Morning journal and courier., 1880-12-17

quired what was wanted, and upon being
 informed that it was reported that the motor
 company was about to disband exclaimed:
 "Disband Why, who started such foolish
 better condition ,, With this he descended
 and opened the door and invited the visitor
 in. ttYes sir said MT. Keely, t.the com
 pany is in splendid condition. We had a meet
 ing of the directors Wednesday evening an
 elegant meeting The company has gotten
 all over it's financial difficulties, and has all
 the money it wants. It was consolidated
 year ago ,and the capital increased from one
 million to five millions and every share taken.
 Come up stairs.' Up stairs 8 variety of iron
 things were scattered about, and there also
 was the generator. MT. Keely looked at it
 with pride and patted it's cold surface, and
 handled it's levers and valves lovingly. Then
 he began to talk, and how he did talk He
 spoke like man thoroughly confident in him
 self, and to whom thousands of pounds of
 pressure to the square inch were as puffs of
 wind. s"This generator" " he said, is only of
 quart capacity, but all I've got to do is to
 turn this lever so, and disturb the equiibri-
 um, ,and have forty or fifty thousand pounds
 pressure" Mir. Keely turned the leYer and
 the reporter watched for results, but the dis coVerer concluded, Eff it were set." It was
 not set and nothing happened. MT. Keely then branched of and talked about vibrations
 and pulsations, and drops of water, and pres
 sure and a variety of other things. The re- porter remarked that he could not understand it. but that 1t sounded grand. s'The greatest scientists in the world cannot understand it,
 replied MT. Keely. The reporter felt greatly
 relieved at this intelligence and it seemed that on one point there was bond of fellow ship between him and the great scientists. Mir. Keely picked up violin bow and drew it over wire stretched on metal frame until it vibrated loudly. If that wire were set"
 said he, 'T could break every window in this
 building" The reporter didn't see the exact value of the window breaking apparatus, but Mir. Keely evidently thought it big thing, for he next tried his bow on large tuning fork, and remarked emphatically, 'I could break every window with this, too" Drop ping his momentous subject of breaking glass, MT. Keely conducted his visitor into another room where a man was engaged in working on 8 vibrating engine on which MT. Keely commented that it was of twenty
 horse power, and three drops of water would run it for thirty hours. '.This,', continued Mir. Keely, twas an experimental engine, but I am going to reinforce 1t and make 1t per l feet engine of thirty horse power. I am also l building an engine of two thousand horse power which will be completed soon. The work is being done in different machine | shops, and over seventy men are at present | engaged on 1t. The engine we are rigging up ! now I will have completed by Christmas and will connect it with a circular saw to do heavy WOrk. ms mach1no her0, 6alQ MT. Keely. pointing to large brass hollow globe 1 an an axis, lis another vibratory engine. ! Connect this piano string with another en- zine, and draw bow over it to adjust the pitch, six hundred and forty-and off she | goes eight hundred revolutions a minute. In this room were also MT. Keely's vaporic | guns, with one of which he said he had driven | an inch ball through nine inches of solid tim Der and dug hole in brick wall. The hole was exhibited It was in the front wall and ! the thought arose that if he had put little l more Vapor in the gun the ball would have ! gone through the wall and perhaps put inch holes in number of estimable citizens living ! east of Twentieth street. MT. Keely re- ' marked: "A number of foreign military of | ficers who were here said the idea was worth more for gunnery alone than all the money I the Keely Motor company has in it." AS the visitor was departing he said: No, sir; l; the company is not going to disband. Why, I can control $10O,000 in twenty-four hours if want it. In six months we can control ! $1OO, ,OOO, ,OO0." When the reporter recover ed his breath he asked if great deal of | money had not already been expe nded. s'Nearly quarter of million" replied MT. Keely, who spoke of the amount if it were a trif1e. "One machine we had down stairs cost $64, 900, and after was through expert menting on it I sold it for scrap iron. It brought $500. The generator is all right, and I am going to perfect the engine if it takes another year yet, but about Christmas I will ! start the twenty-horse power one at saving | wood. It has not been decided, MT. Keely 1 said, whether 8 public exhibition of the | machine will be given"