The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-08-22
GHOST LAYING ON YHI SIDE.
AGROUP or "SCTENTTSTS" BROAD.
EMS ITS SCOPE.
Healing by the Hypnotic" BsI and Read.
ing the Future But Two Phases Of IN
Interesting OutAt IN West 8lth st.
n Hint ut Hacking From Carnegie.

ing the Future hut Two Phases OF an
interesting OUTFIT IN West saith 81.
y Hint ut backing From Carnegie.
All the ghosts Of New York and vicinity
viewed with much alarm the
ment Yesterday OF the organization OF the
New York Institute for Psychioal Re
search, whose avowed purpose 10 to go
right over the heads Of the police and the
District Attorneys office and round up all
the ghosts in town. Mr.. H. Spencer Lewis
known around his office, however, az
Harvey s. Lewis-associate editor Of Mod
,,n Miracles and instructor In ~hypnotism
and suggestive therapeutics Of "The Metro
,,olitan Institute Of Sciences" Ia the NOV
ina spirit Of the new association Of ghost
cbssers.
another light Of the new institute Is
Albert H.. Postel, professor OF a~strology,
also associate editor Of Modern Miracles.
Prof. Postel said yesterday that he thought
that DR.. Isaao X. Funk was also connected
with the new club, but couldn't cay for
certain. As the institute was not thought
Of until two or three days ago. and as DR..
Funk has been up In the Adironda oks for
about two weeks on his vacation, his con-
pection with the institute is probably dis
tressingly slight.
Whether or not Doctor OF Suggestive
Thera peutics Frederick T. Mcintyre, presi-
dent Of The Metropolitan Institute Of
Sciences" has more than a sympo thetio
interest in the Institute for Psychiool Re-
sea rch could not be lee rned yesterday.
But the other ma mes mentioned ere enough
10 CO rry any well regulated ghost cha sing
society to SUCCESS. Prof. McIntyrs-he docs
not uss the doctor extensively-got his
degree from a correspondence, school OF He'd
The Americsn College Of Sciences
formerly OF Phila dolphin but now OF
Rochester. He Ia the INVENTOR Of -the
hypnotic ball system, with which he adver-
tises that one may be cured OF disse 90,
learn hypnotism and the secrets OF telepat thy
and do a lot Of things that msy or msy not
be Of interest to the County Medical Society
Altogether The Metropolitan Institute Of
Sciences on the fifth floor at 1928 West
Thirty-fourth street. is apparently a very
prosperous industry.
Prof. Mcintyre Ia also the inventor, 30
bis circular says, of the Suggesti-phone, the
Hypnotic Ball, the Ocular Fatigue Producer,
the Revolving Hypnotic Ball Mirror, ct
ceterah -rah-rahi Prof. Postel, on the other
hand, has merely written -The Roumanian
Dream Book and one or two other learned
works, but what he doesn't know about the
astroplanetary vibrations isn't much. He
eazes at the stars and then comes back to
earth to tell his CLIENTS" things that arc
going to happen to them, at 80 much per tell.
Then if the things do not happen that is tho
clients lookout. Prof. Postel has done his
duty.
q. Spencer Lewis, to come to the last
page OF Who's Who Along the Ghost Walk,
lays claim to fame principally as the in
ventor Of -an instrument that registers
psychic force vibrations" He Ii ives at the
St. Regis. This par ticular st. Regis is not
on Fifth avenue but abuts on Tony Mir
sndes's barber shop on the east and Dan
Reeves's groce ry store on the west up at
the corner OF l4sth street and Eighth avenue
Personally Mr.. Lev II In of the opinion, he
told the reporter yesterday, that we live
In the inside of the earth. One Of his aims
In life is to find out II his opinion is correct.
But he has to be shown.
All these interesting persona ges came to
light yesterday afternoon VIXEN a reporter
went up TO l2o West Thirty-fourth street to
learn some deta''s from MIR. Lewis of his new
ghost chasing club, The New York Institute
for Psychical Research. On tire top floor
OF the building are the editorial rooms OF
Modern Miracles, where It was learned from
Prof. Postel, a short dark man who needs
only the upturned mustache to look like
Hermann come to life. that Mr.. Lewis had
left for the day.
Prof. Postel said that Prof. McIntyre's
correspondence Institute OF Sciences on
the floor below had no connection with
Modern Miracles, but when it came to get
ting Mr.. Lewis's home address for the 70.
porter it was noticed that o button pressed
on Prof. Postel's desk summoned a girl
from the floor below, who then returned to
the 'Intttute" school TO find Mr., Lewts's
street and number.
Prof, ,Postel took his mind ~ tn. Tn
terest in astrology and the occult sciences,
He declared fervcntlv that he entered into
Mr. Lewis's new institute only when he
had convinced himself that the work to be
taken up In the coming ghost harvest will
be nf an ultra scientific nature. No, he
nent persons that are Interested In the new
society exccp. to mention that John j.
Burke, NJ. A., was one OF the members.
The professor said he had given his life
to star gazing and kindred subjects and
that he had travelled in the Orient" 10
D".S PSyN'hN VS"ni .o"t lhp'.
let he produced at this point 1t was learned
that the professor had gone to Egypt once
on a Cook Is tour.
According to the pamphlet, even when
Prof. Postel was a little child "his mother
would gently draw him away from the
window, where he would sit for hours
silently Watching the stars, and compel him
70 go TO bed
Naturally he grew up with a knowledge
q astrology as exhaustive as that OF any
living man to-day ANY on that wants
out well?' or-the next question or his
ha--Should l change my location?' will
Be answered with candor. And for a small
lee one may also have one Of the professors
speculums, which is a marvellous o n
Gaption, Speculums are especially valu-
ABLE to business men, as the owners Of these
adairs can tell all about stocks long before
0ey begin TO rise or 60 down.
before seeking the uptown st. Regis.
ne reporter stopped on the way up to
18TH street to And John j. Burke, M. A.,
q the Board Of Education At the oftoes
q the board at Park avenue and Fifty
ninth street it was learned that John Burke,
\. A.. was unknown there, but. that the
Hnitor's name Is jim Burke. Would Jim
When the St. Regis OF i4sth street was next
coated Mr.. H. Spencer Lewis was found
"a primed up to give occult information
!pets.. Mr.. Lewis bears no resemblance
VOC spirit. He is about % years old, height
SDund 8 feet s inches, weight near the