The Indianapolis journal., 1896-01-20
MIR. KEELY'S WONDERS
ANOTHER EXHIBITION BY THE
PHILADELPHIA MAGICIAN.
What He Calls Polar and DepOlar
sympathetic Force.

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 19.-The Post Dispatch S
Philadelphia correspondent says: In re-
sponse to a special invitation your repre-
sentative attended a Keely seance Satur-
day. Just why these invitations were sent
out at this time no one, except possibly
Keely and his patroness, Mrs. Blooming ton
Moore, can say. There was some idea that
the motor was to do its mighty work at
last, and that the favored few at this par
ticular seance were to be the first to see
the great new force, the practical demon
stration of the fact that Mr.. Keely had
plucked the heart out of the mystery of the
infinite. But the results were even as the
results of all the other seances given at
intervals of five years for the past twenty
five years. There was puzzing sleight of
hand show, fusillade of talk about as in
telligible as the speeches in the Grand Su-
preme Gibble Gabble of the Jabberwock,
and a glittering promise of something some
day soon.
There has been a great deal said of late
about John Jacob Astor and other great
capitalists having taken up the Keely mys-
terry. 1t was said that Mr.. Keely had at
last perfected his machine for making the
genii that swing the planets in their orbs
obey the gentle persuasiveness of the notes
of a tuing fork and make railway trains
and all manner of mighty engines move
without the trouble and expense of fuel.
The world has been waiting upon Mr.. Keely
for twenty-five years while he toiled about
mysteriously in his workshop. The cap
italists have lost faith. and Keely stock has
gone to 10 cents on the dollar. Then there
has been an exhibition ~ something and
the stock has gone to 2O0 Keely stock is
low just now and Mrs. Moores son has
brought proceedings to have his mother de-
clared incapable of taking care of her es-
tate. a part Of which goes to Mr.. Keely
every year. So it was high time that Mr..
keely should give a seance.
There were present Professor Brinton, of
the University of Pennsylvania, and w. A.
. McAndrew, of the Pratt Institute, two gen.
temen who know something about science.
Also Mrs. Moore was there. Il am always
a good deal disturbed when 1 begin one of
these exhibitions, said Mr. Keely, "for
sometimes, if an unsympathetic person is
present, the machines will not work" This
statement, reported again and again by
Mrs Moore. rather dampened the ardor of
the gentlemen present. For think or the
pitiful scene If railroad train equipped
with Keely motor sho Id pass a town in
which an unsympathetic person lived. or
should take on an unsympathetic passenger
Engineer, conductor, brakeman would all
plead with the motor in vain. Not an inch
would it bulge until the Jonah had been
put off or possibly killed.
Mr.. Keeley and Mrs. Moore then talked
science. The two scientific men looked un-
easy. The great Keely and his exponent
seemed to ~ be talking English At Least
seemed to have some sort Of conference.
But what that conference was no one could
tell. As near as could be got at Mrs. Moore S5
Keeley had discovered was 1.-The will of
God" She confided that Mr.. Keely did not
need any machinery at all. He can just
cto nd md OF hot oil nd N
it and it will revolve fast or slow as
he says" she said.
Mr.. Keely gave no exhibition of these re-
markable powers. But he did show several
pretty-well, one is tempted to say-tricks.
For 1t was after all more like private ex-
hibition by Hermann than serious exhibi-
his force is polar depolar sympathetic
force, simply that and nothing more. He
had several interesting machines and the
scientific men took them apart, applied every
known test and could discover nothing.
The big room in the laboratory is about
twenty-four feet square and the light from
chimes about the wall. First there was the
engine for the interchange of polar and de-
polar Keea moyed or
table to the middle Of the room and put a
copper globe about seven inches In diameter
upon it. There was some curious mechan-
ism attached to the globe, too complicated
to describe. A twisted funnel, like an ear
trumpet communicated with the interior of
the globe Mr.. Keely took big tuning
the steel rods attached to the globe. AL
most at once the wheel of the machine
over against the wall began to revolve. The
only apparent connection between the globe
and the machine was single strand OF
wire, and the galvanometer showed that
no electricity was present.
to the other.
"A new force or a new trick" whispered
the second.
''Why does this happen?" asked the first
simply the interchange of polar and de-
polar sympathy" replied Mr.. Keeiy.
mounted on iron rods and set upon glass
slab, four feet long and over an inch thick.
Mr. Keely tied one end of silk thread TO
the machine and carried 1t across the room.
and passed IL through a small window into
the next room. and put his head through
the window. He had either. two pitch
pipes and compressed mouth organ.
Tell me how many times i shall make
the globe revolve:", said he.
Mr. Keely placed a note on the pitch
pipes, twanged the either and the globe
twenty feet away revolyed twice.
Keely played a different note and it re-
volved five times. Then he twanged and
played and the globe revolved rapidly. Mr..
McAndrew cut the thread and the globe
the globe before and after these expert
ments, but could discover no cause for the
mOtlOn.
After showing one other amazing ma
chine Mr.. Keely took his audience into the
next room TO view the great motor This is
an entirely new machine. entirely different
from any other except in one respect. That
one point of resemblance Is tnat II IS not
quite finished and is just about done, and
| will soon astonish the world.
| Said Mr.. Keely as they stood looking al
| the machine. big as this thing is, IL will
| so neutralize the force of gravity that a
child will be able to pick it I'D and hold IL
| at arms length"
But what OF 1t. Mr.. Keely?" asked one
of the men, ''to what use can IL be put?
'Timitless USE" replied Mr.. Keely. with
| machine like this, but no bigger thar
your hand. / will be able TO run a stree,
| car crowded to the roof. And the motor
| itself would show no motion"
"When?"
Pretty soon. / do not mean to spring
| the thing half done. Not until the scientific
| mystery OF the force Is mine. For fifteer
| years / was hinderei by an incomplete ny
| pothesis. Five years ago began on another
| tack. Now you see what / have"
John Ernest Worrall Keely is now ovel
sixtv-eight years old. He is young looking
| for his years, of great physical strength, 9
smooth and persuasive talker, a man o'
| dominating character. He has been at Il
| over thirty years and you see what he has
| Governor Of the Creeks Drowned.
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