Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-20
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For Night Sweats
Of consumption, gives speedy benefit.
HOW ELECTRICITY DUPES.
The Ignorant Believe Anything Can Be Done
with Electricity, Hence Fremd's Success.

The Ignorant Believe Anything Can Be Done
with Electricity, Hence Freund's Success.
New York Mail and Express.
The expose of Freund's electrical
sugar refining process has created a
panic among certain floating spectators
who 2ftentimes have more credulity than
money. Mail and Express reporter
asked a wealthy Speculation at the Fifth
Avenue hotel, who IS opposed
TO all secret processes, how he ac-
counted for such blind faith on the part
Of the stockholders Of Freund : hGmbug.
He said: "The very mention OF electric
ity 10 men who have no scientific knowl-
edge Of it is a bait to their credulity and
cupidity. If Edison should say he could
convert dirt INTO S,lAhies or diamonds by
means of electricity, he would find mon
eyed men to back him. They would
think il possible for electricity 10 DO any
thing, because so much has already been
done with it. Freund knew the value Of
electricity to draw dupes. So many men
have made fortunes of late through cleo
trical inventions, ne found everything
propitious to launch his gigantic humbug
If any of the stockholders had gone to
practical in all he does, he could have
explained to them in two minutes
the inter impessbility of electricity con-
verting raw sugar into refined, clarified
sugar. The man who is a secret, as q
rule, fears the light. A shrewd detec-
tive should have saved these gulliDle
stockholders their money if they had sim
ply put him TO guard and report the
movements Of FTeuud. I make ii rule
never TO invest in any enterprise unless
know everything about ii. I have kept
out OF electricity because l know
nothing about il
= Were You ever solicited TO go into
secret enterprise?
YES. several times: but I refused
once thin, pale man came into my
office and said he wanted to speak to me
alone I told him that did not care if
my private secretary heard him He OBJ
iecred and the secretary retired Then
heard an extraordinary tale which
shall relate briefly He declared
that he had a process which would pro-
duce liquid force greater than steam or
any known force. Three drops of the
liquid would run an engine from New
York To San Francisco. A bottle fun
would blow up Manhattan Island l
SttitA tti~tb liz ilttAA A-tANbuBttNA1 iUuiltl
the force that Keely- was looking
for. He said KeeIy force, known
as etheric molecular force, was
child : play compared TO his liquid He
wanted me to subscribe for so many thou
sand shares and be president of the com
pauy. 1 asked him how he made his
liquid. That was to be Il secret with him,
and 10 come to me when he died For
years. he said, he worked in a chemical
laboratory and one time by mistake. he
mixed some liquids. The mixture
proved, upon experiment, to be more
powerful than dynamite. With one
drop he shattered n large iron anvil.
The last statement was enough for me.
/ told him there was too much force in
the world already, and so got rid of him.
/ have had many schemes as wild As that
offered 70 me 10 go into that had no
secret attached 10 them. There was
Tom Nichois's bicycle rail-
road. invented by Bovnton
OF MASSACHUSETTS,. Nichols used to
have models made of bicycle cars and
roll them back and forth in his room.
There was one track OF the ground and
one above the ears. Nichols claimed the
ears would go 200 miles per hour I told
him the passengers would have their |
breaths taken away by such rapid mo- /
ton. I never took any stock in snap in
yentions, and never shall. -