71. 'Disgusted Keely Motor Men,' New York Times, October 30, 1883.
72. 'Keely Explains Again,' New York Times, October 31, 1883. 'The Motor Man Granted Two Months,' New York Times, December 13, 1883. I have not been able to uncover more specifics about the death of Keely's first wife, her burial, or his marriage to his second wife.
73. 'The Keely Motor,' New York Times, March 17, 1884, 'Keely Nearing the End,' Scientific American, March 29, 1884, page 196.
74. 'Keely Not Yet Ready,' New York Times, March 26, 1884, 'The Keely Motor Stuck Again,' Scientific American, April 5, 1884, page 213.
75. Clara Bloomfield-Moore, Keely and His Discoveries, Aerial Navigation, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1893, page 12.
76. Fort Lafayette mentioned in 'Lieut. Zalinski and Mr. Keely,' New York Times, November 18, 1884. Also slight reference in: Megargee, 'Seen and Heard in Many Places,' The Times, March 21, 1898. American Machinist, vol. 21, no. 47, November 24, 1898, wrongly dates the experiments at Fort Lafayette in 1887.
77. 'Keely's Vaporic Force. Experiments With a Mysterious Gun at Sandy Hook,' New York Times, September 21, 1884. About the gun, see also: Clara Bloomfield-Moore, Keely and His Discoveries, Aerial Navigation, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1893, page 77.
78. 'The Keely Motor Deception,' Scientific American, October 11, 1884, page 230. See also 'The Keely Motor Fraud,' Scientific American, January 28, 1899. Interestingly, while the 1884 issue dated the Sandy Hook experiment in 1884, the issue of the Scientific American, December 3, 1889, mistakenly dated the experiment in 1888.
79. 'Keely's Vaporic Force. Experiments With a Mysterious Gun at Sandy Hook,' New York Times, September 21, 1884. See also: William Mill Buder, 'Keely and the Keely Motor,' The Home Magazine, 1898, page 109.
80. A. Wilford Hall, 'A Visit to Mr. Keely,' Scientific Arena, July, 1886.
81. 'Keely's Vaporic Force. Experiments With a Mysterious Gun at Sandy Hook,' New York Times, September 21, 1884.
82. 'The Keely Motor Deception,' Scientific American, October 11, 1884, page 230.
83. ibid.
84. Clara Bloomfield-Moore, Keely and His Discoveries, Aerial Navigation, Kegan Paul, trench, Trubner & Co., 1893, page 32.
85. 'The Keely Motor Deception,' Scientific American, October 11, 1884, page 230.
86. 'Keely Was Cornered,' The Evening Bulletin, January 28, 1899.
87. A. Wilford Hall, 'A Visit to Mr. Keely,' Scientific Arena, July, 1886.
88. 'Keely's Etheric Vapor,' New York Times, September 21, 1884.
89. 'The Keely Motor Deception,' Scientific American, October 11, 1884, page 230.
90. ibid. The view of Scientific American was shared by a G.W. Browne who compared the vaporic gun with 'the pneumatic pop gun of childhood.' In: 'Artillery Branch of Keely's Service,' New York Herald, November 1, 1891. Also in: 'The Wizards Latest Highest Mystery Is Explored,' New York Herald, November 8, 1891.
91. 'The new Dynamite Gun,' Scientific American, April 5, 1884, page 214.
92. 'Lieut. Zalinski and Mr. Keely,' September 24, 1884, New York Times, November 18, 1884. 'The Times Retort,' New York Times, November 18, 1884.
93. 'Keely Bearded in his Den,' New York Times, November 16, 1884. Also present was Colonel Hamilton who had initiated the experiment at Sandy Hook. See: 'No Other Has Ever Been So Shrouded In The Mist Of Publicity,' New York Herald, November 27, 1898.
94. 'Keely's Secret Hidden,' New York Times, November 20, 1898.
95. 'Zalinski Denounces Keely. An Expert Severely Criticizes The Famous Motor. Offers Which Were Refused,' The Times, November 29, 1888.
