. St. Nicholas [serial] . it did not snow at the right time, UncleSam built a Weather Bureau, and employed alarge number of men to manage it for him. Hedoes not ask them to do anything more than tokeep a record of the weather, and to predict aswell as they can what the weather will be thefollowing day; and if they sometimes make awrong prediction, Uncle Sam only smiles andtells them to try it again — a very much betterkind of a master to have than the one away overin Asia ! This Weather Bureau is in Washington, the 1022 HOW THE WEATHER IS FORETOLD. [Sept. capital of the United States. It is si
. St. Nicholas [serial] . it did not snow at the right time, UncleSam built a Weather Bureau, and employed alarge number of men to manage it for him. Hedoes not ask them to do anything more than tokeep a record of the weather, and to predict aswell as they can what the weather will be thefollowing day; and if they sometimes make awrong prediction, Uncle Sam only smiles andtells them to try it again — a very much betterkind of a master to have than the one away overin Asia ! This Weather Bureau is in Washington, the 1022 HOW THE WEATHER IS FORETOLD. [Sept. capital of the United States. It is situated ona large square in the northwestern part of thecity, where there is plenty of room and notmuch noise or confusion of any kind. It is alarge brick building, standing far back from the at the end of each, perched up on a high least breath of air turns this around, and itis so arranged that when it turns around fivehundred times it shows that the wind has trav-eled a mile, and in this way the observer can. THE UNITED STATES WEATHER BUREAU AT WASHINGTON, D. C. street and having pretty flower-beds and ter-races in front of it. At first sight the buildinglooks something like a big toy house, with itsroof bordered with turrets and filled with chim-neys and all sorts of contrivances that are spin-ning and turning around. In the box that you see perched up on themiddle of the roof are the thermometers that tellhow hot or how cold it is. Two of these are fortelling the temperature at any time during theday, another marks the highest point reached,and the fourth shows what has been the lowesttemperature; so that by opening the little doorin front of the box the observer, or the manwho looks after the weather, is able to see justwhat the temperature is at that time, and howhigh it has been and how far down it has gonesince he last peeped into the box. To one sideis a very large weather-vane, to show in whatdirection the wind is blowing. Then there is theanemometer, four
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