Evening star., 1925-07-12


New York Washington as rapid as
Express Service. The fol
lowing. printed in The Star of July
6. 1875. throws light upon the cohdl-
ton that then prevailed:
The Baltimore American OF yester-
dav saws: 1T was reported yesterday
that the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany was going TO take off the limited
express. for the reason that II does
not pay.
whether this report is true or not
we cannot say, but we shall not pe
surprised If IL shall turn out TO be
correct. Nor viii 1t make very much
difference TO the business travel De
tween the two cities II 1t is WITHDRAWN
for running upon the time 1t now
does 1t presents very few ADVANTAGES
over the regular ordinary train Whlch
starts from either end of the route
about an hour and a half earlier. IL
is true, it gives the leisurely disposed
passenger that much longer time 10
get ready for starting and sets MN
down at his destination about an hour
and a quarter sooner; but for all
practical or business purposes the
time thus economical at either eno
of the route is without value. Ihe
only thing to be said in It's raVer Is
that 1t makes the transit more rapidly.
"If Col Scott wants to run limited
express between the two capitals OF
the country that would be real ac-
commodation to the business public
and at the same time a source of proht
to the railroad companies interested,
he should start 1t from both ends OF
the route at o'clock in the after
noon and run it through to destlna-
ton in seven hours-without more
than five stops-which would be at
the rate of 80 miles an hour. This
would give the passengers the better
part of the business day before start
ing and land them at either terminus
in season for ordinary bedtime, with
out loss of valuable time on the one
hand, or loss of rest on the other.
We hope that this experiment will be
tried before the idea of limited eH-
press between the two cities is aban-
doned. We are satisfied that 1t would
be a complete success in every re-
spect."
Skepticism regarding the Keely mo.
tor, which was attracting general
Doubt About the country 50 years
Keely Motor. dew DEVELOPING sS i T great at
power cheaply-and of making large
fortunes quickly was freely eX-
pressed by the press of the country
The Star took little stock in the al
legged invention, as indicated by the
following printed in its issue of July
7, 1875:
THE Keely motor, the new power
that, according to report, is to work
H., S,n, tool xxynr
is doubtless a humbug, but II would
seem to be an ingenious humbug, as
it has won the confidence of several
people who have some pretensions to
scientific knowledge.
"Keely claims to produce from the
consumption of air and water a cold
vapor capable of condensation by SIM
pie expansion, which contains power
enough to produoe a pressure of
1000 to 10000 pounds to the square
inch. He asserts that his motor will
produce $50 times the pressure that
steam will, and that in order to con-
troll this tremendous power he must
have engines of Austrian gun metal
He also claims that the motor will
not only do the work of steam, but
is applicable to all purposes for which
gunpoWdef is used, and Is far supe-
rior to gunpowder or any other eX-
plosive known, as the pressure is con-
tinued up to the time the ball leaves
the rnuzzle of the gun, whereby tre-
mendous impetus is given to the mis-
sile; whereas in the use OF powder
the force of the gases generated
lessons as the ball travels through
the barrel.
THE excuse given for not explain
ing to the public the secret of the
motor is that Mr.. Keely Is not pre-
pared yet to fully cover his invention
by patents. He says, or his partners
say for him: We cannot. of course.
cover a natural law by a patent, and
what we can cover we must describe
so fully that any person expert in
such matters can do the same thing
from our description In order that he
may know when and how he infringes
on our patents. This we have not