The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-12
THE ELECTRIC GIRL.
DIR. W. e. Forrest Denounces Miss Hurst as
a Fraud.
New York sun.

New York Sun.
tall gentleman, with pink in his coat lapel,
had been on the stage Iof Wallack's Theaterl
from the first and had been among the most
unsuccessful in his efforts to defeat Miss Hurst
The man who felt electricity in his feet even ac-
cused him Of being an accomplice. But he was
not When the third or fourth gentleman had
been thrown from the chair he walked to the
edge of the stage, and, while trembling with ex-
element, said:
This whole business is fraud from begin
ming to end. Anybody here can do anything
that she has done / can do all these tricks my
self, Why don't she hold cane still or press a
chair to the floor, if she has this wonderful
powerl Ill hold the chair and let her try it.n
The tall man tried to say more but every
body was yelling at once The slim man was
screaming in his ear and waving his arms, and
the very blonde man began to look dangerous.
For at least five minutes a perfect uproar
reigned. Everybody who had voice used it.
and Miss Lulu alone stood calm and selfpos-
sessed in the midst of wild uproar, in which
everybody yelled, whistled stamped. shouted,
and groaned, and which seemed calculated to
shake the nerves of an unsophisticated Georgia
girl. Finally the slim young man, whose shirt
front was now ruined and whose hair was
tumbled, succeeded in obtaining moments
silence.
81 wish" said he in avoice that seemed rather
nervous, that the audience would tell me what
they want
The audience was entirely willing, and did so
for five minutes more The only words the
slim young man could distinguish were .'dnde,n
chair, ''cane" and "sling her out Then
the tall man, who had become calm, and who
proved to be Dr. w. e. Forrest, began to speak.
Nobody heard him, but at the end fat man
was sitting IN the chair, and the doctor was
getting ready to do what the wonder had done.
He did It, He put both hands against the sides
of the chair The one toward the spectators was
passive and idle, as had been that of the Won
der but the other, not in sight, grasped the
chair with a firm grip and with great ease
threw the fat man on the floor Just as Lulu's
right hand had done. Then the crowd yelled
more, and the slim man made motion to re-
treat but was prevented by the men on the
stage. He walked deiectedly back and said:
LET him hold a chair and keep me from fore
ing it to the floor" man in the balcony CON
stituted himself umpire. and said everything
must be fair, and the tall man must grab the
chair the way the girl did. When he
had done so half dozen men, including the slim
one, pitched for the char, but could not force it
to the floor When the crowd came to for the
last time the lights were turned down, and the
Georgia Wonder, the slim Young man and the
very blonde young man had disappeared
While some were looking for them others had
a little riot on the stage. The Doctor received
an ovation from admirers, who pressed around
him to congratulate him. man who was vari-
ously called Wright and Sanford by the
crowd around him, menaced the Doctor and
called him hard names. The Doctor, no match
for him physically, stood up like man, and the
crowd backed him vociferously. The man called
'sWright' and Sanford" did not last as long as
the Wonder He disappeared suddenly.