Picturesque Washington: pen and pencil sketches of its scenery, history, traditions, public and social life, with graphic descriptions of the Capitol and Congress, the White House, and the government departments .. . ures conveying a largeamount of information. A translator takes the telegrams in handand carefully reads them off to eight clerks, each of whom has aspecial weather map before him, on which he marks the particularreadings he has been instructed to take. Afterward these eight mapsare combined in one general map, which will fully represent all thephases of the weather in the United
Picturesque Washington: pen and pencil sketches of its scenery, history, traditions, public and social life, with graphic descriptions of the Capitol and Congress, the White House, and the government departments .. . ures conveying a largeamount of information. A translator takes the telegrams in handand carefully reads them off to eight clerks, each of whom has aspecial weather map before him, on which he marks the particularreadings he has been instructed to take. Afterward these eight mapsare combined in one general map, which will fully represent all thephases of the weather in the United States and Canada at the hour thereports were sent. This map is closely studied by the assistant sig-nal officer detailed for the purpose,— the assistants alternating in thework, each one serving thirty days at a time,— the storm-centre islocated, the probable course of storms determined, and finally theweather indications are made up for the East and West, the Northand South, and given to the agent of the associated press for trans-mission to the newspapers of the country. The completed weather map, which is the finest of the kind issuedin the world, is lithographed by the Signal Office, and copies of it. THE SOLDIERS HOME. I98 PICTURESQUE WASHINGTON. are distributed every morning in the sections easily reached fromWashington. In order that the map may have a more extended cir-culation, certain parties in prominent cities east, west, and south arealso charged with its publication by authority of the War Depart-ment, and the daily plan of make-up is (telegraphed to them by anefficient system, which enables them to issue an exact copy of the mapprinted in Washington. Thus it is possible to obtain a weather maphundreds of miles from the Signal Office, by noon of the day of itsdate. A large amount of meteorological work is done by the SignalOffice, and its records are very precise and voluminous. It publishesa magazine called The Monthly Weather Review, which containspapers on
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