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The Monte Vista journal., 1899-10-21

reserve from settlement for the prss
rnt. There are twrnty.scvcn town
ships Ia tho proposed reserve nnd cv.
cry town In Lincoln county. cxccp,
white Oaks. is situated upon Il, TO
gcthrr with the Nognl and Boniio min.
ing districts aud the Salndo coal fields
The thirty.Arst annual session n,
the Grand Lodge. the eighteenth an
nual session Of the Grand EncnmIe
mcht. the ninth annual session Of the
Rctcknh Assembly. and the thirteenth
annual Cnntohincnt Of the Patriarch,
MiiiinA. 100. r.. convened In Crippit
Greek ON the 10Th for n four-,iay's ers
sion. Probably the most important snt'
Interesting feature of the big event
was tho dedication by the Grand IIoig,
of the new and magnificent I. O. d
y. temple an Hcnuctt avenue. Cops,d
cradle business Of importancs was
transacted.
Developments In Denver and Ourn !
throw new and sensational Hight on
the life and death of the man Adams
who helped TO hold up the sncsYclr
stage coach near Ourny last week. and
who was reported 10 have bsrn KILLED
BY deputy sheri6 at riarrrvIlis lss,
Tuesday evening. Il turas out thai
bic rial name 10 Walter Adams iu
stead Of John Carter oe kid" Adams
aud that he committed suicide instead
of meeting his death at the hands Of
an oelacef Of the law. o. was reported
turther than thta. ~ Was q ssse,ul,~,
Of . ploaesr. weli.to-6o and hlghly N
speetsd Colorado family. iiis 1aeher =
Jams D. Adams. ehe well knoyu oat
tie0aa.
Ju1Ge TAe0eoo Of tAe oelosNll
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eoeoelA0 - teoe40ouy u oaeee beouGAl
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A sparrow's egg seems Of little or no
value. and yet there is a man IN Parls
who can transform it into a prize really
worth having Indeed, this ingenious
gentleman makes very handsome income
through his skill in coloring birds eggs.
As to the legitimacy of his business the
reader can judge for himself.
A few years ago this wideawake
Partisan was an assistant in provincial
rouseum of natural history, and While
there he learned and saw great deal
which has since been of much use to him.
So much. indeed, did he learn that when
he lost his position he went to Paris ana
detarmined TO start in business for him
self His apprenticeship at the museum
had shown him the value of birds eggs,
and he promptly decided to make living
bv dealing in rare eggs. True, he had only
a very small collection of eggs with which
TO start business, but this was q trllllng
obstacle to man of his versatile genus
He knew that there were many collectors
In various countries who Were willing TO
nav fancy prices for eggs, and he resolved
to supply their demands, no matter how
extravagant they might be.
OF course, not having many rare eggs
and lacking the necessary facilities for
procuring them he could not supply them
unless he manufactured them, and this he
did. For example, if a collector wrote to
him for a penguin's egg, he would make
out of gypsum a shell exactly resembling
that of penguin's egg, and he would
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of the transmitter to get the correct adj
justment of the resonator within, and
would soon strike the right note. Then
the harmonic resonant impulse, which
was transmitted along the wire to the
motor from the transmitter. would
awaken in the sensitized disks of the
motor, with reference to the "outreach"
of the third or dominant current of the
polar stream, alternating conditions Of
sympathetic negative attraction and
sympathetic positive propulsion" AS
a necessary consequence the spokes of
the motor would begin to revolve with
in the rim of the machine and Mr..
Keely would expain that this motion
could be kept up until the machine
wore out-a costless, inexpensive power.
The miracle was accomplished before
the eyes of the distinguished guests
The day before they had examined the
various parts of the engine: they had
seen the spherical transmitter apart
and had admired the wonderful collec-
ton of Chladni plates, resonators
graduated adjustment screw and other
paraphernalia that came out of 1t and
looked at the wire, even clipped it and
been given a piece by Mr.. Keely. It
was solid, usually of German silver
about the size of knitting needle.
After the motor was in motion they
were allowed to test for electricity or
magnetism; not trace. Without a.
doubt Mr.. Keely had discovered a new
force.
