Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1891 — Whistling Predictions. [ARTICLE]

Whistling Predictions.

The United States Weather Bureau is endeavoring to establish a novel system of weather forecasts. Already the principal railroads of the country have adopted tho plan of disseminating weather predictions by displaying signal flags on trains, and the Bureau hopes to extend this system by having locomotives g;ve the signals by means of their whistles. Professor Harrington, the chief of tho Weather Bureau, has arranged a system of weather combinations by which persons living at a distance from the roads can receive the forecast. By repeating each combination a few times, with an interval of ten seconds between, possibilities of error in reading tho forecasts will be avoided, such as may arise from variable winds or failure to hear the warning signal. As the weather forecasts are telegraphed daily to a large number of stations of tho Weather Bureau on railroads in various sections of the country, there are many small towns which may obtuin them by telephone free of expense. They niuv also be obtained from the daily newspapers. Thoso desiring to display or sound the signals and who are not able to obtain tho forecasts as abovo should communicate directly with the Director of the Weather Bureau, and if it is impracticable for the United States to bear tho expense of transmission they will be furnished at the regular commercial rate and sent ‘‘collect.”—[New York Telegram.