The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-08-18
DRY POWER
 MOTOR GOES Inventor Claims Solution of
 Perpetual Motion Problem. UNION CITY AGOG WITH IMPAIRMENT Device Arranged by Hun garian Laborer Causes Pilgrimage
 Scientists Find Motive Pow CT a Gas Generating Powder
,Special to The Farmer.)

Union City, Aug. 1S.-With the whole town agog at the discovery of a genius in its midst who claims to have solved the problem of perpetual motion, one of the jokers of science since the ages when man was supposed to be ma chine giving out energy without a corresponding consumption of 1t, Joseph Sutkaitis of Union City still serves to increase the wonder of his townspeople by maintaining absolute silence in regard to his invention. Sutkaitis has applied to the patent of flee for a, patent on the machine which he claims to run by dry power" and with the exception of oil to annul the retarding effects of friction. He claims it is not only entirely self moving but energy creating as we'll
 The patent office has long since ceased to consider machines devised to create energy of themselves
 The latest man to solve the problem is Joseph Sutkaitis, a laborer employed in the packing room of the Goodrich Metallic Rubber Shoe Go. He was in Lithuania. his native country. inter .ested in machines and devised several mills there. Like thousands of others the idea of a machine to create energy came to him. He lacked a Knowledge of the experiments of others and so set to work on the idea He has ex-
 
 ey out of his small earnings to aid in his experiments, ever with the idea that his money would be returned many fold when he has solved the last and most troublesome little link.
 His finished product, as he claims it is. is concealed in two large boxes each eighteen inches wide. thirty-six inches long, and twenty-four inches high mounted on a flooring and with their ends at a distance of three feet. A frr ha other and on the outside of each are gala of gears, dia1s and even a pie ture of the inventor. Both boxes are similar. The cogs on the outside are to indicate the never ceasing motion of the machinery within.
 To start the machine the inventor turns a wheel not unlike the steering wheel of boat situated on the out side of the box. The gears start re- volving and to all appearances the man has solved the problem. Buc as to the contentS of she boxes he is of course reticens
 It was with prile that Sutkaitis took small compass and handing it to the plore the outside of the boxes contain ing his brain energy. money and for tune. When the needle of the com pass would suddenly defect, indicating the presence of a magnetic field the man would beam with delight and the lockers on, several of his compatriots, would appear mystified and talk of the genius of the man.
 The essential part of the apparatus, which he calls "dry power and en- zine seems to be "a pump not unlike a primitive turbine engine. It was made of a wooden rachet wheel enclosed in casing and having an opening through which gases might be allowed to flow and actuate the wheel and an- other opening for. the exhaust gas. Whether Sutkaitis has found a powder which will give off gas to act as a motive power and is not familiar with the difference between the energy of the powder and the resulting power of the drawings he had of parts of the machine it appeared that it was in that idea that his mistake lay.
 The fact that motive energy could be derived from powders and the like has lead a great number of inventors on footless searches for the solution of the old problem. The fact that anil ma1s had only to be given food and that was believed to contain no energy, only oil for fabrication. was the basis of reasoning for the inventors and even to this day men unaware of the energy supplied to plants by the sun and given to animals have reasoned and devoted time and money on the ment on the top floor of tenement at 53 Spring street, Union City and. with large family about seems to be one of those. On being asked If he was aware of the law of science relat- ing to the conservation of energy he motioned that he knew nothing of it and seemed to care less.