So has thought many a stakeholder
who now deserves the honest SYM
pathy of the reader, for there will be
no Keely motor stock worth thousands
of dollars per share. However. the
memory of the Keely Motor Company
is likely to outlast the present genera
ton.
When the committee took charge Of
Mr.. Keely's laboratory. one of the first
discoveries was how Mr.. Keely did this
particular experiment. just described
He could vary the initial performance
a dozen ways, but the principle was al
ways the same I'm taking down the
posts which held the stationary axis on
which revolved the hub of the motor,
with it's arms, the first fraud was dis
covered. This framework had no ap-
parent connection with the engine, be-
yond serving as a support for the sta
tionary shaft or axis which passed
through the hub of the motor.
"A false box, hollow post and a
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UNFORTUNATE OWNERS OF PALACES
. . o 90 . . . % . . . . . . . .


when the House of Commons voted
81 100000 to build the first Duke a residence
there presently sprang up an edifice 34S
feet long and with an interior SO vast that
when a Government messenger once made
post haste there to the late Lord Ran
dolph Churchill, during one of his visits,
with dispatch. it was over half an hour
before his lordship, who for exercise had
been exploring the place, with its fifteen
staircases, was found.
The last time 1t was repaired the late
Duke was obliged to apply to Parliament
for permission to sell the pictures and IL
brary to pay the bills, which amounted
to 81 ,5SS, $50. 1t is, therefore, not surpris-
ing that. although the estate yielded
$205 900 year, the expenses of keeping up
this preposterous residence kept the Duke
a poor man.
Altogether, everything about Blenheim
is grotesquely large. Some of the pictures
are seventy feet square. The statue Of
the great Duke, near the big lake of 260
acres, is 1872 feet high, and cost $150,000.
Windows must be as great an annoyance
to the Dukes of DevonShire as they have
been to the Marlboroughs. In Hardwick
Hall, his Grace has a residence which
nobleman's seat, for it appears on the out
side to be all windows.
His Grace is the fortunate-or unfortu-
nate-owner OF six other country seats of
unwieldy proportions, none Of which. he
once declared, he has thoroughly explored.
time.
Guide books are wont to rave about the
imposing beauty of such costly luXuries
but one of them, Audley End Essex, is so
preposterously large. that its owner, Lord
Braybrooke, whose income is under $780,
co., must frequently regret that one of
his ancestors did not fulfill his threat of
selling it to a silk weaving company.
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had been reduced to about the size Of
an orange. In the older transmitters
it was some ten inches in diameter.
Around the base of the transmitter
projected, horizontally, a circle or steel
rods, which vibrated and sounded like
a tuning fork when twanged by the
fingers This was the dominant scale
of the instrument The interior of the
globe contained two or more Chladn1
plates and a group of brass reSonatlng
tubes, looking like a bunch of empty
brass gun cartridges. This collection
of brass tubes was called the shifting
resonator. From one side Of the globe
projected small ball or knob called
the graduating shift, which held the
head of a long screw which passed into
the center of the globe and enabled the
operator to shift the resonatlnS tubes
backward or forward.
This transmitter was the generator
or awakener of the yibratory etheric
force which ran the motor. 1t was an
acoustic device simply. By twanging
the proper rods In the dominant scale
at the base of the transmitter. the vari-
Gus resonating tubes, phones and
Chladni plates took up the vibrations.
carrying the note up the musical scale
with infinite rapidity, conserving, null
tiplying and intensifying 1T, reducing
the wave lengths Of the vibrations until
they became so rapid or fine as to be
synchronous with the Migratory i'm
pulses Of the magnetic currents flowing
toward the north pole. Mr.. keely said
this stream was Of a triple nature, the
result of sympathetic interaction among
the planets of our solar system. and
constituted an endless closed circuit
This vibratory impulse was carried
from the transmitter by the wire to
the motor, where, acting on the polar
and depolar disks 1t set tAe motor In
motion, as will be explained later.
The motor itself consisted of a heavy
iron hoop, or band, firmly supported on
a bed plate. Within this hoop and re-
volving freely on stationary axis,
supported by posts at each end, was
double walled hub, or drum, from
which eight spokes projected toward
the hoop On the end of each spoke
was a vitalized disk. On the outer side
of the hoop were nine series of resona-
tors and an equal number of vitalized
disks on the inner side of the hoop. By
having one more disk on the hoop than
there were disks on the spokes. dead
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pressed air to move his experimental
machinery. This was under enormous
pressure and conducted TO any desired
spot through small pipes that had the
outward appearance of wire.
