The sun., 1918-10-05

little store In Railroad avenue, Jersey
City, yesterday TO see how Dick had
conquered the laws OF gravity. friction
and everything, Dick began by flashing
two letters from the Naval Consulting
Board TO show that even the Government
was all wrapped up In the idea. The
gist of the letters was that "inasmuch
as the idea which you have periodically
submitted Is Of the perpetual motion
class we are compelled to decline to con-
slider II seriously"
With these two typewriter proofs
that the United States Government WAS
nuts about his perpetual motion machine
Inventor Clram started In upon a
lengthy lecture which told in detail the
workings Of his discovery. Big blue
prints lined the wall Of the store-for
/ which Dick pays s18 a month rent out
Of the money advanced by his subscrib-
ers-and on the floor was n cast iron
base for the machine which some day Is
to make Tom Edison, Alec Boil and the
rest OF those lads look like pikers. Also
scattered about Dicks feet were various
nuts. bolts. patterns, shallow sheet iron
tanks and steel bearings.
Perhaps there were more nuts than
anything else about the place. Next In
number came a supply of steel levers
which Dick. once he got into an anatom-
ical description of the innards Of his
theoretical machine, insisted upon call
ing livers. The blue prints show that
| the machine will have livers not only
on the right side OF its anatomy, where
! liver logically belongs. but 1t will also
! be fitted out with livers all over the rest
of Its lungs and lights.
! Inasmuch as the capital stock sub.
! scription OF s25000,000 Is ut present
only about $24,997,060 shy of the total
amount Dick hopes to raise, the visitor
| had hopes that Dick would at least have
n working model whirring away per-
petually In some nook or corner OF the
shop. But owing to various unfortunate
delays the great Austrian inventor yes
terday found himself In the position
where he could demonstrate merely thai
oratory can be made perpetual.
1t was some time during the earl,
afternoon that Dick-who had been max
ing parts OF his machine on one of thos'
silly old steam driven lathes, which will
be strapped as soon as some more peo
pie with vision come across for stool
inscriptions. started in, blackboard
pointer" in hand. to explain the me
chanism 30 convincingly displayed oil
the blue prints adjoining the walls
Whatever doubts the visitor may hav
had about the possibility Of perpetua
motion were beginning to wane aroun'
4 o'clock. as Dick talked on and on
and when he approached that point Il
his discourse about an hour later, wher
he was about to set the blue prints men
tally moving perpetually. the last doub
of the visitor disappeared.
At dusk, as the visitor stealthily with
drew toward the door. Dick was still
going strong. Oral perpetual motion b.
this time had been absolutely demon
strated.
And as a final clinch in his proc
that his machine once started will neve
stop Dick exhibited a movie Aim whic
II projecting machine, screen an
movie operator had been handy. Ger
tainly would dash aside, 80 Dick said
the last doubter. This Aim. Dick ex
planned, Is a strip Of photographs G
drawings OF his invention with the ma
chine in various positions consequent
when the Aim Is run through a projec,
ing machine and flashed on the screen
proves beyond all doubt that the ma
chine can go faster than the combine