The evening world. Newspaper, May 23, 1908, Page 3

1908. : THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, MAY 23, ' Here’s the Latest Magazine Dream of the Destruction of New York, Whose Te Tall Towers Are Tumbled Into Chaos by a Crazy SEERUSS ER ALN A Wiscovering the PHACpIe. of Cohesion He Invents a Machine to Dissolve If, and Skyscrapers Fall Apart of Their Own Weight. FLAMING WARNINGS IN | SKY PUT TOWN IN TERROR ‘Trapped in His Laboratory by a Re-, porter, the Mad Avenger Ends His | Life by Poison When His Formula Is Destroyed. New York City has been destroyed many times by novelists 1 for Michael Williams to discover that it could be done simply, expeditiously and mysteriously | and short story writers, but it remain by merely upsetting the principle of cohesion. Mr. Williams ez- plains how it is done in this month's Everybody's Magazine in a story entitled “The Avenger.” which is given here in condensed form. | ees L A Flaming Warning in the Sky. the black eastern sky—the night was threatened—a 1, blood-red s eak y over the tower of Madison Square Garden. ted, as of writing, in it. They were bright, and then i ai electric light fed by an uncertain current. They were not at once they came into focus. As the staring multi titud Je in thes, square and on the streets read the words, there was a shout of astonishment, mi fy with a shrill overtone like a scream of terror. , Gerald Lindsay (a World reporter who had been sitti iH Governor in the corridor of the Hoffman House) w ped out a wad of 4 folded paper and a pencil and began taking down the word , \ GAINST yriz0) ng with the trembled in his eagerness to miss nothing before the sky fade. He set down: : Uhamin 4° spection fol welt be cat Bu Ec every floor. office Gerald 1 py Shedim Butany It of the inspe Beene. Sieone ox “There ts Gra nAmight- oncPauday Sheauhs except my men, : yon Sed. unit take hed, vator men and the watchman," Inspect Ki g ir Neran in Gerald Ane. ‘And every employee has or Imen at nia elbow, ‘There tant Tt mish: bea urse it was of any ae hoax. But, at it was tie! “Unless Aixgest hoax of i New York planted [Brat enone yer; prinatouthnveren @s hose hoax it was, an wr The portent itself gaye no clue, There . ree CTC NO lgnt-penc ng was given." nodded Cec ye city to indicate wonder- It was nearly 11.30 oclock. The a1 lantern was ‘ inscrip- sPector's aid on against the clouds, 1t was as !dly wi been eut through Su Were com informat it became ap Sat the front him rap- rom behin were no longer necessa “agh, The inscription kept @ untversal, unreasoning t {OP ancy for Ave minutes. ‘Then, ft! rowd Wi awit a 5 ring siightiv again » letters dulled, 88 turned to the but! and winked out altoget! Were tlehtin rah After stopping a m nt to speak to @lowed to the @ girl in the wd who said she was Tiree policemen were walk SSS - + - -- a ———— == = — king away ' ‘ Yooking for her brot Gerald tote. from ti sts at apex ne . 1 | 1 H i phoned the news to his paper. The DUfiding. The inepe Rs a ‘ | vee } press was fll of sensational incl /tRem, crving ig sive! : a | | el dent on Wednesday morning and on | One of the ack q ' | Wednesday night the crowd around The oth t N r | ‘i | ue Madison Square had another thril u ‘ wk ww f my f A little rfter § o'clock a dull glow of Is w tes au { | ait letters devel the sky fort ; | ; Hs degtees abo It pati mm aga | x A as te | areeted with a mig e econenenit : i H ‘ Low a F Ment from the str 4 u) ' | 1 ae i And followed. The seco! ; f i t : white | 3 et Any Malia eam ran mere } ihe sy whit } eeratatiaeniie : aumennd; iibhore howard the mduaras) Silent x I ; d ' Damon the s¢ r i fv ' ‘ u t he square at the 4 arity 1 HAGEiT ern “I Lae clown | 5 $ wer +i discove When ° : 1 4 H ineed Tar of whi yi within lik mos 5 : u nurse: < ‘ ay ant aming down upon the|! ‘That was the t wat y ‘ ; In spite of the efforts of most of the ¥ ea rae i a ‘ 1 very t 1 ns newspapers to impress upon their read | ed sickenin “ (se yed 1 » oth WL: 1 byes ers that the warnings could not be any a nt a 1 st Perhaps if . Qn h Pest s 0 fh e thing but hoaxes, in spite of their efforts | Sn nates more Fohale 1” re Ai H i Z0i%6 : wsely. str ‘ : : to persuade people to attend to business | apt, Bewannad on pod, aring roar of s} ah 1 the ¢ A evened ai He a2 usual and to refrain trom joining in | : pee ae oe tane: ee ; Maid ling | ue ) Sap yersal hys! + the opular e: ‘ f Ww LS ters one o from 1 eatniverea) Ne aletiar] me popular ex Onelopitnel ana ramalnirempercnman| alien et ‘ } i ™ MAE WOOD FINDS BAIL ran oui te the curb and tell on his! THe kirl 1 i r ee OMB, esuiueresiel. «isi jie. n his I i mrantenail 3 ss On Friday night at 6 o'clock tne [KN Waving lis arms over his head | MAT! 4 D : ; enteral BUT IS STILL IN TOMBS. erowds solidified in and around Madi- | 100 Rayne ie ab TE GRRL Nees ! ' at] og ce » id fe rd oon his face. atall oie ! 