The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-01-20

ground fioor was already known. hut the in
yestigators made q more careful exploration
II lay near one OF the large trapdoors and was
buried in earth and shop refuse that had been
awayit was found that the sphere rested onthe
original clay bottom underline building andthat
OF two OF the floor beams. These sections had
then been replaced. Tho sphere. weighs three
tons and II Is calculathdo would withstand a
per square inch. II has a hole at the top which
Is fitted with threads for a screw connection.
sphere and with one end Just within the trap
door there was found a piece q heavy iron
| ran to within a foot Of ono OF the small tran
doors in the front room. II was fastened TO
the under sides Of the floor beams. At either
end Of II II had right anglo fittings made In n
rough manner, and screyd on. These. too.
were, heavy and calculated apparently to with
doors were found nothing but heaps OF ashes.
put there recently.
found on the first floor, but when the examine
ton was. extended to the floor above several
discoveries We're made. One was that a false
rooms. leaving a space of about two inches be-
tween the boards and timbers. where wires or
things wero found. for in fact every part OF the
machinery known of had been carried away by
the keely people when they removed from the
The PLACE was left guarded by private dotec-
tiye 5, on p Monday %as d might ard TP Tuesday os The
back room Second floor was somewhat higher
than that OF the front room. On tearing up the
flooring near the door which. connected
the two rooms what looked like a, wire:
strong walled brass tube. was found running
through holes bored in the floor beams toward
the door. This tube was about three
feet long. In making an. examination OF
Pellers had discovered a similar disconnected
piece OF brass tubing which had been built
into the partition wall almost opposite to where
this one was found. This had been put into
the wall after the wall was, built. for, the new
plaster was different from the original.
This ended the finds in the structure. but in
some OF the rubbish there was found a small
coupling. intended to Join Just such tubes, and
the ends OF the tubes were fitted for couplings.
Carl Herring declares that he Is satisfied now
he has no doubt that compressed air or gas was
used by Kelly to produce the effects which he
exhibited, The big sphere. Mr.. Herring says,
was probably used as a storage reservoir for
used to transmit it to the machines. The
other experts. agree in this conclusion. and
those who had seen Keely make some
OF his demonstrations declare that the tubes
found are identical in appearance. and size with
what keely declared were mere wires. which he
used to convey his "vibratory''' power. No
evidence was found to show that Keely used
electricity for the work, and some of the eN-
perts say that he had no knowledge of cleo
tricity..
of keely, and he expressed himself as gratifed
at the results of the examination and the con-
clusion OF the experts. 1t is, of course. still
possible. as some persons have believed. that
phenomenal and was deceiving himself as to its
value. as well as using his knowledge to get a
living from II by keeping up the mystery, and
that he was both unable to develop anything of