The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-03-19

1890. last September a dividend of 10 per
cent was declared on ordinary shares and
the doctor is still exercising his pull. lie
couldn't have done much better had he
rounded the Britishers up with lassO.
Less than five years ago this same DR..
hartley, who, while healing others has
heeIed himself to tie extent OF several mill
ions in British gold, was operating on the
sandlOts Of San Francisco in his aforesaid
bandwagOn and the picturesque garb Of the
he frontier. He was tall athletic young
man with flowing hair. wide hat and long
Prince A bert coat butt0ned up TO his chin.
His speciality was the curing of any disease
you might have and removing teeth. also
part Of the javbOne If necessary, without
agony and while the band played anything
Il could.
While devastating the Jaws of the Amer
lean public he doctor Travelled in glitter
ing fUur-haTse chariot. driven by a cowboy
driver He had brass band, an orator and
a couple Of wheeZy ballad-siugers 10 enter
tain the public previous to getting In his
deadly work with the fOTceps and selling a
few hundred dollars worth OF medicine.
One Of his iav0TiJe stands was OF Market
street. near the new City Hall. There be
would back the wagon onto a vacant spot,
and, after The band had played tune, the
orator would come forward with one hand
behind his back and eXtol the wonderful
merits of SeQuah, the great Indian remedy
manned seated until ii was time TO come on
with the fOTceps.
According to the orator the remedy was
composed Of the double distilled essence OF
mineral water from some springs the doctor
owned in Canada and the extract Of re-
maTkably curative prairie flower the doctor
had discovered during his sOjnurn among
the North American Indians. This remedy
would cure any known complaint except
old age and club feet. and so powerful was
its reflex action that If you had no
disease a few bottles would give you
one or a complication of the choicest
disorders known to the profession
Il was particularly recommended for catarrh
and yet the orator Mas SO choked up in The
nasal organs from talking bareheaded in the
open air that he could hardly speak. How
ever, this had nc perceptible effect on the
sales.
The orator generally wound up his har-
angue by announcing that the celebrated
Indian doctor would now pull few teetl
without pain, after which he would sci
medicine for few moments only. he lin
tied himself 10 a certain number OF bottles
daily, and those who failed TO purchas;
them would have 10 wait till the next day.
Preparations for the tooth pulling part o.
the programme consisted of a box of denta
tools on the rear seat Of the wagon and
couple of stepladders, one on either side o
the vehicle, for the accommodation of thu
victims. With the band playing lively ali
The people with teeth to lose passed rapid,
In at one side of the wagon and out at tn
other, while tie air In that vicinity was ful
of flying teeth which the doctor fliiped iron
his foreeps.
In order to perform the operation withou
pain the doctor threw a few dashes of Sc
quah into the victims mouth from a bottl
with perforated cork, going through thi
little preliminary with the noDcbalant al