The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 11, 1954, Page 5

Page Sicat out unless it first appeopriates|Hotel. The addition of the Florida ss jat. least 20 million dollars. National Bank stands there we Art ( on sul t Will Hel We Got A Bureau The bureau held out’ there wnti) tan p In Any way, that’s how the weather|Feb. 28, 1882. rhe So must have bureau really got started. Paine’s|ked it in the ystem Thursday, February 11, 1954 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN NAVARRO, Inc. SPECIALS For Friday Only 8 A.M. till 9:30 P.M. Lot No. | Lot No. 2 424 SOUTHARD STREET | OPP. NAVY ComMMISSARY Tel. 2-2242 Tel. 2-7886 1950 1950 CHEVROLET | CHEVROLET bareen es wiiee sr Monroe County School S Congress first put the weather) On March 1, 1882, the station—| bureau in the Signal Service of the|they now had a whirling Psychro-/ Wayne Hawxhurst has been en-|, War Department. jmeter—moved to the Wall Build-\-.204 by the Monroe County | The first warning was issued/ing. Maybe that’s why they had to Schecl anaand sa Miabesatiact Ge Nov. 1, 1870. The first weather/move. The whirling psychrometer. mt map was issued Jan, 1, 1871. This\A stuffy guest (probably from Bos. cher, it was announced today by made the U. S. the fourth nation|ton) complained. : Horace O'Bryant, superintendent by DENIS SNEIGR in the world to issue a daily wea-| They stayed paper March of public instruction. 3 ‘ther map. The Netherlands, Eng-|30, 1886 when the € 80W,| Hawxhurst. ? jland and France were already do-\the Habana Madrid. half of this — prepevet Lousy communications Prevented|no profit in that kind of forecast-|ing it. Evidently they saved the whi. half oes os oll seas: st pun Ben Franklin from inventing theling. By the time you started run-| On July 1, the bureau was trans-ling psychrometer, though Or else Penchars College, arti a weather bureau, |ning through streets and yelling |fered from the Signal Corps to the|they bought a new one because they his bi > ° ot HW the communications in 1747)about a storm coming, someone|Department of Agriculture. There|opened April 12, 1886 in Building Hie rity ne ditt be tind ofa! hadn't been so crummy, Franklin|would say: lit stayed until 1940 when it wasjNo. 1 at the U. S. Naval Depot,|, 4 nun vecckiny want en would have been an early weather) “Yeah, we know it. We had the|put where it now is, under the|That’s where the Coast Guard is fachats and (papllciofi tha comsgiet i forecaster. funerals yesterday for the people|Department of Commerce. quartered now. elementary schools As it turned out, the United States| Who got drowned.’ F. W. Reichelderfer is chief of r t i Here We Go Again | “The art consultant am,” didn’t get around to starting a Telegraph Invented the whole works in Washington. | On Jan. 1, 1867, the station mov-/O’Bryant said, “provides a. quait-| weather bureau until 1870, In fact, Nothing Stops Them last Tuesday, Feb. 9, was the an niversaty, according to the Knick- erbocker Beer calendar I have. In 1747, Franklin was living in Philadelphia. He had a brother living in Boston. This made no difference to Franklin. He cooked ep a.deal with his brother to watch an eclipse of the moon— Franklin making observations in So the country just gummed! jalong without a weather bureau/ juntil the telegraph was invented in| ed into the Waite Building (also|fied art person whose time is avail- called the Pierce Building.) You’d/able to meet the needs of the re- think they would hardly have had spective school and community ac- But if you think the weather’ bureau as a whole has had a lot 1837. This speeded up communications. | |At least it was better than wait- ing for a letter from your brother) in Boston. | \ Franklin was dead by then, but! {some other people began gathering! of trouble, what with storms andjtime to even glanee at their whirl-|tivities involving visual expres- § only $20,000, wait until you learn|ing psychrometer what with all this'sion. ~ what has happened to the Key|moving, but they did. “The consultant,” O’Bryant add-! West weather station. | Another night spot, the Mardijed, “is concerned with teaching,| It was in 10 locations before it|Gras, is on the site of the Waite research, resources, collaboration| . finally settled down in its present|Building now. \in the guidance and therspetue] WAYNE HAWXHURST spot in the U. S. Post Office build-| At last, on May 23, 1903, the program, curriculum planning, spe- i station moved into its own building cial functions involving school-com-|Rose Jane McCardle, Key West Fordor Powerglide - Radio - Heater White Sidewall Tires $876.00 Fordor $793.00 ing at Simonton and Elizabeth Philly and the brother in Boston, |\2oPe on storms and passing it along | freets. —the Weather Bureau Building—|munity activities, and evaluation.”