Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-24
sCHLATTER IN HARTFORD.
Says He Has Healed 100000 and
 Raised Seven From the Dead.

here. Schlatter away back in the
 sos used to get columns of space
 in the New York newspapers with
 out paying cent for it and then
 everybody knew who Schlatter was.
 He is here in Hartford having accut
 mulated pretensions as we'll as eX-
 perience during the years that have
 passed but he is on the same job
 being, according to his own state
 ments and he ought to know, a
 prophet, divine healer, celibate,
 and M. D. and Presbyterian clergy
 man whose proper name is Charles 1 Mclean.
 A man who is as many things as
 that ought to be fairly busy and ap-
 parently Schlatter has been for he
 says he has healed 7,000,000 per
 sons, feat only equaled by the fact that he can remember the number
 correctly while the average man
 cant recall the number of his near
 est fire alarm box. Schlatter is
 here solely for the purpose of heal
 ing the sick and afflicted. Next Sun
 day afternoon he will preach and
 heal in the rooms of Nathaniel Lyon
 post, c. A. R., No 724 Main street,
 at o'clock when persons who care
 to be healed of some hing or other
 are invited to call. It's all free too
 and that's the singular part of it. ! The country is fairly spotted with i persons who are willing to heal l anything and anybody for consid-
 eration but the man who does it for
 nothing and merely by the laying on
 of hands is something new.
 Schlatter says he works by faith, it not being exactly clear whether he furnishes all of it or whether the person to be healed has to contribute and he is perfectly willing to talk about it. Schlatter says that he was born in New York, February 6, 1S43, his mother being Scotch woman. He says, and this is evidently informa- tion which he must have obtained from his mother, that she was told by divine revelation before he was i born, that she would bear a son whc would become famous as a faith preacher, that he would be celibate that he would use no liquor nor to- bacco, that he would never have razor on his face nor have his hair cut and that he would have the gift of prophecy.
 All this Schlatter says has been made good and some other things be- sides. He says too that it was re- vealed to his mother that her son would travel seven times around the world and that he would do the work of Christ as Christ did when on earth What he does not say is how far he has progressed in his trips around the world.
 Years ago, when the New York Sun brought him to the attention of its readers, he was out in Colorado where he had frances and did prophecy stunts. While in one of these frances he says he was buried in the desert for forty days and forty nights during which time he was in communication with heaven and had pointed out to him the work which was before him. He says he is able tc 1 go long time without eating which 1 is an excellent attribute for any one calculating to spend much time in the | wilds of Colorado and especially use- ful to a person who heals without l money.
 In addition to the 1000, ,000 healed Schlatter says that he has raised | seven persons from the dead, which l IS a considerable of a record, and ! among those whom he healed was John Alexander Dowie, who was suf- i fering from blindness. Schlatter says Dowie possessed some of his powers and he omitted to say that | Dowie possessed another which he | has not, that of getting money.
 Prophecy is a long suit in the Schlatter hand for it is said of him that he foretold the death of Presi- dent Mckinley, the method and the day and date. Also he says that he the death of Queen Vic torfa and of Mark Hanna and told of the coming of the war between Russia and Japan and of ;le Johns- town and Galveston floods. So far as can be ascertained Schlatter has never applied for a place in a news paper office where the gift of accu- rate prophecy would be appreciated. He seemed to have ideas last even ng which amounted to a certainty llmost that Taft will be the next president of the United States. This s his impression, he says.
 In personal appearance Schlatter s an old man, above medium height, with long, flowing, grizziy-gray 'eard which reaches nearly to his waist. His eyes are deep set, small md keen and quick to notice. His lress is very much the worse for year. the wearer saying that though le has had millions of dollars of- cred tO him, he cares nothing for money or fine linen. Despite his age Ie walks erect and with a firm step. nd with attractive carriage. He ever uses tobacco or liquor and says hat the man who devotes himself to he good of mankind has no time or such things. He was never mar jed.