New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-07-16
A NEW THOUGHTREADER.
HE USES THE WHOLE CITY FOR HIS TEST.
BECAUSE A THEATRE IS NOT BIG
ENOTrGH

The evil that Washington Irving Bishop did lives
after him In train of "thoughtreaders that threat
ems to stretch out to the crack OF doom. The one
who Is in the local field just now Is young Russian.
Dietrich Neuman. He made private test yestcr-
day at the Herald Square Theatre. Though 1t was
a private test an unfortunate public announcement
of Il was made and the result was that the theatre
was surrounded by a mob that would have glad
dened the heart OF William j. Bryan The proposed
test was this: The usual committee was to go
away from the theatre and hide some object In any
part OF the city that it might choose and then Mr.
Neuman to md H.
The announcements that were made In advance
were trife highly colored, and the committee I'M
derstood that the thought-reader intended to SO
over the same route through the CITY streets III
finding the object that the committee had traced IN
hiding 1t 1t also understood that the thought
reader would perform the feat of driving carriage
in Broadway and whatever other streets should be
necessary with his eyes blindfoded In both these
particulars as it proved sfterward. the committee
misunderstood
The committee took the whole thing seriously got
into its carriage In the midst OF the uncontrolabie
enthusiasm Of the citizens. and went over the FOL-
lowing route as conscientiously II II had been
circus procession: Broadway, Thrty-first-st, Fifth
ave. Fortieth-st, Madison-ave., Forty-third-st.
Vanderbilt-ave. Forty -fourth-st, Broadway, to
Olympia. The committee went up to the Olympia
roof garden and hid an English penny of the date
Of 1862 important point always In such caseS) In
one of the boxes. The press agent OF the house
then requested not to take the penny away
while the committee was gone and the carriage
returned to the Herald Square.
The thought-readcr was then blndfolded and
took his place on the box of the carriage The
crowd could not have been moved 70 deeper JOY II
he had been the favorte of the Nineteenth Pre-
cinct and had been nominated for Emperor of the
Empire State II followed the carriage all the way
and could not be kept away from the wheels SIN
gle foot The thought reader did not drive. He sat
beside the driver and told him where TO extend
ing his hands all the time II he were blessing
the people. while he was really cursng them ior
getting in the way At Forty -second-5t he ordered
the carriage to stop. and the cable,cars and the
crosstown lines blocked The thought-readcr
got out made a member OF the committee get out
with him and hold his wrist. and walked quickly
up the street to Olympia which the mob besieged.
much to the astonishment and discomfort or the
attendants who had been hired merely as peace
garrison and did not feel sure how long their pro-
visions would hold out. But. to make short story
OF it. the thought reader rang for the elevator:
went up the roof and after little search found
the penny. His manager said that 1t was a TIL
umph: he himself said that he would not sell the
penny for a thousand dollars. and one or two VINO
saw II said that It was muscle-readng. Everybody
is welcome TO his own opinion.