Offers Her Aid to Nikola Tesla

Mrs. Benedict Writes That She Has Found the Hiding Place of Universal Force.

SPENT YEARS IN THE DESERT.

Many Wonderful Things May Be Done, She Thinks, if Her Theory Is True.

Nikola Tesla receives many communications on the subject of electricity, especially from enthusiasts who think they are on the verge of making the greatest discovery of the age. Here is a letter addressed to him recently by a woman: —

“Detroit, Mich., Oct. 21. — Nikola Tesla: — I have discovered the hiding place of universal force, of that most vital and terrible thing, the fountain of pure electrical fluid.

“Universal force is in the inter-atomic atmosphere and cannot be brought into open demonstration except by disrupting the atomic sheath, which has never been accomplished, except under veiled conditions, and then unwittingly and without recognition.

“The phenomenon of the dynamite explosion when it takes place in open air apparently disrupts or disentangles or destroys every vestige of material substance included within a certain radius, from the apex of its prime energy, but I understand the methods by which these disruptions may be produced both in the air and upon the earth.

“If the great master, Nikola Tesla, may think what I have said worth his attention I would be pleased to give him my plans.

“With such power released and under control, I can see no reason why aerial navigation is not within easy reach, or why, with this most intense of all motor concept, the free activity of fluid electricity in its primal strength and vitality may not be applied to human life in its greatest complex and most extreme and minute extremities, why human life may be not only freed from depleted fibre and tissue, but prolonged for great periods of time. I give these suggestions, fully realizing what I say, and also understanding methods by which far more can be accomplished. I know there are countless discreet movements in the human body merging their energies into the complex and continuous. Also that they lose energy or that the atomic piston rods fail or move with much less rapidity from lack of the supply of pure electric energy.

“Nikola Tesla has seen the inconceivable rapidity of the atomic movements in the human body, the fierce flame and vibration giving and receiving the electric atomic energies and vitalities in every most minute viscera of every structure, and I am also conscious that he understands far more than I am able to express of this motor power of the universe alike in atom or whole, and of the infinite possibilities yet to be revealed to the world.

“I am a woman past the meridian of physical years, but I have given all the best energy of the years I have had searching for the unseen, and at last I have been rewarded. I have just returned to Detroit from a four years’ sojourn on the deserts of Colorado, away from books and papers, and I have known but very little of what has been done in the world during that time. Since my return it has been suggested that I write to you, giving my theories.

“I believe I outlined my discovery and have given some suggestion of the magnitude of its possibilities, if such a discovery is developed.

“That I am a woman does not exclude me from understanding so great a wonder.

“Hoping I may hear from you, I subscribe myself, respectfully,

“Mrs. RENEW BENEDICT.
“Detroit, Mich.”

The writer is said to be a lineal descendant of Benjamin Franklin, and to have been interested since childhood in the problems of electricity. She has been a seer of visions from infancy, and is said to be an adept in the doctrine of theosophy. Her maiden name was Renew Daniels, and as a girl she taught school at New Bergen, Pa. After she became a widow she determined to go to the desert to live, and bought a ranch in Colorado, upon which she has lived for the past four years, working with her own hands on her fruit farm. When not at work, she has given herself up to her dreams and to “studying the secrets of the law of vibration,” she says.

Mrs. Benedict is very much in earnest. When asked, recently, why her “discovery” had not been made before, she said: —

“The world has not been ready for a discovery of such godlike proportions. The atomic world is waiting for a Columbus — a liberator.”