Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-04-10
THE HEALER IN BOSTON.

His Fee Has Been Raised 60 So, but
still the People Throng 90 IIIm---It
is His ''IOnesty and simplicity" that
"Get Away'' with Them.
Bradley G. Newell Of Jacksonville went to Bos.
ton Tuesday, taking rooms at the Quincy House,
and is spending the week there in exerting lis
supposed powers upon the lame, the halt and the
sick Of the Hub. He is accompanied by l.. A.
Butterfed his manager The accounts of what
he does there read very much like those from
other places Globe reporter for instance, said.
when he arrived early in the afternoon his
rooms we Immediately besieged and he was
not given an opportunity to do more than take of
his overCoat when he began the laying on Of his
immense hands on some of the more anxious OF
"Some of these persons Immediately after the
operation thought they felt better others thought
not, and some were sure they did not; but, as the
brOad-shouldered blacksmith told them IN ad
vance that he did not guarantee anything, these
persons did not seem disappointed
In speaking of himself and his ancestry Newell
said that he had never really thought much about
the matter until people begin to make so many
inquiries on the subject, when he was obliged to
look up his genealogical tree. He then found
that his great grandfather was an Indian chief
that on his fathers side there was mulatto blood
and on his mothers German.
He is exceedingly modest In voice and man
ner, and says he cant explain what seems his
peculiar power, at times, for, he says himself, it
doesn't work all the time
his vtalityand strength, as he had never known
a sick day in his life
To Record reporter he made his oft.repeated
statement about not helping more than a third Of
those who come to him, and the account Contn.
ues Newell said he had never met or heard
from the other heaers who are making a good
thing out of their alleged miraculous power,
and when the question was asked directly II he
was not in the business for what there is in it, he
smiled and said
"'well, | don't know used to treat people
free. Then l asked them 81. That didn't Sc, III
TO keep them away. So now | am asking them
80 for each treatment
The newspaper man asked him II he did not
believe that his were faith cures
He smiled that potent smile Of his and said
No, don't believe in faith cures. have made
my best cures ON people who did not believe IN
me-
The Transcript says: 1T is pathetic sight to
witness the distressing cases Of bodily suffering
that are to be seen IN ms rooms at the Quincy
House all day long. The victims are brough
from all parts Of the city and suburbs, many Of
them in carriages, some are children in arms
some are on Crdtches. The most OF them have
diseases that have been pronounced incurable by
the best physicians, and are undoubtedly incur
able by anyone. They tell OF years of suffering
of faith cure treatment of clairvoyants of spirit
ual scientists of massage none of these rpgurted
to, however, until their physicians have failed,
and they tell Mr.. Newell they have come to him
as last resort. 1t seemed remarkable that there
were so many hopeless cases Of suffering In 50
small a radius as was represented by the people
VINO are seeking relief at the hands Of the Yer
mont blacksmith
IAN the time the treatment is going on he chats
pleasantly with anyone who will join him IN con
versation. his mind being apparently not on the
object before him except in the most Indifferent
way. one woman afflicted with paralysis was
told by him that he had never effected cure OF
this form of disease, and that out OF nearly two
thousand treated only about sixty Of the number
had claimed TO have received any rel Fl, but she
| expressed the hope tha' she might be one OF the
| fortunate ones, and insisted that he should try.
Newell tells his patients that he aud the pub
| lie are largely the victims Of newspaper sensa-
tionalism and that his cur have been Oyerrated
and exaggerated. The crowds that follow him,
| he says, are none of his seeking, and this whole
| business has been forced upon him. lie tells
| everybody that he is nothing but unrducated
blacksmith, who much prefers to work at his
vii than to trave. over the country and treat PEG
| pie for diseases about which lac knows nothing
| This business is depressing, aud he misSes the
| outdoor life and the Oracing air Of his village
! home And when he says this one cant help be
| heving In lis hone ty. And this Is OF the
| charms that attract people As one woman Gu
Enthusiastically remarked II have faith in his cures
| because he is 50 honest