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Newspaper
West Bend Journal
Location
West Bend, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1913
Page
8
Percy Darrow watches as Eldridge leads a vast cordon and wireless hunt to locate Monsieur X within a shrinking circle. The chase moves from Adirondacks to highlands as meters and crowds converge, and suddenly darkness falls over the city, leaving the outcome unclear.
In Manhattan panic rises as Eldridge's theory collapses the public mood shifts to distrust and rumor. Rail and sea travel overflow with crowds fleeing, hundreds of thousands leaving. Percy Darrow and Eldridge clash over method as they seek the truth, and the scene closes with a warning to beware imperfect reasoning.
Percy Darrow, seeking work, investigates threats to Boss McCarthy as electric, sound, and heat vibrations are mysteriously cut off across New York. Scientist Prof Eldridge joins the chase while Darrow and athlete Jack Warford pursue the unknown mastermind who may annihilate life itself. Thousands flee in fear.
Public interest surged as swarming reporters and authorities hunted the supposed culprit. Amid warnings and rumors a calm optimism grew while Percy Darrow remained at his wireless post and Jack Warford grew bored. After two days the intermittent signals ceased, a turning point hailed by many as relief.
After a new session opens, senators start a fund for Anson G. McCook's wedding gift. Senator X asks the new Slocum for 25 dollars, prompting Slocum to joke that X wants money for his cook. The exchange ends with a sharp quip about the affair.
The New South Wales government dockyard on Cockatoo Island in Sydney harbor rises from solid rock and sits on a site once used as a large convict prison. Convict labor cut back the rock to allow graving docks and workshops, leaving old prison walls and cells intact. Two thirds of the 33 acre island has been leveled to about 16 feet above high tide.
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