New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-05-01


parded rs the true inventor Of this invaluable RESULT
| Msy il please you Honors, there Is one man whose
evidence 10 relied In this case, good deal ana
whose testimony Is thought to be important but who
does not claim Tor binsef the vucanizng process. tie
does not profess although he claims to have made
mos, extraordinary discovery that he brought 10
apy useful result And after displaying this elaborate
testimony the result is that the witness never dscoy
cred ANYTHING in the highest degree available thst ne
gavc up his pursuit after some ycars ana then turned
Mesmerizcr and this person is RICHARD COLLINS
will not do iujuti 10 any man. Know nothing OF
Mr. Collins. IL is not my habit to deal harshiy VITA WIT
ncsses | will not call names; but will cay, that MT
ColEss testimony in this case appears 10 me 70 DC 'ouuy
incredible ely incredible have never, IN thHy
wears practice at the bar heard read story 50 ipro
tab!e as his have heard stories told which were very
improbable, but none SO Utterly linPfooao'c. "ne
such smies are told, what Call In law the venue Oh
III, m is so laid that nobody md out by any posi-
Lily whether what was ,e fcd 20 was true or false
Collins says be made h5 discovery and most remark
ably when he in The City OF Baltimore, 10 tne ldei
pait of September 1893. He lived IN clearinghouse
1t that time, kept by Mr. Budons. he says tnat ne
knew Frenchman by the name oil CroaI ana lAi' nc
himself was rnschni-t that his colleague was wofS
man in machinery factory and he formed lriena
ship v It'll this Frenchman, because ne Was a iacilh'
and lodged in the same house. when was Il. Eu'a" o..
Bsltim' He says that he comhuncscu tac iJsua.
OF his extraordinary invention to Mr. Urba ana hooouy
else This was in the latter pant OF September Al tne
end of the same month Ia October, ne went DOrOl
you snneas To- have come upon Mr. Collins ike flash
of eIuing What other had been studying years 70
/ ". lnNentU-ln
Nv II in boarding house in Euaw street, Baltimore lie
went and bought the materials OF sulphur eau 'a"l
lew inmates ne AIDE an admirable compound He states the
proportions and with very slight differences lh9se P',
lions are just Ike those Goodyeals Patent lie appned
heat to H. lie got I'LL cylinder ana pgI , n'I I'
chamber sud then he accomplished al tlat lie want
ed andthst was what NE discovered IN monnent 49,,
He Inhibited his product his friend the frenchnan, and
asked the latter When he quilted Baltimore and
went Boston having left his invention as a ostrchea
its eggs 10 of ITSELF he never inquired nfter
about II and whether he had made any usei1 discovery OF
not he never knew he wenr back 10 see lie wrote
to the French who maintained profound silence perhaps
for The reason II the trencnen were little -
gracious he had nothing vcy agreeable 10 say to Mr.
I,s discovery of Collins does not illuminate any page in
the history OF the arts 1t lost and lost ioc'er mat oe
But, hesays not having any particular object! in view not
seeking make any compound Of sphargd rubber; nav
ing nothing is mind to which be might apply 1t, but as
mere fr culaton induced by love o. phUsOpy, ne
undertook to the experiment ard accomplished " all
accomplished Ooodyears compound which had cost Good
year five Yeas, many hours.
May it please your Honors, remember having heara
an asecdoe OF the celebrated Divine, Dr. South-a man
of great learning and virtue He relieved IN se OF MS
clerical duties summer by travelling rather 'ncog
He went into county church in the north OF England
Sabbath morning, and heard tue rector read ser,
mGn In coming from the church, the rector suspected
bin to be brother OF the ministry, ana spoke to MIN
He received the rcctors courtesles ana thanRea MN
for the very ed ying he had preached suggest.
ing that il have been the result OF good deal OF
labor "Oh, no. said the rector, ave turn on these
things rapidly. On Friday afternoon and Saturday
IR,
sir! seid DR.. South; 1t took me three weeks 10
write that very sermon" " Your name Is not Dr.
Somh = laid the rector " IT'S SIR said W. . Jun.
