| Show YHIIIUl AttlOat 10 ORDER The following from the Washington correspondent aftheChIcago llsoord Is good enough to deserve general quota loll and publicity WAstriNaToN D C My nLut Friday the people of RlIadelphl woro ot t1 lalt r wb Anxious to know whether they were go In g to have good weather on the dsT lot I rn bloadoj oglitichhad boon appointed for t be d leotion at the Washington mon tienent In Fairmount I Parks In order that I they might chenge their I plans if nOcoo rary It had been raining stoadliLy aii b the week > and there wore no signs of can nation They did nol want 10 Dole Ibo resident and cabinet and diplomatic co to unveil a monument In the rains llIl Il stnTao he onsulted For W11118L I Mooro fthywe buroao and akod him to in Ate a special prediction Professor Moore Invited his superior omeor the secretary 01 agricultureto IO with him 10 the porlmeoting grounds 01 The bureau among the Virginia hill back of Arlington to Witnems a test for ft ar the benefit of Philadelphia I A kite made or linennbout eight feettiquare roSd with soverat meteorological 1 Instruments was released by tho operator oper-ator and In a few minutes passed on Iroly from sight I In tho heavens carry 1 IYw MotI i fr6 ng with It 8500 feet of steel wire by which 11 was anoaored to the ground Allor an hour or to the lino was reeled up the kite was drawn lit anil the automatic auto-matic registers wore examined I It was llicovered that the temperature Ibo height of one mile above the earth was 21 1 decrees cooler than at the surface and I hat the wind at that elevation was blowIng blow-Ing at the rate of 100 pounds pressure In a direction CO degrixn dlllorent from that ol the wind on the surface of Ibo earth It was observed that the kite had pained through a region I of calm before it reached the rapid currents ot air I and hat all the conditions Indicated ap preaching atmospheric changes and a change el wind which would blow Ibo storm southwestward In the direction ol the sea Taking the results of this experiment I W hkl those f other ordinary observations observa-tions 1rof Mooro felt justified In predicting that Saturday would bo clear and cooler and the people of Ihlladolphla would have a coos day He telegraphed them to that effect and received grateful acknowledgment Sure rucugh Ibo prediction was verified |