96. A. Wilford Hall, 'A Visit to Mr. Keely,' Scientific Arena, July, 1886.
97. 'Exposing Keely's Secret. A Connecticut Machinist Who Says the Inventor is a Fraud,' New York Times, December 29, 1884.
98. 'Where Keely Got His Idea,' New York Times, December 30, 1884.
99. 'Thinks Keely Was Huss?,' The Times, January 19, 1889. 'Was Keely Ever Huss?,' The Times, January 19, 1889.
100. 'It Was Not Keely,' The Times, January 22, 1889.
101. Megargee, 'Seen and Heard in Many Places, The Times, 'March 11, 1898. Or see: 'Keely, The Motor Man,' Chicago Tribune, April 22, 1888: 'He (Keely) has lived comfortably enough all these years, with a handsome horse most of the time to draw him about town and big diamonds to decorate his ample chest. For a little time, when luck was against him, his diamonds disappeared and he was content to walk, but with a return of better times the horse and jewels came back. His fondness for diamonds is a striking trait. He used to wear three big yellow ones in his shirt bossom, but nowadays he is content with one or two, smaller in size, but of finer quality.' See also: 'Seen and Heard in Many Places,' The Times, November 21, 1898. Of this enlargement of Keely's knuckles, which also led to the presumption that Keely was a cannon-ball tosser in a circus (same article), see also: "There Was No Meeting,' The Times, November 27, 1898, and A. Wilford Hall, 'A Visit To Mr. Keely,' Scientific Arena, July, 1886. Allegedly Keely once said that the enlarged finger-joints 'were caused by varnish.' In: Letter by H.R. Borle, Megargee, 'Seen and Heard in Many Places,' The Times, November 26, 1898. About the diamonds, see also: "The Keely Motor,' 'International Cyclopedia,' vol.VIII, 1899, page 458: 'His weakness was diamonds of which he had a handful, and always sported a large cluster scarf pin...'
102. 'Men and Things,' The Evening Bulletin, November 21, 1898.
103. Megargee, 'Seen and Heard in Many Places,' The Times, November 22, 1898.
104. Letter by George Canby, in Megargee, 'Seen and Heard in Many Places,' November 26, 1898.
105. Letter by George Mays, dated November 21, Megargee, 'Seen and Heard in Many Places,' The Times, November 23, 1898.
106. 'The Keely Motor,' Public Ledger Almanac, 1900, page 101.
107. 'Two Hours With Keely,' Public Ledger and Daily Transcript, November 11, 1895.
108. 'Keely's Power,' Public Ledger and Daily Transcript, January 26, 1899.
Chapter 3. Prophet of the New Force: The Third Decade
1. Letter dated June 1st, in: Clara Bloomfield-Moore, Keely and His Discoveries, Aerial Navigation, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1893, page 34-35. Also: 'Keely Still Promising Wonders,' New York Times, March 27,1885. Elsewhere another reason for Keely's refusal to give more exhibitions was proposed: 'It is stated that a Connecticut man has discovered the alleged secret of the Keely Motor. The story goes that he obtained work in Keely's shops, and, as a spy, discovered that the alleged power was... compressed air. This of course, the inventor denies. Keely is close and suspicious about everything pertaining to his motor. He guards his shop carefully.' In: 'A Visit To The Keely Motor,' New York Daily Tribune, February 16, 1885. The Connecticut man was Baker. See chapter 2 and chapter 2, note 97.
2. 'Keely's Red Letter Day,' New York Times, June 7, 1885. Also: 'A Motor In B Flat,' New York Daily Tribune, June 7, 1885, 'The Keely Motor Humbug,' New York Times, June 8, 1885.
3. Letter dated July 15. In: Clara Bloomfield-Moore, Keely and His Discoveries, Aerial Navigation, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1893, page 35.
4. Letter dated August 5. ibid. page 36.
5. ibid. page 87.
6. ibid. pages 10-11.
7. Letter dated December 17, 1885. ibid. page 39.
8. ibid. page 39.
