The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-03-27
KELLY HllIS MORE MONEY.
ONCE AGAIN HIS MOTOR IS JUST
S1sessF COMPLETED.
The History Of one Of the Noet
Remarkable Instances Of Human
CreduIffy-lmnaense Sums 60 Help
. Man with . Mysteriou. Machine.

Keeiy Is at II again. Again he is on the
brink of success. Again the gul.iols are
asked 20 bite at his bait. Perhaps he has
won: perhaps he hasn't. IL viii be well
and wise TO wait.
The first time the narrator met John.
keely-that was sc04 Of years ago-he
was strongly impressed with three things:
TIE swarthineas OF his complexion the
fact thai he wore very large and brilliant
diamonds in very. very dirty shirt front,
and the enormous size and maiformation
OF his knuckles. He was playing check
ers in his Workshop where his mysteri-
GUS machine lay silent and grim. The
ehecker-board was grimy. the draughts
were grimy and his fingers were grimy.
Trivial Wings to notice In the presence of
great discovery ard great discoverer.
ana yet for some unaccountable reason
those were the things that impressed the
narrator most. and to this day he never
thinks of ksely but what there comes be-
fore his minds vision the spectacle of .
man handling dirty checkers with still
dirtier fingers His knuckies as has been
said. were enormously large. A we'll
known man. with some pretenS.ons to sci
eniiac attachments and who professed to
be well acquainted with Keely's early life
and the character OF his scheme. waa
asked. upon one occasion. by the narra-
tor. What is .hs raffse ~ fHa rfraug. en-
largement Of Keely's knuckles?''
Don't you know he sas- with a pity
ing smile. as though the ignorance dis
played was most iamentable ''Keely la
earlier life was cannon ball tosser and
went around the country with a circus
throwing cannot balls in the air. and
catching them in his hands. That sort Of
unnatural exercise spread bis knuckles out
In the way you noticed. Now can you
ISL n. ~
to .detude the public? You see he is not
only q jugsler By nature. bat iuggler by
education. and he is up TO all manner OF
tricks" That story has since been denied.
OF Keely's earlier life but little is pub
licly known. He was born in this dear old
town OF ours. and when 10 years OF age
was thrust out into the world to battle
mechanics. and their value to him has
been evidenced by the fact that without
either OF them he would never have ac-
complished what he has. His knowledge
of mechanics taught him how 10 construct
his mysterious machine. his knowledge OF
music led him to what he terms the VIZ
hratory theory. He was a ca net maker
and musician by turns. The shop in which
he worked at the former, some say. was
on Market street. while others claim ft
was on Jayne street. II was about .wen-
ty-five years ago when he came to the
belief that he had discovered new and
powerful sort OF engine. He then lived on
Ogden street IN sthis city, and the new
continuance was placed in bath tub and
run by a stream of water that passed
through goosequill He called It n.y.
dro-pDeumatic pulsating -yacao engine.
This soon grew into the machine which he
called generator" and which the world
named the Keely motor, and in which
power was produced from the Migratory
ton. re- vx-u&0 p nd n; Tt,o n..rfr
covcry was called to the attention OF
few capitalists. and these requested
Charles B. Collier : yell-kuown patent
attorney of this city, to look into the mat
ter. Mr.. Collier had never met Kelly. lie
requested an exhibition of the new motor.
II took place November TO- 1874. Before
that time the public had never heard OF
the discovery. MIR. Collier and. think,
ten others witnessed the first public ex-
hibition of This generator. AT its conclu-
sion he wrote out an 7oifi"ia Tcgtcs' 20
benefit OF the few gentlemen who had re-
uuested him to make the examination.
They were ALI New Workers. and included
John j. Cisco the well-known banker and
former United States sub-treasurer in New
York; Charles G. Franklin. of the Cunard
line OF steamships. Charles II ria ii.
the author of Haswelrs Tables the lead
ing authority among mechanicians; Henry
G. Ssige1ff. president rs the Irgersoll
I Rock Drill company: W. D. Hatch and
Enos T.. Throep. of the Hatch Telegraph
ic company; John s. Smith. of Baker.
smith * Co.. the iargs manufac r,s OF
steam heating apparatus and William B.
Meeker, the banker.
These gentlemen met in the Fifth Ave-
. Hue note New York with Sidney Dillon
in the chair. and listened 10 Mr. Golfers
report which had been made in writing.
The next day they gave the Philadelphia
attorney their check for $40 coo in purchase
OF stock OF the keeely Motor Company,
which sum was Intended to pay the in
debtedness keely had incurred in the con-
struction of his machine. Wltn.n wo
hours after the inventor had received this
sum he had expended every penny Of 1t
for the purpose for which 1t was intend
ed. The New. York capitalists were Also
given an option for $4,000 worth more Of
the stock. the option to be kept open I'M
ri a. fhguTtun Z was iven 70 c We fur
Their eaafiFnasi cn-~ef Mr.. Golfers report.
Meanwhile. that gentleman had negotiat-
ed sale of the rights for the New Eng
land states for an option OF $4,000, the
purchasers to invest half OF one million
purchasers to invest $S0u.oo to introduce
the invention and 10 then pay over another
$3.50 900 For the benefit Of both bodies of
Investors n great public exhibition was
given in this city that was attended by 800
persons. including the most eminent en-
RlfleerS from Hi kalf - OF sHt Country
The mex. day the two bodies of capital
lists banded ove- their checks for $4,000
and $5aee9 respectively. thus making $780,
OG0 in all that Mr.. Collier had succeeded
In raising. This sum. II was thought,
would be ample to push the invention 70
completion and success But they had not
reckon.d the fsat. nature OF ne casa. Tne
first large machine constructed took three
years OF time ana the expenditure OF sbnot9
to build il, and then was found 10 be prac-
ticaily wort HESS. One machine followed
another. each being an Improvement upon
its predecessor. until the generator was
discarded and new machine. IN which no
water was used. and which was known as
the 'llherator.s was the outcome. 1t had
a series OF tuning forks, with the y5bra-
lions of which heely claimed 10 dis!nte-
CRATE air and release an etheric force ri
vailed in strength only by a cyclone. Dur
ing the intervening quarter ot a century
keeely-with Collier faithfully ci.nging to
him with the exception OF occasional
lapses of incredulity-has periodically her
aided announcements or his being on the
verge OF success. each announcement being
followed by the landing OF more gtldgeo0a