Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 3, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 17 July 1897 — Page 3

KEELY'S NEW MOTOR.

THE MAN, THE THEORY AND THE MACHINE.

His Motor Kan*, bat Mechanical Engineer* Are BtiuCil a* to Wlist Causes It.

I. the Mystery Aln.at to I* Divulged?

The Peculiarities of Genius.

(Special Correspondence.]

PHILADELPHIA,

July 12.—In the old

town of Chr-Ktt-r, Pa., ahoct 70 years ago there was born a child who was destined to become almost as widely aamed as eonie of the greater soldiers, statesmen and poets. John Ernest Werrell Keely has been prominently before the public for more than 80 years, or ever since he first announced the discovery of a myHrerions force or power, which he now claims to have entirely mastered. Hundreds of theoretical scientists and mechanical and practical experts have attended exhibitions of Keely's devices for utilizing the new force, mid none of them, no matter how skeptical regarding the motive power of what wan wen, has ever been able to aver that there was anything fraudulent in Mi. Keely's assertions. Hence

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it would seem that Keely's work, having been exposed practically to the public eye for so great a period, may properly claim serious attention at this time, when it is being exhibited anuw tco experts.

A brief sketch of the inventor's personality and his progress in this lifo work may not bo unwelcome. I remember when the news was first promulgated in Philadelphia that Keely, who was known to have been a member of a theatrical on lu stra and later a decorative painter, hud invented a "motor" which would work against tremendous resistance. Tho basis of this wonderful power was r.il to be merely a pint, or a (jnart of w-ter.

That Mr. Keely exhibited a machine that did "run" c:in bo attested by hundreds of spectators, among whom were many praotital and expert mechanicians. (henf public interest was manifested. and a company with considerable capital was immediately formed, the stock of which was eagerly competed for in this country, although much of it. was ordered from abroad.

Like many similar enterprises, it was exploited toe. soon. Mr. Keely, like inventors in general, soou saw possibilities of better results, so for more thuu 25 years was engaged in devising successively 20 more different machinos for the utilization of his new forco.

During this long period of delay the stock in the company has fluctuated in market price per share from $500 to 10 ceuts.

Keely'# Patron.

About a year ago John Jacob Astor of New York, a multimillionaire with keen and intelligent interest in applied mechanics, made several visits to Mr. Keely's "workshop" aud was so impressed wit'i what he saw that he offered to patronize the enterprise if the inventor would submit to certain conditions, which were not unreasonable from the business point of view.

Some U\ yesirs ago the attention of Mrs. Hloomt, Id Moore was called to Keelv's discoveries, .She was bv seien

qualified to estimate the value of the iuvrntion. and, being fnrtlx blessed by a largo fortune, proposed that active efforts to produce a comnn rcial agent or medium the development of this power should be postponed until Keely himself had by study and experiment made some sir advances in knowledge of tho prinoi:!, of the new force so that he night in time atsnouuee a new, distinct and unpurnlliled discovery.

Opinion of an Expert.

About a year ago. aftt careful consideration by the piinripuls, aided by distinguished foreign mechanical ex ports, among whom were tiraut Allen, Professor Fitzgerald and Professor Dewar, it was decided that Keely should construct an engine which would practically demonstrate his theories aud be accepted by the world. He has completed such a motor or engine, aud W. J. Fransioli. general manager of the

title acquirer-cuts and tastes eminently one and seemed to suspect every one. He had heard that it was the fate of inventors to get but little of the money earned by their ideas. So he was not going to "give himself away." His experimental work has been done in a building to which no curious person could force access, and it has no windows on the ground floor.

Manhattan Eh vatod railway, who, virtue of patience among persons whe with Mr. McNallv, tho master median- are trying to "get their money back" ic of the elevated r.uiway system, went from investment!?, is more astonishing to Philadelphia •n.l made an exatniaa- than any other feature of this unusual tion of tho motor itself, says concerning story. it: "There was no secrecy about my mission. I had been invited by the Keely company to sre their motor, and 1 went. Mr. Keely showed me everything.

