Evening journal., 1900-09-19
COMMODORE VANDERBLT'S
DAUGHTER MAKES CHARGES
AGAINST ARTHUR P. DODGE
oays RE Used Spiiuasc Mediums Induce Her to Put
Money Into Patent Used by the Kinetic Motor
Company Near Gordon Heights

tale-cne almost equal In its showing
/ of human credulouanoss TO the story
/ of Luther Marsh. crafty lawyer and
shrcWd man Of the world for whom
spirit pictures we're painted 10y a me-
/ dium at a great cost and with q sad
| end to himself.
Thus runs the story of Mrs. Ia Bau
her ghostly ancestor and the man who
drew them together across iliimitable
space for a cash liberation: Mrs
La Bau one day several years ago hired
q maid, Jeann0tte DanfOrth. The girl
had been only in hey new place when
she conhdcd to her mistress that she
was confirmed believer in spiritual
ism.
why" said Mrs. La Bau. in rap
ture, so am t." And from that time en-
they were close friends, the relation
Of mistress and servant practically
ccasing to exist. Many a night they
sat together, each receiving messages
from the skies for the Cther-at least.
Mrs. La Bau firmly believing that they
did-and it was only a few weeks be-
fore she was convinced that Jeanette
was a medium of the highest powers
and most exalted rank.
Then Jeanette began to talk OF
other persons who had unusual privi-
leges of communion with shades far OF
beyond the Milky Way.
There's Arthur p. Dodge" said she.
He is man of marvellous gifts. Il
know many persons gifted with the
same divine power that possess to so
pitifully humble an extent. But he is
supreme"
How? How? eagerly from the mis-
tress.
'I never have been able to bring
back the spirit Of your father. the com
modore. But 1 belieye-yes, know
Mr.. Dodge can"
Naturally, Mrs. la Bau was anxious
for that reason. Jeanette put her off
until she was worked up into a ferment
Of expectation. Then, by agreement,
she alleges, Mr.. Dodge came
SPIRITS AND STOCKS.
He did not uphold Jeanneite's enthu-
siastlc statements as to his ability to
draw spirits from the vastly deep or
elsewhere. On the contrary, he as
sured Mrs. La Bau that he never had
pretended to be a medium. But If there
were such a gifted person in the world
that person was his young friend,
Jeanette.
And then. on Mrs. La Bau's fe1vent
plea chat Jeanette should exercise her
powers, that young woman, with a far
away look in her eyes, consented.
That was in the parlOr Of the La Bau
home. Jeanette leaned back in her
chair; her eyes gradually grew big and !
CLASSY; her breathing seemed to stop;
then, with an effort that seemed to |
cause her indescribable pain, she said: |
Il see a man. An old man. He says: !
Ny daughter is there with you. Tell
her-oh' If the message were
tearing her with pain in its transmits
her to buy Kinetic
Power. "
Mrs. La aBu. despite her ancestry.
never had dabbled in the stock mar |
ket, and this was a new title to her
Ask him what?" she whispered.
"Knetic Power" drOned the medium.
"Ah-h-hl" with a sudden nervous
remor and a gasp. "He is gone He
viii not come back tonight"
Whereupon that particular seance
was closed.
COMMODORE ADVISED.
But there were many others.
One night the spirit OF the commo-
dore, so Mrs. la Bau says now, re-
marked in chat far-off tone TO which |
she had been accustomed:
Dodge is "a wonderful inventor. An. |
if l could only be with you to handle |
his p1tentsl Take thcm, my child:
take themi"
That was enough for her. She
promptly agreed TO obey the spiri |