The evening world. Newspaper, May 2, 1908, Page 7

\! I] \ | MAGAZINE STORY _ SECTION. She [ Ctroulstion Books Open to All.” So ee ee NEW YORH, SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1908. Wiel an STORY SECTION. The materializing seances are far Two Thousand Mediums Hold ject icinrte Syactos” an: tranoe to them ean be obtained only Seances in This City Every Day— main at ee carn min as Every One of Them Has at Least svetoc,taere ct ater zee a Dozen Spooks Working for) ‘s tee ss who “shonin ts Her—Thrilling Experiences at pleat ee Materializing Seance in Ninety- fourth Street. { Knowing some poopie who were ardent believers in @ certain cine presided over 6y a clever medium, I at last obtained an invitation to her hwouse, situated In the West Nineties, I bad let ft be known that I was very anxious to communicate, if posal- By Margaret Hubbard Ayers ee wee as S ae of the dear departed are kept on the job if|I wes very anxious to see him, I da- nthe curtain! avedand something, which to @ vivid {magination might look Mke a human form, appeared in front of the curtain To me it looked a Rood deal Hkeve cocoanut with a lone blwwk streamer attached to {t | ‘The cocoanut seemed to hs the spook's head ‘The Diack streamer was its body. But, of course, as everything else was Wack to, ft might have been they wander into the spook area of New Yt scribed him quite accurately, from 2 reniot oe blond curls, blue eyes, to socks and There are often as many as 2,000 Sptritual-| sigpers. {stlc mediums at work in this fertile gold waving| chia Aeld and the permanent medium population never falls, We arrived at the medium’s house at 8 o'clock. It was one of those narrow He was a perfectly lovely elow 1,000, , brownstone houses with a high stoop on or T eS i sia | S01 0 a dumm; The gure There are seances going on morning, noon @Dd/an4 a dig front and back parlor on the H down as wi t night In vartous parte of town, and the poor foolish| first floor. Wo were shown inte the strung on , which tt prob- | hoarse and talidng in a queer baby gib- berish language. 0 This was a child spirit, one of the oabinet controls, and sald in baby themselves "That 1s Dr. Gates, who |talk that tt was a hard night to put fias come to bless the meeting.” on bodies, and that George couldn't stay Tie Doctor said “Bless you" again | there any longer because he wasn't and bowed some more. strong enough to hoid on. ably was, and the whispering went on, until finally the words “Bless you” were uttered distinetly and the hab! tuees of the meeting whispered among spirit that once pokes his shadowy nose into any of | hte? front parlor, where the rem of the circle was assembled these circle b y | | e cles will be eorry for it if he likes to take Ife] Te als iady trom Brooklyn who on the other shore any way easy or believes in an| ac an ardent bellever in Spiritualism A and a spooks’ union card. and who kept her mouth open oon- Every medium keeps at least a dozen spirits busy— | s:ently. wise - oy ~. There were also severa! middle-aged material!zing or otherwise employing them--and it may be here| Theme werk lec ct sraited look truthfully stated that at least 25,000 good, healthy, and versatile spooks are dally engazed in entertaining sceptical New York- ers or in consoling, comforting and thrilling those who Imagine that a $2 ¥! ries them right into the heart of Beulah Land industrious | of the fanatic, who sat over in @ cor- | ner by themselves, looked up at the| cefling and swayed backward end for- | ward There were about four men, two of of the hymn the doctor suddenly van- tshed This Was George. Nephew sugmested that we eing & meee et hymn tn greeting, and during the noise, Exciied Francois. | At this cue George quickly vanished and the olf man, who would surely |come again, eat down delighted be- yond measure to have had a message | from his brother, amount of emetion behind the ourtain 0 spooks never had a busier time here than now. Rhemivarsloidikwhitelhalred iandlitess|| the med oiled so hard or long raking !n the dollars| ble, one middle aged one who was) and calling up the folks from the vasty deep as they The epirit Laan Ce ne recent loss of a wife, Annette, and a