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am couviwcd that he has a genuine motive power A wirv was ruti from the aiotur to an engine. It was an or dinarv nonisolated wire. I un surr that no electric current .* employed. The win^ .s r« niov* fr w:h the hare hands and no shock wan f. it, I cannot attempt tt xpi uti the )«•«.•. It was 1 am oonvincfi, not that of wat»r. si aw, fin* or i' Oiri^ity. It is stratum of some kind. The motor rati the engine at high speed. It i*vuied to be capable of great development- When once Mt

in motion, the action was reciprocal and might go on indefinitely. I went to Philadelphia entirely unbiased, and I returned mncb impressed."

On the 19th of Jane Mr. Fransioli again inspected the.motor and was accompanied by Chief Electrical Engineer Brown of the Western Union Telegraph company and Mechanical Engineer Pier-

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What is a mystery and a revelation to those of us who have seen the machine with our own eyes should not be equally a mystery to practical mechanics, professional physicists, engineers, etc., who have examined Keely's various developments aud experiments. On one occasion Mr. Julian Hawthorne, who was a professional engineer before he became a novelist, and who has never ceased to keep in close touch with his profession, witnessed some of Keely's experiments and afterward wrote con amore an account of what he saw, portions of which account are hereunto appended: "At the time of my visit to the scene of the much debated phenomena I found myself in company with two or three men of acknowledged scientific attainments who candidly confessed themselves as little competent as I was to devise an explanation of what Mr. Keely showed us. Movements took place which there were no visib'e or hitherto recognized means of accounting for. A heavy metallic sphere revolved at great speed. An isolated compass need!-e did the same. Weights immersed in a tall glass jar filled with water rose upward and sank again or rested midway. All that Mr. Keely did was to tinker with a stringed musical machine fitted with singular appliances and to blow upon a small mouth organ at intervals. The assumption appeared to be that musical notes produced vibrations which affected the "chords of mass" of the things operated on, aud the "polnr currents" were in some manner induced to participate in the strange results. I know nothing about that. What I know is that the things which took place were not caused, so far as I or the scientific gentlemen present could detect, by either steam, electricity or compressed air. Meanwhile Mr. Keely asserted that the efficient cause was a discovery of his own, and so fur as I was concerned he might as well have stopped there, inasmuch as I was able neither to contradict him nor to comprehend a word of the alleged explanations wherewith he favored the company."

Keely'H Peculiarities.

Keely has been charged with being a modern Cagliostro, but there is no possible parallel of the two characters, for the great impostor of tho eighteenth century was a stupid fool who could deceive only the ignorant. His succcss was due to the fact that he approached only the ignorant, who in his duy abounded in the highest social circles of Europe. Keely, on tho contrary, has seldom eared to display any manifestations of his discovery except to men of mechanical aud scientific attainments, men who would bo quick to note any possible adaptation, no matter how skillful, of any known sources of power.

In the earlier days of the Keely motor excitenjint the stockholders were largely engineers, master mechanics and promineut constructors aud users of machinery. Most of them in time lost patience with tho man whom they regarded as discoverer rather than inventor, and the burden of their complaint was tha* Keely seemed incompetent to understand or develop a power hitherto uuknown upon which he probably had stumbled. Keely's own manner gave color to this charge, for he was secretive to an exasperating degree, refusing to talk of mechanical powers of any kind, probably because at the time he was ignorant of them. His inability to apply his power to existing machinery soou became evident. So would be promoters of the apparent enterprise demanded that Mr. Keely should impart to others enough knowledge of his discovery to enable experts to forward the commercial development. They were met by a flat refusal. The

The fact remains, however, that despite ail his exasperating delays and almrat insulting suspicious Mr. Keely has never been without intelligent adherents and rich backers. He is probably the only inventor whose work for 20 years brought forth nothing tangible. yet who during so long a period always obtained without trouble whatever money he needed. Evidently there is something remarkable about either the theory or the man, for, in addition to ail that has been said, there remain# the phenomenal patience of Keely's adherents aud financial backers, which, considering tbe painful rarity of the

It seems apparent, however, that tbe mystery is about to be divulged. When an invention or adaptation reaches the stage at which it is displayed to possible users and the most prominent of these are selected, experimenting is supposed to have ended.

It remains to be said, in justice to Mr. Keely. that bis long apparent ig n« ranee as to the nature of tbe force with which he baa been experimenting is not necessarily to bis discredit. Electricity has becesme a common mvant of man. but of its actual e.tigiu and constitution no one yet knows anything whate ver, ncr is there any indication that th« knowledge will ever be acquired. J. M.

