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Died. John F. Barrett, 73, longtime Chicago grain trader, member of the Chicago Board of Trade since 1881; in Chicago. He was famed as a weather guesser, basing his guesses on the direction of the prevailing winds on the Catholic prayer & fast days before each solstice & equinox (ember-days). He bet the temperature would not go to zero between Dec. 20, 1930 and March 1, 1931, collected $1,250 from fellow Board members...
With the autumnal equinox safely past, art dealers all over the U. S. were taking down their shutters last week preparing for a new season. As guarantee that the season will not be a dull one Walter Pach ended a voluntary three-year exile in Paris, rented a studio in New York, announced a series of lectures at the Art Students' League...
Thousands of tenement dwellers only know it by the softness of the air, the rows of overcoats in the pawnshops. Manhattan makes up for this yearly by beating the equinox with a display of such gorgeous flowers as never grew under open sky. Last week some two hundred thousand people paid $1 apiece to shuffle through the 19th International Flower Show, an exhibit that filled for the first time four full floors of the Grand Central Palace...
Most of the recent big blows from the Caribbean have been in September. It is not unusual for an equinoctial storm to beat the calendar by a week or so (autumnal equinox: Sept. 22). Florida's last two bad ones (1926, 1928) came in September, also Porto Rico's (1928), Santo Domingo's (1930). Cuba's last serious hurricane struck in October...
...probably gentle little eddies of air at first," he said, "but gather momentum owing to differences in temperature and air pressure until they become gigantic whirls, sucking air toward their central vortices like gargantuan vacuum cleaners." Caribbean hurricanes of more or less violence are common near the autumnal Equinox. Last week's winds were reported to have attained at times the unusual velocity...