Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-05-25
MESSAGE TO THE MAYOR.
A Machine which Has n Wonder
fun Use.

does not know It's own mlnu TWO udys III
and Council which, on this
matter, has not much of any mind to
know, and large variety of other ills
and distempers which official position is
heir to, it might be supposed that Mayor
Hazard had enough to wear him down to
the bone, but now comes out Louis Sill
verstein, known to fame and to the
police courts under a number of different
aliases, who inficts upon his honor an
extraordinary statement, in which he
demands immediate action, threatening
dire calamity to the Mayor and munich
pality if his orders are not straightway
carried out. Thursday morning when
Clerk Robinson came down 10 the office
he found the document lying on his desk
with the news that the bearer had de-
clared an intention to be in in day or
so, and learn what had been done
about it.
When the Clerk opened the envelope
and discovered that it contained six
enormous sheets of paper, each a yard
in length and q foot wide, written in a
microscopical hand on both sides of the
paper, his first thought was that Mr..
Dexter, of the East Side, had been pre-
pairing some more resolutions to present
TO the Board of Police Commissioners
and had sent them around to have them
read over and digested little before the
next meeting took place. He gave an
exclamation CT dismay and dropped the
roll of manuscript on the floor. In SO
doing he unfortunately dfsarranged the
sheets, which were not numbered, and
although his Honor and several other
competent attorneys have been at work
upon the document at odd times evel
since, they have never succeeded in get
ing it properly sorted out. 1t does no,
matter particularly, for wherever the
reader begins he will find it equally
lucid, and, for that matter, it reads
almost as well backward as forward.
Everybody who has been in the May.
or's office for the past two days has beer
shown the document, and asked to read
it over and give an opinion upon it. When
the Clerk handed it to the Mayor, he
remarked as he did SO that it was proba
bly, . message from the Council. After
studying it for awhile, Mr.. Hazard said
that he had expected something toler
ably razzle-dazzle, but that this broke
the record. Major Furrey who happened
to be present, read one sheet and ther
ran around the table and asked for a
drink. City Clerk Teed tried his hand
at it for few minutes, and then begged
to be tried before jury of his peers. Mr.
Lindley wanted it accepted and filed, like
the Mayors protests. Mr.. Bilderrain
said he would resign. Several members
of the Board of Education said that came
of having Democrat in their midst, and
threatened to leave town. To crown il
all, the reporters, although specially re-
quested by number of people to publish
it in full, respectfully declined, on the
ground that payment for space did not
Prevail among the dailies in Los Angeles.
The part of the document which is
generally suspected of being its begin
ming, reads as follows:
"We, the undersigned, will positively
state that there is and was and has been
for some time for the past five years, a
machine, or something of some sort, that
can be applied to human person that
they, or the people, can by some method
catch o person up in the street and use
him as tool, or use him or them as it
suits them best, with plenty of danger to
the human mind and body, either with
acids, gas or natural gas las in breath
ing) or with gas taken from the ground,
or gas we use in GUNNER, also including
electric lights, telegraph and telephone,
with an appliance applied to these appa.
ratuses or machines, and it can be made
to do most anything. 1t is used for gam
blers, robbers, murderers, bank robbers,
etc., and also in business and in the doc
tor business, where it is called Black
Faith, as for example in Pasadena"
Then follows an accurate description OF
the machine, by which it appears that it
is q good all.round concern, capable, il
rightly managed, Of queering almost
anybody. No detail is omitted, and the
account winds up, after extending over
several sheets, as follows:
"There is also in it an acid which can
burn a PERSONS skin all up, which will
make you scratch until you faint away.
It will make you cough, spit blood, or
kill you, if the person who has it in
his hands feels 30 disposed. l can prove
by many witnesses that this happened to
me five years ago in Stockton, and that !
am now cripple for life. Other people
who have experienced some OF these
grievances will testify the same as !
will-not false grievances, but honest,
upright grievances.
"These are the kind of grievances We
need" said the Mayor, when he had read
thus far. ''I have had SO many dis.
honest and unreliable grievances palmed
off on me that am glad to meet with a
sterling article at last"
The petitioner then sets forth how this
terrific engine was brought to bear upon
him in a thrilling account, as follows:
"While standing by corner in Stock
ton, think ng of one thing or other, felt
Q magnetic or electric shock through my
whole system, and turning around saw a
lot of lights, as it seemed to me done by
some mechanical means, shining right in
my eyes, no matter which way | looked,
and some persons unknown to myself at
that time, kept it up until 1 was nearly
blind. They ran me from the Plaza in
Stockton all over the county. raw all
kinds of images or subjects, as they call
them, in front of me performing all
kinds of different lsbors and motions by
electric clockwork.'
'Say, if there is no patent on that ma.
chine" said the Mayor, 81 think | will
have one made to order. Anything that
will make a man see stars, and then run
all over the whole county would come
very handy in my business"
The author of the statement then de-
scribed what he saw while the machine
was getting it's work in on him. The
earth cracked open, and there were vol
canic holes extending down deep in the
internal REGIONS, coffins turned inside