The Detroit times., 1909-05-07
10th PERFECTS
ENGINE OF WAR
ooIvss Problem Which Il Blessing
Z = Mankind Explosive 40 Times
1ere Terrible Than Dynamite.

EVANSVILLE. Ind. May IA
N1IAky, sweathered schoolDoy has
achieved what Tesla, Marconi and
other wizards OF the wireless have
beeD months vainly laboring for--the
Invention which scientists long ago
agreed would be the geratest blessing
20 mankind
He Is Charley Williams, ls-year-old
Evansville lad.
BY pressing the key OF a wireless
+. 1nstRument rugged up in his mothers
4 W0odshed the other night. he caused
IN explosion TO occur three miles
away. Itsshook every building in the
fl That's what this boy has accom-
/. pliShed- His is an engine OF war that
will kill war. The United States gov
ernment 10 negotiating for 1t. II Uncle
Sam GETS II, he will be supreme
among the powers OF the earth.
Charlsy Williams hasn't stopped at
inventing the apparatus which sets
| ~ the explosive He has discovered
I the explosive itself. He calls IL "Wil
siiam1te." and declares II 10 be 40
rtimes ~ powerful an dynamite
- Three ounces of il was enough 10
scare this city out OF a years growth.
"A pound, experts say. would have
raised every building within a mile OF
the tree top In which he set up the
fhxee-ounce bottle for hisstest
a And the boy has this terrible in
vontion Of his perfected. He can di-
rect his brobdingnagian blast wher-
ever he wants its force TO go. ~Tf
Imam had been standing under that
tree the other night, not a hair on his
head would have been displaced"
said young Williams. II had the
charge fixed so that all its force was
upward"
They examined the tree for proof.
Its tops had been sliced OF as with
knife, but beneath not leaf was dis
turbed. Below not q living thing was
harmed, but the ground for radius
of' half mile was strewu with dead
oparrows.
Williams. q youth OF quiet, retiring
smanners. robust, large for his age.
with light hair and blue eyes that re-
gard one in a mildly iuuuiring way.
didn't seem to think that he had done
anything extraordinary when a cor
respondent for The Times visited him
IN his woodshed laboratory.
why, yes, the experiment was sue
cessftll," he said, carelessly. Il knew
M would be. You see. I've been study
Ing Il q long time and I knew just
how Il would act"
Young Williams has been studying
high explosives and electricity for
four years. In his, fifmsy wooden shed
laboratory he has been working with
the, most dangerous substance known
TO science.
II wouldn't make II life work"
he declared. I'D kill myself In a
years time" He was thoughtful for
q time. But like it, he went on
enthusiastically. Think OF It." he
Said, Ito be able to take a piece of
stun no bigger than that" he held up
his clenched fist, "and wreck noun
tainside with II.
mo, I'm going TO be railroad
man he went That's. my amhi=
ton.
"T've been making tests here at
nome for some time" he continued
But I have only been using minute
quantities One OF the first I made
was right In our parlor. | set on a
little explosion by wireless across the
room. When work with large, guam
titles OF the stuff always do II out
An 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 ''williamsfte" IN that tree
top.
"Wouldn't have hurt him n he'd
been standing under the,tree when IL
went on" young Williams replied.
might have scared him to death. but
Il wouldn't have hurt him. You see.
It's easy to direct blast--make II go
any way you want-if you know IT.
tie, about g." II seemed extremely
simple to this remarkable boy.