Show WEATHER BUREAU is 16 C PREPARING FOR t. t i y OPENING OF 1 e r a C A NA r. r n WASHINGTON Feb 4 4 Preparations are being made by the weather bureau for the opening of the Panama canal Authority to extend Its Ilg service to the ther r Caribbean so o as to obtain complete meteorological rep reports from sixteen stations sta Ma- has hl been berm naked asked b by the bureau u for tor forthe or orthe the tte protection of or the tho shipping that will use he the canal canal It Is reposed proposed to r restore tore I I Berta certain features of ot tha the o o weather service e established throughout I th tho West Indies In the Sp Spanish American n war hear In the Interests of or the fleets and andI transports One of or the now maw stations would he bet a a. fully Cully equipped station of or tho the I weather uth r bureau similar to those 8 In the United State and located In tho final canal zone Itself Substations Substation would be maintained main main rapid at various points along along- the canal for tho dissemination of weather mation matlon In addition to the l service ice tho buy bu bureau reau wishes to provide for foT the extension of nr marine marIno reports by wireless from vessels vessels ves ves- r sels els plying the tho waters watern of or this region so as ag to to provide the tho safest latest possible In Information information In in- 1 formation covering the entire Caribbean f Action The weather observations In the Caribbean sea lea It 11 Is Is' Is belle believed will be he of or teat AI assistance In connection with the various storm torm warnings now note being re rePorted reported re re- ported through the station signals and wireless to all aU the ships In the Atlantic At lantic and gulf districts In these storm torm warnings special reform from tho entire West e t Indies will be lII used ed The Tho bureau alo I has asked authority of or congress tomake to tomake tomake make seismological l observations In tho the thoc c nAi zone a a a- regular part of or Its work wort I |