HURRICANE PAYS
REGULARVISITS
Typhoon’s Brother Sweeps
West Indian Islands An
ually in Fall Months.
New York.—Once more the terror
of the hurricane that sleeps In the
doldrums of the South Atlantic has
been roused to sweep over the islands
that it periodically visits. The great
storm that struck Santo Domingo re
cently and caused heavy loss of life
had entered the Caribbean sea earlier
in the week, passing north of Mar
tinique, touching Dominica and mov
ing in a northwesterly direction along
a path that hurricanes have traversed
many times before.
September is the great month for
the hurricanes that time and again
have cost hundreds of lives ami mil
lions of dollars in property losses
The season begins toward the end of
July, and usually ends in October,
although there are November hurri
canes. As to the path they take, these
brothers of the typhoon are capri
clous. Sometimes they spend their
full force harmlessly at sea, and only
scientific observers in their recording
laboratories and captains of stray
ships who observe the portents afar
know of their existence. At other
times they run the full course of
those Caribbean islands that stretch
like a by-path of stepping stones from
South America to the North American
coast.
Three decades have passed since
the most destructive of all modern
hurricanes killed 6,000 people in Gal
veston. A tidal wave overwhelmed
the city and the fury of the waters
completed the work that the fury of
the winds began. That overpowering
wind stream went along a course
that stretched in a wide arc across
the northern hemisphere. The hurri
cane originated somewhere in the
Atlantic between the cost of Africa
and the Caribbean sea. Front there
it went across Porto Rico and Haiti,
glanced off the north const of Culm
and crossed the Gulf of Mexico to
Galveston.
Long Path of Destruction.
But it did not end with the Galves
ton disaster. The hurricane went in
land through the United States,
swung eastward again to cross the
Great Lakes, crossed Newfoundland
and then swept up the North Atlan
tic to Iceland, ending its mad career
In Arctic waters.
A hurricane moves along its course
like a gigantic tumbleweed rolling
across a prairie. It is a whirl of
wind with a usual velocity of from
80 to 100 miles an hour, though high
er velocities have been recorded. The
whole storm moves forward at a nite
of from 10 to 15 miles an hour.
Within the center there is a partial
vacuum. This is usually about 2«>
miles wide. The storm area rolling
around it is often ”00 or 400 mites
wide, cutting' a swath with its furl
ous power of wind ami ruin through
the country it traverses.
How does a nurricane originate?
The absolute answer to that question
cannot be stated. ‘But .most scien
tists believe that in some small sea
area below the paths of the trade
winds the equatorial heat causes a
central mass of air to rise, starling
a vertical circulation. Eventually
the rising air reaches a level of suf
ticient cold to change its water vapor
to drops of water. This produces
what is called heat condensation.
If the rising air mass is small, a
thunderstorm is formed, but if the
development is of sufficient magni
tude a hurricane may be on its wav
to creation. The heat liberated estab
lishes relatively high temperatures in
the rising mass, accelerating the cir
culation and the rate of condensa
tlon. This recurring process is prob
ably the manner in which the hurri
cane, revolving in a counter-clock
wise direction as it travels, main
tains itself.
The devastation that the hurricane
leaves in its wake is a phenomenon
known to all who have lived in its
region. Last September a hurricane
visited Nassau in the Bahamas that
damaged practically every building
on the island. Many lives were lost
For days the city was flooded and
in darkness. Telephones were out of
commission, .and it was some tiim
before communication could be es
tablished with the outside world evet
by radio. The sea wall was broker
in several places by the force of tin
wind-driven sett. Many vessels an
chored in the harbor were wrecked
Boats were swept up out of Hie wn
ter and carried’ across roads to land
near the steps of residences.
Florida has many limes felt tin
force of the hurricanes that swee
through tile ('aribbean. The disastei
of 1026 is still vivid in many mem
ories. It was first noticed on Septem
her 14. 'firn next morning it was nortl
of Porto Rico, and on the aßei'imm
of the sixteenth it passed ove^ lonely
Turk's island. Twenty-four hours lai
er the storm had crossed the Balm
mas, and on the morning of Septem
her 18 it was battering the Florid:
towns at the end of the peninsula. By.
the afternoon of the next day the bur
ricane had crossed the northern high’
of the Gulf of Mexico and was ap
proaching Pensacola, where it re
nowed its havoc.
An Inevitable Visitor.
The hurricane is a part of life in
the West Indies. The natives look
for it as practically an inevitable oc
currence during the hurricane months
And, more often than not, they are
correct in tiieir annual expectation.
To have their houses blown down
their crops ruined, and much of theii
personal property destroyed is a part
of the implacable scheme of things.
In some years, however, there are no
violent hurricanes —merely gales that
blow themselves out quickly and cause
little or no damage. But the residents
know that the altered course of events
is not permanent. With a philosophy
founded securely upon experience
with insecurity they continue to date
family and local events as of, before
or after their spectacular storms.
Porto Rico has not yet recovered
from the hurricane of 1928. More
than 255 people were killed, almost
500,0(M> persons were left homeless,
and the material losses were esti
mated around $100,000,(W0. That
storm entered the island as, the east
central part, it plowed its course at
a rate of more than 100 miles an
hour through ihe central part. Then
it disappeared from the northwest
corner.
