El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-23
All New York City Frightened by the
Story.

All New York City Frightened by the
Story.
The article kept right on in this
style ingeniously combining lurid de-
scription with a convincing richness of
detail II told how the 7th. Sth. 9th
and seth regiments hade been called
out and quoted a proclamation by the
mayor enjoining the citizens to keep
indoors until the wild animals now at
large are either killed or captured"
The condition of affairs were described
in the proclamation as state of
SIEGE" and IL wound up by announcing
the opening Of subscriptions at the city
hall for the benefit of the sufferers.
The writer went to tell how the Zoo
was jammed with the usual Sunday
throng when an impudent keeper poked
a stick through the bars at the rhinoc-
eros striking the animal accidentally
in the eye. The Infatuated animal
thereupon burst out of his cage. knock
ing the keeper down and trampling up
on him. After impaling another keep
er on his horn. he proceeded to assault
the cages containing the lions and IL
gers. and within a few minutes most of
the carniyora. including the wolves,
ieopards and jaguar were at liberty
Lincoln. the Numidian lion. urged
to indescribable fury by bullets that
pierced his TANKS and shoulders. jump
ed into a landaulet occupied by nurse
maid and her four young charges.
mangling the delicate little things past
all recognition
The scenes which ensued were of the ]
most terrible description. the animals |
first fighting with one another. and |
then attacking the people Many were /
killed and wounded. and some of the /
most dangerous creatures found their
way out of the park. cougar after
wards entering st. Thomas church.
while a tiger succeeded in boarding a
ferry boat. stampeding the horses on
board and causing numbers OF passen-i
gers to be thrown into the water.
To make the story complete. list
of killed and wounded persons were
added: also a list of slaughtered ami
mails. from the rhinoceros who caused
the trouble to an unfortunate pine
snake" II was not until the last par
agraph was reached that the readers
apprehensions were relieved by few
words stating that the whole of the
foregoing account was purely Pigment
of the imagination
This hoax caused the greatest excite
ment- The whole city wa enlightened
People kept their children away from
school and many business men did not
go down town to their offices When
the hoax was discovered the cutlery
axinst the newspaper was strong and
general. but the defense was that the
hoax had a purpose. in that the zoolog-
icaI buildings were unsafe and needed
to be STRENGTHENED. which. by the way,
was done.
The Famous Case of the Keely Motor.
KeeIy. the inventor of the famous {;
motor" must have had confidence in
the credulity of his fellow beings For
more than a quarter of a century he
lived on that motor. deriving from IL a I
large income though nobody ever saw (,
IL mote" Many persons of more than
ordinary intelligence invested large 1
sums of money in the machine. which |
was supposed to utilize a so-called {,
''theric force"-a dynamic principle
discovered by Kelly himself and under
stood by him alone. which would in
vitabIy revolutionize the mechanical d.
arts. furnishing unlimited power at an
low rate.
Whenever the confidence OF the
in the enterprise impair I
ed owing to lack of results. Keely
would call a meeting of those interest
ed. and would so beguile them with his !
talk which was always plentifully in I
terlarded with scientific verbiage. that
they would subscribe further sums of
money and go away quite satisfied that
the machine was nearing completion
When Keely died. not long ago. the
source of the "etheric energy" was
found to be a small engine in the cellar
of the adjoining house. Then. and on
Iy then. was all confidence abandoned
in the motor. which. after all. had serv-
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