Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-03-12
MAKER OF
Some Interesting Facts Regarding Or.
Schimper, Who Has Perfected a
9riQuettinQ Process.

The news that General w. d. Wash
burns representative is in Germany
purchasing machinery for a briquet-
ting plant indicates that General
Washburn will establish a plant on a
modest scale at Wilton. in the near
future. More interest than usual is
taken in the success of the briquetting
process since the experiments that
have been made at St. Paul with the
b%riquettes made by the process of DIR.
Rudolph Schimper. Tests have been
made both by the 500 and Northern
Pacific roads and have proven salts
factory. The st. Paul Globe gives
something of the personality of DR..
Schimper when it says:
"Dr. Schimper has fitted up a little
study in his home at 63S Fuller street,
and the big square table in this study
is covered with black blocks the size
and shape. but not the weight, Of
bricks. These are called b~riquettes
and to the inventor they represent in
concrete form success. He fingered
them fondly one afternoon last week
when a visitor dropped in to ask him
about his invention.
"A short but sturdily built man, with
the irrelevant manner and the wander
ing y OF an enthusiast is DR.. Sch:m-
per. The flesh has gathered in deep
folds over his eye brows M he has
the twitching mouth of the man who
in an ecstacy of hope and fear. DR..
Schimper is a Bavarian by birth. but
he has dwelt in so many different ma
tions of people that his broken English
is a curious polygot of German.
French. Russian and modern Greek.
81 was born in Bavaria continued
the inventor. in response to a query.
Inlet me see-1S46. That iss many
years ago. ISIS it not? / studied there
at the simple schools. common schools,
you call them. in the city of Deux-
points. which means two brides The
bit of information was impaired with
pride, and the inventor paused long
enough to make sure that it had taken
effect.
Then. in speech too broken for rep
etition-for, when the inventor in in
terested in what he Is saying he is not
English-he went on to tell how he
had studied in polytechnical Institutes
in Heidelberg and Munich. and how,
before he had a chance to finish his
education. he was called in military
service in the FrancO-Prussian war.
He served for six months as lieu
tenant of the engineering corps, and
then was appointed by the Bavarian
government a member Of the special
bureau of government control of the
German railroads.
after another six months he was
called to ConstantinOple and was made
director of the government railroads.
which were controlled by the French
government. During hat period the
Turkish Prussian war took place. but
on account Of special service he had
rendered. DR.. Schimper was accorded
special consideration by the Turkish
government and was finally promoted
to the position of general of
their line from Salonica to Nitro.
vita.
AT that time the railroads of
Turkey used as fuel b~riquettes manu-.
factared in England, but these were
no. of a satisfactory nature and DR..
Schimper. for the first time. began to
investigate the method of briquetting
coal. The perfect briquette was his
object. and with this result before him
. to inspire him he studied and expert
mented for a quarter of a century
Auch of that time has been spent in