The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-07
LOCAL PENCILIHGS.

Boarders at the st. Charles hotel and
| some of the friends of DR.. p II. Kear-
ney. whose office is at 80 Wyoming
avenue. have been mystifcd and enter
tained several times recently by the
physicians exhibition Of his mesmeriC
and hypnotic mower before small and
select audiences. DR.. Kearney has for
some time been a close student of mes
merism and his research and study was
shared by several brother physicians
ing hypnotic influence, but refrained
from making his attainment known ex-
cept to few personal friends.
Recently he has given a number of
private exhibitions in the parlors of the
ST. Charles hotel, where he boards, per-
forming all the feats of the several pro-
fessional hypnotists who have appeared
i'm Scranton. These gatherings have
nearly always included a scattering of
professional men. physicians, clergy
men and lawyers and ladies. Nearly
always the subjects are selected from
the spectators.
An illustration of Dr. Kearney's pro-
ficiency was wonder in it's way. ON
this particular night while he had a
young man mentally and physically
HIS toltIoi uSittD, III.
O'Malley, of Spruce street. asked If the
heart beat could be influenced. DIR.
Kearney said he had never made the
experiment, but thought it could be
done.
The pulse was first tested and regis
tered ia heart beats per minute Dr.
kearney approached the subject and
placing his hand on the young mans
head quietly asked that the pulsation
be slower. Within a few seconds the
beat was 104 per minute and from that
it was reduced to 96 and then to IS.
Another test. which was but a sam
pie of many others, was the display of
control over the subject while the oper-
ator was downstairs in the hotel office.
One of the physicians present suggest
ed it while standing with DIR. Kearney
where the subject. who was in deep
slumber, could not overhear. DIR. Kear-
ney approached the sleeping person and
exclaimed in an ordinary tone of voice
II want you to remain here until you
get orders from me-" He then left the
parlors and went down stairs, accom-
panied by several of those present. At
the desk he quietly requested that the
subject come to him and the request
was followed in a moment by the APP
pearance Of the subject. Scarcely an
evening passes without request by
some of the physicians friends for one
of those parlOr "seanCeS." There was
one last night in which the subjects
We're selected from among the party of
actors, commercial travellers and hotel
boarders in the room.
Bloomer girls will not appear as wait
resses in the restaurant addition now
being built at Jordan's st. Cloud Hotel
corner of Wyoming avenue and Lin
den street. Whether Proprietor Jor-
dan really intended having girls adorn-
ed in baggy bloomerettes or not is a
question, but it makes no difference
anyhow; the report got abroad that the
new creature was to chase griddle
cakes, coffee, ''sinkers" and creamy
oyster stews about the place and that
was enough to set the chappies talking
Some Scranton young women out of
employment heard of it and they were
not daunted by the rumor that the
bOomer girls were to be imported from
New York city. Fifteen or twenty Of
the Scranton article called on ProDrie-
tor Jordan during Monday and yes
terday. There were lean young women
and fat ones, homely ones and ones
fair to gaze upon. Most of them reached
Linden street, and after furtivt
glances east and west, making a hur-
ried bolt through the side door. Only q
few had nerve enough to plainly state
their business; the majority asked II
they could procure employment as
mattresses. More than a few heaved
signs of relief when told that only men
would be engaged for the new restau-
rant, but there We're some pretty young
misses who showed disappointment
when 1t was made known that there
was no demand for girls who would
appear in boomers.
One girl from the West Side had her
boomers, or some ones else, with her
and was ready to begin work right then
and there. She was only II years old
and so Proprietor Jordan begged her
to be seated and began to lecture hei
i'm kindly way. He had got nicely
started in his talk when she arose and
flounced herself out of the place ex-
claiming before she banged the door be-
hind her:
We'll, gracious sakes; its a pity if
us girls cant earn an honest living
One of us in boomers would attract
more customers to the place than a
thousand men in pants"
1t was after this episode that a sign
reading mo Help is Wanted" was
tackled on the side door and orders were
issued to deny admittance to any young
women wearing uneasy expressions OF
carrying suspicious looking bundles.
Sheriff Clemons received court
record from Scotland yesterday, and
any one who objects to the whereases,
hereinbefores and observation-disclosures in
the legal forms of this country ought
to read it. 1t is summons or service
to be made on one Archibald Morton,
now a resident of Scranton. who about
eight years ago, deserted his wife, Mar
garet Sinclair Morton, in Edinburgh
town. Scotland. 1t starts out this way:
Victoria by the Grace of God of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland Queen Defender of the Faith
Then it goes along and tells what it
purpOrts in language and orthography
away back before Chaucer's time.
The sheriff, if he finds Mr.. Morton,
will serve copy of it on him, and GER
tify to the court of Edinburgh that he
did so. Mrs. Morton is suing for q di-
vorce and alimony. The record from
over the sea says that he used to write
to her for about year after he landed
and his messages were very endearing.
First they used to begin MY Darling.
Dearest Maggie" and end with "Your
Affectionate Loving Archie:" but they