THE BUILDWAS BRIDGE (CAST IRON) ACROSS THE SEVERN, ENGLAND. known, his pride in that discovery reading of a paper on The Keely would have dictated that a permanent record of it be made as a monument to his memory. Motor,' before the Engineers' Club by E. A. Scott, electrical engineer, one If the manifestations of its members. Mr. Collier and several directors of the Motor Company were present, by permission of the club, to take part in the discussion of the paper. Mr. Collier and his associates spoke for an hour and a half in answer to the paper and inquiries made by members. The discussion was participated in by Professors Spangler and of his so-called force were produced by tricks of the magician, it is unlikely that he would have communicated them when living or left them to posterity. If any one or more of his exhibitions of the new-found force could be conclusively shown to have been produced by well-known agencies, with Marburg, of the University of Penn- masqueraded as a wire, and which carsylvania, Messrs. Hering, Schuman, ried a small volume of air from a steel Hewitt, Twining, and other members globe containing air under high presof the club. The paper stated that sure. This globe, called the 'sympathe writer, on Mrs. Moore's invitation, thetic negative transmitter,' was conhad made several visits to Keely's nected by this tube with the Keely laboratory with her, and on two occa- Motor,' the revolving compass, the sions A. B. Burke, President of the mystic jar in which supposed heavy Spring Garden Institute, accompanied weights rose and fell at the will of Mr. them, and he was shown nearly the Keely, the ever revolving wheel, that whole range of experiments, and made was moved by apergy,' and many no adverse criticism, thereby gaining other mystefying pieces of trick mamore information than he would had chinery, with which the place was Keely suspected him of being an in- filled. The compressed air comvestigator. Several of the so-called municated slowly through the tube, was experiments were found to be explain- sufficient to whirl the compass and able on the theory of the combined apergy wheel, and to change the air use of compressed air, electricity and pressure in the inclosed space at the magnetism. An abundance of facts, top of the mystic jar so as to produce collected at the various visits, conclu- the phenomena of the Cartesian sively proved it. One vital fact, and Diver,' and produce awe in the spectathe one most vehemently combatted tors. It also carried sufficient pressure by Mr. Collier and his board, was the to close switches on an electric circuit, use of a fine platinum tube, which which operated the motor." "Quien Sabe." THE PHILIPPINE PROBLEM. The whole country seems to be at sea when the future of the Philippine Islands is up for discussion. Of course, there are those who are ever ready to grasp something, whether it be a municipal franchise in an American city or 10,000,000 people of the East Indian Archipelago, who insist that we must keep the entire group, and, so far as taxation and special privileges go, continue the Spanish system of government, with perhaps the addition or omission of a few frills and furbelows. It is painfully apparent that the Filipinos crave liberty- they appear to dislike the rule of the far-distant Americans, of the Western Continent, as Honolulu of Today, page 8. |