The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-23

of Nov. T. For this gathering the Zoo logical hall, which had been the scene of the inception of our task, was found to be far too small, and it was only in the Queens hall, in Regent street, that accommodation could be found. It is now common knowledge the promoters might have ventured upon the Albert hall and still found their space too scanty.
 It 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. It may be that as it stands further from me I may think of 1t and even speak of it with less emotion. I have shown the reader in the begin ming of this narrative where lay the springs of my action. It is but right. perhaps, that I should carry on the tale and show also the results. And yet the day may come when I would not have it otherwise. At least have been driven forth to take part in a wondrous adventure, and I cannot but be thankful to the force that drove rle.
 And now I turn to the last supreme eventfu1 moment of our adventure. As I was racking my brain as to how I should best describe it my eyes fell upon the issue of my own Journal for the morning of the Sth of November with the full and excellent account of my friend and fellow reporter Mac dona. What can do better than tran cribe his narrative, headlines and all? I admit that the paper was exuberant in the matter, out of compliment to it's own enterprise in sending core spondent, but the other great dailies T In--T Thus, then, friend Mac in his report: 1
 THE NEW WORLD.
 GREAT MEETING AT THE QUEENS
 HALL.
 SCENES OF UPROAR.
 ExTRAORDINARY INCIDENT.
 WHAT WAS TT?
 NOCTURNAL RIOT IN REGENT
 STREET.
 LSpeciaLl .sThe much discussed meeting of the 1 Geological institute, convened to hear the report of the committee of investi- | gatfon sent out last year to South 1 America to test the assertions made by 1 Professor Challenger as to the contin- ned existence of prehistoric life upon that continent, was held last night in l the greater Queens hall, and it is safe to say that it is likely to be red letter 1 date in the history of science, for the l proceedings were of so remarkable and | sensational a character that no one present is ever likely to forget them g (Oh, brother scribe Macdona, what a | monstrous opening sentenceD .The 1 tickets were theoretically confined to members and their friends, but the lat ter is an elastic term, and long before l 8 o'clock, the hour fixed for the com 1 mencement of the proceedings, all parts | Of the great hall were tightly packed, 1 The general public, however, which | most unreasonably entertained a griev- | ance at having been excluded, stormed | the doors at a quarter to eight, after a l prolonged melee in which several peo- pie were injured, including Inspector | Scob1e of Fl division, whose leg was | unfortunately broken. After this un- | warrantable invasion, which not only | filled every passage, but even intruded 1 upon the space set apart for the press, | 1t is estimated that nearly 5000 people | awaited the arrival of the travellers | When they eventually appeared they 1 took their places in the front of plat | form which already contained all the | leading scientific men, not only of this | country, but of France and of Ger i many. Sweden was also represented | in the person of Professor Sergius, the | famous zoologist of the University of | Upsala.