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TIk' Ihirn'caiu> iif Se]ittMiil)cr 21. \\liic]i was a inajnr calamity, 

 in destruction of life and ]iroiK'rty, for Long- Island and the lart^er 

 part of Xew England, was the most severe on rt^-ord for the area 

 affected, ddie following meteorological data have been kindly su]> 

 ]ilied 1)\- Dr. hames H. Kimhall. meteorologist-in-charge, at the 

 U. S. \\'eather I'.nreau Observatory, Whitehall Building. New 

 York. 



"The wind as rc^-orded at the A\'hitehall Building between .V.,'^7 

 and v^ :42 \^.\\^.. Septemljcr 21. 1038. was 70 miles ]xm' bom" from 

 the northwest, and in one minute of this interval it reached 80 

 miles i)er horu', ])rol)ably there were gusts 5 to 10 miles higher. 



■' At hdoyd B)ennett Field | about five miles south of the B)otanic 

 Garden I the Coast (juard rcj^irted that the \vin(l velocity indi- 

 cator \\'ent up to *)0 miles ])er hour, the limit ot its ca])acity ; while 

 at the A\'eather lUu'eau Station |also at the i<"ield| gusts were 

 ascertaincxl to be 110 miles ju'r hour or more. 



" Gusts of 90 miles j)er hour were also recorded at the station 

 on the /)(///v Ncivs building, and estimated to be 110 miles per 

 hour on the luupire State Piiu'lding." 



The worst loss at the l^xitanic Garden A\'as in the hedge of 

 Lombarch' I'o]dars (P()pit!iis nigra var. ifalica), extending scMue- 

 what northeast bv southwest, along the Washington Avenue 

 border of the Mx])erimental Garden, and ]^lanted nineteen vears 

 ago (in l')19). A continuation of the hedge southward, in a line 

 more nearlv noiih and south, along the edges of the Children's 

 (iarden. suffered only slight damage and will not ha\-e to be 

 replaced. All the trees suffered more because the}* still bad most 

 of theii" loliage. 



Among other losses were the Willows along the l)rook. one of 

 which was blown down, others mjured bv loss ot branches; a 

 Idane Tree (Plataniis) . more than 40 years old, on Bouldc'r Hill, 

 blown down; a Locust {Ixohinia) east of the Conser\-atories ; 

 Willows in the Japanese Garden. One of the latter trees, in 

 falling, knocked over the " AA'aiting Pavilion" {Muchi-ai) on 

 the west shore of the Lake; another broke down a section of the 

 Japanese fence about 50 fcn^t k^ng. About 55 trees in all were 

 felled by the wind. (See, also,, p. 101.) 



