The herald., 1895-09-06
ABOUT FINANCIAL MEDIUMS
Sriritists and Spiritualists in the
City of Los Angeles
DAME RUMOR SALLIES FORTH
Whispers Insinuations Of Coin, Percent
ages and Other Things
What President Dye. Medium Barney and
Secretary Lyon Have to Say In Re-
gard to the natter

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better example Of perpetual motion, is
now pursuing herself after the Spiritual
lists. and strange though it be, she who Is
essentially of the earth, eartny seems to
have caught them. A least, although she
was in turn pursued by Herald reporter
yesterday, the tickle dame held her own
and was not downed notwithstandln
that she was run to earth in the spirit
ualists' camps. 1t seems that the First
Spiritual society of Los Angeles, whiCh is
not an infant organization by a1y IT cans,
and holds its monthly meetings, has its
president and board of directors that
meet each Monday night its two Sunday
meetings for which n medium is regu-
larly engaged with specified salary to
explain and promulga;e tho "philoso-
phy,' as we'll as to give the necessary
illustrations in various ways, and to which
the believers and the unbelievers are
always welcome whether they have the
entrance fee OF IL cents or not. All this
is the First Spiritual society OF Los An
eeles, and it's officers and directors are as
follows: President. s. D. Dye. 332 West
First street; vce-presdent, ii. G.
O'Blenness, 706 Montreal strest; secre-
LdTN, mIltOu VI 1yOii, --t pcush OiiFo
street; financial secretary, G. E. Adams,
462 Crescent avenue; Mrs. Nettie Howell.
2O1 North Spring; Mrs. R. j. Hlxon, 2529
GLEASON avenue; Mrs. A. K. Buchanan,
40 Montreal street; and G. Nj. Rlggas.
Sol Court street. So far, SO good; SEEM
ingly it couldn't be better, for the week.
ly meetingslhave generally been attended
bv two or three hundred people and the
spirits of the dead came back to earth
and administered advice, warnings, con-
solng messages, etc. But during the
summer that is just passing away itself,
there was a spiritualistic camp-meeting
of some weeks duration at Santa
Monica, for which special talent as en-
gagged and mediums were imported from
the metropolis and its bedroom (San
Francisco and Oakland) to show the un-
wary Santa Mohicaites thing or two in
the way of ''how we do it up north.'
DR.. l.. Schlesinger, healer and test me-
cium, Mrs. Cowell, also healer and me-
dunn. and Mrs. Freytag, another me
dium, went to Santa Monica and the
readers of tho daily papers probably re-
member some of the weird tales that de-
scrI bed the wonders perpetrated there.
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Just as all the good things in this world
ara wont to do. everybody adjourned to
Los Angeles, and the camp meeting
evolved into a spiritu listic congress.
which lasted one week. No wall this
time, so the willy dame says, the plot was
thickenng. Why? Because the Southern
California Camp-meeting association of
Spirituaists had the same president that
guided the fortunes of the First Splritu-
al Society. i:e.. $. d. Dye; but me
two organizations we:e quite separate
and distinct as to action and interest; not
exactly a spiritual Millie-Christine, nor
yet "a case OF Siamese twins, because there
were two bodies with only one head and
ii was about that head that Dame Rumor
began to buzz and hum like unto n bee in
its bonnet. She said that it was more
than could he exptc cted of any one head
to be held perectly erect over two bodies
at the same time; that it was inclining
decidedly toward the Schlesinger- -Cowell
torso, although it was on the o. Blenness-
Lyon sh oulders that the head was origi
nally set; and she even went SO far as to
hint IN one of those penetrating sotto
vooe whispers that it was not spiritual
istic principle so much az it was cash IN
terest that produced the lop.sideoness,
as it were. These and other things the
sprightly dame has allowed to circulate,
and thus it was that the Herald scribe
started forth to investigate. OF course the
head was the first seen, and Mr.. Dye
stated without circumlocution or hesita-
tion that the rumor of his having at
tempted to obtain money in the shape of
percentage or commission from the me-
diums was absolutely false. "On the con-
trary," said Mr.. Dye, Il have never hao
cont given me, and Mrs. Dye and my
self have always PAID our own way into
all the meetings OF both societies, not
withstanding the fact that l preside at
any Of either that | attend. 1t was l
who induced DR.. Schlesinger and Mrs.
Cowell to come down to the Santa Monica
camp meeting beause the people demanded
such tests as they only could give; and
yet paid for my own tent and other ex-
penses, and have the receipts IN my desk
here.
Yes" continued Mr.. Dye, taking
fresh grip on the wooden toothpick he
kept in his mouth during the entire con-
versation, 81 was the one that framed
the charter of the First Spiritual society,
and | am one of the oldest spirituaists
here, so | know better than so.ce of
these younger ones how necessary it is
to show the people the truth, and show it
in the right way. / knew that camp
meeting would give an impetus that
nothing else could, and so / sent for
these mediums from the north, and it
worked so well that | felt a congress here
afterward would also work for good, and
with the sanction of the First Spiritual
society 1T was held, and at the end of the
week the society received one-half the
net proceeds. Then suddenly four of the
board of directors declined to allow DIR.
Sohlesinger or Mrs. Cowell to speak any
longer on their platform. and so | went
to Mr.. Wood and hired the Los Angeles
theater. and l am manipulating the Sun
day meetings that are held there; l went
and got 1t on my own hook. and m glad
did. ana I'd do it again, for its what
the people want, and it's doing good and
making them see the truth more and
more all the time. The other society say
now that I'm trying to break up their
society. and l went to the board NJ Getting
last Monday night and proposed to the
directors. that they should take DIR. Schles-
niger and Mrs. Cowell back, but they re-
fused. and | told Them then that they
need never say again after that was try
ing to break up the society or into the
work. People want tests, and while Mr..
Barney IS good man, and haven
word to say against him. he doesn't work
in the way nor with the strength that
more developed mediums use; and as l
want TO give the truth. and not suppress
it, shall keep these people here through