|high school math teacher, Storm Hits Philly Fravklin was all set in Philly when a big storm blew up ai he didn’t see any more of that 1147 eclipse than I did. Since the wind was from the northeast, Franklin figured that Boston, too, must have been over- cast, But several days later (note erummy communications) Frank- lin got a letter from his brother in Boston. The letter told all about the eclipse and said that a big storm had hit Boston the morning after the eclipse. Mevements Noted #0, thought Franklin, the storm moved northeast to Boston even though the wind was blowing from the northeast, (1 don’t understand this part of| #, either. But that’s what it said in this book Sam Goldsmith, the! weatherman, lent me). Franklin observed some more storms and concluded that a storm ‘was a moving formation. He immediately wanted to track storms and warn people that they were coming. He wanted to run) through the streets of Philadelphia, | \ yelling: “Watch out! Watch out! a storm’s coming!” But he couldn’t track them very well. Storm Weuldn’t Wait by telegraph. This sort of half-| hearted forecasting might have de- veloped into something but the Ci-/burned down and, of course, there |yil War came along and they cut! 45 the usual trouble with storms. it out. Seems like the bureau has been ¥ 3 plagued with storms ever since So they country fiddled along Franklin’s time. Storms in 1909 again without a weather bureau. and 1910 like to blew the joint |This brings us up to the 1860'S\inun and the bureau had to get and more storms. lout. “ — Storms = Open For Business ese storms were not anywhere) The iin: elt, Bear Boston or Philly. They Were couple tgp fae jreal tough storms over the Great! 4 lal ments, opened for business on Nov. spl 1, 1870 in the Russell House. That The Cincinnati Board of Trade'was a hotel. It now is called the (another name for Chamber of/Tropical Hotel and it is not off Commerce) didn’t like the storms. jimits, jAt least the board didn’t like the) One of the instruments the bureau storms sneaking up on Cincinnati|opened with was a stationary psy- unannounced, chrometer, | “They get everything wet,” the) Goldsmith told me a psychro- \chairman of the board said. |meter is a gimmick that takes the Professor Cleveland Abbe, direc- wet and dry temperature which tor of the Observatory of Cincin-\determines the relative humidity. jnati, was asked by the board to)That’s pretty good. forecast the storms. | For some reason, the bureau W. U. Enters The Act |didn’t stay in the Russell House | Prof. Abbe did and the Western|Ve'Y long. In fact, the station only Union transmitted the forecasts/St@yed there one month. It moved free. (I'll bet that was the last ‘© the Tift and Co. Building on thing the W. U. transmitted free. Nov. 30, 1870, The stockholders probably raised, jhell about that free transmission.); The Tift and Co. Building is Prof. Abbe was a sharp forecast-,where the old Mallory dock now er. His results (helped by W. U.,|is. Yither and Yon |she means love, And to others, she! jcinating theme of “The Gay Adven- One time the building it was injat Front and Eaton. This is the} On Dec. 26, Hawxhurst and Miss|married in Indiana, Pa. one that was damaged by storms) |in 1909 and 1910. A | While waiting for repairs, the! \bureau moved to the Island City \Bank Building, 205 Duval, now an) joffice building. This move was from Oct. 1, 1911 until Jan. 22,| 1913. | Then it was back to the building’ at Front and Eaton until March| 29, 1950, when the bureau finally) ;moved into its present location on} the second floor of the post office | |building. ; he | It was still there this morning, |but I forgot to ask Goldsmith what kind of a psychrometer he’s got, now—whirling or stationary, | Dream Girl Is Theme Of Monroe Movie Every man has his dream girl. To some she is life itself. To others! means excitement. Such is the fas- “S*| For Bargains Galore—Read The Citizen’s Classifieds SATISFACTION GUARANTEED AACS February Festival Of Values!. FRIDAY AND SATURDAY SPECIALS! BRAND NEW. no doubt) attracted national at- |ture,”” romantic comedy slated to (Goldsmith explained where alliopen Sunday at the Monroe Thea-| This is where lousy communica-'tention. these places are and what they/tre through United Artists release. | tions come in. | This led the Hon. H. E. Paine,|were. I certainly don’t know.) |The picture stars Burgess Mere-| By the time people in differentja representative from Wisconsin, The station, still using the same|dith and Jean-Pierre Aumont, with) localities observed a storm’s mo- to introduce a bill in Congress for,old psychrometer, stayed there un-|the role of the dream girl being] tion and wrote Franklin a letter|$20,000 to start a nation-wide wea-|til July 31, 1871, Then it moved to played by a lovely newcomer to} about it, the storm had already|ther service. Ja spot on Duval Between Front|the American screen — Paula Val-| Sot where it was going and rained} That $20,000 in itself is remark-|and Caroline until Feb. 28, 1872. jenska. on everybody. jable. 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