The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-25
THE CARS DOUBLE.
HAUNTED TO THE MAD HOUSE BY
TEE SHADOW OF NgHTLISTS.

these last ten years or more. NJ. Garrison,
the wealthy retired banker, who never
went by his own name bat always by that Of
'Ghe czar's DOUBLE" has ended his erratic
career in the mad house, an incurable luna
tic, the victim of q baleful resemblance to
the Russian emperor that wrecked his life.
No more remarkable story than this of
Garrison has been told for many day. He
was wealthy RENTER, retired banker,
who lived by his means and enjoyed life in
the rational manner of his gay townsmen
until the car and his imperial household
began to come to Copenhagen TO spend the
summer months at the Danish Court, at
Bernstorf or Fredensborg.
1t was then that the strange likeness of
Garrison TO the Russian autocrat was noticed
and began TO make people talk.
A REMARKABLE RESEMBLANCE.
II was at all times really remark able. He
was Of the same heavy build, with the same
half sinister, half good-natured coun tenance,
of exactly the same hight and with the
same sort of beard, eyes and hair as the en-
peror Any one might have mistaken the
one for the other at any time, and many
persons did.
The czar is a great fav orite at Copenhagen,
and the astonished banker suddenly found
himself cheered and celebrated in a hundred
ways when he showed himself in public
during the imperial visits At first he
laughed at it. He wac good-natured mao
with rather a weak head aud prone to van
ity. Then, gradually, as he saw how much
adulation the odd conceit threw in his way,
he began TO encourage it 10y half unc0n-
sciously adopting the ways OF the real car,
his manner of smiling, OF bowling In re-
Spouse to salute, with one finger upon the
brim of his white cap.
EroFV haff n a hn ~ he
car, the white cap itself, the gray cloak.
every item of his wardrobe down to the
boots and trimming his beard as he did.
was only a STEP but it was the wretched
mans first step toward the mad house. To
counterfeit the car became his overmas-
tering passion, his one conscious aim in the
summer season when Alexander came to
town. His cowardics saved him from car
rying out his crazy notion across the sea,
where it would be dangerous. He played
car only in Copenhagen-but kept OUT OF
the reach Of the nihilists.
ALWAYS AHEAD OF TIE TIMES.
The first gun from the harbor that an
nounced the arrival OF the Russian cour {
saw Carlson down as near the pier Rs the
police would lot him get. Sometimes, be-
fore Carlson came to be the character ne
was Of late years, even they would be Inn
posed upon aud would let him through the
only to find that they had been fooled.
If not, he would next appear, as likely as
not, in the harDor just ahead of the i'm
perial pr -cession from the direction of the
Russian ship in a boat exactly like the
cars launch, rowed by a crew like his, the
observed of all of course, and thus his
vanity was tickled and his ambition salts
fed. In the reception of the real car the
bogus one would be forgotten q moment
later with laugh, but he had had his
triumph and was content.
Before the procession of carriages could
be formed to 20 to the palace of Amalien-
borg, Carlson would reappear on terra firma
to resume his place at the head of the parade
in his liveried carriage, guiding his four-in-
hand team exactly as the car had been often
20 do, and boving right and left. All the
old women along the street would courtesy
aud green sentinels would present their
arms as he passed, with bis one index
finger laid solemnly upon the shade of his
cap.
The gamins would yell "Hurrah ln and
the czar's double would go home happy.
If, as 1t often happened, some one stopped
him to hand up petition or to ask for
help, his satisfaction would be complete
and such petitioners would be likely to fare
better with the bogus czar than with the
real one, who never learns what shoals Of
begging letters beset him while he is at
Copenhagen.
u HE HAD PLENTY OF MONEY.
Carlson would generally heed the request
for help. He had plenty OF money. 1t was
his great misfortune that he had. There
was nothing else for him to do than to
spend it in following out his crazy notion.
and 1t had full swim.
The result Of it all, on a mind like Carl
sens, could have been foresssn. He wound
up by believing himself really to be the
car no had long 80 successfully counter
feited. he built himself villa, in imita-
ton OF one owned by Alexander, out on the
shore road, as close to the palace Of Bern
stortf as he could crowd, and gave up his
identity altogether.
Then the mischief was done. Re had
crossed the threshold upon which he had
fingered so long and entered the shadow of
the czar's throne, as he thoSght, and the
shadow struck terror to his weak SOUL
Carslen was no Alexander. The shadow of
the nihilist and his bomb frightened him
aud drove him out of what sense he had
left.
His smile died. He no longer drove
about in his four-in-hand His sleepless
nights were spent in his villa In haunting
dread Of the approaching dynamiter. lie
discharged bis cook, fearing poison, and
surrounded himself with an armed body
guard Of men, who had orders to let no
for weapon or bomb. He fenced In his
estate with walls strong enough to repel at
tack by the enemy.
He GOES MAD AT LAST.
He refused to see his agents, when they
came to report to him upon finantial mat
ters. The story went abroad in the city
that the cars double had gone mad And
the story was true.
One morniug, not long ago, the explosion
came. CaTlsens neighOors on the shore
road we're surprised by a vifit from his
agents asking them to sell their land. Some
consented, some refused.
The farmers were told that they would
hear from the cEar shortly. 10 the others
he sent word that, whether they liked 1t or
not, they would have to sell. What they
liked or didn't like WIS not the question,
but what he wanted. He was the Car,
and the buildings about his lands sheltered
nihilists and plots against his life. Come
down they must, houses, garden, railroad
and all. He wanted it,
Then they took him to the mad house
His family who had watched his reason give
way, powerless 10 interfere. called upon the
authorities to step in, and Carlson was
taken to Bidstrup, the Danish Bedlam,
where he now is The doctors have pro
nounced his case incurable. He will die as
he lived the cars double
Ii is said that Carlson was once intro
duced at Bernstortf TO the real Alexander.
who knew ell about his crazy notion. The
two together looked as like as two drops OF
wafer The Russian lookad his conutarta,.