The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-07-22
Nm. TAnNER,s RASr.
His Comfortable Conditional Talk with
Visitors-Ihe Faster's opinion ON Diet.

His Comfortable Conditional Talk with
YisitorA-The Faster's opinion ON Diet.
New York Post Of Tuesday.
DR.. Tanner, who entered at noon to-day
upon the twenty.third day Of his fast at
Clarendon Hall, was looking remarkably
well this morning, his appearance being
considerably better in the opinion Of the
watchers, than when he had his photo
graph taken on the fourteenth day Of his
experiment
At midnight last night. when DR.. E. F.
Hoffman assumed the post OF watcher, DR..
Tanner was sleeping soundly. The latter
woke up half an hour later, but soon went
to sleep again. and Numbered until five
o'clock, when he rose and dressed him
self. During the night he drank only one
ounce Of water. At $50 o'clock he enter.
ed close carriage and was driven TO
Central Park, where he had demi.
| John filled with water from spring, and
drank four ounces OF the liquid. The
party returned at 7:20'to the hall, where
DR.. Tanner rested for q few minutes In the
entrance. He then went up to the south
gallery and lay down on his cot without
undressing. At his request the newspa-
per reports OF his fast was read to him,
and he laughed heartily at some OF the
statements, but manifested annoyance at
others.
Dr.. J. T. Badham, Of the regular school
OF practice, became watcher at $50 A. NJ.
Drs. ]. Edwin Danelson and James Wilson,
eclectic physicians, began at Z O'Clock q
watch which lasted until 10. AT 9o'clock
DIR. Tanner drank four ounces of water,
and then slept Tor about half an hour.
On awakening he sat up in his cot and
received some visitors, whom he had called
up from the hall below. Ata quarter past
ten he asked for some note paper, and
sitting at table in the gallery wrote four
letters to friends, which were finished
soon after eleven, A few minutes later he
drank three ounces oil water, and lay down
again on his cot by the window.
Drs. David Walker and Isaac Kelley, OF
the eclectic school, relieved the other
watchers at 10 o'clock. Kelley expressed
confidence that the faster, being now in so
excellent condition, would be able tp COM
plete his undertaking.
The usual large mail for DR.. Tanner ar
rived this morning, and included the usual
l Vi ShC
letter was in the form Of poem, contain
ing seven verses OF four lines each, ad-
dressed to "the starving DR.. Tanner" In
foot note the writer said that he was
! only sixteen years Of age, and composed
his poetical effusion in twenty minutes.
But few OF these epistles from strangers
are ever shown or read to the faster, I'M
less they contain something sufficiently
ridiculous TO provoke a laugh. Toward
noon to-day he received q private letter
from fellow townsman, DR.. Denton, OF
Minneapolis, which he read earthly.
At 1880 a female physician, who has
been in the habit oil bringing flowers to
Dr. Tanner, made her usual morning call
with bouquet. She said that she was
going out Of town for ten days, but would
endeavor to have flowers supplied TO the
. faster in her absence. DR.. Tanner. said
that he wished she would, II she could do
so without Inconvenience. Z.
During the morning the hall was very
quiet, as the rain kept away visitors. Soon
after noon, however, a number Of persons
arrived. As the IL o'clock whistle Of a
, neighboring factory sounded, DR.. Tanner
exclaimed, "The twenty-third day com.
mences." He then drank three ounces Of
water. As several visitors came into the
I gallery, he called out, ~ shall pull
through all right"