The evening times., 1899-03-09
ECHOES OF THE KEELY MOTOR
Mrs Bloomfield Noore's Grandson to
Probe the Nystcr.-

New York March Count Won Rosen,
one of the executors Cf the will OF his
grandmother Mrs. Bloomfield Moore, ar
rived here on Tuesday on the steamship
Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse for the pur
pose OF settling up the estate and Incl
1entaIiy Of Investigating the KeeIy motto.
The Count is an attache OF the Swedish
and Norwegian Legation in London, and
is on two months leave of absence. He
will go TO Philadelphia in few days.
where he will meet his CO executor, Tho
dore rockingham, Of the Quaker City.
He has heard and read much OF the al
legged invention OF John z. W. kee.y, in
which his grandmother believed so i'm
plicitly Mrs Bloomfield Moore, as il is
well known, advanced money 10 keely and
made him an allowance until the time of
his death. She wrote a book concerning
the motor sought to interest capitalists.
and enthusiastically told of the future o.
the new force which she believed Keeiy
had discovered. Mr.. Bloomfield Moore
died only a few weeks after the death of
Keely. last November. and it was said
that the news Of his death and the reve
lations made after he died shortened her
years.
My grandmother" said the Count yes
terday lost faith i'll keely in the last
part of her life. She had invested some
money but in recent years she gave him
only the allowance of $3.50 a month. She
paid this Up to November last. brought
the news of keely's death 10 her. She was
not affected much by it. 1 hope. she said.
| that he impaired the secret 10 some one
before he died
She never expressed any great grief
over the matter. Her death was due to
heart failure My grandmother has been
censured. and, | think unjustly so. for
her interest in the Keely motor. She did
believe in il. for she was greatly interest
ed in science
DO you think that the estate was i'm
paired by the interest in the keely mo-
tor?' he was asked.
Not TO any extent" replied the Count.
The value of the paper mill property has
decreased somewhat. | believe. | think
that the estate is worth between 8. 900 600
and S3.000.000 l suppose there is more
Keely motor stock in the safety deposit
vaults in Philadelphia. / do not think the
amount is very large. There is none of
the stock in England. She gave that away.
Many persons upon whom she bestowed it
asked me if | thought the stock was of any
value. | told them | did not know. When
l go back TO London | imagine that many
such enquiries will be made of me-.
Count Won Rosen said he had read the
exposes OF heeiylSm ana remem b9ret that
they called attention to the use of COM
pressed air as the motive power of keely' S
machines several years before the publ
cation of the reports of experts.
In connection with the settlement of
the estate said the Count. Il shall eS-
anime into the Keely motor | have no
opinion one way or the other. | must con-
fess that l am puzzled by the fact that
many men of science believed in Keely
and were mystified by his experiments. II
the motor was a fraud il seems strange
that the imposition was not discovered
sooner
Little difficulty is expected By the Count
in settling up the estate. He said that
Mrs. Bloomfield Moore's three children
were the benefcaries. By the death OF
his mother he is himself one of the heirs
There are few legaeies to servants. but
no public bequests. Mrs. Bloomfield
Moore's manuscripts were left to another
grandson, who will act as her literary ex-
ecutor. 1t has not yet been determined
whether any of them will be published
Count Won Rosen is well known in dip
lomatic circles in Europe He was for
merly attached to the legation at Berlin
and ST Petersburg.
The Count will visit the dismantled
Keely shop, in Philadelphia, and take a
look at the Keely machines now in the
possession of Burton J. Kinra de, of Bos-
ton