There was a great similarity In the
frequent exhibitions which Mr.. Keely
gave of his motor, and the various
phenomena he claimed to produce by
means of his triune polar current. BY
special invitation, the spectators would
meet at the Twentieth-street labora-
tory on a day set by the inventor. II
the guests were of special Importance
there would sometimes be an introduce
tory exhibition, say the day previous,
at which the dismantled machines
would be shown and the functions of
the different parts explained. By the
next day Mr.. Keely would have the
parts together again, graduated" or
"sensitized," and his motor ready for
operation.
The motor plant consisted. as Mr..
Kelly explained it, of: 1. The trans
mitter 2. The motor or engine. These
were connected by transmitting wire.
The transmitter was a hollow brass
sphere or ball, resting on heavy brass
base. In the last transmitter this ball
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-19

THOUGH vast sums have been ex-
~ pended by Eastern potentates and
EA:. American millionaires on their pal
~ atiaI abodes, the fact remains that
L Il there is no country in the world IN
% 90. e. which the dwelling houses can pc
connpared-for size, at all events-Wltn
those of Britain. 1t is true we have no
residences as large as the Vatican at
Ronne.=, But although ostensibly the resi-
dencs. of the Pope, this huge pile, with
It's 7oOo rooms, access to which is obtained
by eight grand and two hundred ana one
minor, -staircases, is really the barracks OF
the Papal Guard.
sTbe..recently completed Whitehall Court,
Thames; Embankment, is a block or the
dimensions of which some idea may De
fornoatk from some statistics furnished the
writer by:ah official. from which gather
that.:the best suites-eight roons-eost
5000 a week, and the whole yields just no"
a revenue. of $3.50 900 year
Earl Fitzwilliam, in Wentworth WOOD
boiise near Rotterdam, Yorks, has the
largest private house in England; but had
he. not an income of over $1.O0oO00 year
he would probably regard the place as
white elephant.
A..hoiise 500 feet long, with portico in
the center 50 feet high, leading to a nan
go feet square and 40 feet high, is no doubt
a structure calculated to inspire envy IN
fhe breasts of people whose house accom-
mediation is strictly limited; but the ex-
pense of keeping up 175, rooms must be
enormous. and must relieve the Earl OF
most of his spare cash.
When a paragraph went the round OF
the press that the Bishop OF winchester
had at last made up his mind TO fecdrpet
the corridors of his episcopal palace'
Farnham Castle, people expressed sur
nrise that so much fuss should be maze
ahollf. so small matter as stair carpets.
E,ven when q society journal graNely
announced that the price of the accepted
FENDER was 50. so a yard the pulse of the
nation was not stirred. Surely an income
of $40, 500 a year could withstand an ex-
nendittire on new stair carpets. 1t was
said 1t should; but Farnham Castle is
a residence of such vast proportions that
IFS corridors extend over mile, or, to be
precise 1894 yards. -,
In a few months the learned Bishop viii
no doubt regain his equanimity and set
against the preposterous size OF his castle
his lovely. garden situated on the top of
the keep-the only one of the sort in Eng
land.
luding to the size of Blenheim Palace.
used to say by way of joke, that 1t
was the only residence in England which
required $4,000 worth of putty, year to
keep the window panes in order. Money
went g. good deal further in the last CEN
fury than it does now; consequently.
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ing what is known in stage parlance
as traps" Most of the spaces between
the sawed joists were filled with ashes,
and here valuable finds of tubing and
connections were made. The center
room contains four traps and a pit.
Back of this was room to which no
one was ever admitted, and here re-
markable discovery was made. A steel
sphere forty inches in diameter, weigh
ing 6625 pounds, was found embedded
in pit underneath trap. The sphere
had two projections or trunnions; both
had a hole through them; one of
these holes had been filled up and
then faced off, and the other was
open and was of the proper
size for charging the reservoir
Midway between the two trunnions
small hole drilled into the side of the
sphere was found to be the proper size
for connecting with one of the small
brass tubes connecting with the second
story These tubes, while of small di-
ameter and having small bore, have
very thick walls, showing that they
could resist enormous pressure.
