The New York herald., 1922-03-15

was In North Twentieth street, Phila-
delphia. and the inventor was making
a mighty struggle to revive the inter-
est that had waned when he refused
to let any one look behind the scenes.
Thousands OF dollars worth of stock
had been sold, but AT this particular
time ii was far below par. Keely had
once Travelled with a circus and was
pretty clever at sleight of hand tricks.
His seances always suggested the
magician show. But at this seance
there were present number of pros
poets and two well known scientists
Prof. Brinton of the University OF
Pennsylvania and Prof w. A. Mean
drew OF Pratt Institute.
Had spfrftuaIfst AIfbf.
7 am always a great deal disturbed
when begin one of these demonstra-
TONS began Keely. "for sometimes, II
an unsympathetic person is present
the machine VIII not work."
How was that for an alibi? He re-
peated this several times, thereby
dampening the ardor OF the audience.
they began to discuss the possibilities.
Think Of locomotive. equipped with
heely motor, passing through a
town where the unsympathetic lived,
or suppose the train should receive an
unsympathetic passenger. Mrs Bloom
Held Moore Of Philadelphia was Keelys
patron saint. and it was her money
that helped him bring his machine to
that stage where he made It pay.
Mrs. Moore was at this seance and
she talked simultaneously with Keely.
she assured the audience that what
heely actually had discovered and
harnessed was "the will of God"
watch him closely" she urged.
He can simply stand there and look
at that globe or speak to 1t and make
1t go fast or slow according 70 his
manner"
Then Keely proceeded to define his
discovery as a polar-depolar SYM
pathetic force-simply that and moth
Ing more. He was standing near a
pedestal topped with a glass plate.
On the plate stood a copper globe
connected with a smaller copper globe
and decorated with a small edition of
what looked like gramophone horn.
A flne copper wire connected all this
with a wheel that was set up a few
feet away on separate table. Brushes
somewhat like those within a dynamo
bristled at regular intervals from the
periphery OF the wheel and within the
main wheel there was another wheel.
All this sounds vague and may convey
nothing to tie reader. 1t conveyed
nothing to the observer.
Responded to Tuning Fork.
Keely took large tuning fork and
a either. He raped the former against
the globe and almost instantly the
wheels began to revolve over on the
table. There was a galvanometer prop
erly attached to the apparatus and no
electricity was registered.
"How does this happen?" demanded
enc of the visiting scientists.
Keely drew himself up to his maxi
mum height. He explained. His face
took on the look of the tolerant father
setting simple children straight.
1T is simple" he replied, very SIM
pie. Simply the interchange of polar
and depolar sympathy. Is that clear?"
Then Keely attached silk thread
to a gilded globe mounted on iron rods
and resting on a glass, plinth. He
passed the thread through an aperture
in the wall and entered the adjoining
room. He sat himself at the aperture.
Only his head could be seen by the
audience. The silk thread passed over
his shoulder. On n shelf In front of
him lay the either. two pitch pipes and
a mouth organ.
"This will be more astounding" he
announced. "It took me years to mas
ter this"