"Thrnn said the ctor, have only to say, that am
not aahant TO preach DR.. SOuh's sermons anywhere
But there is another remarkable incident aoou! TINS
affair of Collins He left Baltimore ia September, 1888
II was when all the Yankee world were goiog TO get
itch by manufacturing rubber. They made their minds
stretch the rubber tention and lost all they had In IT,
About thar Time this person, (Coiins,) who dare say
had about hin, appearance, or a, least
he have had Cretcusc: he proposed MINI
self person skilled, first in the construction OF ma
chheiy factories and IN the next place io possess
ing secrets to make compound TO dry rubber-aiways
remembering that it va 10 dry rubber to prevent 1t
from tanning it's sickness and adhesveness. de Went
to Newton and through New England, until finally he
terminated his efforts and Payments IN that ns In
January 1897, at salem.
lie had something of the disposition OF Juniu', that
his secret should perish with him. lie never men
toned or suggested it through all his series OF employ
ments in New England. This struck me as quite I'M
natural Why should IRE believe that he W uld not get
patent for his discovery when other people were con-
ing into fame and fortune by the manufacture OF lnda
ru6berf What modesty has restrained and held back
the nspired 9. Mus of Richard Collins Tell me that
Who can tel, ana who believes the story lie was
poor, employed by nobody and doing nothing we
aek him, with whom did you become acquainted In
Baltimoreg The Frenchmsn and Mr.. Budong lie was
ask who else, and be replies Mr. buoiohg ana tiie
Frenchnan; and he rings changes upon these TWO
names over and over again but he gives other name
Being asked what his object was in nakns this COM
pound be says that he wished to ascertain whether
useful article could not be produced for packing the
heads of steam cylinders He had no steam cyilnder
to pack time, does II appear that ne expected
any but having obser ved the year before that In max
ing rotary engine, Was difficult to ma proper
article for packing il now occurred TO him whether, as
India Rub6er was elastic he could no. by the help OF it
make something that would answer HIS purpose there
fore merely speculative
What is remarkable is that at one moment, ny intu
ton by one thought he should have discovered snu m
vented the whole class Of ingredients, some or all OF
which are necessary produce The best rubber COM
pound But that not all He also at the same moment
discover and invented the Just proper ana exact pro-
portions OF these compounds, that he never aerward
had occasion to alter these proportions IN the slshest
decree He invented the use OF lampDiack before Oha
fees invention generally known-cerainy beiorelt
war known TO bim Chalte made his discovery Ia lo3S
but Collins it WAS Ill known to hln ana that
his invention et the OF ampblack was original he
anticipated Hayward by year In tie discovery oil the
use al sulphur; and he anticipated Goodyear by TWO
years in the discovery OF the of magnesla-Ciood
years discovery and patent beng In 1888 VI all these
substances separately, IN compound In the manuac-
OF India Rubber he swears he before knew nothing
in the world Thus, in little bedroom In boarding.
house in Baltimore. all alone, all at once he broke into
the Of Nature the whole OF which was before
unknown to him, aud unknown to those who had been
laboriOusy conying 10 search out year after year
He discovered all these ingredients as means to
manufacture rubber, and their just aud exact proper
tions. .
he tried three experiment. and the results were all
alike he had nothing to add diminish. lie recited
his experiment TO Urban, the Frenchmsn but what 10
remarkable does not appear that he ever related
the story OF his extraordinary discovery to anybody
else, til he told TO The rling Of Horace IL Day,
the defendant in this cause, few months ago Hetod
his secret that is his ingredients and their proportions,
to his brother John in Boston, and to Newha, Dodge
Round, and other person in Salem. But to none OF
them nor to anybody else, did he recount the circum
Of discovery all so instantaneous so wonder
full fortunate, and magnificent in its results,
lie not ell THE unnatural and ncredbei Ia not this
discovery aprcdigy, and his own conduct as great
prcdigyf Do men make great discoveries in the pro-
afsss Of the in short time Is that according
/ 10 the common way of experiments, and ii they do
how does happen, while they communicate to others
tie results they relate the circumstances which
led to their 6iscoyeres But the best is yet to come
lie wss benevolent philosopher He had no personal
luposes 10 accomplish he knew the result OF his
own experiment He states distinctly that he gave his