Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-05
NOT UP TO DATE
Magicians Say She Has Lost One Great
Opportunity.
EXPERT OPINION ON MEDIUM
Feats Of SpOoks Not Up to Standard
OF Commercial MaEic-TabIe Tilt
ing and LeGerdemain that
is Really Great.

NEW YORK, Dec. 4-If you want TO
know just what the magicians think OF
Eusapia PaladinO you ought 70 drop around
to their headquarters on Sixth avenue.
Once a month the club, known as the So
ciety of American Magioians, meets in a
hail at the back OF the small shop In which
is sold everything in the way OF cotrturing.
A grinning skull greets you from it's posi-
ton on a counter and along the walls are
framed autographs Of Herman. Houdini
and other masters OF the art, with sOuve-
Mrs OF their triumphs.
Herman was once himself an officer Of
the society, and today It boasts a very dis
tnguished neutrality-suspicious., the dean
OF magicians; DR.. Sargent an eK-president;
Carter. who IL described as the coming
magician. for though one OF the OUNCE
members. he has already shown great
promise as an inventor; Downs. Thurston.
Leon Herman. nephew OF the great Herr
man; Carl GermRine. inventor and ma
gician. who has. Il Is sadly acknowledged
left the profession for one he mistakAbly
considers more practical, that Of law
Elmer Ransom, known as the magician for
the Four Hundred, who went to the White
House to entertain Ruth Cleveland and
her little friends and who, as he expresses
H. used to make the eyes Of Mrs. Harry
PAYNE Whitney start from her head when
sos was a little one. and is now doing the
same tricks for her children. Then there
is Matinka. the proprietor, who has delved
in magic properties for some twsnty-four
years at the same place.
Talk PeeOs Proprietor.
It was TO this shop that one OF the
Paiadino encourage went to buy luminous
paint some time before the mediums ar
rival The purchase was recently admitted.
Mr.. Matnka was quite psttish about this
avowal and said frankly that there was
no earthly reason why Mrs. Hereward
Darlington or her husband should have
spoken OF the matter at all.
W certainly wouldn't" he said. 'Oh,
yes. OF course. they had a plausible reason
for buying il. Mediums always have a
plausible reason for buying luminous
puint-and other coniuring apparatus"
u is the prevailing opinion among the
masiciaus that Paladino has too many
people about her who could help her and
hat trick apparatus is too easy OF access.
not that we say she resorts 20 our tricks
atrs is an emphasis on the 'our'D. but
ao do say that so far we have heard OF
her doing nothing that hasn't been done
by loads OF other people and that every
member Of this club hasn't been familiar
with for so long that ne would be afraid
Of being shot dead ~ rs a magician he ad-
yerused anything so crude and raw"
simply in the way Of supplying general
Information the proprietor shoves across
the table toward you al this point OF the
conversation a pair % semi-cuffs lined
with chamois each q which terminates in
a hook. They are shown in action. strapped
about the wrist under the real cuff and
ty their help any table can De ulted and
ANifted with ease.
Makes the Table Dance.
sometimes a magician can attach them
ie1nse r. explains the owner; sometimes
they have TO he put on By a confederate.
something easily accomplished In the dark
and once fastened a table can be lifted As
easily as a blotter laps up ink. Naturally
when you see the Mediums hands flat on
the surface OF the table and the table
take flying leaps and ult like a catboat in
"a hurricane you are inclined TO believe
there must be something after an in the
theory 0f departed spirits coming back in
the guise Of little comrades 20 tip tables
iu lien OF better employment"
Mr. Kellar offered Paladino 80 IL shs
would come 10 his rooms In the Hotel
Aston and give a seance there. she va
10 have any companions she desired 81
s.ns but could not DO any refurnishiue
Ia the way OF cabinets trunks cans Of
EminOus paint or anything else ina
would seriously interfere with the existinl
d0mesuc arrangements. so Tar M Ksl