Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1896 — The Capitol’s Weather Map. [ARTICLE]

The Capitol’s Weather Map.

The immensity of the rotunda impresses the visitor at the Capitol, the frescoes are attractive, the turbulence of the House and the quiet dignity or the Senate are Interesting in their contrast, but, after all, the feature of universal interest in the white-domea building is the weather apparatus. It is something novel to glance at a map which tells you whether it is raining or snowing, sunshiny or cloudy in Montana. Illinois or Louisiana, or anywhere else in this broad land. You can tell whether the friends whom you left at home are wearing mackintoshes or airing their spring clothes under blue skies, while even the tempeature ami tli<> direction of the wind are recorded. But the map is not the only feature. There is something mysterious in the cabalistic characters which are traced on revolving cylinders, and which tell at a glance how hot or cold it is, or how hard the wind is blowing, or whether the sun is shining. The instruments which furnish the information are up on the roof of the Capitol, but delicate wires, charged with electricity convey the weather to the equally delicate instruments within the building. All day long a crowd of interestedyisitors at the Capitol throfig around the pretty mechanism and never cease to wonder at the progress of the age.—' Washington Post ..I ■ '• '