9. The newspaper in question was the New York Home Journal, August 5, 1885. In: Clara Bloomfield-Moore, Keely and His Discoveries, Aerial Navigation, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1893, page 12.
10. ibid. page 106.
11. ibid. pages 39-40. Bloomfield-Moore writes that Ricarde-Seaver had transported 'the first box of stored electricity' from Paris to Lord Kelvin in Edinburgh.
12. ibid. page 40.
13. ibid. page 87.
14. Letter dated August 17, 1885. ibid. page 39
15. A. Wilford Hall, 'A Visit To Mr. Keely,' Scientific Arena, July, 1886. Reprinted in Sympathetic Vibratory Physics, vol.III, no.4, January 1988, pages 4-12.
16. ibid.
17. 'Motor Keely Gets Angry,' New York Times, May 22, 1886.
18. A. Wilford Hall, 'A Visit To Mr. Keely,' Scientific Arena, July, 1886. Reprinted in Sympathetic Vibratory Physics, vol.III, no.4, January 1988, pages 4-12.
19. ibid.
20. 'Motor Keely Gets Angry,' New York Times, May 22, 1886.
21. A. Wilford Hall, 'A Visit To Mr. Keely,' Scientific Arena, July, 1886. Reprinted in Sympathetic Vibratory Physics, vol. III, no.4, January 1988, pages 4-12.
22. ibid. See also: Clara Bloomfield-Moore, Keely and His Discoveries, Aerial Navigation, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1893, page 87.
23. 'Motor Keely Gets Angry,' New York Times, May 22, 1886.
24. A. Wilford Hall, 'A Visit To Mr. Keely,' Scientific Arena, July, 1886. Reprinted in Sympathetic Vibratory Physics, vol.III, issue 4, January 1988, pages 4-12.
25. 'Motor Keely Gets Angry,' New York Times, May 22, 1886. 'Mr. Keely Exhibits His Motor,' New York Daily Tribune, May 23, 1886. For an account of a demonstration, made in July that year, see: 'Keely's Spinning Motor,' New York Times, July 25, 1886.
26. Henry B. Hudson, 'Mr. Keely's Researches - Sound To be Shown A Substantial Role,' Scientific Arena, December 6, 1886. Reprinted in: Sympathetic Vibratory Physics, vol.III, issue 5, February 1988, pages 2-5.
27. ibid.
28. ibid.
29. ibid.
30. ibid.
31. ibid.
32. ibid.
33. ibid.
34. Clara Bloomfield-Moore, Keely and His Discoveries, Aerial Navigation, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1893, page 40.
35. William Mill Butler, 'Keely and the Keely Motor,' The Home Magazine, 1898, page 110.
36. Henry B. Hudson, "The Keely Motor Illustrated,' Scientific Arena, January, 1887.
Reprinted in Sympathetic Vibratory Physics, Vol.III issue 6, March 1988, pages 2-6.
37. 'Keely And His Motor,' The Evening Bulletin, August 22, 1887.
38. Clara Bloomfield-Moore, Keely and His Discoveries, Aerial Navigation, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1893, page 41.
39. William Mill Butler, 'Keely and the Keely Motor,' The Home Magazine, 1898, page 110.
40. 'Keely's Aerial Navigation,' unspecified clipping, December 12, 1887, Sympathetic Vibratory Physics Homepage, Internet.
41. 'Keely's Change of Base,' New York Times, December 14, 1887. Also, 'Gaseous Keely,' San Francisco Daily Examiner, May 14, 1888.
42. Clara Bloomfield-Moore, Keely and His Discoveries, Aerial Navigation, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1893, page 75. Her 1888 pamphlet 'Keely's Secrets' was translated into French and was serialized as 'Les Secrets de Keely' in the esoteric magazine L'Aurore subtitled 'organe du Christianisme esoterique,' in No.9, September 1888, pages 478 - 488, no. 10, October 1888, pages 530-537, and no. 11, November 1888, pages 593-596. A certain 'Lee' published his or her article on Keely entitled 'Quelques experiences de John Worrell Keely' in L'Aurore, tome IV, 1889, pages 199-206. Bloomfield-Moore would publish another article on Keely entitled 'Le progress de Keely, in no.4, April 1892, pages 151-155. In L'Aurore, no.2, February 1892, Colville would also publish an article entitled 'Le mystre du Corps du Christ,' pages 55-61.
