New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-12-02
ccmber H. in the Church of tho TRANSPORTATION this
THE KELLY MOTOR CRAZE.
A DONKEY-CABBAGE RACE

HOW MUCH LONGER WILL THE CLEVER JUG
GLER BE ABLE TO DELUDE HIS VICTIMS
ToIhe Edftorof The Tribune.
Sir: The success with which Kelly has deludcd MS
victims by appealing to their creduly with mystery
and 10 their cupIdty with promise of all the Mhs
doms OF the EARTH which would not lie Of greater Nao
than the monopoly OF infinite power without Cost
which he bangles before their astonished VISION,
makes him and his antics subjects OF unusual
interest His last performance appears to be an Is
of S., 10000 OF stock representing new dis
cOvery yelled in mystery. which is to far ou'stlp
his former one, which $4,000, 900 Of stock was IS
sued and IS held by his dupcs. Two OF hoso
new millions go to the old holders as compo"
satlon to them for their disappointment IN not rca
ing perpetual motion under the old discovery
two more 60 TO Keely be sold to the public ana he
remaining one million IS in the treasury to be SOFA
for the benefit of Keely and the Others half ana nan
For fifteen years the donkey has been ridden oy
Kecly with the cabbage pole held Just IN iion' Vi
his hungry mouth, and now the donkey is old tha1 o
cabbage after all IS only sham but that the ne" oao
bage is real and II he viii only consent to rln ia'
enough and far enough he certainly Will reach IL anu
grow fat.
II would seem that the donkey ought 20 pause ana
consider before he begins another ifteen-year race
after perpetual motion, and II Is here proposed 10
assist him in his reflections by few facts More
than fifteen years Keely made himself known 10
public by exhibiting an apparatus III "hiCn
great pressure manifested. which, he SAID,
resulted from the discovery by him Of new fore
the nature of which was his secret Several peo-
pie as usual were astonished al the show and bought
and paid for shares in tho patent which was prom
ised TO give color 10 the pretence keey applied
for a patent before 1876 but did not assign 10 inc
purchasers their shares; whercupon some of them
against the issue of the patent unless thcr
shares were recognized IN the grant. The Patent
Office replied 10 these protests that It could not rec
ognlzo the rights claimed unless there was written
assignment filed I'm the Office which the claimants ala
not have. The Commissioner, however, called upon
Keely furnish working model of his invention,
which Of course he could not do, and his application
was rejected The pacccaion and drawings o. IN
paratus show very silly form Of tho common per
petual motion machine of which there are thou
sands. 1t was open to the public for some years.
when under rule Of the Office, II. along with all
other rejected applications, was withdrawn from
Inspection but It Is In the Office, together with tho
protests of those who had paid Keey for share In
IT, examined II years ago, and informed Mr. Lam
and others Of Keely's stockholders of IT, Mr..
Lamson told that he had charged Kcely with de-
ception because he had always said that he never
had applied for patent, and that heely explained IL
by saying that he had purposely concealed his IN
venon from the Patent Office in that application to
which he had made oath.
Kelly however finding the perpetual motion trick
profitable, extended his operations and became well
known TO many influential people by his exhibitions.
In the winter of 1879 he produced two metallic
spheres one about thirty inches in diameter, hung Ike
an ordinary terrestrial globe, which, he said. would re-
volvc with force equal to two no power. and would
continue TO run when started long the Cen
tennla Exhibition should be open, and until the Thing
was worn out by friction In starting It Kcely used
to have blackboard in the room, on which he woud
write few figures I'm chalk in the presence OF his
dupes and would say that a certain time the globe
IL IA IL a
the lookels-on remained to see it Keely pretended
to explain this phenomenon by string Of unintell-
gible jargon; but the point OF 1t all
was that he said the thing ran in consequence
of its internal mechanical arrangement
or in other words, that by combining pieces of metal
in certain way power was generated without any
ohcr expense than required TO construct the ap
paratus Naturally he refused to show the Interior
construction which did the miracle but II his srate-
men,s were truc # existed inside of that globe and
could be produced indefinitely with the result Of pro
ducing a Indefinite amount Of horsepower without
current expense.
Tho stock about this time rose to great price
about GOO per cen-as IL we'll might II this ball was
ar honest ehost7 some of the stockholders had
sense enough to that II Kcely's siory were true
nothing more could be desired, for It must a. once
superscdc coal aud all other means OF producing
power and IT'S novelty could not be doubted IL was,
In effect all the kingdoms Of the GARTH which Satan
once offered But the other hand, II kee!ys story
were not true. then he simply an impostor who
had been defiaudlng the stockholders out Of their
money: and they demanded Of Keely that he should
proceed al once patent this mil aculOus machine.
which could create power by q peculiar shaped hole
IN sphere of iron. OF course Keey refused to com
ply with this reasonable request. and many of his
stockholders sold and left him; since which time
the stock has gradually declined down to tho present
time whom its value H. admitted TO be nothing
In view Of these facts the curious question IS why
the donkey goes on any further. Tho revolving ball
IS fact known 10 hundreds OF the stockholders. Ii
IS either real cabbage capable Of feeding the donkey
with A perpetual feast, Ike the widows cruise OF oil,
or 10 Is only sham such any good mechanic coud
construct and operate Just a keelN did Mhy dotsh
the donkey ball and Insist Oh biting into The cabbage
If II 4, real the Kelly stock f. worth untold millions
tcrics forever ono of those balls In the corner OF
a room would make all the heat and night which coud
hr u.ad and have power sell and all that would De
needed would be to learn keelys csbalisiic signs on
the blackboard I'm order 10 make II start. ami 10 stop
n when n had done enough. But II The ball IS only
trick then II course. Kelly could be sent - prison.
and BIS victims could clos" their accounts and be sure
that fhcy would lose no more by him.
without going any further into the history OF this
remarkable dcu.On, which is full Of similar icks TOO
numerous mention now, n seems clear Tint theS"
fact, ought be used bring TO an end In one way
EDWARD " DICKERsON.
New-York, Nov. 30, 1888.
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