young man wi business has had a big boost recently through Sir Oliver Lodge's and | rcstectiy blank face G | Camille Flammarion's announcement of thetr bellef in the possibility of| ‘Tiere were half a dozen women tn| communtoating owith)theidead mourning. with vells over thetr faces. | Science’s Boos’ Cal GM The Medium. When a man Be ox ital We were welcomed by the medtum's with a plain statement t have hatin the siansia> world have | Nephew, a man of about thirty-five, he has revels MarermeeDrC 4 those powers for| with intelligent, shrewd eyes, a very fend, and w money. and usually these psychlats live] ffm mouth and jaw, and a general air of the axe, quiet and secluded Ives, lending them- | of seeing a lot and not saying much. Crookes and solves cniy to the sctentifie investiga. | Presently the medium came in and miler op Hons of the leacned men who are| talked to us. @he was @ woman of eed ar feels it } looking into the great mysteries of the] medium hetght, rather steut, with lees conversed inven nushed an | world bevond brown hair, thick black eyebrows and |"Care whMPe ary trance-mediom doesn't | the overhansing eyelids which denote, ee eee nee aes BE TOO EN, us and can work {| #coording to phrenologists, een powers | gig quite fone ake act the lighter the|of observation, together with a fore- which hive ut @ better & 1 see the effect| head prominent In the middle and up- jantern, words and quickly alter her| per part, where the memory ta supposed ehade nas ing if she finds sie is on a wrong | to be located \ourtain drawn The medium wes dressed in black to be like a deep | ‘The child epirit tried to materialize, |The baby aptrit talleed shrilly. pe reat pane “Splwits didnt Ike to have peo varnitenweawere y another hymn |YMs, and that she didn't think an a ma [we were euddenly Interrupted by | mure would come, and she was awfu Jery fowted out again. videner of the apirit who was suposed | SWful thowy because there was a | This ttme there was much more ‘to be D: os, announcing that a wom- | thweet Uttle boy here who had come |drupery, Evidently the prosent spool gu apirit was here asking for Francois, | spocial to see tig thister, and he had After we had sung a few more hymns, the curtains parted once again and what appeared to me to be ether | cocoanut or a mask and some drap- ne are now Hind Ipeeuedleny cce bony ence ‘Thero waa @ stifled cry from the | blue eyes and golden curls and tun A deep voice trom the ¢ which madie-aged man who had seemed ao | little cooks and thippers, and his name was remarkably hoarse, informed U® sorrowful, He jumped up, overturning | was little Wiltie” ihato thisiwas) Geer had dled @ nis chair. At the eame time a shadowy | "There, you see,” whispered the wom month ago in Brooklyn, and who Wa® form, thts time in white, appoared be-| an who had invited me “That's for miad toleee that his brother had jfouna Rersent thal odrtalia oa: Phat fs parinenye the Nght. There was @ oommotton at) “She says she is Annette,” whi: Enea Dalya, Cay, fi Re CED HER OM C5 G2 MDa sae ae Gees spores | me eontinssdlr AeitgteAl laa) we) we older men stepped forward and put) “annette!” oried Francoin in tones of| This te ae papery some question to the apparition, On heart-breaking eagerness. aan hres a Liter cer all bidden to sing hymns as #ccount of the arrangement of chairs tre hounded over the chairs tn front | yim hare rites end tt hagas 2. and after s¢ Maire weal ipoeatsleltzonmidiniktol etl nenr|| Sire w ac VindeaRtoWenton thay anirieinl| boone phir shaded the lantern eo enough to touch the spook, however. tiie arma, But before he had reachea| Zt Was perhaps just es ie ty any leht at nll ‘Dhe question, which I didn't catch, the curtain it had already vanished, | Metting wes adjourned, as it ca: not enough to dis od to be a very intimate one, and and he fell sobbing to the floor have been uncomfortable for the spirit ing next to one ore the wplrti could answer he wae OT trede Willi | of Little Willie, who, at least as my articulate whisper- interrupted by @ voice spenking In a e qi1e. |prother, has never extste®. anywhere ym the cabinet, childish treble, but also somewhat! 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