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Professor Moors. About 17 per cent of error, or about 83 per cent 
of accuracy. 
Mr. Bow1z. That is pretty close? 
Professor Moore. Yes, sir. 
Mr. Bowrs. How can you beat it? 
Professor Moors. | am of the opinion that we can never beat the 
present accuracy of the weather forecast with our present knowledge 
of the. mechanics of storms—without further discovery and rencuenel 
Mr. Scorr. Does not the percentage of your failures run higher in 
some places than in others? 
Professor Moore. Yes, sir. 
Mr. Scotr. At some parts of the country the weather is more vari- 
able than at others? 
Professor Moorr. Yes, sir. Take Dakota and Montana where the 
storms develop so suddenly. 
Mr. Bowrs. What is the percentage in Alabama? 
Professor Moore. I am of the opinion that it is about 88 per cent. 
The frost warnings and cold-wave warnings are good for over 90 per 
cent. 
Mr. Lever. That holds good for the southern cities generally ? 
Professor Moors, Yes, sir. 
The Cuarrman. Most of these papers I have been looking over are 
suggestions for little changes, not so much demands for maps? 
Professor Moorr. They are all requests for the distribution of 
information. : 
The Cuarrman. They are mostly requests for having additional 
names put on the maps? 
Professor Moors. I was mistaken, sir; those are not requests for 
maps. Requests for maps are addressed to the local stations; they 
would not come to me, Those are demands for the general extension 
of information; they are the only requests that reach my desk. 
Let me read you a letter from the New York Cotton Exchange: 
New York Corron ExcHanGe, 
New York, July 11, 1903. 
Prof. Wits L. Moors, __. 
Chief United States Weather Bureau, Washington, D. C. 
Dear Str: May weask that central station observers at Wilmington, N. C.; Charles- 
ton, 8. C.; Savannah, Ga.; Atlanta, Ga.; Augusta, Ga.; Mobile, Ala.; Montgomery, 
Ala.; Memphis, Tenn.; Little Rock, Ark.; Vicksburg, Miss.; New Orleans, La.; 
Galveston, Tex., be instructed to wire us daily, at our expense, the maximum tem- 
peratures and rainfall whenever the latter occurs? 
Appreciating your courtesy in the matter, 
Very truly, Wituiam V. Kina, 
Superintendent New York Cotton Exchange. 
Then, here is a request from the secretary of the Memphis Cotton 
Exchange for the daily rainfall at the various stations in the Galves- 
ton (Tex.) district, during the remainder of the season: 
If practicable, I respectfully request that the official at Galveston be directed to 
telegraph the above data to this office. 
Here is a request from the Maritime Association of the port of New 
York for a large weather map similar to the one here at the Capitol. 
The Cuarrman. Why do they want the Washington map? 
Professor Moore. In the interest of shipping, and to learn of the 
approaching storms. 
The CHatRMAN. What kind of map do you give New York now? 
