New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 24, 1928, Page 14

GULF STREAN NOT CHANGING IS PATH Great “River of the Octan” Goes 6 Alwaps Washington, D. C, Aug. 24.—Is| the great Gulf Stream stopping its flow or changing its course? This question is asked more or less seriously every few years when some transatlantic steamship captain notes unusual temperatures in mid- ocean, or even a reversal at some point in the usual flow of the sur- face waters. Within recent weeks the | question has been raised anew both in England and the United States. Stream Has Settled Habits The answer, according to the | National Georgraphic society, can safely be put down as “no.” History, botany, geology, meteor- ology and oceanography can be call- €d as high-powered character w nesses to testify to the settled habits of the Gulf Stream, From the testi- mony of this array of sciences it can be assumed that the grea’ “river of the ocean” has been flowing along | its course for centuries and even for | scores of millenniums. The huge stream, which moves more water than all the rivers of the earth com- bined, can hardly be expected to change its age-old habits over night. Place an electric fan so that its current of air strikes one side of the surface of a tub full of water,” con- tinues the bulletin, *“and you will | have the phenomena of the Gulf Stream repeated on a small scale. The fan's air blast will raise tiny ripples and will drive the surface water be- fore it. The moving surface water | will drag the deeper water along, | Betore long practically all the water wil be in motion, swirling around the tub. Islands Form Funnel | In the case of the Gulf Stream | the North Atlantic ocean stands in | place of the tub, and the Trade Winds of the northern hemisphere play the part of the electric fan. Other factors have a hand in creat- ing and molding the Gulf Stream, however. The Caribbean sea, hem- med in on the north by Cuba and | Haitl, and on the south and south- west by the coasts of Central Amer- fca and Yucatan, is a gigantic funnel with the spout leading into the Gulf of Mexico. The waters of the Carib- bean, blown westwardby the Trade Winds, rush through this spout and ‘pile up,’ 80 to speak in the Gulf of Mexico. The only outlet is through the Florida Straits between the tip of Florida and Cuba. Through this nossle, then, the stream gushes out, an {rresistible current 40 miles wide and nearly 3,000 feet deep. Guided northward by the Bahamas and then eastward by the continental shelf of North America, the great stream moves with such momentum that it plows through the ocean and pre- serves its identity all the the way to Europe, Although the Gulf Stream is usually thouht of as arising in the Gulf of Mexico and spending itself on the shores of Europe, in reality much of it completes the circuit and consti- tutes a vast merry-go-round of waters in the North Atlantic, A branch %f the stream turns north of the British Isles and enters the Arc- tic ocean; but another part turns south to the coast of Portugal, then southwest and finally comes again under the influence of the Trade Winds which give it new life. Shaped Europe's Climate The Gulf Stream has had a role in world afrairs, the importance of which is seldom realized. For ages it has helped in the scattering and evolution of animal and vegetable forms. It has held the climate of much of northern Europe in its moving waters. But for its beneficen: work as carrier of equatorial heat to the northward and eastward, Eng- land might have the climate of Labrador, and Norway the bleakness of Greenland. It has even had much to do with the geological formation of large areas of the ocean’s bottom by determining the places of sedi- mentation. And day by day it is ai factor in the price of everything car- ried afloat between Europe and America as well as in the safety of all who cross the Atlantic, The great current has had its part, too, in shaping the history of America. Before the discovery of the New World, strange woods and fruits were found on the shores of Europe and the off-lying islands. Some of these were seen and ex- amined by Columbus, and to his thoughtful mind they “were con- vincing evidence that strange lands existed somewhere to the westward. These objects were carried by the Gulf Stream and by the prevailing winds from the American continent, 80 that in part the Stream lald the foundation for Columbus’ famous voyage. Once under way, and sail- | ing across the southern rather than the northern portion of the Atlantic, Columbus had the return flow of the great circular stream to help carry him to the West Indies. How long has the Gulf Stream been flowing? The question cannot be answered in years, but can be answered in geological terms. As a stream forced into and then out of the Gulf of Mexico, 1t must have been flowing ever since the Gulf and its peninsulas and neighboring islands have existed in substantially their present form. But even before the Gulf of Mexico existed there must have been, as at present, a clock-wise swirl of warm waters in the Atlantic basin. Today, part of the so-called Gulf Stream does not enter or leave the Gulf of Mexico, but joins the Gulf arm of the stream mnorth of the Bahamas. 1t is reasonably safe to say that there has been a ‘Gulf Stream’ (although the Gulf may have played no part in its early existence) ever since there has been an Atlantic ocean and | Trade Winds to blow upon it, KILLS BIG RATTLER Brownstown, Tex., Aug. 24, (UP) —A rattlesnake four and a half feet long with 13 rattles, was killed by William Holing while hunting squirrels. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1928. OF CLOSE CALLS Veteran Sailor Kept Alive by| Liuck and Courage } Milwaukee, Aug. 24 (UP)—After having been in four submarine dis- asters during his five years with the | navy, C. H. Redding, 28, .\hlkauker.; is still very much alive. Throughout | Lis navy service Redding was | signed to submarine duty as an elec- | | trician. 1 | Redding was on the S-48 when it | went down with an open hatch oft | jridgeport, Conn., with 43 men on | | board, all of whom were rescued aft- er fighting water and gas fumes for | |12 hours. The thing that stands out {in Redding’s mind is the droll at-| {tempt of a machinist's mate to sweep back the ocean with a | broom. | “The sub went down for a decp! ive but the hatch had been left |open,” he said. “Water poured in. | This machinist mate was sweeping [up water with a broom and was un- “fl“’are of what had happened, as fwe all wers for several minutes. | {He kept sweeping and sweeping | but the water got too much for him Finally he went into the controi |room " and told the officers he |needed a mop. We soon learned what had happened then.” | When the R-6 sank in San Pedro (Calif.) Harbor in 1922 after some | one inadvertently had opened a tor- pedo door, Redding was just com- ing on board for the night. As he | stepped on the sub it began to sink |and he stepped off into the ocean |and swam to a tender lying along- ide. Six men who were asleep | were drowned but the others were | | rescued. | | Redding had his head and face | |burned when a battery blew up on | {the §-37 in 1923. This accident also | | happened in San Pedro Harbor. Six men were killed by the blast. | He also was on the L-5 which | !dove with an open hatch off the | coast of Califernia during the win- | ter maneuvers in 1920. The crew | | of 22 men were rescued. s STILL SHRINK Deauville, Aug. 24. (UP)—Car- | toonists have been lampooning wo- | | men's bathing garb, contending tha they could be folded into a vanity ! bag, but Deauville gasped when a | new freak of fashion cut away al- | | most half of what is left of swim- | | ming gear. 1 The stylish bathing suits are | now backless. 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