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WEST INDIAN AND CARIBBEAN SEA STATIONS. 



In the completion of the project for the improvement of the 

 weather service in the West Indies additional stations were estab- 

 lished at Castries, St. Lucia, and Puerto Plata; and arrangements 

 made for the securing of reports, when threatening conditions were 

 observed, from St. Croix, Antigua, and Grenada. In cooperation 

 with the Cuban Meteorological Service, special stations, supplied 

 with instrumental equipment by the Weather Bureau, were estab- 

 lished at Guane and Santa Cruz del Sur, and arranged for at Nueva 

 Gerona, Isle of Pines. Arrangements were also made for daily 

 reports from the Observatory de Montserrat at Cienfuegos. 



VESSEL WEATHER STATIONS AND LIGHTSHIPS. 



At the close of the year 40 vessels engaged in coastwise traffic were 

 enlisted as stations to report meteoro^logical conditions at sea by 

 wireless. On account of war conditions, however, ver}^ few reports 

 were received. The stations previously established on the lightships 

 at Nantucket Shoals, Fryingpan Shoals, Diamond Shoals, and Heald 

 Bank were discontinued, as it was found too difficult to secure accu- 

 rate observations, which, moreover, were not of great value owing to 

 the relatively close proximity of the lightships to shore stations. 



SUBSTITUTION OF BULLETINS FOR MAPS. 



In the interest of conservation of material, card bulletins contain- 

 ing the forecasts, weather summaiy, and a table of data derived 

 from the daily observations were substituted for the graphic maps 

 with satisfactory results at about 50 stations. 



STATIONS AND OBSERVATIONS. 



The act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture 

 made provision for a newly equipped Weather Bureau station at 

 Greenville, S. C. This was duly established and observations were 

 begun. 



New Federal buildings were occupied during the year for offices 

 at Charlotte, N. C. ; Elkins, W. Va. ; Grand Junction, Colo.; and 

 Kalispell, Mont., and the Weather Bureau stations at these points 

 were moved to quarters provided therein from rented offices. 



As it was necessary to increase the force at Tatoosh Island and 

 North Head. Wash., to cooperate better with the Naval Coast Patrol, 

 temporary residence buildings were provided at these stations for 

 the use of assistant observers. 



It having been found practicable to utilize a frame office building 

 formerly occupied at the discontinued Port Crescent, Wash., station, 

 this building was taken down, removed to Port Angeles, and re- 

 erected on a lot owned by the Weather Bureau, of which legal pos- 

 session had finally been secured after several years of litigation. 

 This enabled the bureau to move out of rented quarters previously 

 occupied at Port Angeles and effect a considerable saving in rental. 



Permanent title having been secured to the reservation occupied 

 by the Weather Bureau station at Bismarck, N. Dak., since June 1. 

 1894, action was taken during the year to move the residence build- 



