The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-07

Couldn't you publish an article in your paper
 "The editor wouldn't hear of it. Moreover, I've anticipated that Here is the manuscript of an article Eve written prophecy of the coming sum- mer. am going to seal it up in the presence of two wttnesses4-you. can be onezo of them and the editor can be the5other-and then when things be- public will see that Pm talking sense By that time you'll be on your way home-and-well, our < scoop comes off 'f7 | ~s s.e- .. .t Thus that rgrnly sub-editerial den in the Morn ing News building saw the inception of one of the greatest sensations of modern times /, ,.,
 It was early in March when Keith deserted the first small sign that events were moving. An even < ing paper had a paragraph headed Curious Dis park keepers had come across a remarkable spiders web in clump of bushes the Serpentine. The web was so much stronger than the average that Ia small birdrhad stuck in it. The keeper had been attracted by the birds cries No sign of the spider had been seen. !. @ as-~fi.> himself was perhaps the only Journalist who took the trouble p interview the keeper and verify it's correct. and added that he had found number of similar webs since. Never saw such webs in my life sir" he said. They're so blooming strong I can hardly break them down with my stick; and never sign do of the spider that spun them.'
 "A bird was caught in the web?" time got there it was dead. Aye, and more than dead I lugged it out of the web and it was noth- ing but bag of bones, give you my word You'd have said it had been sucked-but suppose that's impossibe-sucked like fy you know, which has been ate up by a spider"
 
 papers were full of what they called ."The Plague of Spiders Webs in the Park a-es~.- Keith went to the cable office, and along the wires message flashed to Wakefield, who was now half way across the globe. ''Go ahead it And be quick about it!''
 April and May passed and by now all England all the world-was ringing with the extraordinary phenomena to be seen in Hyde Park Hardly a yard of the area of the park could be said to be untainted by web. It spread, every night; and in the morning special gangs of men, armed with all sorts of brooms and squilgees, had to clear the fhC Tn iyo1or airI% Row was paved with web. and early horseman, who tried to brave this strange pavement, com pelled to withdraw because his steed would face it. Yet never spider was found Their agility in eyading detection was amazing The speed of their movements must have been literally faster than any eye could follow. Obviously, spiders therein millions-yet no human eye had seen them. On every side the park gIittered and shone with gossamer tissue. And over all there brooded : vast; an oninous silence. The birds had quitted their accustomed haunts. \ .s.-l~.. . June came, and there was an outbreak of web at Barnes Common, and in nearly every garden in Ken sington and Bayswater. The park prac- tically impenetrable. Steam rollers were supposed to keep it's roadways free of web; but steam roller had scarcely gone a dozen yards before its wake began to fill with web again. A day came when the web was so thick that of the steam rollers damned in it. The driver got frightened, and jumped from his post-into of web a yard deep. He struggled to the edge of it. shrek- ing, spectators saw the abandoned steam roller swiftly wound in semi-transparent flaments. In two hours it had vanished from view under pyra- mid of white.
 Faruament appointed HQyal COmmlSSlOn to eX- anime into the plague of spiders-and one of the Royal Commissioners, who lived in a house over looking St. Jamess Park could not get out of the door morning because it glued up with web. He escaped from upper window.
 Geometrical progression-that the secret of the speed at which this horror grew Five days Hyde Park was finally closed: and abandoned both PiccadillY and the Bayswater4 Road were impass- able with web; and two days later child was killed by the spiders in Putnam. The details ot it's death were unspeakable. Onlookers saw ii quite distinctly-and for the first time saw the spiders, too-nutlike, hairy beasts, which, when they had done their hideous task, seemed to :evap- crate. &1tt44'
 The river was now the safe thoroughfare ir : central London; and Parliament still sat. Mem