1 es es gon Square. ivaita 1 : anes My NE ‘ i i ar ll | ll. u 6 i ling toward the ‘ta : : The Flatiron Tumbd , i met 1 no The Warning Repeated. re Into hock and es iver 5 : tt The best efforts of police reserves| Chaos. the southe Ini “hia i Q@rawn from all over Manhattan and| The Inspector walked out to the car Blown down I ree ; a ‘ ] from Brooklyn could not open the} ‘Ack opposite the point of the bulld- fall caused. Windows and , ke theme , : ataaate ing at the Twenty-third street end, and | Appeared as in the w 4 ud and ¢ i i ‘After @ consultation with Gen. Bing-]| Sod, with his hands clasped benind Crumbled stone. Pulver b ’ ; ¥ aikete 1 hem and the Mayor Inspector Killoran | i's watching the s square, |Shreds. wood fibre i : : , began a careful but resistless pushing | While the red words faded out of the | all MALU ede ‘ : beck of the crowd untii Broadway,|*Ky. Lindsay looked back and wine : tl a ah Bwenty-third street, Twenty-second| With admiration for the rugged ¢ Burke from the ; 4 @treet. avd Fifth avenue were cleared| el" of the sturdy old man; the nan with une ve ae | watt pecan , ind walked nm wha ie , uP dancing — with diy to a qu ‘ hat looked eres Senator Platt's enemy to Getectives were stationed all through the} he felt iat his feet were trying oA TE chal hay r With this ma enue. erey on my The Commissioner felt] take him on down the ol in heavy duilding iteclt. Qhat there was every chance that the yulder Phe inspod tumbled from his knees Mother Py, pray for me!" UJ fenmediately around the building. Fifty | {Urned again and walked to hts post golicemen and a hundred plain-clothes| When he reached it he stopped, the \ } prevailing excitement would inspire | %U! Seana etl world, and @ome kinetic lunatic to activity and toj The hoarsrly shrteked words wade hun ee apaiiee 1 world Helo oO +g conviction that it was proper to maka | turn. It was Tleut’ Burke, running tom) / 116 Obuh 4 eu ie eims Over good the cloud-written prophecy by| Wan him. praying as he ran, There ans Ab el i : eR rTan en oloclon or anes: was a horrid, tiny, grinding sound all ioe ee the hill ‘To the police reserves were added at|through the alr. The heavy pounding |” nes He ; ISAM ANGeha at *. £80 o/clock trundreds of policemen taken | of running came trem the north, | hs H ore his new invention Got lots of hard work trom their regular posta in every borough |ang tbe gasping of a breathless man, | Ta. leiouiditercompleteit sree a : of the city. The Commissioner resorted|and Inspector Killoran flung himselt | pir EAT to what he called “bulkheading cor-|upon the Lieutenant and Lindsay as | IV. | Gone; he drow a nea ee police across|thoy clung together. The srinding| New York’sSkyline i Ruins. | Vv. every street corner within ten blocks of r. All three, hall m | Cy Gta eats nolse grow loude t! halt down) vireo nights later the Ti es Bu Face to Face With the Avenger. | ‘|Gra pe-Nu t 5 on their knees, supporting one\another, | 10180 da into « pile of sto: ° ° ° e e ) e locked up at the towering building; | oq girders, and then every night was| Gerald Lindsay entered the laboratory eee . Z ci Kean ands. sputter se About 10 o'clock the inspector crossed their glaring eyes were fixed and hor-| marked by a blow from The Avenger. |of Gabriel Dam nm (the Ay ne r neg. etnte el tha aearat ‘the ma There’s a Reason”’ pee arr wade acaiena tie The Singer Building and the Huds*|to¥er his mother's maiden name, the |msirgment, snd" the, chemivaly tied sy a Every light had gone out and the! Terminals were the next to go. and all} sister explained. A lighted oll lamp | the Avenger in his appalling ae | ee OFFICER BROWN JERSEY J GOT. SENT TO WATCH» $500 FEE FOR A HSOWNSALOON SECRET WEDDING ees Brown Keeps Cate Open Late, He'll Have If Proprietor It Was the erie Before De ean and Mme, Gould Sailed, Too, Is Rumor. to Arrest Himself. Although al {s made to-day that Mme. Anna Gould and Helle de Sagan, {ft Frenchman who ‘ol- under an Brown will hav nity to keop his « Ww ty this country wines, liquors and cigars and pro: i uine, were married secretly prieto next in Meyer's Mo! 1 Jersey City, the j nt New \ mmeutrindred nty-fittin oe oe er before starting for Europe the next And plain William) Brown, pur Q Mt eecourle, yea unawering th scription were mare dogsn’t lock up the cash regis nied in Hoboken on the night of Aprit Tarts Doss 06) sh register, (ir 46, and a