The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-24
By Capt. Fl. c. BiS6op. v. S. 4.

cured during the next three weeks. Old and mid If little else, and that the civilized worlds of three and & 6s the es o excited women, children and the Earth's unfortun- ponderable ether to their sure destruction Nor is it necessary to again tell how sweating heat-blis tered engineers at every interplanetary radograph station three planets stood by their generators. until they were carried out unconscious. speeding up their machines, to the calls of set-faced opera tors for higher voltage, as they hurled radiogram that damaged receivers on boats as far away as Jupiter but which failed to excite the wornout and Day after day. regularly at the twelfth hour, the punctilious, dlurnai *report progress from ing beautifully, and day after day as he reported another six million miles put astern of the Colum- bias flaming tail lights the worlds shuddered with
 winston had been found early on the morning after the sailing, wandering the streets, still dazed and unknowing, and had been taken to the Tombs, came O1dstein, for with the Eagle in the lead, the and aS we1e frantic for the blood of
 On the 4th of November Captain Golf reported successfully that he had turned the angles.
 On the 9th he reported by heliocentric co-ordin- ae he ad as m @ likely to carry 1t across his own. On the 9th he ferred to the inability of his subordinates to get the receiving apparatus in order. and again re- His progress report" showed that he had dimin-
 On the sth he reported that the Columbia was "wobbling. apparently under the influence of the comet as he had nov determined mined that body h to I be- her steady. Two hours later he sent another mes hour and Ts he to that he could no longer keep her head up;' Short; man was using every resource to avoid the danger and was wasting little time over the radiograph. the 10th of November % Captain Robert Cons last began to spark from the induction coils at
 I regret to report that at two minutes past mid- ing gallant efforts on part the crew. and that she is falling into the comet at frghtful velocity Temperature in pilot bridge Compartment 1o7a F. and Increasing rapidly Outer skin of hull is fus, realize case is hopeless Passengers informed of as ang ada and children suffocating. . Gregg taking ob- on sGmes reports taaaa% ya ana Temperature 125. May God have mercy on our souls and comfort leave behind us
 Here the receiver gave final gasp and the spark
 The trial came soon and was pushed to speedy finish but all too slow for an ipsstent press a and seats. the jury found Winston gully of criminal The second vice-presdent e res % was given ten years
 Every night when the turnkey closed his cell hour hour along the Milky Way in the b1istered, heat warped hull of the Columbia. Sometimes he rode silent old man, who was forever straining ahead with lsextant to his eyes; sometimes below, where "eS SSS---e~N~' Soo---o gravitation screens.
 winston shook hands silently with the warden and walked dumbly out of the penitentiary. He total surprise to him They had not taken him out to work that morning, but had almost imme- him to dress, and opened the gates to him. He free Free to work or idle as he chose; to things he liked. How often in the long thirteen years of his confinement he had pictured this
 But now that the time had actually come he felt old and oppressed infinitely old; his steps were weight.
 York, glutting himself with all of excesses and wonderngly surysyng the changes that had had his money was running low and clearly he must must 50 of Which he knew nyhnE and hs soul volted at the thought of ever again seeing an in self up at the Three Hundred and F'ortieth Street yards of the Mercantile Company sharing the sub dued excitement that always existed about such places.
 The vast concourae sheltered busy crowd. for not only was the Trenton sailing for Mars that forenoon, but Jupiter liner was due at any mo-
 en Toraeo ms way ne n a the of activity. From the flashes Of the arm was asking permission for one of their nners which had met with some mishap, to drop back He her in few minutes, a gradually growing blur in the heavens. that soon resolved itself into of the big, fat snub-nosed boats so indicative of German construction, her cautious Teutonic skipper dropping her gently. a hundred feet at
 Winston saw two persons within the dispatchers office whom he took to be the chief dispatcher and the traffic manager in serious conversation
 "And you've got only two radiograph operators aboard the Tzentou:" the traffic manager was ask ing.
 Yes" answered the chief dispatcher, "1ot an- other operator in New York to be had for love or moRey.'
 'It won't do, it won't do,'' snarled the manager. f"The Trenton must sail at and you've got to get another You know the law requires three." And he stalked out of the office.
 Winston waited for more, but boted inside and over to the dispatcher's desk.
 'I operate .radiograph, and want Jcb, he said, when tho dispatcher looked up as him.
 tWho're you?" he demanded