Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1913-05-21
Residents Employ Firm of
Engineers 10 Try and Solve
Mysterious Phenomena.
MANYSTORlES ARE TOLD
Block Bounded by State,
Washington, Dekalb and
Mechanic SITS. Trembling

Residents in the block bounded by
DeKalb avenue on the north, Wash
ington street on the south, State
street on the west and Mechanic
street on the east, who have infants
to care for are relieved of that bur-
den, as now after placing the chill
dren in their cradles they are rock
ed automatically to slumbers; also,
when the fortunate occupants of
homes In this phenomenal block
awake in the morning they are i'm
bued with a vision of having travelled
on voyage across the billowy waves.
The cause of these unusual and
peculiar incidents, besides myriad
others just as strange, remains a
mystery which some of the inhabl-
tants of the block declare will be an
eternal and insolvable enigma. So
alarmed are the people in this neigh
borhood over the trembling of the
earth that causes their homes to
shake as II they were houseboats on
turbulent sea, and causes them to
dreams that are only common to
seamen and employees of Coney Is
lands "shute the shute," moving
stairways, ETC., that they have en-
ployed the services OF Mason and
Smith. No conclusion has been ar
rived at by the civil engineers, and
they are still conducting an investi-
CATION.
For several months the residents
In this block. especially in State
street, have been experiencing these
mysterious actions of the buildings.
Naturally 1t affects the top floors of
the structures as they receive the
most potent effects from any turbu-
lent condition under the foundation
of the buildings. 1t seems that the
trouble is growing more noticeable
every day.
Following. are some of the more
pignant freaks that the disturbance
of the terra firma on which the block
of buildings are erected, have caused
NJ. Welnblatt, of 452 State street,
declares that the windows rattle so
much from the shaking that many
nights he cannot get to sleep. Mrs.
Morris Schwartzstein says that when
she awakes in the mornings she feels
that she has been on an ocean voy-
age, so much does the top floor of
the building In which her husband
keeps soda fountain, shake her bed.
In the soda and fountain store in the
same building the glasses on the
shelves at times start jingling, and
now and then. 1t is said, play tunes
as If they were chimes. To make a
milk shake the components are put
into glass and the glass on a shelf,
and In few seconds the mixture is
ready to be served to the waiting
customer.
All day long in the stores of 8.
Belikove and John b. Pavese the
light fixtures are kept oscillating to
and fro. as IL they were operated by
some other power than that mysteri-
ous force which causes the disturb
ance of the other buildings along
the block. On the top floors of the
buildings when meals are served
those that eat only have to take the
pepper and salt cruits In their hands
and their contents come out without
further effort as they automatically
shake themselves.
Many of the inhabitants of this
block, whom their friends have be-
gun to call Shakers" say that the
motion OF the buildings is caused by
the big engines of the cable works
near there, but 1t seems that Mason
and Smith believe that something
else causes the phenomena. 1t may
be the rumbling of a future volcano.
1t may be the portentions of coming
or it may be from some
other less alarming cause, but, no
matter what it is, 1t is said that many
of the residents In this vicinity will
be affected with nervous prostration
If the uncanny, intangible, freakish
actions Of the earth are not discon-
tinued.