Box 18, Folder 1: Meteorology-Clips 1848-1901

Article relative to the Weather Bureau, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Weather Bureau. Auditorium Tower

Chicago, Ill.

September 18th, 1900.

L.R. #1426. C.E.L.

Miss Julia A. Lapham, Oconomowoc, Wisconsin.

In reply to your favor of the 16th inst. relative to an article in regard to the Weather Bureau, which appeared in the Chicago papers after the Galveston disaster, I would state that practically all of the papers of the City had articles commendatory of the work of the Bureau, especially the Tribune, Chronicle, and Inter-Ocean, and I am therefore unable to determine the one to which you refer. One of the papers made mention of your father, Dr. Lapham, but I do not know which paper it was as nearly all of our clippings were forwarded to the Washington office several days since. I have, however, a copy of the Tribune of last Sunday in which an article appears in regard to the Bureau, and I take pleasure in enclosing it.

Very respectfully,

H.J. Cox. Professor, Weather Bureau.

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[Newspaper Clippings-Great Value of the Weather Bureau. Sept. 10, 1900 The Chronicle; Most Remarkable Storm in History. Sept. 12. 1900. The Chronicle.]

[Newspaper Clipping-Most Remarkable Storm in History. Sept. 12. 1900. The Chronicle.] *E.A. Calkins.

Chicago, Ill. September 20, 1900.

Dear Miss Lapham:--

Your guess was correct as to the article referring to your distinguished father's connection with the origin of the weather service.

Before the great storm reached Galveston, September 10, I wrote an article on the subject of the prognostications up to that date. The Forecaster then predicted that it would rush up the Atlantic coast. It was that prediction on which I wrote the article referring to Your father.

But the storm did not go up the Atlantic coast. It turned West across the Gulf of Mexico and its vortex was at Galveston. I wrote a later article on the storm as it passed Galveston and so northward a copy of which I send you. I send [illegible] with both articles.

Truly Yours,

E.A. Calkins.

[25. Newspaper Clipping-The Science of Storms. Interesting Lecture on Meteorology by Dr. Wilson, Section Director, of the Weather Bureau. Feb. 23. 1901. Wisconsin Free Press. Oconomowoc.]