The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-05
CLAIMS DISCOVERY
OF new POWER
MYSTERIOUS ENERGY BY USE OF
THE PRINCIPLE OF WEIGHTS.
Max Kollm, Artist and Inventor,
Thinks that He Has Something
Worth While-He Has Gone to Alas
ka and Will Perfect the Idea There.

Seattle Post Intelligencer.

Seattle Post Intelligencer.
Claiming the discovery Of a new
mechanical. power, Max W. Kollm, artist
by profession and inventor by %inclina-
where he will work out his principle I'M
disturbed by troublesome visitors or
Jealous competitors. Within eight
months, says Kollm, he will return from
the north and give to the world a power
as valuable in practical mechanics as
steam or electricity.
For sixteen years Kollm has been
ried it with him from Germany to the
interior of Alaska, and nursed it night
and day. He says that for these six
teen years, in the midst Of other work
to give him a livelihood, he has been
thinking out the principle, and that at
last ne has the scheme practically per
fected. After a year spent in the
work out a few final mechanical details,
he is at a point where he is sure success
looms before him. He will leave for
Fairbanks on January 25, and believes
that In less than ayear. he will have his
apparatus for utilizing the new power.
patented and in shape to be. Of immense
commercial Importance. ~
Kollm Will Not Talk.
nature Of this mysterious pow
er are not to be gained from
pflnelple Of weight applied on. a series
ing a man manipulate scales says the
inventor. "Hes lifted a railroad car
by a touch Of his finger on a certain
lever, thus throwing a number of
weights into play. My principle is along
the same line, but much farther worked
out. And beyond this the reticent
inY Mnt will not. g: :.
Ko!lm well. o He has been in the in
terror for years, and has gained a repu-
tation in the north for. bravery and
ability. With his paintings and, curios
ne has made. more than sufficient for
himself and his wife, who has accompa-
MED him in all his travels. She went
to Alaska with. the first women who
ventured into the icy north, and is al
Kollm himself. She is said to be the
first woman who walked every foot Of
the way from Dawson to. Skagway in
winter. -" sog 81 60:
Kollm has led a rowing life. Born in
Germany ffty-three years ago., he
studied painting at Berlin and Munich
under the best & masters Of the day.
When the Franco-Prussian war broke
out in II, Kollm, then only II, years
of age, volunteered for service, and
went thru the war, serving with such
distinction that he was granted medals
for conspicuous bravery. In 1873 he
came to the United States. Since then
he has been much on the move,< finally
going to Alaska in the early days of
the gold excitement, wheress-he CORE.
sponded for London newspapers.
>esdss Known as a Painter =
aIn.AIaska he is known principally as
} g painters He sdesignedss The diploma of
the Observation-Disclosures, Of which he
has been a prominent member gfol
years.4yPainting- on t~entscanvas, bark
moose hides or :whateverAaeame6 to his
hand, he found "a ready Sale for his
, work. Besides this, .Kollm has done
/ work outside of Alaska that entitle!
him to be called an artist. One Of thu
San francisco theaters used to- boast +;
huge curtain painted by him, and
: Boise, Idaho, theater is now using an
other curtain decorated by the sam,
hand. -a.,>s : " ~
< Thru all his years of rowing an.
painting, Kollm cherished his idea O.
. the new power. Whenever he had a lit
,. tie leisure time he set himself to work
ing out the details He had many
q fa1lure before success seemed even ii
sight. Many astime he had to give u
work on the great idea to take up some
thing else. But always he came back t.
the scheme withaenergy undated.
Finally, about a year ago. he fel
that he was near. victory. He lef
Z Alaska with his wife and came to tn
= states, They went into the mountain
Of Idaho, where. for months Kollr
fished, planning the final details befor
: he. should announce them to, theaworli
+ Then came IA disappointment. Reai
ing "a San Francisco paper, Kollm sal
a dispatch from. New York, telling O
- an inventor there who had announce
the same thing that Kollm had bee
:e working on for, long. Kollm wa
stunned at first. Then, thinking it owe
is he decided that he could improve sti
further on his idea.
ly With this in. mind he will 90 back t
TO- Alaska with his wife. He believes thu
h, the New York inventor has not,z afte
re all, solved the great problem, and thu
it remains for him to give it to tn
world. He expects to be. absent
Alaska for eight months, then to con
lie out with fame and perhaps fortu1
awaiting him.