The blithesome pursuit of throwing good money after bad is not left to the heirs of imaginary English estates. It is the sport of a considerable number of persons who have grown gray holding stock in the Keely motor and waiting for the inventor to produce a result sufficiently practical to enable them to “unload.” Perhaps some of
them may have derived some comfort from the mystical but promising words spoken by the hopeful KEELY at the meeting of his stockholders in Philadelphia on Tuesday. It appears from these remarks that he is at present concerned with the graduation of his provisional engine, which has not gone on so fast as he could have wished, and he cannot now tell when it will be completed, but he is in a position to state that when it is completed a real engine will be ordered, and the building of the real engine ‘will be merely a matter of mechanical skill.' There may be people so constituted as to derive comfort, if not meaning, from this assurance; and a holder of stock in the Keely motor must have accustomed himself by this time to be thankful for extremely small mercies.
Published: December 19, 1889
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