OF course, the sphere possessed great
strength and must have been an ideal
storage reservoir for air or gas at
great pressure. William Rickert, who
was formerly employed In keelys
laboratory, has come forward with val
liable evidence. He says he helped to
pump which was specially made for the
purpose 1t was tested up to $4,000
pounds, or only one ton less than the
powder chamber pressure required in
tests of United States ordnance. Steel
tubes were also tested with this power
full hydraulic pump. The tubes were
nine inches in diameter and the bore
was only three inches. These were split
with enormous pressure and the stock
holders and the general public believed
that the tubes were burst by the eth
eric vapor."
Mr.. Rickert states that they ran
tubes to the lever machine which indi-
Gated pressure, and one of the tubes
recently discovered Mr.. Rickert believes
to be tube running to that machine.
He also states that Keely never allowed
the men to entirely complete any con-
nection to the machinery; he assumed
that part of the business himself.
The investigators have concluded that
this monster steel sphere was the whole
secret of Keely's mystifying expert
ments They claim that he used com
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-19
ZLnS Eeely tie S;e0testI1'uNa
ofkhe Century,
Hollow Wires Batteries and Other Mechanical Gentry
His laboratory That Go

center was avoided. A pulley attached
to the revolving hub served as a means
to transmit the power by belt.
The company having duly assembled
Mr.. Keely would point out, In place
the parts examined the day previous,
and before commencing the exhibition
would explain the working of his motor
somewhat as follows:
I'm the conception of any machine
heretofore constructed, the medium Tor
introducing a neutral center has never
been found. If it had the difficulties
of perpetual motion seekers would have
ended and this problem would nave
become an established operating fact.
1t would only require an Introductory
impulse on such a device to cause II
to run for centuries. l did not seek TO
gain perpetual motion; but circuit is
formed that actually has a neutral cen
ter. which is In a condition to be vivl-
fed by my Migratory ether or polar
stream. and while so fed is an 1nde-
pendent motor, as you will see.
Thereupon Mr.. Keely would step to
his transmitter, fiuger over the dom
inant scale-the steel pins running
around the base Of the transmitter-
meanwhile turning the knob on the side
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After Mr.. Keely's death the laboratory
was given up and all the apparatus,
wires, tubing, etc, in fact, everything
which could be used as a clew to the
discovery of the principles underlying
the alleged motor, but it is shown by
the result that Keely had not taken
any one into his confidence, and this
accounts for even his supporters being
ignorant of the existence Of the re-
markable things which came to light
Every bit of flooring was ripped up
and every nook and Granny explored IN
the floors, walls and ceilings, and 1t
was found that the building was honey
combed with traps, holes for piping,
etc, for carrying on the bogus expert
ments. Everything was conducted with
such secrecy and ceremony, and the
laboratory lent itself so admirably to
the purpose OF deception, that 1t is lit
tie wonder that this nineteenth cen
fury thaumaturgist should have been
successful, for the border line between
science and quackery is always attrac-
tive.
The ground floor has no cellar under
1t and at places the joists were saWn
away and the flooring had been re-
moved and replaced in sections, form
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-19
MADE A FORTUNE IN BIRDS EGGS.


g g g g @ @ g @, g @ @ @ @ @ @ g 9 g @
forward 1t to his customer, who would
never dream that penguin had not laid
it. AS a rule, however, he uses a shell of
some common egg, his sole care being to
see that it corresponds in size with the
desired egg. The eggs of the common fly
catcher are very cheap, and by coloring
them properly they can be made to re-
semble much costlier eggs. Again,
ducks egg costs very little, and yet 7ur
ingenious French gentleman could easily
transform it into an egg worth from 40
TO go francs. Pigeons eggs are also very
useful for a similar purpose, since they
are exactly the same size as many very
rare eggs. Any one with a knowledge of
chemistry could change them so that the
pigeons themselves would not recognize
them.
