Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-12-30
MYSTERY OF MYSTERIES
Some People Have Been Seeing
Things at Night.
WINS the "Airship" Owls with Lam
terms Tied TO Their Legs, or Only
the Inner workings Of a Piece
Of Mince Pct


planes have wheeled and circleG and
dashed in long curves bac!. and forth
across the face Of the heavens for
several nights past yen. for more
than a week have they been seen to
frisk and frolic above the world Of
men From Worcester Mass, Bur
lington and Colchester they have been
seen and wondered at by many
good citizen Of fair reputc Clergy
men have thoushtfully watched them
from their back yards and gay mid
night jewellers have seen them from
the crowded streets. the witnesses are
many and the testimony vsriegated.
There would seem to bs no doubt that
there really has been An airship some
where in the past week. and yet
Some two weeks ago one OF the
walters In local restaurant was rid
ing into the city on 4 North avenue
chr. Suddenly he spied a light, bright
and steady Ike 4 searchlight. which
was moving rapidly over the lake
nbout three hundred feet from the
shore and a. about the same height
above the surface of the water He
called the attention Of the conductor
and the motorman to the phenomenon
ana they saw IT, too.
Last Monday night 3 mysterious H.
Elimination which appeared in the
heavens some distance from Burling-
ton chased night train from Essex
| toward this city "a far a. the North
avenue tunnel. and there disappeared
suddenly In blaze Of glory. And
that isn't all
report comes in from Essex juno
ton which says that about seven
o'clock that same night the throngs
Of people In the street were attracted
by bright light In tho sky. over to
the west, which rosa steadily. It was
thought by some to be the light from
an airship and others thought 1t was
the evening star. It remained shin
ing brightly at A great height for half
an hour. when 1t suddenly began to
grow dim and then disappeared. like
a candle pured out.
stowe looks at the matter in another
lisht and says. 1T has been stoutly
maintained by some people in this vi
cinity that tho brilliant Venus wa. an
electric star sent up everv evening from
the electric plant at Bolton Falls II
was even imagined that 1t could Re
seen waving back AMI forth as y was
being drawn down."
Staid Boston also hal the airsh;p fever
and the Globe Of Saturday morning
tells at length how the crowds on Christ
mas eve watched what they supposed
10 he tho two lights Of an airship and
specNlated on the meaning thereof One
spectator thought that ne could see the
body Of the ship ard q policeman even
made out that the lights were red and
green. as is proper for the bow and stern
OF aerial craft
! One Of the gazers at the Boston air
ship confessed that he had been sceptical
and had thought the two lights to be
stars. but he was Convinced that they
must he on an airship when he saw that
tho .ky vs., siarless save for those two
lights. And there's whcr~ the Joke on
Boston comes IN. the Globe explains FOR
tho two li.h's were the star. Castor
and Uo,ux in tho constellation Ccrnini
and they. o~ins TO the haz,rcss in tho
uppcr air. We're the only two stars In
the heavens visible west and south OF
the zenith. which va. TIE only portion
Of tho heavens in sight from the points
where the crowd. were gathered Very
amusing, anyway. I'M more so because
Il happened III Boston.
The citizens OF Newton Mass even
baord ~. ,.boc,. ~ t,,. .;r.,,- on ,ro,,,
and on. man ..w sm.k. or .+..r, cow.
in. ,ror !, ', y-r, u,.. ,n.,. ~.
wis. thourht ,h.y sor q .rd =, Wv
mort y ,ho,. wo-. .ur. n, e .r,..
tried various cetch-as-catch-ran meth
od. n, ii.cov.r,rr wb.th,r ~ rot th.
u-h, a, ths ,tr.h,n ro. IN -nnt,.r rr.l
b,rh .choo, ,ro,n..or ...ur.d N. a.
thu.i,.,. that ~. l;-b, r.. o,Iy 10.
sir,us horpl.,. Al. .,.r
There was hi. M-Li il w.r...,.r
Mas. Last r..L ov.r an .u...A it.,
shin which want I'm An ,br.. ..n.,.,.
and distinct ni~bts n N. .r..t won
der and dol.u,tior ~ wa+ch,,. thnr..
ends. N.w.n,n.r man rock.S ,rt. ~.
CITY and ,..r.d rro,, nl.c. "a n,... .f,.
the aviator ri,,inrh.st vho eou,a M,
he found rbev added ri,I,nrhast,. NM
appearance to the very evident .nn..r.
snce OF III. r,v.ter,ous light IN the .tI..
and with wo,l.r,,,, s.r.ci,v t..,d., ~,
he must he ,,,,ino ri,ht,v idn. tr 49,
ether.
Wild Imagining. Of buccaneers .uoo,-
INK down from IN. ETHEREAL bin. On IN.
nrotcct.d N.u rns,,na r,,,a ,,,r,d souls
with terror and ann. even thouvht ,h.,,
could hear the faint strains Of "Yo.ho-bo
and a bottI. ~ rum" w.fted dow 90,
o, the unn.r darknss, Or could !, y.
that the valley psr,, was unon IN. 90.
c,d.rt, n /. eve, ruuor.d that ,or,. =.
the Worcester c,,,,crs in terror -,
bo,nhs nut hoard. over their chin,ror.
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