The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-11-24
BEES START RIOT IN GOTHAM.
Police Get a Few Lessons in the Dis
persion of Crowds.


a cloud Of bees came out of the west
the other afternoon and swarmed i'm a
soap box i'm front of Mrs. Ogden Goe-
let's house The soap box rested on
backbone of a sawhorse which a con
tractors men had placed near the side
walk as a protection to passers-by
while Mrs Goelets house is having its
'front.' taken off. The o'clock crowd
had never seen the like of it before. 1t
paused until somebody stirred that
swarm and then it waited no longer.
Mike Mcdonald, Waterman for the
contractor, was lighting his red Ian
terms which warn travellers against the
debris in front of the house when the
bees came. Tom Wilson, caretaller for
Mrs. Goelet was there. too. Watching
Mike do the job, Tom saw the bees
first, brown cloud rising half way to
the housetops. Mike heard him say:
by gee, and what is ito"
Mike looked up and replied:
"Ten million mosquitoes from Jer-
sey"
"Its BIRDS" said the caretaker. IAN
they're coming here"
The bees maze for the soap box on
the sawhorse. In an instant the box
was half fun. In another instant it
was overlooking and bees were cling
ing To the outside of the box.
a boy set up a shout ana the pro-
cession halted. Many men and wo-
men crowded around TO see what was
ON. The bees intent on their own
business harmed no one-that is, UNI
til Tom Wilson thought something
ought to be done He suggested to
Mike that the bees were worth keeping
SO the two grabbed the box and turned
it upside down on the pavement. The
bees which were captured were mad
enough, Mt those left out were worse.
They lit out after the crowd and Nc
Donald ana Wilson. All hands scat
tered. No policeman could have done
better.
Ten minutes later the caretaker and
the Waterman tiptoed back to the soap.
box a few of the bees had come back
and were clustered on the outside. The
bees hived inside were still angry. Nc
Donald thought it was because they
couldn't get air.
1.-THE blasted bees are wlnded, they
are he said. land they're near smoth
cred already"
STUFF" said Wilson
"And how would million OF YOU
like to be i'm that box after a long
hike, sir, and no air?" said the watch
man.
lie reached for a stick and thrust il
under one end of the box. Then the
bees came out, hundreds of them, and
the few which had settled on the out
side took wing again. They flew into
taXicab windows and pestered delivery
horses
Perhaps few horses were stung. but
the police registered no runaways. The
open windows of the Buckingham no.
tel, the Belgravia and the National
Democratic club let i'm a few and bell
boys were busy chasing bees. A gangl
of Italian laborers working at n con-
duit for the New York Telephone com
pany, got out of the ditch and ran
away.
Lawler, acting under instructions.
started smudge. He gathered some |
tar paper and put it near the box. rel
wouldn't burn. Then he asked Wilson !
Tor some kerosene. The bees were
coming back by this time and were
hivng themselves again i'm the upturn-
I'd soap box. Lawler put the tarpaper
about the box, poured on the kerosene,
touched n match and waited to see
what would happen.
There was little smoke, but the fire
get to work on the box and destroyed
III the bees then and there.-New York
sun.