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pany. Mr. Brown confessed that the m,™ th« tests baffled him and declared that the force utilized by Keely was a new one.

discoverer was unwilling to trust any might think from the description, in which I forgot to mention that the ruffle extends all around the outer edges.

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back and still wider in front and finished at the neck and shonlders like a dress, but at the waist line they are belted in sometimes with a leather or kid belt and at the others with one of stiffened velvet ribbon. The garment reaches in one line broken only by the belt from neck to foot, and it is open on the sides. One was made of barred silk grenadine over silk in light gray. The bars were green and lilac. Down the front there was a ruffle of silk mull to

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match the underskirt, and the same sort of ruffle extended around the bottom and up the sides of the garment. A milliner's fold of silk was set just above the ruffle. There was a collar formed of the grenadine, bordered with a wide silk mull plaiting and three very narrow ones above. The whole costume was considered a very stylish one. It is well that it is stylish, for it certainly is not beautiful. I shoirld not have gone to such pains to describe it were it not that we are to have more than one of such garments this fall. Some of them will be shorter in front and as long in the back. Some will be draped.

From a private letter from Paris I am informed that many nimble fingers are now busy embroidering black velvet polonaises with black silk in heavy designs. picked out with fine cut jet beads aud edged with beaded fringe. Heavy ribbed silk is also seen in the hands of the workers for other of these garments. Cashmere double and alys cloth aud bengaline are aho among the stuffs employed to make these tunics, or polonaises, as one prefers to call them, I should add. In the fine goods the garments are fitted with center and side seams, likewise darts, and no belts will be worn. In short, they will resemble very closely the old time polonaise.

The new sleeves are very tight, loose, short or lpng, snug at the wrists or flaring, just as it pleases tho wearer to have them. A very pretty sleeve for thin stuff has the bottom cut flaring, and is trimmed with inch wide insertion in three rows down tho center, where the whole is finished with a lace frill. At the top there is one cap made of the goods plaited bias, and over that a fall of lierre lace just as wide as the cap.

Today I came across something unusually pretty. It is intended to b& worn with plain gowns, and is suitable for ladies of almost all ages. This was a "pair of bretelles" in pale blue silk muslin, black velvet ribbon and ribbon tabs of moire of the same pale blue to bang in the back. The silk mull front parts were arranged so as to fall a little below the belt in front in apron fashion. Tho belt is of the moire ribbon and is closely draped to the back, where there are one knot and two upward loops, each bordered with the three rows of black velvet ribbon and a gathered ruffle of the mull. Where the bretelles are gathered at the shoulder they are held under bows of the moire. This is very dressy and much prettier than one

There is a new lace wrought of thick braid and lace stitch. The braid forms the designs, and the lace stitch holds tbem together, and the result is fine and rich. Figarus, etons and funny little empire jackets are made of it, and it makes a rich addition to a simple dress.

Amoug things of minor note one may gay that white cuffs are rarely seen now on shirt waists. The wrists are most often finished with a bias plaiting of

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the waist material. Veils are of crepe lisse and silk tissue, generally white or pearl with a couple of silk stripes along tbe edge. A few still affect the green, red, blue or brilliant purple net veils to match colors in tbe bat, but in almost every case these are frightfully unbecoming. There are some very fancy oxford ties with arabesque patterns of kid or leather Mitcbed on a foundation of suede or prune da. There are also new ru«-tatr^»wl»re the* toe# are of ^rown pa: nt 1 tber and tbe rest of itu,3e in rather light shade. Ouvx Eutrss.

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Captain Bourke shows many analogies to the use of this sacred powder both in tbe ease and among the ancient Greeks and Romans, aud it is clear that similar practices with regard to "medicine"—that is, magic—have prevailed everywhere and in all ages, fcr superstition seems to be the universal heritage of man, so deeply ingrained in his very nature that all the efforts of philosophers aud "thirteen" clubs will not avail to root it out. Medicine bags or amulets will continue to be worn openly or secretly not only by the wild Indian ard the Kaffir, but by many among ourselves who cling to the beliefs handed down probably from remote prehis toric ages.—Chambers' Journal.

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