The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-18
MENTAL TELEGRAPH
EAST INDIANS HAVE DEVELOPED
ART TO FINE DEGREE.
Incident That Converted Skeptlc Into
q Ardent Believer - Wireless"
System an Old One in That
Land of the Occult.


"Nlany persons derlde the idea Of
mental tclcgraphy. but If they would
spend a year or two in India, as did,
aud work shoulder TO shoulder with
tie educated East Indians they would
cease their scofiins,3 said G. r. 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. 1T Is wonderful TO
what degree of perfection those pco- |
pic over there have developed the iac'
ulty of wireless brains. They we're
using the wireless system over there
centuries before Marconi and DE For
est were born.
Let me give you an instance in
point, and It is only one of the many
which changed me from a,skeptic Il TO
convert. Several years Ago, when |
was In active work as q civil engineer
with railroad construction as my
specially. L went TO India 10 assist in
building fine into the interior. We
came to heading where the use OF
rock drills, of the tripod style YOU see
in use here in New York in makivg
excavations was absolutely ncccs-
sary. This had been forcseen in the
surveys made in advance OF the con-
struction work, and we had ordered
a battery of those steam drills. Finally
we worked righ up to the place where
we needed them, and we could not
~. off
we got them.
81 was in the Office one day, fuming
and frctting about those drills and
wondering whether tho steamship
! upon which they should have arrived
had reached Calcutta and whether
the drills were in her cargo. ] 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 tho gov
ernment to assist US, stepped forward.
He was educated highly and spoke
English flucntly.
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 set them
replied.
"'Shc arrived this morning and tho
drills have been unloadcd from her.
,aid the East Indian. "'rhey are on
the pier now, hut something seems to
be missing f'om them. Are they
funny-loolsing. things that stand on
three logs"
II told him they were and showed
TO him picture of one or the drills.
He looked at 1t carefully and then re-
piled;
"'Yes; they're what are in those
long packages on the pier, but that
part is missing from each of them.
lie Indicated an essential part in
the body of the drills as that which
was missing from each. AT first | was
inclined TO regard what 10 said MS q
joke but his seriousness impressed
me. | instructed the operator TO wire
TO Calcutta and ascertain what the
condition was. In q little while lie re-
ccivcd Il reply which corroborated
everything the East Indian had told
me, and worst of all, that when tho
eases were 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.
di;.a to me and said:
"'Can you tell me whether those
missing parts were shipped with the
drills?'
without hesitation he replied:
"'Yes; but they have not been
) taken from the ship
"'Thcy are away down In the hold
! beneath "A lot of heavy bales which
Z. arc going TO be taken TO another port,
he said. with perfectly serious face
II summoned the telegraph operator
ana Instructed him to wire to ouI
, representative In Calcutta what the
East Indian had told ms. With thai
} information | gave instructions that
/ the bales In the hold should be re
| moved and the missing drill parts go
from beneath them. Within three
hours | received return message
that my orders had been carried on
and that the missing parts had beer
found exactly whore the East lndial
said they were concealed. In few
days thereafter the drills reached N
, and were put at work cutting into tn,
, rock in the heading. After that OK