The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-04-02
IA MARCH ON KELLY.
THE SECRET OF HIS MOTOR sToLEN-A
YOUNG PHILADELPHIAN SAID To
HAVE MADE PRACTICAL. USE OF
81 THE PURLOINED PRINCIPLES -.

From the PhiIadelphia Times March1eI
While Mr.. Keely has been trying
the patiencelof hs stock holders and
keeping the world in suspense over
his thinblefull- -of water machine, 3
young man of this city, named
James Rodney Barlow, has stolen
his thunder and snatched fame
from his very workshop. For some
time past Barlow, whose mind was
more. to queer mechanical devices
than to practical things, has taken
the most obsorbing interest in
Keelyis alleged invention, reading
everything about it on which he
could lay his hands and drinking
in with his ears every word he heard
spoken on the subject. With the
fatuous enthusiasm common to in
venters he believed everything said
in its favor and rejected every state
ment made by sceptics. In some
unknown way he gained access to
Keely's famous little workshop and
saw, himself unseen, the great man
manipulating his metor Having
detected the inventien's secret and
discovered, as he thought, its weak
points, he determined to build a
motor himself after Keely's model,
with his own improvements, and he
set about it with all tho feryer usual
in such cases. A friend and enthu-
siast to whom he confided his pur-
pose furnished the money, and hav-
ing secured the services of a ma
chinist, who also had the inyenter's
craze, they jointly rigged up after
few menth's labor, a machine that
was to cover them with glory and
revolutionize the motive power of
the world. A good deal of discus
sion took place as to what kind of
test they should make of their in
ventien to demonstrate its practical
utility without making public their
discovery. 1t was finally decided
to apply the power to hand car
on some railroad. To do this clear
track was necessary, and the West
Jersey Railroad was selected as
the place and night as the time =
no trains running On that road after
dark. Keely's oft-repeated claims,
publicly made and never fulfilled,
that he would run a train, of cars
from Philadelphia to New York
with his motor had taught Barlow
caution, and he insisted, in spite of
his friends wishes, that the test
should be made without publicity,
bit he was finally prevailed upon
to permit reporter to be present
on condition that nothing would be
printed about it until after another
trial if this one should prove sue
cessfull. The condition was un-
necessary, for the trial was a great
! triumph for Mr.. Barlow, and he
will awake this morning to FIND
himself no longer unknown to
fame. .ft "a ASA = sfffy
To carry out his scheme it wa
necessary to get the cooperation
and assistance of some employ o
the West Jersey road, and it woulC
be all the better if one could b.
found who had sometimes himsel
taken a hand at inventing. Certain
: inquiries were made and the yer,
man for the business was found il
George Barnaby, who, when tn
plan was unfolded to him, entere'
into it with enthusiasm. Throug
him a small building near the track
9 and about halfa mile out Of Camdsr
:, was secured, in which a "borrowed
!, hand-car and the motor were plat
, ed and thas@ork of adjusting th
, partsaof the motor and attachin
them to the hand-car was under
3 taken at once and speedily compile
ed. the trial was made last nigh
The reporter reached the little builC
1 ing about 9 o'clock, where he foun
, his friend Barlow and the machiI
ist making their final preparation
!, for the test and he then saw th
! new motor for the first time. 1t cor
J sisted ftwo cylindrical steel vessel
five inches in diameter by eightee
l inches long, placed longitudinal
about one inch apart Above then
also placed longitudinally, but Figt
angles to the two others, and cor
nected with them by steel necks c
: ways, was q third cylindrical vesse
! three inches in diameter projected
and the two tubes were curved I
! meet each ether four inches abov,
, At their junction was small han
. lever. BY tho side of the motor ws
vertical cylinder fitted with 70
: and plunger, all anti-frietion meta
: and to this was attached small RI
9 tary crank. A steel tube, one-fourt
!. of an inch indiameter, connected th
2 upper cylinder of the motor wit
! the vertical cylinder by its side.
About 10 o'clock everything ws
: ready, and the car, with the mote
: on its platform, was removed frol
!. the building and placed en- the tract
Barlow, his machinist, the railroa
|: employe, the inventors friend an
the reporter formed the experiment
: ing party. Barlow, usually CO..
: and phlegmatic' was nervous an
. excited. His face looked pale in th
q light of the lantern that stood upo
4 the car, but his very word an
! movement showed his eagerness fd
Q thest. The members of the part
q having arranged themselves upo
the ear under bis directien, Barlo1
9 took his place by the side Of his ms
Q tor. AS he put his hand upon th
lever over the cylinders there ws
q moment of dead silence and eac
man held his breath in stispens
Was this midnight experiment, col
0 ducted by stealth, so to speak, |
Q give the world a new motive powe
!, and bring renown and riches to
a hitherto unknown young entht
3 siast? Was the much talked Of an
: long delayed Keely motor to, b