Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-05-11
Remarkable Effect of the Discovery
Of Explosives on Analostan Island.
OFFICIAL HAIR AND HEARTS
MisgWings and Fears Hold Swa,
for Four Hours.
THE REASON FOR IT ALL

There was a sudden elevation of hirsute
in high official circles yesterday afternoon.
Locks that had long laid PROSTATE from
sedulous training by tonsorial experts pro-
ceeded to stand up as straight as though an
electric fan was working upon them.
Whispers quickly flew from blanched lips
to pale ears that a terrible plot to destroy
all our public buildings and the occupants
thereof had been barely discovered in time
to Illustrate IT. A perfect magazine of ap-
palling explosives had been found on Ana
iostan Island! Two hundred and fifty
pounds of dynamite! A quantity Of giant
powder. A great mass of nitro-glycerina.
A mysterious white mixture of pc :uIiar
consistency, but evidently of ferocious pow
er! The effect was awful when the terrible
possibilities were considered.
Questions of the Moment.
Did Downing have anything to do with
the fearful stuff? Had Lieutenant Caranza
secured emisSaries to secrete it IN the IS
land for the purpose of sending the Capitol
skyward and the uptown departments sour
rying in the same direction?
For three four hours the official hair
continued its perpendicularity and official
hearts beat to an extent that would have
frightened even trained nurse Simpsons
fleet was forgotten, and Dewey's victory
A Calm Follows the Storm.
Then like balm came the information that
the terrible mass of danger and devastation
was not intended for such purposes, and
breath of relief that made the flags up
town stick out straight from their stats
burst forth from the official bosoms
This calm after the storm arrived almost
simultaneously with The Stars announce
Yesterday haf
been found.
1t was occasional by visit paid by PROT
Charle; Edward Monroe, the professor CT
chemistry at Columbian University pres
fdent of the American Chemical Society
ard the inventor of indurite. to Lieut.
Swindelis at the seventh precinct station
house over in Georgetown. Prof. Monroe
had heard that Lieut. Swindells' alert Off
GERS mad discovered the elements of de-
struction over On AEalostan Island, and
called to explain that they had been placed
there as preliminary to the work of
class of young men who the professor was
to initiate into the mysteries of explosives.
The Deadly Can OF Becswax.
The white mixture was beeswaN to be
used in assisting the insulation of wires
to be placed in the waters CT Little river
The dynamite was not exactly dynamite.
but something equally as powerful though
not dangerous to handle. There was
and Enclosed in box. Wher the box and
other receptacles We're found they were
reposing in the cellar of an Old ruined
house on the island The box of dynamite
or whatever 1t was, was securely locked
with a Yale lock. When the officers de-
tailed to examine the find reported to Lieut.
SWindellS he Instructed them to go back
aud open the box and see what il contain
ed. When the officers returned to the island
they found that some one had taken "a
rock and knocked off the lock of the box :,
The contents were exposed they. were TIE
moved to the seventh precinct station in
the patrol wagon. II was driven at u
walk, and slow one.
How They Got There.
The presence of the explosives was ex-
planned by the fact that several days ago
Pref Writ Tassin of the National Museum
was granted a permit by the District Com
missionerS to make tests of certain OK
plosives on the island. The owners of the
island permitted the tests to be carried on,
the idea being to have a class of youn.,
men instructed in the nature of explosives
and the art of using them. As soon as the
ov nership was established the police patr oil
carried the material to the wharf, and it
Was conveyed back to the island again.
Pref Monroe being cautioned about leaving
the explosive careleSSly unprotected. The
police of the Georgetown precinct deserve
crtCit. for the detection of the explosives
for IL the material stored on the island
had been intended for Interior purpose
considerable damage could have been in
f1icted to the public buildings or water
works by its use.