Show n lgigsal Service Malters Washington 2 = General Hazen chief signal officer in his annual report re-port says The past year has been distinguished by additional progress pro-gress and decided improvement s Referring to the weather forecasts made this year for the first time in the interest of cotton growers General Gen-eral Hazen saysT Congress dId not t appropriate the amount carefully estimated as necessary to meet thee the-e pense of the increased work and I was unwillingly compelled to re duce the number of stations to 100 selected from the 248 promised which are so situated as to best r + cover the latter belt I earnestly I hope that Congress will this year igr provide the funds necessary for a j great extension of this special feature feat-ure of the signal service which i 1 promises with very small expenditure expendi-ture such great practical advantages i advan-tages to staple interests of the south General Win B Hazen chief signal i sig-nal officer has transmitted to the secretary of war his annual report of the operations of the signal corps for the year 1SS1 Hazen calls attention to the fact that the present weather service for the Pacific 1 Coast is inadequate and inefficient y 1 and recommends that a specially instructed in-structed officer of the signal corps be stationed at San Francisco in 1 t order that he may make a particular yf study of the Pacific meteorology g and prepare and send out from that city indications of the weather and i wind for the entire coast This Hazen thinks will be a much better bet-ter plan than the recent one of send l ting t-ing weather forecasts for the Pacific I Coast from Washington 1 + k General Hazen notes the deductions deduc-tions made of weatker conditions for the day succeeding that for which the forecast is made and f k says If the result of these studies is + sufficiently successful the indications indica-tions will in time be issued for all districts for periods of more than one day General Hazen calls especial attention to the value of 3 river reports and says The opinion is again expressed that with proper studv of river floods and with stations 1 sta-tions properly placed reporting at c times of especial danger it can be made almost impossible for a flood ta follow a river course without notice being given as coming in advance Er localities threatened Frost warnings j warn-ings now telegraphed to New Orleans ii Or-leans for the benefit of the sugar interest will be extended for the i i benefit of the orange interests of Florida and the fruit interests at t other points a 4 t + IF A 3 |