, 1880-01-10
KEELY ONCE MORE

Heard trosa-- People rjto Will hare Fuin
In the Final Success or his Project.
PHILADELPHIA, December l3.-For a lon.
tune little or nothing has been said publicl,
about the keeiy motor. Those who haf
faith IN the prodigous pretentions of tn,
Philadelphia engineer grew tired long ago o.
ridicnle, and kept their faith to themselves
Those who had seofed grew tired of sccfhng,
and the words ''keely motor" that meant
4 few years ago either new revelation in
science. or preposterous fairy tale, accord.
ing to the views OF the speaker, were grad.
ually almost forgotten. The general public,
hearing no more OF the matter, relesated il
to the limbo OF exploded humbugs, and no
longer cared even to laugh But In the
meantime, the inventor, backed BY the con-
| tdence and capital Of his believers, kept on
working knowing himself that he had dis
| covered something, and content TO wait for
the time when he could by actual results
prove to the world that he was right This
time has now come, and he is almost ready
to show by public exhibition his entire sue
cess. The almost of the sentence is not
to be understood as meaning that he h.s
almost reached the results. These, his
friends declare, he has already reached But
he has almost completed his preparations for
public trial.
The keely Motor company is the corpora
tion which backs Mr.. keely. II Is JOINT
stock company, of which Mr. Keely is pres
ident. There are five directors In Philadel-
phia and eight in New York TIE names of
the New Workers are Messrs F. ". Foote.
of the firm OF Cisco ( Sons; William B.
Meeker, A Hagewich, the president of the
United States rolling stock company; John
Flagier, the president of the National Tube
works company W. W Wright, ". 5.
Hcyt, secretary of the Horn Silver mining
company; Charles LansOn, Of Charles 5.
Marshall ( Co, and f. Il. Green. The COM
pany has an office on Broadway, where Mr..
Green is located. and here the writer OBJ
tanned the information now published.
The company is all right" said Mr..
Green, IN reply to question as 10 its condi-
ton. I'VE haven't dollars worth OF
stock for sale We are out of debt, and We
have been able to push our work forward
till We haze succeeded"
DO you mean that the motor itself is
success -
Most assuredly We have machinery
at our works in Philadelphia that is now in
operation by the Keely motor. There are
various engines there and We are construct
ing others Those We have are in actual
operation, and the work Mr.. Keely is now
engaged in is the regulation of the speed at
which they work. Then We fire guns with
it occasionally. This bullet was fired the
other day through four inches OF solid plank
and embedded in brick wall" And he
handed out conical iron bullet an inch and
half in diameter.
But why, if the motor has really sue
ceeded, has not the fact been made public"
Because Mr. keely refuses to give exhi-
bitions until he can show everything in
perfect working order, and because he and
the rest of us are tired OF being laughtd at.
In very short time, however, a public ex-
hibition will probably be given, and then no
one can question the matter further.
Mr.. Green, in reply TO further questions,
said that he knew nothing of the nature of
the Keely motor excepting from what it
actually performed, and from what MIR.
Keely told the company. That gentleman,
he said, had fully explained the invention
only to three men-his foreman, Beckel,
Mr.. Charles b. Collier and Mr. Sergeant, of
Sergeant & Cullingworth company, OF this
city. They were the only ones who know
what the motor is, and he added, with
half laugh, that he thought, perhaps, they
knew less than they formerly supposed they
did.
Mr.. Sergeants reputation as practical
scientist, and his position In this city, entIt-
ling his statements to implicit credence, the
writer sought him and asked him II he were
a believe: in the genuineness Of Mr.. keely's
pretentions. Mr. Sergeant replied unhesi-
tatingly, that he was not merely a believer,
but that he had actual knowledge that the
motor was genuine thing. He said that
for year or more in the immediate past,
he had been in the west, so that he mad not
had the time to pay attention to MIR. keelys
operations, and he did not know exectly how
far Mr. keely had progressed. He had, how
ever, been familiar with the subject for over
five wears, and he knew that the final success
of the inventor was merely a matter of time.
Mr. Sergeant further said that about the
lst of July, 1874, he was induced to go to
Philadelphia to investigate the matter as IN
expert He was at that time an utter scep-
tic as to the reality, as he knew that what
Mr.. keely claimed was entirely opposed to
the teachings OF accepted science. Mr..
Kee!y's claim, he explained, was that by the
utilization OF a certain power produced by
the consumption of air and water, he could
produce pressure OF thousands OF pounds to
the square inch, and that he could do this
instantaneously. The way In which Mr..
Keely was working made Mr.. Sergeant still
more incredulous than the claims he put
forth. People had invested money IN pro-
iect OF which they knew no more than the
inventor chose to tell them. and he had told
very little. He was SO jealous OF his secret,
indeed. that when scientists went 10 investi-
gate they were refused admission, though
they went with perfect good faith and backed
by the strongest influence OF MIR. keelys
own friends. 1t was only after strong
pressure had been brought to bear on HIM
that he consented to allow Mr.. Sergeant
even to see what he was doing, and even
then he had his foreman, Beckel, in the room
TO testify as to the nature OF what he showed,
in case such testimony was needed Mr.
Keely was then, and is yet. working on
salary paid him by the company OF which ne
is the president. Two hundred dollars a
month IS paid TO him for his personal e1-
penses. and the machinists bills are met by
the company. Beyond this he received and
has received nothing more than his stock IN
the company for his invention, and he stlll
holds ali Of the stock which was aPportioned
to him in the first place.
When Mr.. Sergeant's investigations began
every one excepting the three men men-
TONED, was excluded from the room, even
tine stockholders and their counsel beng re-
fused admission Mr.. Sergeant told HIM
that if he would show him, in the way ne
had described, not pressure Of lOOOpounds,
bnt of 100 pounds to the square lnch' pro-
duced Immediately, he would be convinced
MIR. Keely at once produced loco pounds
pressure and the iny&tigator was staggered
fn spite of wha. he had said he refused to
he convinced, imagining that there must be
some powerful explosive concealed some
.bere about the apparatus that would eH-
nlain the wonder After careful examina-