down under."
‘‘Old Families" Are Slipping.
Hendersonville Times.
! Rober Babson, famous statistician,
made some highly interesting re
marks the other night at a meeting
of Boston business men.
After saying that he was optimis
tic over New England's commercial
and industrial future, he added:
‘‘But I am not optimistic about
the old New England families. Our
business is passing into the hands
of immigrants and the sons of im
migrants, while the grandsons of
the old families are playing golf."
| Within a quarter of a century, he
[added, the presidents of all Boston
i banks will be immigrants or the sons
i of immigrants, and the famous old
j families will have passed out of the
i financial picture completely.
If there is any section of the
country that specializes in Old Fam
ilies, it is New England—and es
; pecially Boston. Virginia, to be
; sure, has a number of them, and
so does Maryland; but nowhere has
the importance of being born right
been considered quite so important
as in Boston. To bear the name of
Cabot, Lodge. Peabody. Saltstall.
Endlcott or Lowell was to be one of
the elect; and to bear such a name
as O'Brien. Cohen or Bercovici was
to be a barbarian.
For many years tnese old New
England families justified their pre
tensions. They were the financial
overlands of New England—indeed,
for a time they were pretty much
the whole community. They fur
nished the country with some of its
greatest statesmen, authors, artists,
j educators and jurists. They believed
that they were born to rule, and
they did a pretty fair job of it, too.
But Mr. Babson believes that the
end is near, and it is not hard to
agree with him. Boston has long
ceased to be the center of the coun
try's Intellectual activity. Instead it
devotes itself to banning books and
plays that other cities find stimulat
ing. One of Massachusetts’ senators
bears the good old name of Gillette
but the other, alas, is an Irishman
named Walsh.
So it goes. New blood keeps com
ing to the surface. Old dynasties
give way before more energetic
newcomers. Boston is only experi
encing what all other old cities
from Florence on down, have gone
through. It is impossible to keep
financial or industrial rule in a
family forever.
The great problem is distribution.
Think of legs like that being
| wasted on a kangaroo, far from
street crossings.—Hagerstown Her
ald.
Now tht war is outlawed, na
tions need armament only to Show
what they could do if they hadn’t
reformed,—Windsor Border Cities
Star.
The real question is not whether
the Kellogg treaty will end wars,
but whether it will keep them from
beginning.—Norfolk Virginian-Pilot.
We expect to see the next crea
tion of General Motors look some
thing like a camel in front and a
brown derby in the rear.—The
Thomas E. Pickerill Service.
Maybe corruption Isn’t an issue
because the pot is afraid the kettle
might have noticed something, also.
—Syracuse Post-Standard.
Herbert Hoover’s invasion of the
South will accomplish at least one
good. It will show those Democrats
that not all Republicans are post
masters.—Sun Diego Union.
Russia isn’t the only state that
makes marriage too easy.—There's
the state of intoxication.—Wilming
ton Dispatch.
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