The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1899-02-22

lions, 100, nj those ANrlNeS, ana men
thought that they were on the road to
fortune on way made straight by the
keely motor.
They believed that ii II once start
ed there could be no stopping the
revolutions in earthly affairs which
would follow in its train.
Ordnance experts have sat in the
kcely laboratory in Philadelphia and
watched experiments with u wonder
full cannon, which was in reality moth
ing but n big popgun.
Experts dissccted the building in
which the charlutan carried on his
experiments. They laid bare the
pipes which conveyed the compressed
air from II buried steel tank. They
found that the strange force which
came ut the twanging of fiddle bow
or the dropping of little water was
attcr all only atmosphere condens.
ed. There was nothing new. They
found that the machines We're oper-
atcd on principles discovered cen.
turtles ago,
kcely's success lay IN his faculty
for Stimulating earucstncss. He act
ed rs one who believed that he had
made Il great discovery. There WAS II
v
when man accused him of using
copper pipe from the transmitter and
dehed keely TO cut it. Mrs, Bloom
field Moore offered the inventor 81, 000
II he would cut the supposed wire
and thus ding back the aspersion of
the critic. kecly would not listen to
such n thing. The spectators were
hurried from the room, and few
minutes iniap AnIX
witnesses and cut the supposed cop.
per pipe. II proved TO he wire Now.
the puzzle is to find when the change
took place, for there is ne doubt in the
world that the wire WIS copper pipe
not five minutes before Yet through
all this storm scene Keely boiled with
righteous Indignation and Scorn.
II almost seems incredible thai
one should listen without laughing ut
some OF the Munchausenlike state.
ments made by Kelly II was the
grave face, the earnest eyes, the en-
thusiastlc manner of the man which
carried conviction.
Within six months, he said Near>
ago, n train of ears may he ran be
tween here and Philadelphia at th;.
rate OF mile 4 minute by taking tn,
rest in the palm OF my hand. Why,
there is sufficient power in a bucket
of water tu run q steamer SO fast that
she viii split in two"
Only mau OF the Snowman In.
stipcts and the never failing nerve of
kecly could have talked such CON
densed nonsense with SO serene
face II took the GOODNESS of man
who could iuggle knives TO keep the
public at bay wear after year with
the promise that his great invention
would soon be complete.
Here is list OF some of the Invest
ments To be charged 10 the account OF
this eharlatan OF the nineteenth
century
Advanced by New York capitalists
tlsI4l. $4,000; Expended in perfect
ing motor, 100000 Given by Mrs.
bloomfield Moore. 100000; Stock of
the keely Motor Company, S5,0oo.00O.
Not that this by any means repre-
sents all the money which has been
swallowed up in the swiftly revolv-
ing motor. 1t may be six millions. 1t
may be ten millions. for in the twenty
five years in which the new force
which was to be evolved was ex-
plotted before the public this magic
ian of mechanics found thousands
who believed in him and backed their
faith by greenbacks, He never lack
ed for funds with which TO carry on
his weird experiments. The financial
operations of the Keely motor We're
involved in as much secrecy rs the
mechanism itself. Hundreds have In
vested in it aud have kept the invest
ment secret. The exact amount of
money sunk through Kelly will never
be definitely known.