43. Le Lotus, September 1888. A portrait of Keely accompanied the article. Blavatsky's written statements concerning Keely were printed in an article entided: 'Occult Light On Keely,' New York Daily Tribune, January 15, 1888, some months before they were published in The Secret Doctrine.
44. Clara Bloomfield-Moore, Keely and His Discoveries, Aerial Navigation, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1893, page 102.
45. ibid. pages 100-102.
46. See chapter 1, and chapter 1, notes 41 and 45. 'The Keely Motor,' Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, March 13, 1888. 'Keely and his Motor,' New York Times, November 4, 1888.
47. 'Keely Motor Suit Ended,' Philadelphia Press, February 26, 1890.
48. 'Everybody For Keely,' New York Times, September 8, 1888.
49. 'Motor Men Disgusted,' New York Times, September 11, 1888.
50. 'To See Keely's Machine,' New York Times, September 26, 1888. Also: 'Keely Not Yet in Jail,' New York Times, September 19, 1888.
51. See chapter 2 and chapter 2, note 21. Also: 'The Keely Motor Experts,' New York Times, April 8, 1888.
52. See chapter 2 and chapter 2, note 19.
53. 'Keely Motor. What Dr. Cresson said to me Reporter of The Philadelphia Press, November 12m, 1888,' undated pamphlet, George Canby, 'Keely Motor Scraps,' vol.1, not published.
54. 'Going For Keely,' The Times, November 12, 1888.
55. 'Inventor Keely In Jail,' New York Times, November 17, 1888. Also: 'Mr. Keely May Go To Jail,' Williamsport Sun Gazette, November 12, 1888, 'Motor Keely In Contempt,' Hartford Courant, November 12, 1888, 'Keely committed for contempt,' New York Daily Tribune, November 18, 1888, 'Mr. Keely's Contempt,' New York Times, November 16, 1888, 'Inventor Keely In Prison,' Hartfort Courant, November 19, 1888.
56. 'Mr. Keely's Sunday In Jail,' 'The Press, November 19, 1888. See also: Clara Bloomfield-Moore, Keely and His Discoveries, Aerial Navigation, Kegan Paul, Trench Trubner & Co., 1893, pages 100-101.
57. ibid.
58. 'Keely's Sunday In Jail,' New York Times, November 19, 1888.
59. 'Mr. Keely's Sunday In Jail,' The Press, November 19, 1888.
60. 'Keely's Sunday In Jail,' New York Times, November 19, 1888. There is some confusion as to where me Supreme Court resided; while the New York Times wrote Harrisburg, "The Press' wrote Pittsburgh.
61. 'Mr. Keely's Sunday In Jail,' The Press, November 19, 1888.
62. 'Keely Motor Suit Ended,' Philadelphia Press, February 26, 1890. Keely's release was also noted in Scientific American: 'The Philadelphia court which thought it could keep Mr. Keely in confinement has seen its error. As me Tribune already remarked, Mr. Keely is out of jail and has returned to his motor.' In: 'Mr. Keely's Motor,' Scientific American, December 22, 1888, page 388.
63. 'Keely's Discharge,' The Times, January 29, 1889. The date February 1 was also given. In: 'Keely Motor Suit Ended,' Philadelphia Press, February 26, 1890.
64. 'Keely Not In Contempt,' New York Times, January 29, 1889.
65. ibid.
66. ibid. See also: Clara Bloomfield-Moore, Keely and His Discoveries, Aerial Navigation, Kegan Paul, trench, Trubner & Co., 1893, pages 111-112.
67. 'The Keely Decision,' The Times, January 29, 1890.
