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September, 1909.	MONTHLY	WEATHER	REVIEW.	53
it can safely be said that the numbrr of lives and the amount of property saved greatly exceed the losses.
COMMENTS OX WORK OF WKATIIER Ul’RBAU.
The following comments on the warnings have been received: The Daily Picayune, New Orleans. La., September 22, 1900, says:
It must he said to I lie credit of the Weather Bureau chat ihe excellent work done has proven of incalculable benefit to iife and property l>v ihe issuance of timely warnings of the storm. On Wednesday of la*t week the Weather Bureau began to stive out bulletins as to the location of (he tropical hurricane and its probable trend, and this warning note never ceased from day to day until the crucial moment, Monday morning, when die definite wring Was issued, telling about the very near approach of tho disturbance threatening south Louisiana and probably having some sinister design upon the city of New Orleans. The storm reached this city about the time tore-fcrecasted by the Weather Bureau, and it lasted until nearly midnight. NJonday.
In commenting editorially on the storm, the Daily Picayune of September 25, 1909, says:
The admirable arrangements made by the weather service insures ample warning of the approach, of these West Indian storms, but there is little that can be done to protect property from their ravages. That the timely warn-
it»KS save many lives is, however, undoubted, and were the people who ht* in opposed stretches of tho coast to pay greater attention to these waminfl t he loss of life would be still more reduced. Sailors who go to sea carefuN note the weather predictions and are guided thereby, whereas the peopa living on the low-tying coast, who have actually more to fear than tfta sailors, usually pay lass heed to the storm predictions.
The following extracts from letters received convey the ge* oral tenor of public feeling toward the work performed by th* Bureau;
Morgan' City, La., September 24, 1909.
The storm warnings were timely and were the means of saving life and property. Boatmen who were prepared to sail were advised and tool timely warning, thus being able to save their property.
(Signed) M. Cogueneem
New Orleans, La., September 2S, 1909
We write to express our appreciation for the excellent and courte:*j service which your office furnished'to us during the uncertain hours of th recent storm. We feel that your office was Solely instrumental in saving u New Orleans, through advices sent out. by you in-advance, many lives and thousands of dollars worth of property.
We ean doubly assure you that many people in New Orleans were givti encouragement throughout the height of the storm by information give out during its fury,
(Signed) Casteel & Trefney