The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-07-09
KATE NGLEY ANOTHER
srAySONEARTH MERELY TO SAVE
LYMAN j. GAGE AND OTHERS.

Point Iona, near San Diego, Cal, who
bss lust gained another recruit In the
ncyson OF ex-Secretary Lyman j.. Gage,
hasn't figured much in the public eye since
,o1. when she imported eleven children
ftom Cuba 10 10 educated at her Raja Yoga
school. She got more than an ordinary
share of notoriety at that time. A strong
effort was made to take the children away
from her on the ground that the school
was not a fit place for them, but she won
out by an appeal to another Secretary.
Secretary Shaw. after the special inquiry
board at Ellis Island had decided that the
Youngsters should be deported.
According to her own theory there ought
to be several obituary notices OF Mrs. Ting
lev on hand, for this Is not by any means
her first time on earth. Back In 1900 B. c.,
lust after Theseus whaled the Amazons or
thought he did, she and Nine, Blavatsky
were making a pastoral s~ojourn in Egypt.
Sh, reappeared several times In various
parts of the Old World, always making the
acquaintance of noted adopts, many OF
whom are now supposed to live in her pet
dog Spots. But there is nothing about
this in who's Who"
As far IA her present s~ojourn on earth
Is concerned Mrs. Tingley was born in
N~ewburyport, Mass, about ~ffty-nine years
ago. Her father kept a hotel and saloon
there, but did not make out very we'll, having
trouble with the excise officials.
Mrs. Tingley says she was educated in
a convent in Montreal. From there she
went to Savannah, where she married
Riohard Cooke, a printer. Her next VEN
ture in matrimony was with George W..
Parent. a detective, who afterward became
a saloon keeper. Mrs. Tingley lived in
Boston for a while and then she came to
this city. She studied hypnotism, and
finally became a spiritualist, giving seances
in her home in West End avenue. Her
third husband was Philo B. Tingley, who
was a stenographer. His employer
boarded with them in the West End avenue
house.
From spiritualism Mrs. Tingley turned
to theosophy, which was then attracting
much attention. She made the aoquaint-
ance of William @. Judge, who was the
boss Of the theosophists, and she suc-
ceeded In impressing him with her powers
as a %hypnotist. When he died several
fragmentary references to her we're found
among his writings. She pieoed them
together, and Upon them based the claim
that she was the reincarnation Of Nine.
Blavatsky and had been chosen the sue
eessor OF Mr.. Judge.
In the meantime Ernest T. Hargrove, a
young English barrister Of good family,
had been called to New York and made
president of the Theosophical. Society,
whose headquarters were in Madison
avenue. Mrs. Tingley convinced many Of
the members that while Hargrove was all
right as the nominal president, she was
really the secret head Of the organization.
the adept whose identity was not to bs re-
vealed until n year after the death Of
Mr.. Judge.
From then on she was referred to in
th~eosophical circles as "The Great Un-
known and sometimes as THE Yelled
Mahatma.' Her Identity was revealed after
she had ofioiated as the yelled prestess in
the remarkable ceremony which was per-
formed in connection with the marriage Of
Claude Falls Wright, then secretary Of the
T~heosophicai Society, and Miss Laura
Leoline Leonard. After that she took
actual control of the society and its name
was changed to The Universal Brother
hood. Mr. Hargroye went back to Temple
Bar and many other we'll known theosoph-
lists left the society, leaving the Tingley
crowd in full control. Contributions were
asked for the purple pence fund, and with
the proceeds Mrs. 'Tingley and some OF her
allies made a crusade around the world in
the interests of the new brotherhood. 1t
was broadly limited afterward that the
Crusade" was a sightseeing tour.
The school at Point LONE. was built by
money raised by the Tlngley crowd all over
the country. Mrs. Tingley is the undls-
puted boss of the entire institution. After
the Chicago convention of 1898, where she
organization for life, with the power to
name her SUCCESSOR, a large number Of
persons who had accepted her as the sue
cess0r OF Judge denounced her and left the
organization. c. A. Grisoom, DR., who had
selected the site Of the school at Point Iona;
Donald Nicholson OF the Tribune. Alexander
Fullerton, DR.. Tha!ldeus p. Hyatt and a
host of others prominent in the old theo-
sophieal society ebjured Mrs. Tingley's
organization and never went back to It.
This left her with 8 free and and she rules
with q rod Of iron.
Tingley and her management of the Brother
hood School when the board OF social In
auiry met at Ellis Island to give a hsaring
on the case Of the eleven children brought
from Cuba to be educated at Point Iona.
Edward Parker, a retired Boston banker,
said that he had first met Mrs. Tingley
In 1897 at her request. He had heard that
she had been a medium at Memphis and
had beer guilty Of re~prehensihle conduct;
This she denied, and he was obliged to tell
her that the evidence WAS overwhelming.
He had learned iron, DR.. Walton Of this
city that the Doctors belief In Mrs. Tingley
had been shattered ir the ecstasy Of an
afectionate farewell a. the wharf when
MN. Tingley and her party were starting
On a tbur of the world.
Lewis s.. Fitch testified: Il applied for
the place Of bookkeeper at Point. Iona
and Mrs. Tingley employed me. After a
long conversation with her alone she said
that Spots employed me: Spots L. her
spaniel. Mrs. fingley told me that Spots
could always tell a lover OF theosophy at
a glance and knew me at once, Spots
was given to her, she said, by William @.
Judge. Mrs. Tingley said to me: i know
that tho spirit OF Mr.. Judge Is In Spots
directing this movement Spots is an
object OF reverence TO most Of the persons
at Point Iona as yell as to Mrs. Tingley.
] never brought the hooks to balance In all
the nine months I was there. ! was always
called on, sometime by Mrs. Tingley her,
self.
All OF the Universal Brotherhood went
to the HOLY Hill To greet the sunrise, was