The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-11-07
STEAD'S DAUGHTER
 TALKS ABOUT FATHER
Premonitions Always Trust worthy, and He FOresaW That He Was Going to
 Die by Accident.
His Chief Interest, Next to Spiritualism, Was the Spread of the Peace
 Movement.

Movement.
 Miss EsteI1e w. Stead. actress and writer, daughter of William T. Stead, the English writer and spirit ua1ist who was lost in the Titanic disaster, is visiting America for the first time. She has been in Boston for two weeks and arrived in New York just in time for election day. ''Your American crowds, as saw them election night, interested me very much," said Miss Stead this morning. 'tThe people were all so excited! How odd to be excited about | a Mayora1ty election! We never are in England. But, of course, have read enough about your politics and Tammany Hall to know that this elec- tion was an unusual one.'
 Miss Stead has several missions in this country. She is featuring in Bos- ton and New York, and later in other cities, and she will be here for the American appearance of the book which has already been published in England. My Father. Personal and Spiritual "Reminiscences" "One of the most interesting things I have done in America she says, twas to visit Lowe1Ps home in Cambridge. Lowell was one of the men whom my father admired, and by whom he was influenced. The two most important things to my father were Spiritua1ism and the Peace Movement, especially the Anglo-American union, and Low ell was much interested in this dream of union between the two countries.
 Another great friend of my father, because of their common desire to unite English-speaking peoples, was Cecil Rhodes. Carlyle also influenc- ships were so many that I cannot speak of them all. But even greater than the Peace Movement to my fath- CT was Spiritualism. Many people thought that he was too devoted to it, and that he let it harm his work of writing, but he always did what he felt he must do, and followed what seemed to him most important. His premonitions during his life were a1- ways trustworthy.
 Some of these told him that he would leave the North of England and become editor of the Pail Mali Ga zette. He also knew that he would die by accident. He always said that when the Senior Partner as he call- ed it, had no more work for him to do, he would be killed. He felt the nearness of the two worlds and the thinness of the veil between, and he felt that his death would do more good than his life in bringing the two worlds closer. This is to be proved, although already he has brought the other world closer to those of us who have had communications from him.
 Miss Stead is also a spiritualist. 'T believe that spirituaIfsn is possible for everyone,'' she says, ''but that some people are born into 1t. think was born spiritua1ist. I feel that the next life is simply a continuation of this and that shall take my place in 1t according to where leave off here. Love is the only thing which will bridge the two worlds. It is the only the death of some one we love which makes us feel consider the reality of future life. Much harm has been done spiritualism py Hrs nistak- en identity with fortune-tel1ing. Spir- 1tualfsm has nothing to do with pre- saging ordinary, unimportant, mater ia1 events.
 ''Three weeks after the Titanic sank was my first communication with my father. Six other people were with me to see and hear him, and have signed the statement of the happen ing. People do not realize how much we have to help in receiving these communications. The power for ex- pressing the message has to be ob- tained from us. All people have this power, but some have it, the sixth sense, far more than others. Those who are not perfectly well balanced should not take this thing up. With some people 1t becomes an excuse for asking advice on all kinds of material and trivial things-this can do only harm, and takes away from the per- sons own individuality. My fathers spirituality was absolutely spiritual to 1 him, and my book about him is de- signed to show this and to show the motives behind his actions"
 Miss Stead's health is also a reason 1 for her coming to America. CT had a 1 serious breakdown while travelling 1 with my own Shakespearean com pany' she says, ''and decided to l come here for a rest and change, but | I do not know how much shall rest, for there are so many things I want l to do and see. Anyway, it is a change l Nothing could be more different from 1 English cities than New York . al- 1 ready feel it's fascination, and its high ! buildings are source of wonder to | me. Boston is far more English l Especially have, enjoyed coming up Boston Harbor and the beautiful resi-, 1 dences around Central Park in New | York;
 The length of Miss Stead's stay in | America is very indefinite, and her | course of travel not yet decided.