The New York herald., 1922-05-06
DOYLE TELLS ABOUT
MANAGING GHOSTS
Sir Arthur Spoke Sharply Once
to Persistent Shade in a
Haunted House.
SHOWS SPIRIT PICTURES
Little Boy Is Shown in Lord
Fauntleroy Suit Like He
Wore OH Earth.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle showed his
spirit photographs again last night to an
audience that filled Carnegie Hall com
pletely. He announced that he will give
the lecture again tomorrow afternoon,
and that half OF the pictures he will
show will be new. Last night there were
three new photographs, two of which
were taken in New York.
He had several new conjectures to Of
fer concerning ectoplasm and the life OF
the spirit world. He sees as one of the
developments of wider interest and
belief in spiritualism the formation Of
what he described as rescue circles
which will have for their object the en-
couragement OF spirits of lower type,
the ghosts. They are much more earth
bound. Sir Arthur said, than the spirits
of a higher plane, and the rescue circle.
which already exists in England. will
try to direct the thoughts of the ghosts
away from material things.
Sir Arthur was of the opinion that the
earthbound spirits will accept this guild
ance with better grace from those on
earth than they will from the higher
spirits. He said he had himself spoken
sharply TO a ghost who haunted an Eng
lish house persistently and caused the
occupants great annoy vance.
Sir Arthur Helps Ghost.
This particular ghost returned time
and again to search for some papers
which he believed to be in the attic. Sir
Arthur made careful search and as
sured him they were no longer there.
Many of the spirits with whom we
may establish contact, Sir Arthur de-
clared. are not upon our own level of
intelligence. and allowance must be
made for them accordingly. They may
have belonged to generation whose
knowledge was much more circumscribed
than our own.
He believes there may be some SINH
larity between the method which Is
employed to transmit photographs by
telegraph and cable and the means
employed by those on the other side
to register on the plates used In this
world. And in connection with what
he said Thursday about the possibilities
of radio for spirit communication, he
added that the results which may be
obtained in that way will be better
than ever before, because when we
start using radio we will be getting
into the etheric and away from matter
When he spoke of Florence Cook, the
medium used by Sir
william Crookes, from whose body
there emanated the ectoplasmic shape
of Katie King he said the draperies in
which Katie King was clothed were a
bright pearl gray when she first came
out and that they grew dull and ashy
as the seance progressed.
One New English Picture.
The only new picture he showed of
those taken by William Hope, the spirit
photographer of Crewe. England. was
one of boy years old at the time OF
his death. standing beside a table at
which his father sat for the photograph.
The boy IS dressed In what appears TO
be a little Lord Fauntleroy suit. and Sir
Arthur explained that one must not sup
poso children dress that way all the
time on the other side.
"They probably have clothes suitable
for play" he said. but this boy ap-
peared in a dress in which his family
liked to see him. Spirits have reasons
for the things they do, and 1t Is natural
for them to record themselves on a
picture in a way which makes recogni-
tion easier"
The two photographs taken in New
York were made, Sir Arthur said, by n
Miss Sanders, in connection with the
work of the Psychical Research Society.
Both of them were rather vague COM
barred with the Hope photographs. One,
in which the medium could be made out
sitting with a bandage about her head,
showed large masses of what Sir Arthur
said was ectoplasm. The other was
even less clear, although Sir Arthur said
he had been able to distinguish In the
Print the profile of spirit touching the
face of the medium.