Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-08-02

ly magnetic an indispensable steer
plate, which alone obstructed its sue
cessful operation.
However, an examination Of the
model gave the examiners better un-
derstanding and opinion Of the invent
nr's claims and they gained a shadowy
conception of the basic principle which
he had tried to explain to their COM
prehension with no previous success.
Hastens to Visit Wife.
The application was accepted and
registered and the glad-hearted in
ventor took the first train for the
Crescent City, where his wife awaited
him. He spent two days with his wife,
and was present to report at the Phoe-
nix prison with a couple Of days mar
gin to his credit.
While in Washington Meyers had
drawings made in detail by expert
craftsmen for an apparatus which, he
claims will supply a constant current
sufficient to illuminate a city Of 200,-
900 population.
Meyers outfit, which, in some re-
spects, resembles a wireless" plant,
Is placed on tower Of skeleton steel,
averaging 200 feet In height. This
structure carries a bell-shaped cap or
hood, at the back of which Is fixed a
steel plate magnetized by process Sc
cret with the inventor.
This hood Meyers calls an absorb
err" and 1t constitutes the crux Of his
invention. He claims that 1t will col
lect or draw all the electricity from
any stratum Of the atmosphere, but
preferably from such strata as are
considerably elevated above the
ground, where there Is less disturb
ance or disruption of the airs strait
fication.
Conveyed to Transformer.
This absorber Is the sole mechanism
required to attract and accumulate the
electrical contents Of the air current
in which 1t may be set to work; the
positive and negative elements OF the
fluid gathering at opposite electrodes
or poles, and being conducted by wires
as fast as 1t accumulated In the absorb
er, down to a "stepup" transformer To-
Gated on the ground. Having passed
through this transformer, the electric
fluid, now changed into direct" cur
rent, Is conducted, also by insulated
wires, to any Of the existing forms OF
electric lighting apparatus or to stor-
age batteries, for use in motor vehicles
or tram cars, or directly to any elec-
trio motor attached to machinery. II
may also be used for every purpose
where heat Is required by passing the
current through the proper resistance
coils.
Meyers also emphatically claims
that his apparatus accumulates AND
transmits a constant current, and that
his absorber will draw aerial electric
ity as we'll by night as by day and that
1t will work in every condition and po-
sition where the wireless Is efncient.
overeharge 10 Prevented.
Danger from surcharge of the appa-
ratus during electrical storms Is guard
ed against by means Of special form
of "arrester," and somewhat like those
in use on telegraph and telephone
lines. This appliance quietly takes
down into the ground all excess cur
rents or accumulation OF the fluid even
during the most violent atmospheric
disturbances.
Meyers has found that the efficient
working Of the absorber or accumula-
tor is increased by fixing the appara-
tus in a position to intercept all cur
rents flowing between the magnetic
poles Of the earth, and therefore, ne
prefers to place the apparatus In due
north and south line.
Roy ]. Meyers is native OF Iowa,
where he was born thirty-three years
ago, but he has been a restless bird OF
passage since his youth, and has So
journed at brief periods In New York,
New Jersey, Illinois, Montana and
Arizona and In other states and terri
tories, Of whose names he does not
give account. The greater portion OF
his life was absorbed In work upon
and with electrical machinery. He was
A.. ~ fy, An0alaQ nv the
Edison Electric company and 1t was
then that he made his first lapse from
honest courses, which landed him in
the penitentiary at Folsom for a year.
When he left that prison he drifted to
Arizona and became for time assist
ant superintendent Of the great Hum
boldt smelter, and later held job at
Prescott.
Second Time Sent to Prison
He again yielded to temptation at
the latter place, and forged and cashed
q check for $50. Leaving the country,
with detectives on his trail, he was n
nally located and arrested In New Or
leans, where he had succeeded In mar
rying into a prominent family, whose
name he never mentions. Brought
back to Arizona, his trial and convic-
ton swiftly followed and his sentence
was three years and nine months con-
finement at hard labor. This he Is still
serving, but with deductions for his
exemplary good behavior he will be
free in about eighteen months from
this date unless the Importance OF his
invention shall, with the influence OF
friends, move the governor to grant
him a previous pardon.
Invention Will Work Wonders.
It is an almost unbelievable thing to
consider the worldwide changes this
air-drawn power evoked by a convict
will produce in our work-a-day world.
Think of what 1t means. All steam,
and heat and gas energies with their
extravagant cost and constant toll In
human lives and immense destruction
of material property will be speedily
and 1t would need no
prophet to foretell an almost new CIV
for the world, In which the
poor and all the real burden carriers
Of governments will share alike In
benefits with the rich and official
mightiest among men; the genesis OF a
new condition of living wherein no
person need live unlighted by night
or unwarmed in the most rigorous WIN
ter; wherein the heretofore puzzling
problems Of transportation would find
easy solution and the high cost Of food
and clothing and other comforts and
of life would be reduced
to a minimum never before attained
by the lowering Of productive cost and
the immense saving to humanltyS
use of the rations consumed by ami
mails now at work wnere machines
will better work hereafter.
Would Be Dream Realized.
1t will surely, for once, be utopian
dream wondrously realized, II, as real
ly appears to be the case, this man
Meyer has actually found way to
draw down from the air its potent es-
sences Of light and heat where they
have lain reserved from mortal need
and use through the lapse Of time.
The grinding monopolies Of coal and
oil and gas will be forever dissolved,
and no man. however selfish. will be
able to Corner the boundless oceans
of air from which comes this now un-