Show WEATHEr BUREAU The Atmosphere Has Perceptibly Cleared Since the Investigation WASHINGTON July 11The atmosphere atmos-phere about the weather bureau has cleared off very perceptibly since the recent re-cent investigation and affairs are running along very smoothly with very little probability I I pro-bability of any further changes being made in the near future in the bureau Secretary Morton said today that he wished to make the bureau popular in short he will insist upon useful forecasting fore-casting so the farmer miner shipper and commercial man can derive from it the greatest possible good In addition to the cutting off of a number num-ber of what he calls useless scientists Secretary Morton proposes to save money in the matter of telegraph tolls He has also decided to discontinue the river and flood room work and at early date will place the river forecast in charge of observers ob-servers located on the principal rivers As a result Carl Barnes F H Bigelow and Thomas E Russell professors of meteorology will be dropped from the rolls this month along with a number of clerks and other employees In his forthcoming report Secretary Morton will make two important recommendations recom-mendations One relates to the indis mend3tons crimate distributing of garden seeds and tho other to the duplications of experiments experi-ments by stations now being done by the department |