El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-15
A MODERN ARK-BUILDER.
Building An Ark And Warning the
People OF a Second Flood.

Building An Ark And Warning the
People OF Second Flood.
A dispatch from New Haven, Conn.
says that . new Noah has arisen in the
land. Milton Stewart of this city be-
lieves that the Almighty is on the
point OF wreaking v, ngea nee upon the
ing 40 ark on the top of West Rock, q
big hill near this city, five miles from
water, and he says he is willing to
take aboard all who have faith when
the Almighty floods the land,
which he predicts will be the
form of devastation which will visit
the United States. He says that the
waters of the Atlantic ocean will be
| let loose upon the land by the power
full hand of the deity and the earth
drowned out as 1t was in the early
ages.
Milton Stewart is undoubtedly
crank OF the first order, but neverthe-
less his theory is an interesting one.
Here is what he says about it:
II believe that the wickedness which
has N ade the United States degenerate
morally. will assuredly be punished. I
am positive tat the Almighty will
roll the waters of the Atlantic and
Pacific upon this broad country and
that every acre of land will be COM
pletely inundated. Even the highest
peaks OF the Rocky mountains will
60 under water ana the flood will last
for many days. L can not say how
many, but 1 do not think it will be as
long as the fret flood was in the days
| OF Noah. 1 have been sure of this
ever since last summer, when l had q
dream, in which Christ appeared to
me in q vision and told me that the
sins of the people would be wiped out
Il hu nd hot ~,
purest-minded people would be saved.
He commanded me to build q large
boat capable of accommod ating twenty
people, and said that others of the
faithful over the land would be
instructed to do the same SO that there
| would be some people eaved from the
flood to repOpulate the land.
$50 [ am building my boat. do not
expect the flood until next summer and
by that time will be prepared for 1t.
The boat will be rather small quarters
for score of people, with provisions
to keep them alive during the flood,
but we shall take with US only condens-
ed meats and food sufficient to last the
necessary ten days. Wheo the waters
subside I am sure that we shall be
provided for by the came power which
| will save US from the fate in store for
all the ungodly of Connecticut and the
country.
| "My boat will be a plain sloop yacht,
| forty-6ve feet long with one mast and
| sail and it will have q small cabin. I
am building it like any other yacht. 1
thought first OF shaping it like Nosh's
ark, but concluded that q modern form
would be more convenient It can be
handled better and easier.
81 have told all my friends In the
neigh borhood of the coming food.
When they asked me what Intended
| to do with q boat five miles from Long
Island sound and 1 have explained my
mission to them, they have laugh tod at
| me: They do not believe that the ocean
| will food the earth. But take my
| word for it, those whom the Lord in
tends to save will bear me and the
boat when the waters rise, and tho
Lord will direct them to get on board
my ark:
81 think tho deluge will come next
summer, in the dryest part of the sea-
son, when crops will have been all
dried up and the whole land fears .
hard winter. The dry season next
summer will be the worst in fifty years
and all kinds of vegetables will be
killed by the suns rays. Then the de-
luge will come, and In the ten days
that the land Is under water, the
vegetation will blossom out anew and
the ark In which we have been saved
| most depopulated 1t is true, but one
| which we and our generations after
wards will in time repopulate. Our
cities will be washed away by the
mighty rush of waters and1only ruins
left where once proud cities stood"
Stewart has 60 far escaped the insane
asylum. He is an old man, without any
near relatives, and has been living in q
small shanty on the road leading to tho
top of the hill on which be is bulldog
his boat. Formerly be followed the sea
for living. and has made many voy-
ayes to South America, Africa and the
Indies. He is apparently sane upon
all topics excepting religion, and it is
| thought that solitude has made him a
monomaniac. Nevertheless he is
| building his ark in the expectation of
preserving human life when the next
| deluge comes. He has no theories
| about the other continents, and be says
nothing has been said to him about
preserving animal life, so he presumes
| some of the other inspired people over
| the country who will build arks at the
direction of the Lord will be entrusted
| with that duty.
A Man Dropped Dead.
While trying to clean his own suit
of clothes. Now, if he had been
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