Connecticut western news., 1880-10-13
THE sCHROON LAKE METEORITE.
A Redhot Missile from tho Skies Description of the Celestial Visitor-A Puzzle for
 the Scientists


 The advent of the meteorite is the never failing subject of discussion, writes a correspondent from Pottersville, N. Y. At the hotel the other night the con- versation turned, as usual, upon the wonder, although it was more than a week since the meteorite fell redhot from the heavens before the astonished eyes of Marcus Granger, at Lakeside Cot tage, on the edge of Schroon Lake. | From this conversation learned that Changers wife was away when the me- teorite fell, and that his sister was keep ing house for him that his sister and children were in bed, and that he was sitting alone in the kitchen writing a letter when suddenly the door yard was brilliantly lighted up, and the next in- stant there was a concussion that shook the house. Granger ran to the window to look out, and saw on the ground a redhot object His sister came running down from her bed chamber in her night clothes in great alarm, and the two (both almost equally frightened) went out to see what the object was. They found large stone, partially buried in the ground, redhot. Granger wanted to go and call his nearest neighbor, who lived about 8 quarter of 8 mile away, but his sister would not let him leave her. Neither of them slept any that night, and the next morning the sister had not recovered from her fright.
 One man present said he saw the stone the next morning, and it was then warm. This man offered Granger $25 for it, but he would not take the money. Some one knocked off part of the stone with an axe, and the chips were taken away by those who went to see it the next morning. At my request man went out and got some fragments of the stone and brought them to the hotel. It ap- peared to be quartz, with small DOT ion of dark-colored mica mixed with it "a very different looking materi al from the conventional meteorite of iron and silica. In fact, it came out during the conversation that this stone was SUD- posed to be valuable, from the fact that it differed from meteorites heretofore found. I took occasion to ques tion several of the villagers about the man Granger, and they all agreed in giving him a good character for honesty. I was told that both he and his sister had made affidavits to the facts as stated above before justice of the peace.
 In the course of the evening Granger himself came in with violin case under his arm. He seemed to be 8 frolicsome, good-natured fellow, about six feet high, with 8 swarthy complexion, dark eyes and close cropped hair: The next morn ing walked out to Lakeside Cottage, which is about one mile and half from the village. It was snug little house, standing by itself on farm of about forty acres. The land extends down to the lake, which is 8 beautiful sheet of water, about nine miles long, at the head of which is the popular summer resort of Schroon. Here, too, is the little island called "Isola Bella," which Mr. Bayard Clarke, of New York, has con- verted into charming country home. As I approached the house I saw a l dry goods box placed near it on the ground, which was correct in supposing 1 covered the mysterious stone. The box was staked down to the ground and the cover was on hinges. Marcus Granger came out and lifted the box cover. The stone lay in the hole which it made in the ground when it fell. Granger took it up and placed it upon the cover of the box so that I could the better examine it. It was wedge-shaped stone, about eighteen inches by twelve inches at the thick end, and weighed 100 or perhaps 120 pounds. As it lay upon the box, invested with the interest of having fallen from the skies, it presented ar unique and mysterious appearance. Il was stone by itself, quarried by nc human hands, and in it's triangular shape the symbol of heavenly mysteries.
 By invitation of MT. Granger I en tered his house and sat down in tht room in which he was sitting on th' evening of September 22, when the me teorite fell. The stone struck the hart sod about twenty feet from the window of the room where I was sitting. On the left of the window stood tabl
 against the wall.
 "I was sitting at this table," said MT Granger, writing a letter to my sister in-law. It was about o'clock and tn
 night was dark and cloudy and ther
 was a high wind. Ihad stopped writing ,, and was thinking, looking toward tn 5 window, when suddenly everything wa
 lighted up as bright as day. Ijumpe : to the window to look out, and sa7
 a great bright thing strike the ground and the house shook so that it made m : jump. My first thought when I sa, s the light was that my sister, who ha l gone up to bed, had set fire to thehous
 and that the roof was all in blaze | The stone was at white heat when A fell, but it seemed to cool off quickly
 for when got to it it was a cherry rec I sprinkled some sulphur on it, and h blazed up, and so did some kerosen n that put on it. ,
 could see traces of sulphur on tn t stone, and discolored spot where | 1 said he had poured kerosene. I aske s Granger if he was much frightened, an
 he replied, "You can bet I was e didn't sleep a wink all night, nor m e sister either. I didn't know what woul 5 come next"
 ', Mir. Granger told me that the own' h of the place he lives on had written hi e not to dispose of the stone, and that d seemed to claim it for himself. 9th