Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1905-10-08
90 SECOND SIGHT % I'm
EARLY LOS ANGELES


He desired to be put into communica-
ton with the spirit of his dead father.
Home went into u trance. Presently
the room was flooded with words and
melody of a Scandinavian song, which
Wied pere was wont to sing nearly
every night before going OF bed. Break
ing from his trance Home asked If the
communication had been satisfactory
He was assured that it was perfectly
so, and he was asked If he knew the
Swedish language. Home replied that
he did not know word of any Scan
dinavian tongue. Asking WED If he
desired any further test, and being
asked to place him in communication
with young lady cousin of his who
had been dead some years, he received
a message from her supposed spirit in
writing, also in the Swedish language.
Wied was struck by middle initial
III the name which he did not know
formed part of her signature. He made
a note of it, He was in the habit of
making frequent trips to Sweden, and
the next time he returned to his old
home he went out to the cemetery In
which his cousin was buried and found
the initial on her. tombstone. This
curious experience did not make Wied
spiritualst or devotee of any form OF
psychology but often led him to ponder
on the lines. There are more things
in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are
dreamed of in thy philosophy"
A Notable Trio
No man who has lived in Los An
geles was ever more universally known
or more generally liked than the late
DR.. c. F. Heinzeman. His life was one
unvarying round of good works. and
his disappearance from Los Angeles
was almost equal to the deportation
of a charity hospital, so great were
his benefactions to the poor who could
not afford to pay for drugs. For years
after his days work was done the
good old druggist was wont to HE him
to Volks' hail. at the court house end
of the Temple block.
This famous beer hall was kept by
old Jake Phillippi, who, in his younger
days, had been one of the crack drivers
Of Gen. Bannings stage line. 1t is not
too much to say that pretty much
everybody of note was in the habit of
dropping into Volks' hall at some hour
of the day or evening to quaff a glass
of his excellent beer or eat one of his
toothsome lunches. For years in the
evening DIR. HeinZeman would drop in
and would be followed by c.. c. Lips,
and he in turn by a tall Hungarian
physician, whose name I have for
gotten, who resided for some years
in the Angelic city. before the eastern
rush had become especially noted
These three formed a notable trio.
Seated at a commodious round table.
each with a foaming mug of beer in
front of him, they would soon enter
into an argument of portentous volume.
AS they waXed hot neither paid the
slightest attention to the other. DIR.
Heinzeman possessed a bass voice of
tremendous compass. Lips was SINH
larly endowed. while the Hungarian
had a tenor robusto equal to that of
Wachtel when touching the high notes
in the Serenade in "Eigoletto" or in
the "Postillion of Longjumeau." The
moment these three began there was
silence everywhere else and delighted
audience. The Los Angeles quidnuncs
knew they had a show at Volks' hall
free gratis, for nothing, that beat any
comedy that was eve, likely to come
along. Hearing so much noise in an
American saloon. one would suppose
that a fuil-fedged riot was on. On the
contrary, the best of feeling prevailed,
each with the conviction that, while he
did not know what the others had been
talking about, he had maintained his
own side of the argument with I'M
answerable acumen. Old Jake could
have afforded to pension these boon
companions because they brought so
many patrons to his establishment, in
which drunkenness was neither prac-
ticed nor tolerated, and in which in
a twelve month there would not pass a
harsh word.