Although the weather man cannot
control the hurricane, he has, with
the aid of radio, so prefected his
system of reporting any tropical dis
turbance that the storm is plotted
almost as soon as it makes its ap
pearance. When a hurricane devel
ops in the Caribbean the news Is
promptly broadcast to vessels at sea,
and the path is traced day by day.
Due warning is given to all ports
likely to be involved.
Long Skirts Lose in
Budapest Damage Suit
Budapest.—ls a woman wears a
long dress she does so at her own
risk and cannot hold others respon
sible for stepping on it, according to
a decision handed down by the Hun
garian civil courts.
Tlie decision in question was given
in favor of an elderly physician who,
as lie left a street car, stepped so
tirnily on Ihe train of the dress of
Frau Zeb that it snapped loose from
her waist and dropped to the door.
Snatching up the dress Frau Zeh
covered not her limbs but her face
with it and dashed after the phy
sician. En route she encountered a
policeman who, despite the beauty of
Ihe scene which stood before him. de
cided that, duty required him to take
the woman into custody for giving an
unlicensed fashion show in a public
street.
Eventually the distraught Frau suc
ceeded in making the dazed cop un
derstand that she was neither a law
breaking mannequin nor a masked
lady bandit and persuaded him to
chase the physician so that she might
obtain his name and address.
This accomplished, she hailed a
taxi, drove home, summoned her law
yer and ordered suit brought against
the physician for the cost of a new
dress plus SI,OOO for “embarrassment
damages.”
Titis suit the court dismissed with
costs on the grou/id that a woman
should not wear in a public vehicle
it dress of which she herself is tin
able tauake care^f.
Dies of Grief for Dog
Killed in “Death Pact”
Denver. —Broken-hearted over the
death of his dog, which lie killed in
what was to have been a death pact,
Fred Stokes, seVenty-five, died in the
Colorado Psychopathic hospital.
After he had shot the dog, which
had been his only friend for the last
nine years, the aged man turned the
gun on himself.
But the weapon, an old-fashioned
revolver, failed to explode.
T. H. Casey, proprietor of the Nav
ajo hotel, where the aged man had
lived for a number op years, tore the
gun from his grasp.
Stokes was removed to Denver Gen
oral hospital for observation. Later
he was taken to the Psychopathic hos
nital.
“After the death of Sport, his dog.
the old man seemed crazed with
grief,” Casey said.
“You see, he had owned that dog
■ver since he was a puppy. Its mother
was run over by tin automobile. Sport
was the only thing old Fred had in
the world."
Strong Armed, but Says
Wife Beat Him Up
Wabash, Ind. —A member of the
strong-arm trade, a blacksmith, filed
mit for divorce on the grounds that
is wife was cruel to him. Fred Bit
el. in his petition for separation,
harged his wife, Juseava, with
■triking him in the arm and shoulders
with scissors, beating him with a
•lub, calling him vile names and or
lering him to leave home.
Setting It Straight
Fitchburg, Mass.- Donald Meagan's
nose had been crooked ever since he
was involved in an automobile acci
lent five years ago. Recently his nose
was straightened as the result of an
iliter automobile accident.
k *
£ Wed by Mail; Finds
He Has Wooden Leg! *
;; Evanston, lll.—One reason for 4=
s not getting married by the cor- *
I respombm-e plan was set forth ♦
• in. a divorce suit filed by Mrs. 1
I Amelia Moulton. 2118 Wesley si
• avenue, Evanston, against liar- 3
' obi Moulton, a caretaker, whose s>
: advert s< iient she answered. ?
i She r..i < > >e Irrnmed 100 fire -
Cmt he had a wooden leg.
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Family Outwits Swarm
of Bees in Week’s Siege
Winnipeg, Man. —Driven from up
stairs to downstairs and finally strug
gling to maintain their household in
the kitchen, 11. Bandy and family,
who live on a farm near Birtle,
Man., are recovering from n week’s
battle with a swarm of bees.
The bees flew in a week ago, mak
ing their first stop on the roof of the
Bandy home. For some time they
caused no trouble, but as their num
bers increased they invaded the bed
rooms. usurping beds and dressers.
The Bandys retired to the rooms
downstairs. They were forced to make
their last stand in the kitehen when
the bees followed them to the lower
floor. Realizing the propensities for
pursuit which bees have, the Bandys
then retired into the open. Falling
into the trap, the bees followed, and
now the Bandy home is free of bees.
Corpse Is Thrown Out
as Truck Hits Hearse
Newark, N. .1. —A gruesome accident
occurred as a funeral cortege was pro
ceeding with the body of Mrs. Mary
Sullivan to the Holy Sepulchre ceme
tery.
The hearse, hit by a heavy truck
coming down a hill towards it, was
rolled over on its side, the casket
opened and the body thrown out into
the interior of the hearse.
It remained for drivers of other
funeral cars following to extricate
body and coffin and await the arrival,
of another hearse.
Girl Invalid Faints;
Is Strangled in Bed t
Los Angeles.—When she suf- T
sered a fainting spell in her X
home Louise Dahlquist, thirteen. V
strangled to death, Iler head I
fell between the bed post and T
the bed springs, causing death X
by strangulation. She had been T
ill for some time and subject to J
fainting spells. T
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