The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-20
PERPETUAL NOTION STOOD STILL
italian Residents Who Tired of Invest
ing IN Mystic Machines.

The directors of the Universal Auto
matte Motor Company, which was formed
two years ago for the purpose OF manufac
turing and operating a Experimentation
F., machine invented by Joseph de La Tore,
machinist, have decided that the only per
petual motion they own is contained in
| their expense account, and that the easies
way TO put stop to the outgo of money il
to wind up the affairs of the company.
| De La Torres scheme was to gainFth,
| goal which so many inventors have sought
for in vain by making one set of heavy iron
| balls rolling down spiral plane push an
other set up another spiral plane by theil
sheer weight.
When Inventor de La Tore had got hi.
machine into working order he had nc
trouble in securing the interest and fnan
cial aid of several prominent residents OF
the Latin quarter, who backed him with
influence and money, and for a time the
future of the company seemed bright. The
inventor had foundry figure on hundreds
Of his machines; big contracts for furnish.
ing power were talked OF, and the stock.
holders could almost hear the clink of the
gold that was to pour into their Golfers.
Then came time when the first machine
failed to fulfill the expectations raised by
the models, and new castings had to be
made. Still the faith of the directors and
stockholders was great and they continued
to invest.
In August last some of those whose
money had flowed into the scheme without
tangible returns began TO investigate, and
finding that progress was not satisfactory
the inventor was called upon for an ex-
PLANTATION. This not proving satisfactory
he was invited to resign, but refused until
the claims of himself and assistant were
paid.
AS other creditors were pressing for their
money and the treasury had been drained
TO pay foundry bills, an assessment was
decided upon and in the meantime, to
meet immediate necessities, each director
on August 10 advanced the company $50,
taking as security note of the corpora
ton, payable in sixty days after that date.
These notes fell due in October last, and
1t was then decided that their particular
brand OF perpetual motion was failure,
and that the easiest way out of the diff
Guilty was to sell the great iron power
balls, gearing, wheels, tools and other
paraphernalia and go out of business.
Before this could be done two of the mem
bers, 7. Guaniconi and G. Costa, filed suits
on their notes, hoping to realize some
thing out OF the assets before they were
divided among the entire list OF stock
holders.
The other directors, Victor Savio. G. de
Lucca, ID. 7. Rossi, 6. Luisi, S. Paganini
and Ct. Ounce, believing that if anything
is left to divide it should be apportioned
evenly among those who invested their
money in the scheme, assigned their notes
to Samuel II. Beckett, one of Mayor
Sutro's clerks, who brought suit against
the company in the Justices Court yester-
day for 1898.
2. c. Rossi, a brother of Director Rossi,
was outspoken about the matter when seen
last evening.
my brother and eight of his friends"
he said, put five or six thousand dollars
into this machine and never got one dollar
back. Moreover | hardly believe they ever
will. All the company has to show is a
lot of worthless castings and a few tools.
De La Torres model worked ali right, but
the regular machines never did, and the
stockholders got tired of putting money
into il. Why the machines would not
work we cannot tell, unless it was that De
La Tore had something in his model
which he could not put into the machine
itself