The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-02-01
EAvEN TOR
To STARTLE
WORLD
BaVarian Gets. Financial Backing
in New Orleans for Perpetual
Motion Plant.
rhe New Orleans Pleayune Of We.

The New Orleans Picayune of We'd.
1esday contaireI the following:
New Orleans is soon to startle the
scientific. and even the unscientifc
people. with the demonstration of the
possibility of perpetual motion. Way
up on Broadway and General Hood
streets, far from the peering eyes or
the curious and unbelieving, is being
constructed will take place. Walk
ing round the place watching the
erection of this epoch-makihg build
ing. like a Gagged lion watches the
trainer preparing a breakfast of raw
meat. is a strongly knit German. For
many years the futile efforts of inven-
tors-.to discover the secret of perpet-
Eual motion have made John Philip VI
/ rich strive more ardently for its pO-
session. and to-day he thinks that
Providence has given to him the won
derful boon. That he is firmly con-
vncel' of this fact, no one who speaks
to him can for a moment doubt, and
1 that he mas succeeded in making other
people accept his victory as achieved,
\ is shown by the fact that he has or
gaIiized company that : is putting
A $4,000 in the construction of a plant
to confound the unbelievers and revO
lutionize the industrial world Al
ready about $4,000 has been spent
Il A,visit was paid 10 the building yes
ter1ay when the inventor kindly ex.
piained the principle OF his invention.
Already a wooden edifice so feet by 81
feet has been constructed TO hold the
required machinery. In this building
there are concrete foundations feet
vide by 4 feet deep, on which will resi-
the heavy machinery. Running around
theNRhole length of the building are
deep bitches, whose walls are of solic
teapcrete several feet thick, and about
l3.feet apart. The idea Of the inven
tqRsis to have huge ovcrshot water
Mheels placea in these trenches. ant
! above the wheels will be a. reservoir
which will furnish the water to run
: them and the power geHerated from
, tFeSe eYershOt wheels Wills work
. centrifugal pump. which, IN igrn viii
z l1'aise the water 10 tho Tesergeir anC
= twHl then furnish power to the whce
y tfeturnihg TO the trench only to e
4 Through the process again. and thu.
l'keep the machine going all the timn
,, fBy means Of its own poweF.s Mr. III
Eich thinks that not only will tllC
wheel generate enough boMfi tC
keep thewheel going, but that il will
r. generate enough to be drawn OF and
FUSED for commercial purposes, : and +
ISIS with this latter view that capita
lflss invested itself. There viii b,
'sFfqnf wheels, 25 feet in diameter. eacf
wi wheel having buckets at short inter
Tal8 to catch the water as it falls
These water wheels are connected
with other wheels by mechanical dc
o. vices and the turning OF these latter
e wheels will furnish the power fol
manufacturing purposes so eheaply
ttat the civilization of the earth viii
be changed in few years, if Mr.. VI
D. rich's wheel will do ali that it claimed
o for it,
Mr. Ulrich is a stout. Heavy-set man
who speaks very broken English. anc
whose occupation in America has beer
D. that of coachman. He, is a man Of
/ about 40. ana as seen yesterday with
Il his working clothes, he might have
been taken for some New England
farm hand. He has the inventor.
total disregard for dress His har
Il seems like some veteran of severa
II street car wrecks. whose scars have
!. rot yet been healed. while his Jean.
tSeem to have turned green with inv
as they contemplated the venerable
e looks of the browning hat. But from
II out beneath the crown of that, hal
s locks forth face that is strong witt
d that determined masculinity tha
shows the man of deep purpose. de
voted to the pursuit of one purpose
>, through life His thick firm Jaws
p tell the story of mans defiance o.
!. the laws of natuEe. and his lasting
threat to wrest from her bosom what
other men have spent their lives al
their all trying to accomplish. As Mr.
eI Ulrieh talked of his invention, his fac,