The Work Of The Signal Service

The Signul Service aeeuis bul a growüi oí yesterday, and yet it is apw beeomo indispensable. lts werk is oi' incalculable valué. IL is progressive, and new feattírés strengthening to itself aad advantageous to the country are constantly beiag added. The country has long aeknowledged Iho advantages conferred apon trade and agriculture by the work of the Signal Service, and those who daily consult the predictious of Oíd Pxobábilitiea. while disrtsfll fr i-nïi af fimp. níliíiih lint onlv the Hsefulnesü, but the neccnsity for the work in another direction nut so gcnerally known. it is tryiug to do as much for shipping and commerce as it has for the agricultural and interior üiterests. Gen. Hazen, the Chief Signal Oüicer, has taken thia matter vigorously in hand, and mamly through Iris efforts and intelligent direction the department of maiitime meteorological reporta of the Signal Service is becoming daily of greater value to the ahippirg interest It is the intention of Gen. Hszen to develop this work to the greatest possiblepoint of usefulness. U what he iias akeady accompli -hed in this diresüon is au earnest of the future, the marítimo interests are to ba congvatulated. Uut in this clase of work the service is crippled at the very beginnióg. On land it can have ifcs owa stations and observers, and can multiply these irrdeünitely. For obviou reasons it is simt out from such advantages on the ea. It can cali in the assistance of ho Navy, but the reporis from that quarLer must alwaya be limited and meagre. The Signal Service has, therefore, to depend almost entirely upon the merchant service lor lts marine meteorological reports, and ractically, masters and mates must do this work for the Signal Service. The officers and their ve3sel3 ïnust be upon the sea what signal stations and observers are upon the land, Gen. Hazen perceived tbis fací eariy, and ie bas spared no eiïorts to interest oficers of the merohant navy in this cause. That he has been successf ui In a marked degree is evidenced by 1 he