The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-12-15
4 SECRET HIDDEN
No Disclosure Of the Mystery Of
the Motor.
DETAIL OF KELLY THEORIES
Stock Company Has Suspended.
The Deluge of DeSignS-No
PatentS-A Musician.

| PHILADELPHIA death of
/ John Ernst Worrell Keely, who posed |
/ as the discoverer of the secret of dis
! integrating molecules by the vibration |
of musical tones and thereby iberatinS |
/ a force unknown in the present bound |
aries of science, has left doubt as TO |
whether the nature of his alleged secret
| will be revealed. Mr.. Keely's widow
is now in i'll health. He had no chill |
dren. 1t cannot be ascertained whether
he left a will or whether he committed
TO any living person the key TO his al
legged strange discovery in dynamics.
The Keely Motor Stock Company or
ganiZed to develop his experiments has
Iapsed into a stage of suspense, from
all appearances. The organization still
exists. with a president and four or i've
directors living in New York, and a
secretary and one director living III
this city A corporate office is main
tanned in the attic of a brick building
on Walnut street, above Ninth. The Of
flee is uncarpeted and almost destitute
!, of furniture. Charles w. Schuellerman,
the secretary of the corporation, is the
sole tenant of this place. There are no
shades at the windows, and the light
that enters them throws its rays upon
a strange variety of Photographic blue
) prints, working drawings and queer
mechanical designs which illustrate the
early and later stages OF Keelys re-
searches in the mysteries of molecular
and atomic forces.
Keely was an expert in the theory
and art of music. He was master OF
the theory of harmony. He was not on
Nv an instrumentalist, but composer,
r and in that attainment lay the primary
element of his alleged discovery. TINS
was a strange relation or affinity be-
tween the forces of nature and har-
4 monte forces. He said he had dlscoV-
fered a sympathetic vibration connect
ID ing the waves of sound with the dis
turbance of the molecules of matter
and also had found in the traces of thi
~ peculiar disturbance an energy uh
80 known to the sphere Of dynam1cs. HI
Ill first experiments were made with drop
ts of water in vacuum. The hrSt me
81 chanical property he heYe'cped iron
). this series of experiments was IN
force of adhesive attraction, which
n. assumed in his own statements TO D
O. related TO the polar currents or n
earth. Next he developed, he has SAD
the force of propulsion, revealing
nositive as we'll as negative energy
- Just as the chemical separation Oh IN
molecules of water produce electT
. magnetism he pursued the theory tina
the disintegration of these molecule:
which he said he had accompllsnei
produced, by the sympathetic vibraU3o
of tones. q subtle and higher force co:
related with magnetism. He went :
far as to advance the startling propo'
ition that the rotation OF planets
their orbits was produced by the alte
Mating power of atomic energy. J
said he had pursued the analysis OF n
st, theme TO the eighth power, where
reached the substance OF lumlnosI.
and there without attempting to the
. rize further on the origin OF thin
universal, he stopped and put ali
skill and mental resources to the ia
r, of Harvesting the power Of atoms
the economy of life.
Twelve years ago, about haf [
=. period of his experimentation, he aba
doned the molecules of water as
basis of his task and directed MS
liz tention solely to the molecules or a
He safd that in the course of this VIC
he had produced dynamic energy
10 600 pounds to the inch N Torrlc
liam vacuum. He said he could eXha1
, to the air from a tube, getting Yacu'
as nearly perfect as could be effect
and generate a force that could IRE
gun or move tons Of inertia. lie 60
art governments of this nature al San
, to Hook proving station in 1883 IN
presence of Lieutenant Zalinski a
other students Of science, some
en- whom were profound skeptics and
- sisted on the theory that Keely u
*. nothing but compressed air.
Whatever the substance was I
Keely carried in a steel tube, 1t '
apparently inexhaustible, the prof
j. tive force of the nineteenth and
ju0, shot being greater than any of the (
ceding ones. circumstance
strangely combatted the theory of CO
pressed air.
It would require book TO tell Of
series of mechanisms which Keely
vfsed to convert this mysterious alto
- IF energy, so called, to the industrial
commercial activities Of the world.
nee died without effecting this purpose,