The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-26
THE KELLEY MOTOR SECRET.
BANCROFT. THE MAGICIAN, THINKS
HE HAS DISCOVERED 1T.

1 have a manager who has pleasant lit
Tie ways. He performs some triiing act
that seems almost 10 demand an excuse at
the time, but later will develop a fecundi-
| " Of reason and result. What my good
Mr.. Bloom meant when he SAID. putting
parcel on my bunk just before he babe
me good bye:
Take look over these when you feel
like reading; you might catch on to quite
a good article"
The parcel lay untouched several DAYS.
then opened Il. number of newspaper
cuttings relating TO the discovery of Argon,
some experts from Philadelphia papers on
/ the Keely motor and Uri Lloyd's entranc-
| ing scientific romance Et.dorhpa
with every possible respect for my astute
managers demonstrated, or. even latent
| possibilities, I can hardly believe that he
mad any idea that Keely would act as a
/ eorohary to Lloyd. and that /. secret, jeai-
| ously guarded for so many years, should
come perilously near revelation from the
accidental juxtaposit,On of the book and
/ SHIPS. The newspaper clippings l perused
| with interest; Uri Lloyd's book / stayed
| up part of night with and going up on
| deck, the romance here under formed it.
sell TO the swish-hiss accompaniment of
| the passing waves; nor was the brain no
ton enough, the impulse. that is so often
domineering with the hUmblest Of scribes,
insisted on the spelling OF paper.
what follows the romance is in earnest
serious vain, and can hardly fail to arouse
an interest, startling to a mere profession
al magician; absorbing and of command
| ing Importance to all scientists.
To the professor everything was new
He had overworked himself in connection
| with the discovery of Argon (the newly
/ found atmospheric integrant actually de-
/ Veloped quite recently by an English scien-
| tisD, and had been placed by friends In a
! private asylum. After ten years retire
| ment he had emerged completely restored
| IN mind and body, but the new motive
| power had In the meantime been found
| ana was In general use. DR.. Blank who
was in charge Of the great man, had de
| cided to Introduce the professor as quietly
and gradually as possible to modern scien-
tihc wonders so as to avoid any sudden
| straln. Ihey We're in camp at the lake by
| Cooper's Town. New York.
| THE boats here, professor" said the
| doctor-"Shall we try her now? There s
| not a breath Of wind.
oh. ah-the new motive power that has
| replaced steam and electricity and SO
| forth while have been i'll. Let us go down
right now. I'm quite curious about it -
! Reaching the edge of the lake they
| found a good-sized launch moored to the
nttle pier The doctor and professor got
Where's your machinery" asked the
| professor.
Here you are"
Why, there's nothing there but-well.
| what is It? A small lever, apparently
| raised on a projection.
Quite right, but don't touch It, please"
Why not? It isn't attached to any ma
chinery There's nothing whatever in the
| boat. apparently, but the ordinary fur
nishings. Stay, there's no rudder. 1 see.
and the prov is unusually high"
| ing but this lever"
The professor looked up and smiled and.
in decidedly incredulous tone. said:
We'll, go ahead. Let's see you operate"
! The professor seated himself fixing his
! eye on the lever. His back was thus 10
| the shore. The doctor very slowly. and
! with extreme caution. moved the lever
! in front of him a very little; glanced
| for moment at the pennant on the ton
| of the purely ornamental mast and again
| dropped his eyes on the lever The pro
! fessor watched the proceedings for sew
! eral seconds then said:
! well? When are we going to start?''
! "Why, we've done over a mile"
! I'VE haven't moved"
Look behind you" The professor. did
So The shore was quite Distant
The dickens! l didn't feel any mo-
! ton"
The new motive powers pretty steady.
| isn't it?'
yes, indeed. How fast will it make us
! go?" 80
i've never tried it beyond three hun
/ bred miles an hour on this little launch
| but the shielded mail boats make the
| passage to Europe now in twelve hours
| and expect to do it in three as soon as
! the patent air friction dispeller is per-
| fected'
The professor turned a little pale and
wiped the perspiration from his forehead.
| The doctor looked anxious. The profess
| sor answered the look.
That's all right. Even to a scientific
man who knows that the possible is with
/ out limit, such a statement as that is a
! bit of a staggerer Still, I don't forget
! that I'm ten years behind the times. Let
| me Judge of the effects first and then Til
! ask for causes. How fast are we going
now?'
About a mile in three or four minutes.
| Stay; III tell you exactly"
/ STOPPING over the lever, the doctor ex-
/ amined it closely.
ITS rather hard to calculate so very
| slow a rate of speed, but as nearly as
possible, fifteen miles an hour"
| Gould you make ii a mile a minute -
"Oh, yes. Go and sit in the PROV, where
| YOU II be protected from the wind"
The doctor touched something and a
strong screen Of glass and iron seemed
to place itself in front of him as a wind
shield.
Now" said the doctor. "a hundred
| miles an hour"
no more oscillation than before, but the
sound of the whistling wind was heard.
| In two minutes or so this sound ceased.
Anything the matter?' asked the pro-
| fessor.
mo. We've stopped that's all. We're
at the other end of the lake. It's under
six miles long you know"
"T-m," said the professor what
would happen if we went three hundred
miles an hour?"
The only difference you would notice
would be the increased whistling of the
wind Wind friction is our only trouble
now"
''And but for the wind it would be pos
| sible to go
"A thousand miles an hour! Two for
| aught we knowi"
This is romance? Granted, but it NAV
not be in year; even in six montbsi
A great chemist and scientist is on the
track of Keelys secret and there are
others. The prevailing idea is that the
| secret Of John W. Keelys motor lies in
water. He is supposed to disintegrate II
but does he? Suppose it was separated
atmosphere? that he really used and
merely led people to suppose that 1t was
water to bluff them off the real thing?