The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-01-29
BRAMBEL'S PATENTS.
Editor Hays, of Sleepy Bye, Thinks
He Has Not Sold Them.
No Sufficient Proof Offered TO
Substautiate the Claims of
Big Offers.

Editor ID. u. Hays, or the sleepy
Eye Dispatch, was in ST. Paul Sunday,
and was interviewed by the Pioneer
Press in regard to Grant BrambePs
alleged sale of his patents to syndi-
Gates. Grant Brambel's engine, |
think, is all right, but his syndicates
Pm not at all sure about" said Mr..
Hays. st looks to me as if he had not
disposed OF the patent rights of his
famous rotary steam engine for the
immense sum of S6,700,000, because L
have seen no proof of it. Yet have
kept closely in touch with his an
nouncements and, in fact, l have my
self given out much of the news re-
lating TO his gigantic profits. l have
been, so TO speak, BrambePs press
agent, arranged interviews between
him and visiting investigators, sent
out kilograms, and all that.
"Now Brambel has been trying for
a year to sell his invention. About
the middle of October he showed me
letter from President or Chairman
Henry E. Allan, of the Allan Steam
ship company of London. Mr.. Allan
wrote that he was pleased with the
engine so far as he could understand
what it was. He thought that ample
capital could be obtained by Brambel
if he would communicate with a GER
tain English firm of solicitors whose
clients were On the lookout for profit
able enterprises. Allan meanwhile
would do what he could to further
Brambel's interests abroad. That
letter I'm sure was genuine. But
that's the only evidence I've seen to
substantiate Brembel's story Of the
syndicates. Soon afterwards he told
me and everybody that inquired that
he had just sold the foreign rights
alone for e320,0O0, or 81, 100000. Not
long afterwards man named A. G..
Phillips of Liverpool arrived in town.
1 talked to him, but didn't know his
errand and he told me nothing. But
Brambel said that Phillips had offered
$4,000 more than the Allan syndicate.
But Phillips, when interviewed at
MankatO, denied that he mad made
any offer whatever. Later Brambel
said that he had disposed separately
of the English rights for 81, 60O,000
that he had received 100000 each
for the rights in France and in Ger
many, and that he had just closed
with the Allan syndicate for the
American rights. The latter had
brought him So, 100, 900, and he had re-
ceived in advance a 10 per cent pay
ment of $4,000. | wanted to see the
draft. He said it was a letter of
credit and was deposited in MS name
at the Bank of Montreal, Chicago.
He also referred me to our Sleepy Eye
state bank. But the local bankers de-
MED that they had handled any funds
for him and being correspondents OF
the Bank OF Montreal they telegraph
ed to Chicago and found, they said,
that Brambel had no deposits there
whatever. Now, Brambel says he's
an Englishman By birth. But old
census records that | found yesterday
show that he was born in New York
state. And an operator who dropped
into the st. Paul office not long age
and called up Brambel over the wire
informed another operator who hap
pened to be at Sleepy Eye in place OF
Brambel that the inventor five or six
years ago was an operator at Skena
teles, N. Y, that he then claimed tC
have received $4,000 for newly in
vented electric lamp.
''Bra mbel has showed me two letters
from Henry f. Allan, both muct
mutilated by the absence of numer
Gus sentences that had been cut out
with jack knife, and neither express
ing more than hope that tht
engine would be sold at large
profit With these letters Brambe
showed me photograph of the deco
made by himself and witnessed b.
Sleepy Eye notary transferring tt
Henry f. Allan-spelled wrongly will
an ''e"-the American rights fOI
So, 100000 This deed was not signed
by Allan. That is why am SUSPECT
Gus of the syndicate stories.
"But Brambel has received probably
10000 letters this winter. He hal
had many wonderful and genuine pro
positions submitted to him. Lots O.
manufacturing towns are offering hin
sites for his prospective factories
One Illinois syndicate offered for not h
ing site near Chicago with extensive
buildings all complete and railroad
facilities, the whole worth 100000
and expressed willingness TO take
any amount of stock ms the new com
paDy ard pay for it cash. Anothe
lot of bankers in Chicago offered tt
give Bramhel 100000 year for TIT
Illinois rights alone"
The general assembly of thu