The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-24
MARTIAN WAY

clothing he had picked lip from nearby shops, when in the suitcase he held in his kand told him that the boat was sealed. and that the gravitation rise in temperature gave evidence that the craft
 ee of e s at .Sa was warming her hull to bright red.
 rartment just aft the pilot bridge room. and Wins ton soon picked up all the details of the course. during his tours of duty, he stood in the doorway of the instrument room. watching the deck of1ce.H noted in their sailing orders as markers He heard the low spoken orders to the at the way until the thirty thousand steel had been steadfed to it's course after some far-sn mass had and sucked her hundred thousand miles from her Gef S pntn before their watshful eyes could ever increasing velocity the Trenton put the Earth with rapidly growing parallax amid the multitude of heavenly bodies.
 They were routed for the passage in twenty. eight days, but the twentieth day Winston. sits ting moodfly over his instruments, heard 1voice4 He we went to the pa door and Took looked 1p The cspsas and most of the officers were there and appeared of the fixed stars For an hour they WorIed snii ing the screens taking observations. making cona-
 Gentlemen. we are hang up the neutral But not one word of this anywhere in the boat but
 Winston understood and smiled grimly. Faulty Sun than the power of her Sun screens warranted and that great incandescent mass had seized her i immovable against the pull of the planet, Ike fly in spider web. but so nicely balanced that the would again put her in the friendly grasp of the
 But what did he care? He felt that he might as we'll die live the life of pariah. He found himself wishing that the generators would Sun come tearing through the frail network Of wires. wire whose magnetic vitality vas holding him at
 For forty-eight hours the Trenton's engineers of the back pull; then they gave it up star ing hopelessly at the whirring dynamos that alone
 Things were getting serious a No word of fn pred1cament had as yet reached the passengers but selves and improving their astronomy by -sfIa< ssI, observations with old sextant and they suddenly as Mars was concerned, notwithstanding the bogus daily runs. hung out as usual in the saloon, and barrass1ng questions. he hammered out despairing message for the captain. The more he thought of it the more he one of the gangways and out on the baiconv sboya @ the passengers dining-room. It the dinner in evening clothes and women in all the splendor of the modistes art were talking and laughing. all unconscious that death in it's most horrible form was lurking only few inches beyond the uphol- stered walls. Dark-skinned walters in the liners gorgeous livery darted here and there in weIl- ordered precision
 On the platform, at the forward end of the room, mammoth palms. the, orchestra was discoursins some weird Martian melody. Over alI the hun reflected in thousand scintiatine brilliant points from napery. silver, glass and wonderful jewelIed
 He passed on and out over the saloon In one corner fair-haired girl and youth sat in silent a big Martian professor expounding his theory q the fourth dimensions to group Of the Yale men. out through one of the heavily glazed ports into the inky blackness of space He shaddered as he seemed to Hitting by long black craft white- haired old man peer,ng through @ the forward @ con the captains office, his jaws set and his eyes rowed to tiny slits.
 Three times he tried before he was admitted. but within he remained an hour. and when he left the captain came out with him.
 passenger decks All the heavy freight was slowly moved forward, and the tired engineers stood by tempt to diminish the back pull. Even the passen- gers, one pretext or another. were collected in the forward end of the boat, to Tighten as much as possible that part of her pointing sun-wards Then the eaDtan and na the 9s ns omeer s s ports leading to the 11feboats secured outside on these ports was unscrewed. The two officers wrung Winston's hands silently but with fervor that made words unnecessary, and he disappeared into the dark cavity and the cover was replaced.
 Through the after port they saw the metal case release its grip on the hull and slide slowly along sllimitable void, directly in prolongation of her length glistening with reflected light like bal, of both men were conscious of perceptible jar. The shlnlng ifeooat silently parted rom the Trentons it it slowly gathered headway, moving always on, on, towards where the Sun glowed a bIood-red orb, and both stood, still, silent and thought full long after it invisible to the eye. On the pilot bridge, the third officer suddenly dropped his sextant and exclaimed, By the Lord! we are under way again.
 The following is from the New York Commercial Review. trade journal devoted so inssrplaneta-y traffic:
 We informed that the International Astron- orcal Society has determined that inuiscSi.ual body lately discovered revolving another satcl- lite of Venus is the 1feboat containing the Tenins of John R. Winston, who sacrificed Himself to re- tI.e Mercantile (N. Y.) Conrauy's passenger boat Trenton. 1asr June by pushing her off when