Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-03-28

l Or. Queck0nbos, at Wh0se Home, m | New York, the seance Was Held, | Declares Anna Fortwanger, . Ger-
 man Servant, Will Become Skilled | Clatrvoyant-How She Performed 1 Other Wonderful Feats.
 1 At the New York home of Dr. John l D. Quackenbos, a we'll known special ist in hypnotism, curious seance was given the other night before score of men and women, friends of the doc tors family, and a reporter for the New York Herald.
 | The seance was to test the powers of young German girl, Anna Fortwan- ger, who, the doctor believes, is des- tined to become skilled clairvoyant. Anna is about eighteen years cid.
 She left her home in Germany on ac- count of an unfortunate love affair about six months ago and became servant for family in New York. She suffered greatly from nostalgia and came under the care of a member of the family of Gustav A. Gayer, who Is a friend of Dr. Quackenbos and inter- ested in hypnotism. She was cured by him of nostalgia and is now entirely contented in her new home and has no wish to leave 1t. Under hypnotic influ- ences she developed strange powers. The other night for the first time her powers were put to the test before an | assemblage of strangers.
 She is good type of the healthy Ger man peasant and evidently had the peasants awe for the splendors of evening dress, to which she was newly introduced. After she had been thrown into the hypnotic stage by MT. Gayer, Dr. Quackenbos gave her a dose of | Warburg powders, well known for their extreme bitterness of taste. which she swallowed with apparent relish.
 At the next experiment she was giv- en an onion and told that it was bit of candy. Mir. Gayer explained that Anna had always expressed great loathlng for that vegetable. She ate the first small pieces readily enough. One of the women who stood close to her asked if 1t were not bitter. There upon she gagged slightly in swallowing the last and largest piece. Mir. Gayer explained that owing to Anna's ex. treme sensitiveness the circle of his influence had been broken by the spec tator's remark.
 Before reawakening her post hyp- notic suggestion was made by Mir. Gayer that she should pick out and eat piece of candy from a dish on the table. Awakening. she acted as if she felt that she must do something, but was apparently struggling with herself to remember 1t or did not wish to do it.
 Dr. Quackenbos explained that be. cause she was servant and found her self in the presence of company her sense of propriety was struggling with the hypnotic suggestion and that pro. priety had triumphed. " '''''''
 Put again into the hypnotic sleep she was asked to describe q room in the second story of Dr. Quackenbos' house. This room she had never seen in her life. Sine gave her answers 80 low as to be inaudible to the audience and also to the reporter, who bent down close to Mir. Gayer. save in two in. stances, when the reporter caught the words "bilder" and "hund" in describ- ing a picture and it's features. The picture, in fact, hangs over the man. telpiece, where she had said 1t hung The dog trots along beside a wagon. Mir Gayer. who conducted the inter- rogations in German, had his mouth to the girls ear and translated into Eng. fish the words that his quicker ear and his more intimate acquaintance with German enabled him to catch. The de- scription of the room as thus interpret ed was minutely close in every partic- ular
 In the next experiment the reporter took his place upstairs in the room which she had described, together with two women. Meanwhile in the parlor below in the presence of the audience the operator suggested to her as she sat in a trance that she go upstairs and greet by name and In English a man she would find there.
 In due course she mounted the stairs, her eyes tightly closed. and. still with her eyes closed, bumped against the re- porter, then extended her hand to him md whispered. How do you do. Mir. So-and-soT calling him by his right name.
 This was considered the crowning feat of the evening. for, as the operator said, she did not know a word of Eng fish
 Dr. Quachenbos. who did not consid. CT that the girl was in good trim. told of remarkable feat she had perform ed a few days ago In the presence of himself and his family.
 | She had been told to describe the ap- pearance and contents of a certain room in a house in One Hundred and Forty ninth street. occupied by friend of Dr. Quackenbos. She not only sue ceeded in doing this. but she also told what its occupants, two women. were engaged in doing. This was at half past in the afternoon It was subse- quently ascertained by Dr. Quackenbos that the women were engaged exactly as the girl had described.
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