| Show 1130 REID P lic iander of WW CIKI gives a public tnt if or his rowers rii wern Spec speciale lal F chronicle Chr berries Service 1 NEW D c 25 P alexander Johnst me the mind reader of 0 achl cage gave n public lest tent of 0 hla his power oer in tit town 0 a yesterday yeat erdAy lie ile la to a light haired blu eyed finloth faced young man and seems to be rather disinclined dis inclined to talk ilia Ilis experiment was conducted from the hoffman offman ll house in the corridor of he file hotel sir johnstone JohnB tone was surrounded by a number dumber of reporters portera re whom b bo be bad in vitt vitta d to bitress hla his effort to di discover die e cover ver while blindfolded a name I 1 lim hotel otel register and aleo ilso foma some concealed article was to be selected mr john said that afterward accompanied by members of the committee he would find the name IQ in the hotel register and announced it while still blindfolded there wa was one maa man ia in the group who was a etra neer to the reporters riera lie raa wits introduced to them as a colonel W forsyth Forey lh of 0 san francisco who mr johnstone John otone eald said bad bild but a minute belore before been introduced by the clerk of 0 I 1 I 1 amat A the hoffman 11 house r the clerk cler k afterward raid aid that ino colonel lonel forsyth had asked for mr johnstone John tone I 1 that hat was all he knew about colonel forayth Fory tb although t nearly evory one else elea knew him him as the worlds fair commissioner stoner while colonel forsyth and two reporters were goinik to the gilbey 01 lapey house I 1 to a sele c t a name in the regis tor to arrand r and were hid hiding login in the fifth avenue hotel a brig big pin each such as ia is need by women to hild id their bonnets la in place sir johnstone Johns tono pint a kid glove lore over hie his evec and asked one of the re who remained with him to bind the glove with a bandage when he had pulled a black I 1 0 er bis his eyes be was ready and the committee returned to bee sew the test mr Johne John Vono ono mounted the drivers box of a carriage carria gein in front of the hotel holding colonel F hand band and then be seized the reins with his dise hand and drove op up broadway A big crowd followed to bee the blindfolded drive he ile stopped at t the be gilbey II 11 use and still holding colonel forsythe Fo Forsyt raytha hs band hand went in and around the register meanwhile apparently Is leading R ding the colonel he ile announce announced af after ter a considerable delay and a flourish of bands and tapping of hie head and feeling of colonel forsythe Foreyt Forsyt hs head that the name was lewis and 11 he e ba be lieven the initials weri T L but baite ture sure because colonel forsyth anito strong enough although others bay say it was bacasse the name which had been written on Forsyt forsythia For sytha hs cuff had bad become smeared and difficult to read then air mr johnstone Johne tone got into the cab returned to the fifth avenue hotel and found the pin sticking ia in a curtain of a window on the first landing of the main staircase i he ile passed athla a foat foot of the pin on first entering the hotel but passing on up ha the stairway ba he had roamed the halls and parlors before finally locating it lt the way these fe fellows work said a man who has bad something todo to do with the alleged mind readers jo 0 o a I 1 teporter ep orter referring to Johne tonea performance for mance is simple e epoch when i you know how mascle muscle reading business bustness goes pretty well la in small towns still but it has been drastically knocked out ia in the big bai cities hy by th the notoriety that the late charito charlea howard montague Afon tague of boston cave gave to it T the a black hood that is given to the I 1 inspection us lection committee is in fact a trick icam cap it appears to ba a perfect blindfold and to the ordina ordinary ry pero it is absolutely opaque but by a certain manipulation the performer mr ia Is able to 83 through it and I 1 know this because the inventor of the cap himself told me 4 this mao man who ho knows the ways of the so called mind readers adera re other otherwise wige muscle readmit reading described other tricka that were made familiar by bishop and montague he ile said that where a handkerchief was placed over the eyes before the black cap was drawn on it was possible by training raining the muscles muscle of the ayea to so raise ii it as to be able to see I 1 through wes r ough the trick cap the sealed writings bt lic ban said were read either by finding their imari imprint t on no under sheets on the pad on which the writing was done or by an acutely trained sense of hearing by which the highly sensitive performer might detect the characters written by the mere bound sound of the pencil need in writing I 1 g |