Almost every collector of birds eggs
desires to have one or two finely marked
nlghtingales eggs, and is willing to paw
a high price for them. The Partisan
dealer was we'll aware of this little weak
ness, and, larks being more abundant
than nightingales, he found no difficulty
in getting larks' eggs and coloring them
so that they were exactly like the genu-
Inc article as deposited in remote places
by the timorous nightingale.
1t can be seen that this is very profit
able business and a little consideration
VIII oHoW tiidl lHere Is not much risk or
detection. True, the tricky methods of
this Partisan dealer have been brought
to light, but the discovery was apparently
made more by chance than by any sus-
picion on the part of his customers that
they were being swindled out of their
money.
The average collector, no matter wheth-
er he has passion for autographs, pos
tage stamps, coins or birds eggs, is in
clined to be gullible. and this seems to be
especially the case with collectors Of
eggs. They know that certain birds lay
eggs of certain size and color, and if
they can get eggs that seem to be fault
less in these respects they are satisfied.
The thought that the coloring may not
always be natural does not seem to enter
their heads. AT any rate, such has been
the experience of this Partisan dealer. He
has forwarded specimens of his skill to
collectors in all countries and it does not
appear that he was a fraud. Hereafter
collectors will probably be more cautious
about buying eggs, especially from for
eign dealers.
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hole extending down through the floor
led to a careful investigation. Under
the floor, between 1t and the ceiling of
an unused store room beneath and al
ways kept locked, was found running
through the timbers supporting the
floor an iron shaft with a small pulley
on it. The pulley and the hole in the
floor were directly under the hollow
post of the engine.
1.-THE iron shaft was followed to the
side wall. At it's termination was an
other pulley Directly beneath this,
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Plan of Second Floor of Laboratory, Show
ing the Way Keely Controlled His
Secret Appliances.
Every bit of flooring was ripped
up and every nook and Granny ex-
plored in the floors, walls and cell
ings, and it was found that the
building was honeycombed with
traps, holes for piping, ETC., for
carrying on the bogus experiments.
Everything was conducted with
such secrecy and ceremony, and the
laboratory lent itself so admirably
to the purpose of deception, that
1T is little wonder this nineteenth
century thaumaturgist should have
been successful, for the border line
between science and quackery is
always attractive.
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The Compania General of Manila, one of
the largest cigar making concerns In the
world. employs over ten thousand hands,
and turns out every year $4,000 900 cigars.
40 900 900 cigarettes and nearly 5000 tons
of cut tobacco
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Secrets Of Inventor KeeIys PerforDopces Claimed
= ~ to Have Been Exposed by the Investigating
:.*.- Committee.
HOW Mr. Keey rotation nonmagneic substance
T. a a
produced pull hundreds
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the.
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which explained in the accompanying article
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II II A-I
-.*AEVI fraud of the century?
i w: W.. This is a question that
; ~ - -. -. can scarcely be answered
49,. o. definitely for some time to
come; because there are experts" who
have made examinations of Keely's
: laboratory at 1920 North Twentieth
street. Philadelphia. some of whom de-
clare one way and some another.
i: Evidences of fraud have undoubtedly
g. been found in the old workshop, but
these *eVfdences do not explain all the
strange things that Keely did. Those
who: still have faith in the inventor say
that he was; forced to do the fraudu-
. lent things; in. order to make a show
.iIIg's. so as to obtain money in order to
carry: on his great work. They still
have faith that Keely was in posses
sion: of a. secret that could be developed
intU,.a power capable of moving the
universe.
. The. worst accusation made against
Keely Is that he died with lie upon
his slips: 1t is said that while lying on
= his: :deathbed in full knowledge of the
fact: that, the end was near, he told
those. around him that the full account
:. of all his: secrets would be found in his
records: =
=: This has been proven to have been
Untrue, for there were no records nor
notes giving the faintest clew of the So
tuition of. keely'S mechanical won
i.ders..';' From all accounts he never made
. any: written explanations
- AS the case stands those who believe
:Keely a; fraud certainly have the bet
ter of the controversy, for perpetrating
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ones
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LTHOUGH vast sums have been ex-
pended by Eastern potentates and
l.: American millionaires on their pail
T.. atiaI abodes, the fact remains that
\ there is no country in the world IN
. r,rt,inh tho duellinR houses can be