The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1920-01-03
FARMER PAID SIS FOR RESERVED
SEAT TO SEE END OF WORLD.
Many Others Were Also HOaxed Into
Expecting Mother Eartl's Demise.

Cleveland, Ohio, Jan. Charles
Johnson, 65 years old, a farmer, of
West Salem, was in Cleveland today
with reserved seat ticket SO as to
be in the front row when the world
came to an end.
After going to a house where the
beginning OF the end" was to be
staged, and finding that no one there
had even heard the end was at hand,
Johnson complained to the police
1.-TWO men came to me last Sat
urday and sold me a reserved seat
for $15," he said They told me all
the members of my religious BELIEF
were to wait for the end, in Cleve-
land"
Many Ready for ''the End"
Chicago, ILL.,, Jan. 1.-The "end of
the world" Hoax collapsed to day.
But many to the superstitious here
who, according to ministers, had
quietly prepared for eternity by in
creased church attendance, still
awaited the vast gales and other phe-
nomena which the tail of the scien-
tific prediction forecast
Edwin b. Frost, superintendent OF
the Williams Bay, Wis, Conservatory,
said that for a month letters have
been porting into his Office seeking
inside information in the end of the
world. He hoped he had relieved one
woman's apprehensions when he
mailed her a special delivery state
ment of the truth" in reply to her
statement that she had mot eaten
since she heard of it," His inquiries
came from all over the country AMI
from England.
End of World Exaggerated.
San Francisco, Cal, Jan. 1.-Prof
Albert f. Porta, San Francisco me-
tearolgist, whose deductions on a
planet configuration the prophecy of
the world coming to an end today,
was said to have sprung, reported
today the representations of the
worlds demise were greatly eXag-
gerated. The rotation of the sun, pre-
venting pull of the planetary pha-
lanX on any one place on Old Soils
anatomy for any considerable length
of time would prevent likewise the
formation of any sun spot, Prof.
Porta said. 1t was this sun spot that
he feared.
Thought World End Was Here.
Indianapolis, Ind, Jan. 1,-One
long weired shrieking whistle. then
others less strident. finally practical
ly all sirens in the city, mingled
with the ringing of a number of
bells, broke the stiffness of the early
morning in indianapolis today This
was followed by the continual jang-
ling of telephone bells in a local
newspaper Office.
81 guess it's notice of the end of
the world" said one woman, trem-
ulously THE whistles are calling
the people to church, and I'm going"
1t developed later that a throttle
on a whistle at railroad round
house had become stuck. starting the
din, in which the other whistles were
joined, without knowing exactly why,
Predicted Frightful Things.
Ann Arbor, Mich, Jan. 1.-prof.
Albert Porta, who is generally credit
ed with having predicted the end Of
tie earth today, made no such fiat
statement, according TO information
received in university circles here.
Porta, who is said to be an anna
teur astronomer, at present living
just outside Los Angeles. predicted
early in July, according to this in
formation, that beginning about the
middle of December and continuing
until the middle of January there
would be a series of terrific storms,
earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
The opinion is expressed in university
circles that these forecasts have been
strongly enlarged upon in the tell
ing until the end of the world pre-
diction was attributed to Porta
Miners Quit for World End.
Miami, Ok, Jan. 1.-Several mines
in the Miami and lead field are closed
today the miners refused to 90 down
into the ground with the prospect of
the world crumbling to pieces while
they were at work
MN nnnsS nor AVN