The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-10-19
Admitted to sick Room.

After Mrs. Hartman had talked with
the man at The gate she began TO wonder
at his strange persistence. Mr.. Hartman
II that time had been unconscious Cor a
day and a half Finally the thought
struck her that the man could not annoy
Mr. Hartman. who would not know Of
his presence; that the stranger could not
10 any harm. while II ne was endowed
with any OF the power. that he claimed
I might be well Ia allow. him into the
sick room properly guarded.
So she sent for Or. Charles + chap
man, the local physician. who, with Or.
Harold Barclay Of 6S East Fifty-siXtn
street specialist in stomach troubles,
had been treating Mr.. Hartman. Or.
Chapman was disincltned To allow the
man into the sick room Then Ethel, the
seventeen year-od daughter, put in her
plea. She could see no harm in i. and
the man might do some good.
Finally the physician consented. Warned
not to speak aloud. the man went into
tho sickroom with the physician. He
stood beside the bed his lips moved as
he muttered some prayer. none of which
could be heard by others in the room.
With his head bowed he stood there
for Amos, half an hour. then he left
The next morning Mr. Harrimans con-
dition was not apparently better. Under
the same conditions the man was allowed
INTO the room he went through his
strange prayers again, remaining this
time for three-quarters of an hour. Then
he left the house and Mt Kisco. He has
not been seen since.
That very afternoon Mr. Hartman re-
covered consciousness, recognized the
relatives who were gathered at his bedside
and signhed that he understood when
they spoke TO him, This was on October
:. The next day he was stlll stronger,
and on October 10 Dr. Chapman told news
paper men that the patient had n chance
OF recovery This chance was still very
slight. but II was there
Yesterday Mr.. Hartman, eXcept for the
weakness which is natural enough follow
ing such long and severe illness, was in
his old time spirits, interested In all that
went on around him. and to-day the
doctors have promised him that he can
sit up for a short time.
These are the facts Of the strange mans
appearance and prayers. Dr. Barclay
said yesterday that he remembers that
about year ago the man came to him
and wanted work a masseur. but failed
10 get IT, Or. Chapman verified the facts
OF the mans appearance, as related above
On the TRAN Of the sick.
HE is one of those who follow the
trail Of a sick rich man as a shark fol
lows a ship" said Dr. Chapman They
pretend to have mysterious cures, and in
some Instances they are allowed to try
them. | myself was present during this
mans treatment TO see tha, he did moth
ing out of the way
He used to be a deckhand on Mr.
Hursts yacht. and for that reason he
thought he would be permitted to see Mr.
Hartman. and might get some money out
~ II a recovery began Mr. Hartman
did begin to get better right after the
man had gone through his prayers, but
that is because the treatment which Dr.
Barclay and !, with the assistance of
two very able trained nurses, WAS giving
him was JUS due 10 show results.
MT Hartman has made a Temarka bic
recovery. | am somewhat OF a psychic
believer myself. and | am broe dmlnded
enough TO admit 1t II thought this man
mad done any good, but he is simply a
faker"
Mrs Hartman went out early Yesterday
afternoon and mad not returned at n late
hour, so IL was impossible to learn from
her the mans name She is the only one
who knows it; some days after the man
left Mount KIsco he sent her a letter. II
is understood, asking for $50, and in this
letter he gave his address
Mrs Oliver Hartman sister-n-law OF
Ny. Hartman, said Yesterday that she
knew that the man had been allowed Int
- sickroom, but that none of the family
attributed Mr. Harrmans recovery to tn,
mans prayers. They thought II wa!
simply a coincidence, that the man ap
reared just when the expert treatment wa!
about TO show its effects.
Mrs Hartman expects to bring he
daughter to New York to-day, when MIS-
Ethel win be put in other hands to b
escorted TO Miss Fowler's ST Timoth,
School AT Catonsville Nd where she Il
a scholar
Nj Hartman, II Is expected, will b
so far recovered In two weeks that H.
can be moved ana Mrs Hartman hone
to take him then with her TO Washington
wh're her duties as Commissioner o
Labor call her, and where she has take
house