Evening Star Newspaper, September 23, 1928, Page 22

22 EQUNOKDECLAED NDT STORMCALSE Hurricane Season Is Merely Coincidence, Nature Asso- ciation Bulletin Says. D. C. MORGUE WHARF WILL BE REPAIRED ‘Workhouse Dock Will Also Be Re- habilitated—Funds Appropriated for Purpose. Bids will be opened Wednesday for reconstructing the wharf at the Dis- trict morgtie, which is in a deteriorated condition. The appropriation act con- tains an item of $6,000 for this pur- se. Engineers have reported to the Com- missioners the existing bearing piles of ! THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. SEPTEMBER 23, 1928—PART 1."° the wharf show sufficlent decay to indi- cate a loss of from 25 to 80 per cent in their structural value. Pile caps, sills and posts, it was said, are positioned without uniformity and Jare sway- braced with a miscellaneous. collection of timbers of doubtful value. ‘The District also has funds available for repairing and rehibiliatting the workhouse wharf at the foot of Ninth street southwest. About 200 feet of this wharf is said to be in need of repair. The estimated cost is $4,500. & st For going to the assistance of & police sergeant who was being attacked by a man in Kew road, Richmond, England, Miss L. Evans has been given a gold wrist watch, AUTHORIZE NEW STREET CAR LOADING PLATFORMS Will Be Placed in Seventeenth Street and Connecticut Avenue., With a view to providing additional | safeguards against traffic accidents, the District Commissioners yesterday au- thorized the installation of eight street car ldading platforms along the Georgetown and Mount Pleasant lines of the Washington Railway & Elec- tric Co., in Seventheenth Street and Connecticut avenue from H street to Dupont circle. The platforms will be located at the north and south bound stops at Seven- teenth and K streets,” the north and south bound stops- ategonnecticut ave- nue and N street, the north and south bound stop, at Connecticut avenue and M street, and the north and south bound stops south of Dupont circle. The largest platforms will be at Seventeenth and H streets. They will be 96 feet long. The others will be 60 fect long. All of them, however, will be 4 feet 6 inches wide. ae Barefoot - boys, beware! A new ban on tramps in- Lisbon, Portugal, applie: to any one going without shoes. | MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE OPEN -TO TRAFFIC TODAY | Sixteenth Street From Scott Circle | to U Will Be Ready in Latter Part of Week. Massachusetts avenue from Sheridar circle to Wisconsin ue, which I been closed for se concrete curbs and gutte structed and a new | poured on the roadws | announced yesterday by Whitchurst, fimkmm Engieer Com- | been, delayed due to the removal of r who hs administrative su- | underground construction of the Poto- n ‘over the highway department ing ©f this thoroughfare wiil a Jong detour to Wisconsin ie via Conneéticut avenue and Q Whitehurst also announced isconsin_avenue from Fessenden ct line will be re- hursday, from Sco circle to U 1 be opened the latter part of faces aye being laid . ions on Connec- prson str to xpected to be com- and six- mac Electric Co. Lack of Laboratory Equipment. 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The former was in 1900 and the second was In 1925. More damage was done at Galveston by water than by wind. Storms do occur about these dates, just as they occur at all other times of the year, but there is no scientific rea- son for supposing that their occurrence | can be connected in any way with the | sun’s passage over the equator Rugs and Draperies $7.00 a Month Pays for This Suite Occurs in Storm Period. The Autumnal equinox occurs curing | the season of West India hurricanes. en4 it occasionally happens that storms of this character sweep up our Eastern seaboard within a week or two of the date in question, extending ther in- fluence far inland, according () the American Nature Association. These events have probably helped to foster the widespread belief in an Autumnal equinoctial storm. The Barbados hurricane of 1780 wa: probably the most destructive hi AN that has occurred in the West Indi Saxby's gale swept over easiern Canada | with terrific force, October 4. 1869. 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The weather man reports a storm; that storm is the result of the approach of a cyclone covering, mayhap, the en- tire Mississippi Valley or the Pacific Coast or the Atlantic. A tornado at its largest will be less than 1,000 feet wide at the base. Whenever the barometer falls a cy- clone is approaching. A tornado may accompany it, provided the cyclone is of tornado character; provided the lo- cality is tornado territory; above all, provided it is tornado season. Tornadoes come in season. But that season is not July and August. It is not even June, the sultry month of Summer, but is limited, strangely and fortunately, to March, April and May. April is the month of bumper torna- do crops. A later variety flourishes in May and, rarely a few spjring up in late August and September. The hot days of Summer are not producers of the funnel clouds. The prevailing idea that tornadoes occur during Midsummer has crept into text books. 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