Jersey City Justice of the ore un the ahitere sharp nt 12 o'clock, | Peace 1 suid to have got a fee of $600 for keeping the ci oMetal records. Along with this sensational report ie story that George Gould, head of the house of Gould, who has 80 bitte opposed his sister's alliance with another scion of frayed-out no- bility, is weakening in his opposition. It is declared he Is as bitterly opposed |to De Sagan to- he was from the day the Prince set sail after Mme Gould's hand and millions, which wae even before the Paris courts granted her a divorce from Boni de Castellane, it is sald he realizes the longer he svents the open acknowledgment of Sagan that Mme. Gould ts his wife the longer the scandal now attached to them will brew, _Would Stop Scandal. js declared, ame to : Conclusion that his opposition was Jef no avail after the visit of Mra, orge Goud and her five children to Varis. Mrs uid had intended going to and on May 13, but at the last moment changed her plans and, sailing a day earlier, went to a French port. «© arrived in Paris Monday afternoon and went to Mme. Gould's apartments, pected to vil ceremony froma the farvor of | Polleeman | scend upon h 1 miale Carrie Nation, raid the place Jand arrest proprietor, which w | zo hard with both of them, conside: hg the fact that they are one and th same person. It all came about b Bingham has a set as known since th got his present job that ma polfeemen ow saloons, barber shops m with une Commisstoner of humor, He ee weeks after he ot his | laundries, jes and ott insti [tutions which helped them a little in }the struggle for bread, but mot until | Policeman Brown spoke right out in meeting and sald yes, he and Bill Me- nott owned the West Cafe, and s anybody going to do about It, the Commissioner have the goods jright on one of them, | Got It Without “Pull.” He didn't smite his desk and swear a good round oath, by nine gods of war or any other ancient Greek cuss word, He just chuckled, and. ike Breer Rabbit, he Iay low. Then yest ay he lRatased his ttle joke, and to-day the |whole department ts all of uckle 1 waiting to see what will happen | 0 ay Avenue Malakos, and remained Ordinurlly when a policeman ts trans- | Ne. 22 Menus ay. | ferred to what fs known as the “statlon’ “Ayr. Gould is said to have communt- | house post’ In the West End ti others | cated the result of her visit to her leiutte thelr. Heads cnviously and say: || husbands | i es ‘ ae they wai Se or! aeons yeen’ shown to) Mtr Gould) alee! d e. Gould contnues to 6O ;that if ) about with | Bob." or whatever his name Sugan in Paris as she did fare ti have a pull somew in Italy stellane will have cause the “station house vands for asking that the children be | n over to lim. Should he be suc: help eo fLeateear la moat ie lin this he would be in pos of a substantial income from the lds, On the night defore Mme. Gould an@ her children safled on the Friedrich der nase and De Sagan set sail on the St. il, Justice of the Peace Budenben+ was asked to perform nments to which any one may a. and Hes in a neighborhood wh are few, clilzens keop early | hours. the stree e broad and well Nehted, peanut 1 fruit ands as | of the sen. and there | er fit | EUS co EO Eee a ‘secret. marriage of a prominent ta pleasant lounking | couple. | Among the latter te Willa Justice Had “Change. and cigars distributory, | at the Inst moment, so, t tuple" di the Pei was performed time when Mme, in sneaked out ad of runs, the ninent a dersey City Justice o: marriage, it ts declared av MIS) some time between uid and De pcisely why, Inst 5 at Pol hen the order was read at roll hig through. the kitchen entrance of the |ieatt St s and the time they | brother the steamship. elly and dug day the Justice of the Perce ited with performing the ying who ts. ¢ s buying wine for_all com. ™ eremony W “Well, what are vou going to do about (KG how the couple got around the which requires at one of the parties toa marriage be at least a hotel ; § Peeskdont™ of the Stites Is not made ut of elon Excise Point Up to Him iceman Wil Ww post yeet ton his ee wm Makes Wrinkles Ci Ae fe nth Disappear in a Night many inctanees No face massage, ne ee no creams or so-called skin procedure early to morrow n all eyes will turn, ¥ the pr ons of the resent platoon foods. no tasks or rollers, nothing to ine Bsa O Rao ONC nos Jct, but a marvellous. simple discovery prising wonders in EIGHT B CLOCK that works HOURS BY TE ornin, uch thus w make I FOOL.ED THEM ALL be }ane tock my own wrinkles out by my dise La covery offer massage and beauty doctors had failed. 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