The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-12-27
MENTAL TELEGRAPH
EAST INDIANS HAVE DEVELOPED
ART TO FINE DEGREE.
Incident That Converted Skeptic Into
Ardent Believer - Wireless"
System an Old One in That
Land of the Occult.

"Many persons deride the idea of
mental telegraphy, but If they would
spend year or two in India, as did,
and work shoulder to shoulder with
the educated East Indians they would
cease their scofIing," said G. X. Scrug-
ham, organization manager for the
International Policyholders' commit
tee. and one of the most prominent
electric railway men in Ohio, in the
New York Press. ut is wonderful to
what degree of perfection those peo-
pie over there have developed the fac
ulty of wireless brains. They were
using the wireless system over there
centuries before Marconi and De For
est were born.
Let me give you an instance in
point, and 1t is only one of the many
which changed me from skeptic to
convert. Several years ago, when
was in active work as civil engineer
with railroad construction as my
specially, went to India to assist in
building line into the interior We
came to a heading where the use of
rock drills, of the tripod style you see
in use here in New York in making
excavations, was absolutely neces-
sary This had been foreseen in the
surveys made in advance of the con-
struction work, and we had ordered
battery of those steam drills. Finally
we worked RICH up to the place where
we needed them, and we could not
do much more effective work until
we got them.
Il was in the Office one day, Tuning
and fretting about those drills and
wondering whether the steamship
upon which they should have arrived
had reached Calcutta and whether
the drills were in her cargo. l asked
one of my assistants If he had heard
anything from Calcutta, which was
many miles away. He replied in the
negative. He had not even received
advices that the steamship had ar
rived. | was turning away in discon-
tent when one of the East Indians
who had been assigned by the gov
eminent to assist us, stepped forward.
He was educated highly and spoke
English fluently.
Excuse me-, he said were you
asking If the steamship had arrived?'
"'Yes-we are expecting several
steam drills on her and cannot do
much more work until We get them
replied
"'She arrived this morning and the
drills have been unloaded from her.
the pier now, but something seems to
be missing from them Are they
funny-looking things that stand on
three legs?'
81 told him they were and showed
to him a picture Of one of the drills.
He looked at it carefully and then re-
piled:
Eyes; they're what are in those
long packages on the pier. but that
part is missing from each of them
He indicated an essential part in
the body of the drills as that which
was missing from each. At first | was
inclined to regard what he said as
joke, but his seriousness impressed
me. | instructed the operator to wire
to Calcutta and ascertain what the
condition was. In little while he re-
ceived a reply which corroborated
everything the East Indian had told
me, and, worst of all, that when the
cases We're opened it was discovered
the parts were missing. That meant
long delay, because the drills were
worthless without the missing parts.
In my dilemma | called the East In.
dian to me and said:
"Can you tell me whether those
missing parts were shipped with the
drills?
without hesitation he replied:
Eyes; but they have not been
taken from the ship.
They are away down in the hold,
beneath lot of heavy bales which
are going TO be taken to another port
he said with perfectly serious face.
81 summoned the telegraph operator
and instructed him to wire to our
representative in Calcutta what the
East Indian had told me. With that
information | gave instructions that
the bales in the hold should be re-
moved and the missing drill parts got
from beneath them. Within three
hours received a return message
that my orders had been carried out
and that the missing parts had been
found exactly where the East Indian
said they were concealed In few
days thereafter the drills reached us
ana were put at work cutting into the
rock in the heading. After that eX-
perience, and others like it, do you
wonder that | believe in mental teleg-
raphy as it is practiced in India by
the educated East lndians?"
An Understudy.
"lave YOU got a job Sam"
yes. sab