68. 'Keely Not In Contempt,' New York Times, January 29, 1889.
69. 'Keely Motor Suit Ended,' Philadelphia Press, February 26, 1890.
70. 'Fair Play This Time,' The Times, March 29, 1889.
71. Clara Bloomfield-Moore, Keely and His Discoveries, Aerial Navigation, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1893, page 122.
72. ibid. page 162. On his provisional engine and its graduation, see also: 'Keeley (sic) Still Promising,' New York Times, December 18, 1889.
73. ibid. page 114.
74. 'Keely's New Force. A Motor That Surprises Scientists,' San Francisco Chronicle, April 7, 1890.
75. ibid. See also: Clara Bloomfield-Moore, Keely and His Discoveries, Aerial Navigation, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1893, page 114. Of course, Leidy by now was a supporter of Keely's claims. See: 'The Keely Motor Again,' Invention, October 19, 1889. See also: Clara Bloomfield-Moore, Keely and His Discoveries, Aerial Navigation, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner&Co., 1893, pages 117-119,and, 'Professor Leidy's Adherence to the New Force,' Evening Telegraph, April 13, 1890. Apparently Leidy withdrew his statement, although there is some confusion as to that; Bloomfield-Moore claimed that 'on the contrary he maintained it until his death.' In: 'Keely Motor Once More,' Public Ledger and Daily Transcript, November 6, 1895.
76. 'Keely's Secret,' The World, May 11, 1890. Also: 'Keely's Secret,' Los Angeles Sunday Times, June 15, 1890.
77. ibid.
78. ibid.
79. ibid.
80. 'A Modern Wizard: The Keely Motor and
its Inventor,' in: Cheiro, 'Mysteries and Romances of me World's Greatest Occultists,' Herbert Jenkins, 1935, 237-251. Short reference in Marc J. Seiffer, Wizard The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla, Birch Lane Press, 1996, page 64.
81. ibid. page 241. According to Cheiro, this happened in the presence of Ricarde-Seaver, who was hearing about the motor for the first time. Together they went to visit Keely in Philadelphia. But in fact Ricarde-Seaver had already done so in 1884. See this chapter, and this chapter, notes 10 and 11.
82. ibid. page 248.
83. Clara Bloomfield-Moore, Keely and His Discoveries, A erial Navigation, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1893, pages 114-121. The Philadelphia Inquirer of March 30, 1890 copied this article headed: 'The Keely Motor: some observations on the invention from a foreign publication.'
84. Clara Bloomfield-Moore, Keely and His Discoveries, Aerial Navigation, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1893, page 128. The pamphlet in question was 'The Keely Motor Bubble,' which contained Lorrimer's 'Minority Report to the Stockholders,' published in 1881.
85. Bloomfield-Moore mentions the newspapers New York Home Journal, Truth, Detroit Tribune, Chicago Herald, Toledo Blade, Atlanta Constitution, The Statesman, and the Austrian Vienna News. I have discovered an article written by one Afra and entitled, 'John Worrell Keely' in me Dutch theosophical magazine Theosophia, 1893, no. 13. More on this article in chapter 8 and chapter 8, note 63. In 1892 the book Vera Vita, The Philosophy of Sympathy. Discovery of a New Element and its Connection with Real Life, Practically Demonstrated in Keely's Experiments, written by David Sinclair also appeared in London.
86. 'Saw The Keely Motor,' The Times, January 31, 1893.
87. ibid.
88. ibid.
89. 'Keely's Great Mystery,' San Fransisco Examiner, October 22, 1893.
90. 'Keely Motor Progress,' Public Ledger and Daily Transcript, December 14, 1893.
91. Letter by Alfred H. Plum to Philadelphia Enquirer, January 14, 1894.
92. untitled article, The Times, October 27, 1893.
93. Letter by Alfred H. Plum to Philadelphia Enquirer, January 14, 1894.
94. ibid.
95. Introduction in William Colville, Dashed Against The Rock, Banner Of Light Publishing Company, 1894.
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