The effect is well known to most magicians. You take a salt cellar and pour some salt into your clenched fist. You open your hand and the salt has vanished and then you reach into the air close your hand and then suddenly and seemingly never ending stream of salt pours out of your previously empty hand.

Fred Kaps and many other have made the long salt pour effect into the classic that is a great classic. If you have seen Kaps perform this finale to his great manipulative act you will remember that, as the salt pours out of his hand, the orchestra starts up with the final music for his act. The music is almost at an end but still the salt continues to pour. Fred signals the orchestra to keep the music rolling and it starts up again and this happens several times and it seems as if the salt is never ever going to stop pouring out of his hand. Then to finally finish as the salt comes to an end Fred rubs his hands together for a moment and throws the gimmick, that he used, into the Top-it in the tail of h