Show THE GULF STREAM COMING CLOSER the gulf stream that great ocean river which brings the warmth of the tropics up into the north is moving closer inshore if certain shipmasters ship masters know what they are talking about the savannah morning news reports that masters of ves sels arriving at that port claim that the gulf stream is now a hundred miles farther west than it used to be and the wilmington morning horning star in discus the alleged phenomenon sees ho reason for rejecting the theory and suggests that it may furnish h an explanation for the warm weather that has prevailed winter that seems rather a violent assumption there is perhaps nothing inherently unlikely in a gradual change in the course of the gulf stream but a change rapid enough and sudden enough to explain the extraordinary mildness of this particular winter could hardly have occurred save as the result of some great oceanic cataclysm so tremendous that we should surely cave have been aware of it while ifa as taking place |