The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-06-26
UNDERTAKING..
Mr. W. Irving Bishop at the Opera
House and Emma Square.

when the curtain rose at the Opera
House Saturday evening, Mr.. Bishop
smilingly greeted sea of expectant
faces. The following committee was
granted him By request on nomination
OF the house: Major Cornwell, Judge
Bicker on, Hons. A. Rosa and J. U.
Kawainui, DR.. n. B. Emerson, and
Messrs. Frank Spencer, F. P. Hastings,
j. H. Patty, c. L. Wight and F. S.
Pratt
The experiments consisted of ID
| finding gentleman in the audience
first blindfolded and then with open
eyes, whose name Mr.. Patty had pre-
viously written in his note book; (2)
finding two pins concealed by Judge
Blckerton, one in drawer in the box
| Office, the other in the royal box; ~
| writing on a blackboard native word
previously written secretly by Mr.. Patty,
and even initiating the handwriting, the
word being "Lehua;" a. presenting a
bouquet with eyes open to two ladies',
first found while blindfolded, whom
MIR. Pratt had thought OF; % playing a
game of hare and hounds blindfolded, in
which over a very rugged and circuitous
rOute-jumping eff and ducking under
the gangway, going behind the wings
and through Mr.. Twins box-Mr.
Bishop led Mr.. Hastings to an ante
room where Major Cornwell was con-
cealed at the end of the route; (6) re-
placing living tableau OF tour persons,
Marshal SOper the central figure, as
they had been posed by Judge Bickerton
and DR.. Emerson, Mr.. Bishop finding
the characters scattered through the
audience, and "a drawing, blindfolded,
a recognizable sketch of Mr.. B. Orden-
stein on the blackboard with the artist,
Mr.. Strong, acting as thought medium.
by his rival artists side. The audience
were delighted with the performance
throughout.
At the close Mr.. Bishop explained his
method, which was, briefly, that by
pressing his eyeballs upward or down
ward when blindfolded he threw himself
into a semi-uncOnscious or hypnotic state,
when mental images concentrated in the
minds of his subjects were reproduced
on his own inward vision.
Emma Square was thrOnged with peo-
pie at 4 80 Monday afternoon, to view
Mr.. Bishops open air performance. The
King and Princess Liliuokalani were
among interested observers. AS a, pre-
liminary test Mr.. Bishop, eyes bandaged
with cotton batting, handkerchief, and
black bag over ali, found knife con-
cealed in the shrubbery by Hon. H. A.
Widemann and Major Cornwell, who,
with Hon. j. A. Cummins, Lieut.. Rit-
tenhouse of the Vandalia, Messrs. Patty,
Pratt and G. o. Berger, constituted the
committee OF the day.
Lieut.. RittenhOuse, Major Cornwell
and Mr.. Patty were selected as commit
tee to conceal an article within one mile
of the square. On their return they put
themselves in contact with Mr.. Bishop,
blindfolded, before a map Of the city,
when, with pencil, the mind-reader
designated on the map the locality
where the article was hidden. The
map was draped while Mr.. Bishop had
his head bound up as above described,
and taking the three gentlemen with
him in a carriage he drove off, the reins
in one hand and the committee men sit
ting behind him in the rear seat. An
immense concOurse in carriages and sad
dies and on foot fell into procession in
the wake of the extraordinary equipage. |
Mr.. Bishop told the committee that he |
was not going the circuitous route they |
had gone, but should drive direct to the |
place of concealment. He drove by way |
of Emma and Beretania streets to Fort |
street, and proceeding along that thor
oughfare pulled the team up as it passed
Messrs. Benson, Smith & Co.'S drug
store Here he alighted and with the
committee entered, when, after some
produced by a crowd that
followed, the mind-reader found the
pair OF spectacles-hidden in
a recess of the soda fountain. On the
route Mr.. Bishop guided his horses
beautifully round corners and past meet
ing carriages The committees hands
were not placed nearer Mr.. Bishop than
about six inches during the journey.