Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1893 — GIVES WARNING OF STORMS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GIVES WARNING OF STORMS.

Profeuor Abbe, a Government Mefceorolo 4 gUt, and 91s Wonderful Success. The fiaan who foresaw and foretold the terrible storm which swept the southern coast recently and caused such awful loss of life is Cleveland Abbe, “professor of meteorology in the signal service and assistant to the chief signal officer, ” as he was originally designated in 1891, a position which he still holds, with a slight change of title since the trans-

fer of the weather bureau to the Agricultural Department. The fact that the entire system, of which he is the working head, is the outcome of efforts begun by him while director of the Cincinnati Observatory, makes him a life-saver of unparalleled accomplishment, while, according to Harper’s, the destruction of crops and vessels that his predictions have prevented would have mounted up into the multi-millions. In 1879 our federal government took up the work that Professor Abbe started in Cincinnati and enlarged It in every direction for practical utiliarian objects, but it provided only for the application of what little was already known in meteorology. In Professor Abbe’s view it is very doubtful whether it is wise to trust the future of meteorology entirely to the uncertainties of political life at Washington. Every State, in his opinion, should have its State weather service, as originally initiated by Gen. Hazen, and every college should have a course in meteorology, while special schools should be established in connection with our great universities for original investigations.

PROFESSOR CLEVELAND ABBE.