The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-29
A-NIP-U-LA-TION.
! " Doctor Who Can Dis
count the Five Bad Men
of the Town.
HE is CLARK OF YORK STREET,
Says He Can Cure Disease With His
Hands-No Medicines-A Hard
Heart Made Soft.

familiar with the word 'smanipulation. /"
For years they have been observers of the
manipulations of the politicians, especially
the Five Bad Men of the Town, commonly
called the Street and Water Commissioners,
and it was only Wednesday night that the
members of the Board of Finance gave an
exhibition of manipulation that excelled, for
ingratitude, anything of the kind ever given.
But surprising and astounding as all these
manipulations have been, they are nothing
compared with the manipulation which a
newly-arrived-d -doctor-in-town promises to all
those persons diseased who call on him for
treatment
The gentleman referred to is DR.. H. Clark,
who advertise that he stcan be consulted
free from half-past nine A. NJ to nine P NJ,
at his parlors, 122 York street, between War
rem and Washington" The laws of the
State are very strict relative to allowing
outsiders coming here to practice. They
must comply with certain restrictions. This
law was passed at the solicitation of reput-
able physicians i'll order to keep
the public from being imposed upon
by 'quacks." DR.. E. Perry Watson
is Secretary of the State Board having
this matter under supervision, and he says
that Dr.. Clark has positively no right to
practice here. Be that as it may, Dr. Clark
is practising, and his practising is such that
it cannot help but be attractive, so attrac-
tive, in fact, that it is thought Doc Watson
will Immediately take steps to set Dr. Clark
right in the eyes of the public 1t is wrong
to let people imagine he is quack when DR..
Watson could settle the matter in short
time.
VISIT TO THE DOCTOR
A reporter of THE JERSEY CITY NEWS be-
gan yesterday morning to cultivate a cough,
and it having assumed a respectable appear
ance-so far as could be heard-by the even
ing, he visited DR.. Clark for consultation
free. The doctor was at home. His par
lors weren't crowded when / called in fact
the doctor was at leisure. This led me to
conclude that Health Inspector Benjamin
must have bean laboring under sad mistake
when he said anyone in Jersey City was sick.
l entered the doctors parlor, which was
handsomely furnished-by the landlady.
The doctor is a pleasant sort of chap He
He has snow white hair aud whiskers, every
where but on the top of his head and
his chin. In looking over phre
nologists' book of instructions I
discovered that the absence of hair ON the
head and chin is sure sign of the power of
manipulation. Billy Cook has no hair on
the top of his head and chin, and Eddie
Angelo Dugan has none ON his chin. They
are excellent manipulators But to return
his consultation" Then l coughed / ex-
planned that for two months another cough)
| had been troubled with this cough and de-
sired to get rid of it Cough again. Would
he tell me what caused the cough! The doc
tor told me. He said:-It might be cold;
it might be from the lungs; it might be from
the stomach, perhaps catarrh in the
stomach; it might be from mucous dropping
from the nostrils; it might he from the
throat; it might be Inflammation. It might
be all these, he said, and then again it
mightn't. He wouldn't examine me because
he could afford relief whether he knew the
cause of the cough or not If fifty physicians,
he said, were to examine me they would
each give different cause.
MANIPULATION.
The extraordinary ability of the man as
tonished me so l enquired his method of
treatment.
Manipulation, he quietly answered
But don't you use medicine?' asked.
None at all, simply manipulation"
What is this manipulationp ] then in
quired. "How do you manipulated"
"With my hands," he answered
1 looked at the man; then at his hands
They were on his lap He did not attempt
to conceal them. The hands We're clean: that
you could see at a glance They seemed to
be a ry-everyday y-sort-of-a-
pair-of- hands, had once or twice expert
enced the sensation of manipulation by the
hands when stacked up against a game of
poker with some of the members of the Ho-
boken Press Club.
However, this case was different, but the
doctor, considering was only there as
consultation free" patient, declined to ex-
plain his manner of manipulation further
Then | came to the important question
what would he treat me for?
s'Seventy-five dollars!" S5N
think Of ,txyf3 H. Il, -
cure one-day cultivated cough asked
him if he had been out the night before with
Terry" Mcdonald but he said no, neither
had he been an inspector ON a new school
Seeing that the price kind of staggered me,
he said that if that was too much could
take treatment for ten days for $25, or.
twenty days for $50. told him the price
the doctor waxed eloquent He cited nu-
merous cases of paralysis that he had cured,
of the consumptives he had made well, of
the coughs he had stopped, ETC., ETC., but all
the persons lived outside of Jersey
CASE OF HARD HEART.
But he has a case in this city. Some young
lady residing on Eighth street had hard
heart She is piano or some kind of
teacher-the doctor wouldn't give her name
or occupation. Well, this young lady with
the hard heart became the doctors patient
last Saturday. The doctor limited that the
young lady was an old maid She was con-
vinced that her heart was hard because one
of Cupid's arrows had never been able to
pierce it. The doctor has manipulated that
heart every day since, and he reports that
it is getting quite soft, and at the end Of
S75 worth of time he expects to have it soft
enough to be susceptible of piercing by even
the bluntest of Cupid's arrows.
1t wouldn't be bad idea for the Five Bad
Men of the Town to engage DIR. Clark to
manipulate the hearts of DR.. Edge and
Doc Gordon. Perhaps he could soften
their hearts to such an extent as to prevent
an Indictment by the Grand Jury.
The doctor told me l could see the lady
and the heart il 1 called next day at eleven
o'clock. But, then, the lady wasn't to know
was looking at her. declined the invita-
tion and told the doctor couldn't afford to
take his manipulation.