The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-16
LARGE, DEPOSITS OF SILVER
 BENEATH LONG HILL MINES j?
Expedition Conducted By Ge Scientist Examines Old Mines By Means of Div ming Rod Strange Action of Radium Rays Upon Human Body Illustrated By Means of Metal and W ooden Rods.


 Large veins of silver and it's accom- l panying minerals of tungsten. copper. iron, lead and sulphur have been To- cated by a divining expert at Long Hill
 An expedition which surveyed the entire knoll of Long Hill on Saturday afternoon in which prominent repre- sentatives of the Scientific American. newspapers, and magazines were present, received the assurances or Otto Esdler yon Graeve, president of the International Association of Di- vinfng Men of Hanover. Germany, l that silver was present in the vfcin- ity- It was estimated by means of a di- vining-rod through the medium of raf1io-activity in the shuTnanl body, cul- tSvated to a high degree in tine persen of won Graeve, that not only was the precious metal near the surface. but that large streams of water coursed beneath che precipitous hill upon the side of which stands the crushing and smelting plant of the Long Hill Min ing company, formerly known as the Hubbard mines.
 That the action Of a volcano which 1 probably had it's crater beneath Long l Hill forced the underlying strata upward into an apex forming the hill l itself was the determination of the expert who claims that veins between I g and Is feet in width and at depths ] of about 360 to 400 feet from the sur 1 face radfaIed from common center I near the 1op of the hill in all dfrec- l tiens. Outcroppings of silver copper,
 iron and sulphur were found upon the fsides of the hill near it's summit
 .lf, The property. which was particularly < examined Saturday was that owned I by the Long HilI Mining company, upon which mining operations have
 been inteI1nittently carried on for ,fr.f, 5,n Inc |f sears of many shafts, tunnels and drifts. as well as trails where cars have run from the mines to the crush
 CTS, and lofty tipples bare their gaunt
 skeletons to the elements Il A strange power was exerted among Il the tenantless buildings and in the
 desoIute wastes of the woodland, said .l to demonstrate the marvellous work ings of that little known element, ra-
 dduEn. with it's forces known as radio. activity. Tn the presence of a skeptic audience Otto Edler von GTaeve, upon 1T whom the eyes of scientists have been
 focused with rapt and incredulous in
 terest since his advent here several months ago to proclaim a1mcst super Inatural powers explained the forces
 of nature and his faculty to concen-
 trate these forces to the benefit or
 mankind and the enrichment of those sl who hire his services ] sS
 Equipped with an inherent know Il ledge of geology, minera1ogy and aid ed by three rods, von Graeve was ac-
 companied from his apartments in the
 Hotel Astor, New York, to the scene of his activities by A Fl Dime, a
 magazine writer Of New York, and ef stanley Y- Beach, of Stratford, whom : it was understood represented his ia ther Frederic c. Beach, one of the \ owners of the Scientific American, the
 foremost journal of science in Amer
 ica. Other hewspaper men of Bridge
 port joined the expedition
 Two purposes were given for the 1 bringing of the diviner to Long Hill. first to ascertain if there was good l prospects Of locating large pockets of 4 tungsten a mineral largely in use
 and particularly adapted to the mak-
 ing of electric light filmanents; and,
 second because it was understood that it had not been rully demonstra- :, | ted to the owners of the Scientific
 American that the powers von Graeve
 possesses were fully within the scope
 of practicabihty-
 ll Arriving at the old crushing and 7 stamping mill of the American Tung- i. sten Milling and Mining company : whose lofty breakers are seen on the fprecipitous hill, von Graeye, a man : possibly forty years, of German coun- [ tenance, and adorned with short crop : ped whiskers and gold rimmed glass
 es prepared for the demonstFation s He was extremely Ioquacious and his ' optimism and enthusiasm became stronger as he progressed in the pre- . liminary deInonstration of what his radioactive power was possible of ac- . conlplishing. fAttired in corduroy r knickerbocker jacket, short pants end 2 ing below the knees where they be-
 came encased in puttees of leather,
 the most noticeab1e appendage was g
 large pad of felt which he strapped over the stomach. He was aided by
 the three metal diyining rods which
 terminating in. straight handles
 curved easily inwards until they
 crossed at a common center in the diagramattcal shape of a node One may get a better mental pfcture o1 the shape of the divining rods iby i'm agining himself holding the large cap
 itaI A by handles at the base ane
 that instead of coming to a point al |. it's apex the A is Iooped over in a cir l e1e to form a small letter 70. < One of the rods the heaviest, was
 made of rough filed iron upon ,whicl 2 von Graeve explained the greatest ra-
 dio action is eAerted. Another was made of aluminium and the third oi z < bronze.
 1. The medium explained that in ths : hands of a subject capable of reeeiv i, ing radium enanations from the eartf s these rods would be affected witt F great force and that where metal wa. 2 hidden in the bowels Of the earth tt . any depth reaction would be felt. Ac , cording to his relation there were bu 1 ten such persons known to science
 and those mostly in Germany, whe CT, 8 at Hanover the International Associa l ton of Divining Men had been organ | ized. All were susceptible to radio 7 activity and needed it to sustain them 3 It acted upon the body did mar I cotic drug and those in the profession I were under the same nervous need o . radipm stirnulant daily as was tn t morphine or opium hend. Von Graev is under the obligation of daily takin,
 his divining rod and going forth t 2 get the stimulant from the bowels o 1. the earth. His hands caloused ant ]. somewhat burned after the days ac ], tivitv were offered in proof of his as