A24 - Wednesday, Sept. 9, 1981 - North Shore News

Sherlock Holmes’
home discovered

COLUMBUS, Ohio (UPI)
- The scenario might have
come straight from the pages
of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle:
six modern-day Sherlock
Holmeses searching the
streets of London and the
pages of dusty record books
looking for a solution to

their latest mystery.
These sleuths are
members of Akron’s_ In-

verness Capers, a group of
Holmes aficionados who say
they have found the answer
to perhaps the gereatest
Sherlockian controversy —
the location of the master
detective’s 221B Baker St.
lodgings.

Using Doyle's description
as a basis for their search,
the six detectives spent part
of the summer rummaging
for clues in old records and
maps and during walking
tours along Baker Street,
where they photographed
houses and investigated
other possible leads. They
released their findings
recently.

Their task was difficult

because little of Holmes’
Baker Street — then a short
residential avenue —
remains today. In fact, the
address “221” did not exist in
the late 1800s, the time
Holmes “lived” on Baker
Street.

“We checked out several
possible locations (of
Holmes’ home), and we
think we found a brand new
one at 113 Baker St.,” said
John Waldeck, a lawyer and
a member of the London
expedition.

Waldeck described the
building, now used as office
and residential space, as a
four-story brick structure
whose three front windows
face Baker Street.

He said he believes the
building was built prior to
1894 because he found
records showing a com-
panion building had been
torn down in that year.

Waldeck bases his finding
on bow windows he disc-
vered in the rear of 113. A
bow window 1s part. of
Doyle’s description of the

Volcano stops

Mt. St. Helens quiet

VANCOUVER, Wash.
(UPI) - Its latest bit of
stretching apparently

complete, Mount St. Helens
has returned to its usual
quiet state and the U.S.
Geological Survey declared

the latest dome-building.
eruption over.
Earthquake activity

dimimished throughout the
day Monday and at 5 p.m.
USGS officials reopened the
20-mile ‘‘red zone”
surrounding the mountain
“Observations suggest that

dome growth has ceased
except. for small scale
surface adjustments.” said
USGS spokesman Dick
Janda

Nervous USGS field crews
ventured into Uhe stcaming
Crater to survey the new lobe
of lava on the dome's nor
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vu ble to determine the
p ise size of the new Jobe.
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Conspicuous officials

waited for several hours
before finally announcing
the volcano was actually in
ab eruption stage.

“It wasn't easy to say it
was erupting.” said Bob
Norris, spokesman at the
University of Washington
geophysics lab. “It was such
a mild eruption that it was
actually going on for a while
before anybody noticed it.

There was extremely slow
growth of the dome.”
Mike Doukas, a USGS

scientist, said during a oatght
fhght) over the crater it
appeared to him the new
protrusion was about 300 to
400 feet wide

The USGS said t new
half the
suze of the five other lobes
pushed the
crater during
dome building

sechon was about
into volcano's

previous
craptions
High winds. swirling ash and
dust, and hazardous con
ditions in the crater make tt
impossible to
the size of
new Jobc. he added

measurc

accurately the

A plume of steams rose

from the volcano's crater to

Seven Seas
Floating Seafood Restaurant

thine aboard ship on an atmosphere of luxury and

detective’s
sitting room.

Waldeck who has been an
avid Holmes

second-floor

fan since
childhood, toured the
building’s interior, taking

measurements and pictures
he will use as the basis for a
floor plan of Holmes’
apartment. He believes
Doyle did the same when he
devised a description of his
fictional detective's home.

Sall another clue to the
building’s true identity,
Waldeck said, is a tree like
one Doyle mentioned as
visible from Dr. Watson's
bedroom window was found
growing the the Great York
Mews at the rear of 113
Baker St.

Waldeck said the finding
disproves earlier beliefs no
such tree ever existed on
Baker street.

“The most amazing thing
is the discovery of the tree,”
he said. “Various resear-
chers have said you couldn't
grow a tree on Baker Street,
but we found it and got a
picture of it.”

growth

about 11,000 or 12,000 feet
early Monday.

Geologists have. said that
eventually the dome could
grow to fill the crater and
restore Mount St. Helens to
hear 9,677 feet — _ the
mountain's height before the
massive May 18, 1980,
eruption blew off the top
1,300 feet.

The huge eruption, which
had the force of an atomic
bomb blast, left 60 people
dead or missing and dumped
up to 6 inches of gray grit on
castern Washington.

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