ALLISON ON CANADIAN WEATHER TELEGRAPHY. 371 



I hoped to effect with $5,000 was to lay the foundation and not 

 to complete a system of storm warnhigs ; the delays, though much 

 to be regretted, form no reasonable cause for complaint. 



As delays to some extent take place also in transmission from 

 Washington to Toronto, the maximum degree of efficiency in 

 Canadian telegraphy will not be attained till we are in a position to 

 collect at Toronto all or nearly all the regular tri-daily telegrams 

 from the United States, so as to make our own forcasts ; but as in 

 a work of such magnitude gradual development is safer than sudden 

 expansion, I propose, during the year 1873-4, to rely chiefly on 

 the Washington forecasts, and to apply our funds to the improve- 

 ment of those forecasts by increasing the number of the reporting 

 stations in Canada, to the erection of signal apparatus at various 

 points along our coasts, and to perfecting our arrangements for the-^ 

 prompt delivery of warnings. 



IL—8T0EM 8IGXALS. 



On receipt of a telegram from Toronto to the effect that a storm- 1 

 is apparently approaching the neighbourhood of Halifax, a storm . 

 drum will be hoisted at the yard arm of the storm signal mast^ 

 erected on the Citadel by the Dominion Government. Storm 

 notices will also be posted in the Dominion Building and in the- • 

 Merchants' Exchano-e Readins; Koora. 



A lantern showing a white light will be placed within the drum 

 when it is hoisted at night. 



The '' storm " signalled must, for the present, be understood in. . 

 a general sense, neither force nor direction being specified. 



If there be good reasons to expect a heavy gale it will be thus 

 stated in the notices ; but the absence of such a statement will not 

 show that a severe gale will not occur. 



The drum and notices will usually remain up about twirty-six . 

 hours, unless ordered down by telegraph, and will remain up longer 

 if a telegram to that effect is received from Toronto. 



If through faulty transmission the telegram does not arrive ■ 

 before the commencement of the storm, the drum will nevertheless 

 be hoisted upon the receipt of the warning, in order to show that - 



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