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Thousands Visit Ghostly Place Near
Jacksonville?Impossible to Remain
in One Room.
Thousands of people have thronged
Neptune beach, eighteen miles j
from Jacksonville, Fla., writes a'
correspondent, during the past few:
weeks, visiting the one-room shack,
which has recently acquired the rep-j1
utation of being the rendezvous of '
"ha'nts."
The house, situated directly on
the beach at Neptune, which is really
a continuation of Pablo and Attantic
beach, was damaged in a recent
storm, the front pillars giving
4 way and leaving the small structure
tilting toward one corner at an angle
of about 25 degrees.
Following the storms, the owner, j
anxious to save the little furniture '
still in the house, sent a negro to re-j
move it. The negro shaken with j
fright, returned to the owner, reporting
the presence of "ha'nts." He |
declared that the furniture would!
not budge, and that he became violently
ill and was thrown to the!
floor when he entered the shack.
Needless to say, furniture movers of;
the colored persuasion could not be:
induced to tackle the job, though j
visitors have been much attracted.
Investigations were made, and
one person after another left the
structure, confirming the report that
the place was haunted, and that it
was impossible to remain in the
room for any length of time.
After a few days it (became noised
about that electrical shocks were felt
?by some and that in certain cases
people had been thrown to the floor.
Opinions differed regarding the electrical
element, with the result that
many were frightened who would
have braved any supernatural report.
So far the supernatural feature!
has been confined to the sensations
experienced and "the life of the party"
has not at any time been visible
to the naked eye.
The ghost, contrary to the usual
run of spirits, pulls off his hair-raising
stunts in the daytime. Visitors
at night claim that the creepy sensa- J
tions experienced are much more
acute in daylight when the surroundings
are more easily distinguished.
The Sunday following the first
visitations, some enterprising persons
seeing the possibilities, obtain
ed permission from tne owner to operate
the shack as a commercial
- proposition, but on 'Monday authorities
placed them under arrest on the
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charge of doing business without a
license. Tney reapea a aarvesi, uuwever,
during the short time they
were in business. The house had
been roped off so that the "ha'nt"
might not be visible, except to those
paying the entrance fee. The civil
authorities, evidently proud of their
own particular ghost, felt that it, was
public property, and that any encounters
with side ghost should not
t)e confined to the idle rich, but should
be free for all.
While Jacksonville has had its full
quota of so-called haunted houses in
years past; the Neptune shack has
greatest claim to fame, and from indications
the Neptune ghost bids fair
to outlast all others.
A party of newspaper men visited
the house at 2:30 o'clock one morning
recently, and announced that
while they experienced something
of a sensation of mal de mer, they
saw no evidence of ghosts.
They explained that the illusions
were the result of a combination of
the principles of mechanics, physics
and optics. This, however, failed to
make any great impression on believers
in "ha'nts."
The photographer who made a
picture of the house confessed that
he had queer feelings and that the
house seemed to be doing a new version
of the tango, though his lens
caught is quietly enough, although
at a rakish angle.
'he house is. tipped over in such
a way as to give a tower-of-pisa effect,
and people walking or standing
on the floor inside, watching people
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indeed unsual. The rolling waves
of the Atlantic, the tipsy careening
house, the distorted view of passers
on the beach, tend to give those inside
a topsy-turvy feeling and this
may in a measure explain the odd
sensations experienced, which some
skeptic dub as nothing more nor
less than unromantic and matter-offact
seasickness.
They explain the inability to remain
in the room, as the natural craving
for "air" that one has in the preliminary
stages of mal de mer. Be
that as is may, no one seems able
to remain in the house for more than
a few minutes, and very few of them
evidence the slightest desire to return.
The little house, standing like a
drunken figure in the sunlight, has
for all the scientific theories and explanations,
achieved and appearance
and atmosphere sinister and fore
boding. It seems to hold a bit of a
sardonic smile up its sleeve, if you
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I can understand how a house can do
! that, as if it were saying: "Well, no
j matter how you figure it out, I've
certainly got you guessing."
And so it has. Though several
weeks have passed since the storm
responsibile for this queer freak in
architecture, interest in the house remains
at fever heat, and no visitor to
Jacksonville, however, transient his
stay, leaves without first paying his
respects to Neptune beach.
BYRNES TAKES UP QUESTION
OF CALCIUM ARSENATE SUPPLY
Washington, Dec. 6.?Representative
Byrnes yesterday took up
with the Department of Agriculture
tlhe question of the price and
availability of calcium arsenate to be
used in checking the boll weevil. Mr.
Byrnes was very much impressed .by
I an editorial apearing recently in The
News and Courier quoting statistics
on the subject prepared 'by Mr. M. C.
'Michel.
Mr. Byrnes is today in receipt
of a letter from Dr. Coad, of the
bureau of entomology, which reads
substantially as follows:
"I have read with much interest
the editorial in the November 29
issue of The News and Courier. The
statistics given on arsenic and calcium
arsenate are, on tjhe whole,
quite good and undoubtedly the conclusion
reached is entirely in line
with conditions as they exist today.
There is no doubt that there is a definite
shortage of raw arsenic for
ordinary uses, without considering
the need for calcium arsenate, and
there seems no chance for the production
of as much calcium arsenate as
was used in the South last year, Raw
arsenic has now reached a price of 15
cents on the New York market and,
of course, calcium arsenate cannot be
made from such high priced arsenic
and sold for cotton dusting. Fortunately
such arsenic as was available
was very largely purchased at lower
prices by the manufacturers of calarconatp
and while there will
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not be sufficient calcium arsenate to
meet the demand, this limited
amount will be available at fairly
reasonable price.
"You might be interested to know
that a meeting has been called in
New York for December 13 to get
together the producers of arsenic
and the manufacturers of calcium
arsenate for the purpose of threshing
out this question. I am sure that
the figures given out at this meeting
wil foe the most definite available on
the subject."
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