Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-07-07

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| SPRINGDALE, MISS, June 3Oth.
The KesIy Motor.
EDITORS APPEAL-Under the above
| heading notice an extract in your Sum
| days edition rom the Savannah Norm
ing NeoCs, purporting to have been writ
| ten by "Doctor" John Weseott, presi-
dent of Florida railroad, and profers-
ing to explain the secret of the "Keely
motor" Passing over the fact, now
pretty gen orally admitted by scientific
men, that the sO-cRlled "mOtOr" is a
most unmitigated humbug and svindle,
desire to- correct the learned dOctor's
chemistry, go airily displayed in the
Ne1Us'S ART icle above referred to. In the
first place, dilute suIphuric acid, acting
upon marble dust, does not produce car
bOLic acid gas, but does produce or
evolve, as one result of the seton
| of the acid on the base, cuybOnic
dcid-the gas OF our sods-fountains, the
gas of fermentation. CdrbOt5c acid,
called also picnic acid, one of the pro-
ducts OF coal tar, is quite different pro-
| duct. 1t is a substance, when pure,
| crystaliMng below eighty degrees Fair
enheit, but fluid above that temperature.
1t has 8 strong odor, similar to creOsote,
and is used in medicine and the arts as
an antiseptic, and for the same purposes
as creOsOte. Carbonic acid, under Ordi-
| nary circumstances gas, heavier than
air, and hence capable of being poured
from one vessel to another like any other
fluid, under a pressure OF thirty-si1 at
mospheres becomes fluid, bright, pei
lucid, highly refractive-in fact, if ana
+ lytic che mistry is to be believed, liquid
diamond, or rather the diamond in
liquid state. This fluid suddenly re-
leased from its enormous pressure, con-
denses into a snoW-like solid, developing
the utmost degree of cold known. 1
write on the wing, and without oppor-
tunity to refer to textbooks, but
If my memory serves me, the degree
Of cold reached in the qualification of
carbonic acid gas is one hundred and
sixty-four degrees Fahrenheit, below
zero. At any rate, it is sufficient to
freeze mercury so that it can be ham,
mered on an anvil. | once saw the late
lamented Baron Liebig (the father of
modern chemistry freeze basin full of
mercury mot less than twenty-five or
thirty pounds avoirdupois) so hard that
the lump of frozen metal was passed all
around the class of hundred students
without showing the slightest signs OF
melting. OF course an enormous force
can be developed by fuidifying carbonic
acid gas; but this gas is produced by the
intervention of "acids, chemical decOm-
position" etc., while the Kelly motor
swindlers claim that their wonderful
'power" is developed without chemical
change, and without the Intervention of
acids, etc. The "pTivate circular" which
the company send out, and in which
they claim that the working of the emo
tori is Endorsed by Hsswell, w. w.
Wood, and engineers OF like skill and
ability, claims that "cold gas is devel-
Oped without the use of chemicals or
electricity" showing pressure OF many
thousand pounds to the square inch. The
Scientific american was the first paper
bold and honest enough to attack the
transparent humbug, and the three last
numbers of this truly valuable journal
have articles which, il carefully read,
will convince any unprejudiced man of !
the arrant rascality of the most barefaced |
swindle of the century; and to the Scien-
titfc american I refer your readers for |
further information as regards the Keely |
motor. FIJI.
OsCEoLA, July 3, 1875.
Money Lending VS.. Manufacturing.
EDITORS APPEAL-There has been |
many able leaders published in the AP- |
PEAL, and also many valuable letters |
inserted in its columns from practical |
men, showing the necessity of manufac- |
tories being established in Memphis, if |
we ever expect to be a prosperous city. |
What has been the result of all these |
appeals to the moneyed men ofour city? |
Their answer is, al have no money to |
spare that l could invest in manufacture
ing" Let any person offer many of
these same men two and half per cent
q month, with good security, and they
have any quantity to loan. This is what
is killing Memphis land prevents estab-
fishing industrial works in our city: it
is also the cause Of such large number
of our leading mechanics leaving us for
want Of employment, instead Of seeing
the smoke of the factory and hearing
the busy hum OF the workshop in all
parts of the city. The practical me-
chanic can see the necessity Of the
workshops to build up our city, and the
we have over our northern
|
material, and the easy access We have
to ship our wares to all parts of
the south both by river and railroad.
VIII the owners of real estate continue
to see their property depTeciate in value
every year, and their houses vacant for
want Of tenants, and the merchant and
his clerks continue to fight flies in some
cool place in the summer for want of
customers to wait on, when they know
as well as you and the practical man
does, il they would join the practical
man in establishing manufactures all
these things could be avoided? The safe
plan to establish manufac tories is for our
energetic and skillful mechanics and |
capitalists to unite in business; let the
mechanic attend to the workshop and
the moneyed man to the financial de-
partment. To accomplish this, the me-
chanics are now maturing q plan that
will DO more toward establishing work
shops IN our city than any other that
has been adopted heretofore. This is
their plan: Tney are forming a society, !
10 be composed of business men and
and effect a permanent or
ganization and union between capital
and labor. There must be a concert of
action between these two classes il we
ever intend to prosper. The union be-
tween capital and labor has built up our
northern and western cities, and let us
profit by their example. AS soon
rs they get this society organized. t
hey propose to establish areading-room,
md once week some mechanic will {
address the society on the subject OF {
manufacturing. Each will address the p
Ociety regarding the manufacture that