Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-11-07
4 LOST ART FOUND.
Cor. Admission Ala Uot-Rlast.

Hau tlle SOOu fortune TO meet gen.
tleman who has made the grandest and
most important discovery of any age.
Ga tie north-bound train to Gin
cinnati was Mr.. Charles Williams, who,
when a young man before the war,
left Norristown, Pa, after serving
his time in a railroad machine
shop, to take charge of a
locomotive on one of our south
ern roads. At the C ose of the war he
went to South America to take charge
OF some m ming engineering on the
Andes. When / met him he was on his
way back to his o!d home after an
absence Of thirty years. Shortly before
reaching Cincinnati, when the train
was leaving a station, the engine ran
off the sw tch. The rain had softened
the earth, So that the driving wheels
sank in the mud, and every effort to
block up got the engine deeper. After
ali hour harl work the engineer con-
cluded to wait for another engine to
help him on again.
jus: then Williams got out to see the
cause of delay. Seeing the engine off
the track Williams went up telling
everybody to step out of the way, put
out his hand and liftel the engine as
easily as if it had been a feather. In
an ins ant the driving wheels arted off
like iShtn NJ, covering Williams with
oil throw II out from the rapidly revolv-
ing rO S and oil cups Everybody was
frighteae i, as well as Williams, who
dropped tie locomotive quickly.
The sndI, n dropping Of the engine on
the blocking tie engineer had put
under it ma le them fly in every direc-
tion and bent one of the rods but
fortunately no one was hurt. The en-
gineer, when trying to get the engine
on, had neglected to close the valve. so
when the engine was lifted off the
ground, the steam not being turned off,
the wheels revolvel like lightning.
Williams got the astonished engineer
to shut o / the steam, and then putting
his hand ON the spokes of tie driving
wheels he lifted the engine on the track
as easily as if it had been a pound
weight. During the balance of the trip
Williams was regarded by the engineer
and train hands as man from hades
instead of Solth America
Tonight he has been waited on by a
committee OF the leading men of Gin
cinnati - ex-Jayor Will am Means,
Mr.. Taylor, Mr.. Shillito, Mr.. Sinton
and others-to learn something of his
remarkable power. He told them he
had, when in the andes, made dis
covery that enabled him to overcome
the laws of grav.tation. and he or any
one adopting tie same means could
move or lift any weight, no matter how
great. The committee we're astonished
That he has made this discovery there
is no doubt, and its effect on engineer
ing and science is beyond all calcula-
ton, and makes every thing possible.
Williams lea es in the morning for
Washington, thence home. He was
lite: ally besieged last night by persons
wanting him to lift them out of their
troubles.
Mr.. S;ntOn said he would be one in
ten that would give Williams $5,OoO,-
600 for his discovery.
When we read the above special to
The Hot Blast, detailing the wonderful
powers of Mr.. Williams, We were sur
prised, and doubted its accuracy. But
it seems Williams has discovered lost
art, and one that the Egyptians once
possessed. We find in history this
fact:
1.-The pyramids required the labor of
thousands of men for many years. 1t
is supposed that they were the sepul-
chers OF the kings. They are in several
groups, some distance from each other,
on the banks of the Nile There are
about forty of them, many being small
and in ruined condition The great
pyramid of Gizeh or Jeezeh is 45O feet
high. and covers an area of thirteen
acres. Some of the huge stones weigh
1,GOO tons each, and were dragged hun
dreds of miles from the quarry 1t is
estimated that it would take 1000 men
three years to bring one of these stones
to tie pyramid; and it must have re-
quired much mechanical knowledge and
great power to lift such enormous
stones to their places in the pyramid"
just think of it, One of these stones
weighed as much as our cotton factory
building, and yet the Egyptians could
and did handle them-wi ease.