The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-23

Henry the Fourth holds this bit of
repartee:
Glendower (boastfully)-I- can call
spirits from the vastly deep"
Hotspur-So can 1, or so can any
nan.
But do they come when you call for
! them?"
There are two brands of spiritual
ism: the real, earnest, sincere study
which some people devote to the sci
ence or whatever it is, and that brand
used by sly grafters for money. Ar
nold-Dickson brothers" were promo
/ ters of the second brand. and a very
inferior brand it was, too. 1t was in
ferior in its simplicity and lack of the
! f1Eer tricks of the trade, but as il made
money this inferiority was no draw
back. The spirits which the brothers
(why they termed themselves brothers
is mystery and the only mystery they
created) were easily materialized. With
the aid of the low lights, a few May
garments and the sitter's receptive
mind the brothers could impersonate
departed "grandmas. grandpas, mcles
and parents and children" without
trouble or expense
Not Even Good Tricks.
The Arnold-Dickson "spooks" were
not half the trouble or cost that the
spirits are which answer the call and
summons of hundreds of other takers.
Mediums like D. d. Home. the Daven-
port Brothers. Annie Eva Fay. Charles
Slade, Keller and others who have
made the world sit up and take notice.
thought up tricks which fooled scien-
! lists, doctors and learned men, Ex-
poSures have been made of their most
famous tricks and deceptions The
more marvellous the deception appears
10 the uninitiated the simpler il appears
after an explanation.
Annie Eva Fay held the boards at a
Salt Lake theatre some time ago and
exposures of her favorite tricks will
naturally be especially interesting to
Salt LAYERS who were numbered in the
throngs which gathered nightly to be
surprisedsand deceived. There were
many who were so greatly surprised
and deceived by the performances of
this little woman that they believed
she possessed supernatural powers and
thought the aid of spirits were at her
command. To these persons the ex-
plantations to follow will be as a punc-
ture to balloon; the cause of a rapid
crop from the hazy clouds to the cold.
hard earth below.
Annie Eva Fay's Performances.
In his Hours With Ghosts" Henry
Ridgely Evans, the author, prints the
results of Investigations conducted by.
himself of sO-called> spiritualists and
mediums. Annie Eva Fay and her per-
formances are included in this list, and
get a chapter by themselves. Mr. Ev-
ans considers Annie's accordion trick
the most convincing in her lengthy rep
ertOire.
Many Salt Lakers will remember how
closely they watched committee Sc
lected from themselves bind the accor-
dion so securely with tape that it could
not be pulled open a fraction of an
inch. This prevented the instrument
being worked out and i'm so air could
pass through it. This was enough, but
Annie suggested that the committee
seal the notes also. This was done and
TO all evidences, the instrument could
not be played unless by spirit hands or
breaths. When the committee had fin
ished its work Annie placed the instru-
ment before her face. shuddered several
truly mediumistic shudders and then
wonders of wOnders-sweet and
dreamy music came from within the
bound instrument. Spirits" gasped
the women in the audience and the
word fell also from the men in the
house.
Like all things which seem marvel
Gus. this trick is simplicity itself. When
Annie placed the instrument before her
face she had a small tube i'm her
mouth. This was fitted in the valve
hole of the accordion. Annie blew into
the instrument. fingured the keys and
played her audience into gasping "spir-
it's
Another Musical Trick.
Annie had another musical trick
equally as mystifying as the accordion
stunt This is exposed by Asprey We're,
an investigator of spirit phenomena.
Annie would place n music box on
plate of glass suspended from the cell
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