The morning call., 1893-06-18
TEN TONS OF A BOWLDER.
Going on a Caper, 1t Travelled a
Hundred Yards in Six Seconds.


Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Arnold of East Haddam
in the Connecticut Valley were ''at home" one
day recently, but hardly prepared 10 rec i've
lhe stranger That suddenly appeared on their
premises with big racket aud considerable
STYLE
1t was about o'clock when Mr.. and Mrs.
Arnold. who were chatting in heir kitchen, OF
sudden heard u roaring, splitting, creaking,
and then sOughng. rumonng noise. and dash
ing out of their abode into the front yard were
just iu time TO receive their guest there, which
had come through The yard fence, taking the
fence along with IL.
Thereupon it dug hole in the middle OF the
yard and planted itself therein, setting itself
easily in Its socket. Mrs. Arnold threw up
her hands in almost speechleSs aStontshment,
aud presently said: ION, Lord ~ Her nus
band. like the dOoTYard, which Is a small one
and still almost altogether Occupied by the
sitting eviathan, was TOO fnll for utterance.
Ihe big guest Is Ien-t0n Dowlder, and II had
come two or three hundred feet from Its seat
on dizzy shelf at the summit of 4 mountain
al the rear OF tile Arnold habitaTion just 10
make call, apparently, on the AtnoldS. It
came very quietly, traversing the distance noted
IN about six seconds, and in It's track IL ground
up rail and stone fences, knocked down under
Dfusn and trees, ana piowed a deep, ragged
furrow in the wet and spODgy soil between the
base of the hill and the yard.
Ii thIndered across the ouen lots with fright
ful and irresistible fury. III flew into tie yard
by slightly circuTouS pain, barely missed
slcing of a gable OF The dwelling, and crushed
TWO IenGJnS OF handsome White ldttlctu fence
into klndling. Now, Mr.. Arnold would like 10
have some one tell him how TO speed the part
ing guest of bis plantation, for 10 Is no easy
task, safely, 10 blast a ten-ton bowlder under
The caves OF 4 mans house aud haul away he
fragments of il, and here is not enough OK or
horse power in haddam hamlet 10 haul 1t away
bodily.
For several years the great bowlder. perched
IN It's mountain eyrte, had been threatening to
tumble of that perch, but the fact that IL mad
never done so encouraged the Arnold family TO
a IN raj f1I
bic and toGterng balance. IL is spherical mon
ster, that was set up like pear on lis little eud
and when The tremendous aud long-cOntin-
ued downDOurS this SpIing had Oosened "A part
OF its gravel support on the side OF the decliyily
there was no longer "A substantial reason why
The big fellow should stay up there alone on the
precpice.
1t fell about thirty feet vertically, and then
dlved down an inclined plane through second
growth forest with the roar OF cyclone. 1t
Ilpped up not less than dozen goOd-slzed
trees by their roots, while It's laundering onset
nearly frightened all the people in Haddau,
who feared that q hurricane was upon them,
out OF their wits. Mrs. Arnold was badly
scared and unnerved that she lett the dinner
dishes unwashed until after supper.
The Haddam bowlder Is the biggest one that
ever attacked Connecticut household, but It's
extraordinary caper is by no means unpatel-
leed in the State. Not many years ago huge
crag, weighing three tons, fell off the shaggy
hilltop at The rear of pretty cottage on Laurel
Hill, in the heart of Norwich, ran down the
steep hillside and Jumped into The house by the
way OF tile roof.
II went through the roof and second story
without difficulty or delay and hOpprd INTO the
middle of handsome large bed in the guest
chamber. Th- bedsIead was unable to hold the
stranger and keep itself intact, and the great
rock just wrapped the whole thiDg-bedstead,
ticks, sheets, comfortables. pillows anG pillow
shams-abOut itself and went down into tile
cellar, together with the floor, carpet and bed
room furniture
When the man of the house arrived home
from his work at supper time his wife led him
cellar De0rOOm
still In the company OF the bOwder. 1t was
blue grant e bowde: OF the Kind most common
to Connecticut hard as flint, seamless and
crOsSgraned.
IL look the family with the help OF two hired
men, more than Il week TO get ali of the n-
Tuder out of their home, and cost them 81 so
10 repair the mutilated angle of the house.
Connecticut people have a way OF hanging their
houses under impending cliffs in this cragau,
uphill lands sometimes, and when tie crack
OF doom finally does come they are more or less
resigned TO it.