Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-14


and still found their space too scanty.
1t was for the second evening after our
arrival that the great meeting had been fixed.
For the first, we had each, no doubt, our
own pressing personal affairs to absorb us.
Of mine cannot yet speak. 1t may be that
as it stands farther from me | may think OF
it, and even speak of it, with less emotion.
I have shown the reader in the beginning of
this narrative where lay the springs of my
action. Its but right, perhaps, that should
carry on the tale and show also the results.
And yet the day may come when would
not have it otherwise. At least have been
driven forth to take part in wondrous ad-
venture, and | cannot but be thankful to the
force that drove me.
A NDnow turn to the last, supreme, event
full moment of our adventure. AS was
racking my brains as to how l should best
describe it, my eyes fell upon the issue of my
own journal for the morning of the eighth of
| November, with the full and excellent &C
count of my friend and fellow reporter Mac
dona. What can do better than transcribe
| his narrative, headlines and all? [ admit
| that the paper was exuberant in the matter,
out of compliment to its own enterprise in
sending correspondent; but the other
great dailies were hardly less full in their
accounts. Thus, then, friend Mac in his
| report:
THE NEW WORLD
GREAT MEETING AT THE QUEENS
HALL; SCENES OF UPROAR.
EXTRAORDINARY INCIDENT
WHAT WAS IT?
NOCTURNAL RIOT IN REGENT
STREET
(SbeciaD
"The much discussed meeting of the Zoo
logical Institute, convened to hear the re-
port of the committee of investigation sent
out last year to South America to test the
assertions made by Professor Challenger as
to the continued existence of prehistoric life
upon that continent, was held last night in
the greater Queens Hall. And it is safe to
say that it is likely to be red letter date in
the history of science; for the proceedings
were of so remarkable and sensational
character that no one present is ever likely
to forget them" (Oh, brother scribe Mac
dona, what monstrous openingD "The
tickets were theoretically confined to men,
bers and their friends; but the latter is an
elastic term, and long before eight o'clock,
the hour fixed for the beginning of the
proceedings, all parts of the great hall were
tightly packed. The general public, how
ever, which most unreasonably entertained
grievance at having been excluded, storned
the doors at quarter to eight, after pro-
longed melee in which several people were
injured, including Inspector Scobie of H
Division, whose leg was unfortunately
broken
"After this understandable invasion, which
not only filled every passage, but even in
truded upon the space set apart for the press,
it is estimated that nearly five thousand
people awaited the arrival of the travellers
When they eventually appeared they took
their places in the front of a platform which
already contained all the leading scientific
men, not only of this country, but of France
and of Germany Sweden was also repre-
sented, in the person of Professor Servius
the famous zoologist of the University of
Upsala.
THE entrance of the heroes of the occasion
was the signal for a remarkable demon
stration of welcome, the whole audience ris-
ing and cheering for some minutes. An acute
observer might, however, have detected
some signs of dissent in the applause,
and gathered that the proceedings were
likely to become more lively than harmoni-
Gus. 1t may safely be prophesied. however,
that no one could have foreseen the extra
ordinary turn which they were actually to
take.