The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-05-07
I0u1tfERFECTs
ENGINE: OF WAR
Solves Problem Which Is Blessing
to Msnkind--Expicsive 40 Times
More Terrible Than Dynamite.

EVANSVILLE. Ind. May IA
hnky. swettered schoolboy has
achieved what Tesla. Marconi and
ether wizards OF the wireless have
been months vainly laboring for--the
/, invention which scientists long ago
agreed would be the greatest blessing
! 20 mankind.
1 He Is Charley Williams, lS-year-old
Evansville lad.
\ BY pressing the key OF a wireless
instrument rugged up I'm his mothers
woodshed the other night. he caused
! an explosion TO occur three miles
away. II shook every building in the
city.
That's what this boy has accom-
plished. His is an engine of war that
will kill war The United States gov
eminent is negotiating for It. Ii Uncle
Sam gets IL. he will be supreme
among the powers OF the earth
! Charley Williams hasn't stopped at
inventing the apparatus which sets
or the explosive. He has discovered
tho explosive itself He calls IL "Wil-
liamite." and declares II to be 40
times as powerful as dynamite.
scare this city out OF years growth.
A pound, experts say, would have
faxed every building within a mile OF
the tree top In which he set IN the
three-ounce bottle for his test
And the boy has this terrible in
vention OF his perfected. He can di-
rect his brobdingnagian blast wher-
ever he wants it's force TO go. If a
man had been standing under that
4 tree the other night, not hair on his
head would have been displaced.
said young Williams. II had the
charge fixed so that all fits force was
upward"
They examined the tree for proof.
IT'S tops had been sliced of as with a
knife. hut beneath not leaf was dis
tnrhed. Below not living thing was
harmed. hut the ground for a radius
Of half mile was strewn with dead
sparrows.
Williams. youth OF quiet, retiring
manners, robust, large for his age.
witlrs1igiit hair and blue eyes that re
ear(f oneefn a mildly inquiring way.
didnst seem TO think that he had done
anything extraordinary when cor
respondent for The Times visited him
!. n his woodshed laboratory.
why. yes, the experiment was sue
\ cessful." he said, carelessly. Il knew
Il would be. You see, I've been study
ing IL long time and l knew just
how It would act
Young Williams has been studying
high explosives and electricity for
four years In his fiimsy wooden shed
laboratory he has been working with
the most dangerous substance known
"a science.
Fl wouldn't make il life work"
he, declared. I'D kill myself In a
years time" He was thoughtful for
Z time. "But I like IT, he went on
mechanically. Think OF it." he
said. N.to be able TO take a piece OF
stun no bigger than that" he held ND
his c1enched fist, and wreck noun
tainside with 1t.
No! Pm going toa be a railroad
man." he went on. That's my ambi
ton. - s.lsi5sfffs
s.T've been making tests here at
home for some time. he continued.
"But have only been using minute
ouantities. One OF the first I made
was rig6t In our parlor. set of a
little exDl6sion BY wireless across the
room. Wnen Y work with large guam
titles OF the stun I always do 1t out
IN the country. far away from any
body. - =.
The Times correspondent wanted to
know what would have happened II
~ farmer had wandered into the
charge OF "williamsite" in that tree
top.
awouldnf have hurt him II he'd
been standing under the tree when II
went on young Williams replied,
Knight have scared him to death, but
n wouldn't have hurt him. You gee,
it's easy to direct blast-make II go
any way you want---if you know III
tie about it, It seemed extremely