Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-01-03
EXPOSING KEELY's SECRET.

A Bridgeport, Conn., special says: A
story is current here that veteran machin-
ist named Baker, an old resident of Bridge
port. has Just returned from Philadelphia
with sensational story to tell. He is rep
resented as having been for the past two
wears an employee ct the workshops of the
Keely- Motor Company, in Philadelphia, as
the representative ola New York capitalist,
by whom he was to be paid for the discov-
cry and exposure of keely's much advertis-
ed secret. Now Baker returns to denounce
KeeIy as fraud and give the outlines of
| book which he promises to write for the ed.
| ificatiou of Wall street and other parts of
this toe. confding world. Baker claims to
| have been drawing 5000 month from the
New Yorker, while pursuing his investIga
tons and to have had the full confidence of
Keely Keely, he says, was very careful i'll
engaging him, keeping him at the most un-
i'm mportaut employment until he felt that The
man was trustW WoTthy. Baker said 1t requlr.
ed a year and half to discover the secret
This is Baker description Of the motor to
reporter.
:.rhe motor proper consisted of a heavy
outside covering OF metal shaped to deceive
tho spectator in every way he may look at
it, The outside looked as if the machine
consisted of a large massive iron cylinder,
with valves, wheels and outside pipes.
These are supposed to assist in the act of
generating the famous new force, when in
fact the outside shape has little to do with
the working parts. Those parts are on the
inside. The force is pure and simple air,
the least bit tainted with chemical to de-
ceive, as everything else is made to do.
The air is pumped from seven to twenty
one steel tubs on the inside of the shell.
The tubs are Of sufficient strength to with
stand a pressure of from 10 to 80, 600 pounds.
There is mechanism inside the she'll that
permits the compressed air to pass from one
chamber or cylinder at time into dis
tinct and separate cylinder which contains
the piston that operates the fy-wheel of the
| machine. By this method the machine can
be kept running FIVE minutes or perhaps
| longer, and yet show very little change on
the pressure gauge The plan is 10 allow
ONLY one third of the air to escape from one
cylinder, and then that one is disconnected,
and so on until but one cylinder has been
| used to that extent, when the machine is
stopped and great show is made, as of
course the indicated pressure is exactly the
| same as it was before the wheel went
around. Not drop of water is used at any
time. The water story is all bosh."
Such in substance is long story as it is
told by Baker, who alleges that Keely is
far from being practical mechanic and
never talks to one, though when stock.
holder comes around Keely deluges him
with mixed fantastic jargon, using hun
dred terms or more that no mechanic or
scientist ever heard before. Baker AYERS
that the idea of motor was given to him
in Newark, n. j., as long ago as 1867, when
DR.. George A. Prindham, then of Newark,
now of Philadelphia, constructed machine
in many respects like the Keely motor at
the fre-engine works of Gould Brothers, on
Railroad avenue, Newark. Keely, he says,
captured the idea by haunting the shops.
Baker omits to make public the name of
the New York capitalist in whose interest
he has been playing the detective on Mr..
Keely.