New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-03
LITTLE GOLD MINES.
Secret Recipes Vbich Haze Made
Some Hen Rich.

There is money, big money sometimes in SCI
cret recipes" says Chambers's Journal That
for the making of particular kind OF pill was
disposed Of recently at public auction IN London
for the good round sum of S5,09. Nor does this
by any means establish a record The original
recipe for the making of aasinthe first sold by
inventor. French chemist named Or5naire. for a
few hundred francs. changed hands shortly after
ward for +1e,5@J a rich dis-.ller paying that sum
for il; and he made 4 profit OF over 100000 rs
Investment. The Oxford Press Syndicate values
the formula TOR making the thin, tough paper
used il printing its bibles at q quarter OF a
million sterling. ii having cost them over twenty
five years OF hard work and E2at1) in cash TO dis
cover and perfect The process. Even more val
liable probably. IS the secret OF the rnanufacture
q the paper upon which the notes OF the Bank OF
England printed, which belongs. as IS pretty
generally known, To the Portals OF Laverstoke.
who have accumulated fortune from II inside OF
a couple Of generations The brilliant crimson
cloth OF which the cardinals robes at the Vatican
are made has been supplied for generations past
by the same family Of cloth merchants at Burt
schetI. near Atx-il--hape.Ie the secret process
by whi1l The dye is distilled having been handed
down from father 70 SON. The Family, cIriousIy
enough is oC Hug-eu0t descent, and its members
are 10 this Gay scauch Pr0testauts
IT was the daughter OF Cataa-t1e de- Nedici.
afterwa-d Queen OF Navarro. who. according
tradition, invented the lace which is called after
her. RENE Na-go-' To her favorite serving maid.
tern, ard with it also-sIthoush Of course al IN
wi-ri1sIs--a death vl-ra1r. for Door Marie was
murdered for the sake OF her payer treasure by a
NeaqolIta1 adverru----sone say she was married
Co h.-1-vho realized Q fortune from his blood got
tz1 knowledge barbara Clraru elaborated thu
pattern Of the now worII famous pillow lace while
spending sleepIess nights sitting p waiting for
drunken husband Sne lived 70 see her eldest son
sell the product % her ingenuity for 1880.
Twice the last mentioned sum. il IS ave-red. has
fv,v Of
and method o. manufacture Of widely advertised
medicinal syrup A Wiltshire t-n o. bacon cJrers
paid no less than 51oln0 for the Braldenbur=
method q curing hams while a certain special
chutrey. or rather the method OF mixing IL. o-tsi-
naI1y bought FOR g Few rupees from poor Hindoo
trader changed hands a few months back Tor
$500 The famous Worcester za-ce is made
cor6inc 10 q recipe hundreds ~ years old, whs.h
was bought Tor a song from the butler Of 4
country family BY The then head Of the firm OF Lea
& Perrin. Of Worcester. To-day the little faded
scrap o. yellow paper, with Us almost indecipher-
able hIeroEypics is valued by its owners at many
thousands Cs pounds sterling
About hundred and Hcty years ago there To-
sided IN the town = Dclc1stsr certain barber
named Martin To HIN there came one day 10 b
shaved n soldier, who mentioned in the course %
conversation that he was obliged 70 return % his
regiment al York OF coot as he bad not the where
withsI TO pay his coach fare. Mr.. Martin. having
himself known poverty in his younger days. lent
the man sufficient money for his purpose. and
lutte while later received II back according %
promise; but there was something else in the
envelope: q crumplei 7aper on which was written
q recipe for 4 certain preparation which. explained
the sender n a covering letter. he had long used
with very good results upon the boots Of the men
OF his corps The barber al once made small
quantity according 10 directions found il excellent
entered into partnership with friend OF his named
Day. a harness maker OF Tavlstock-sc-. London;
and was rewarded for his enterprise BY seeing be-
fore he died the firm q Day 6 Martin. blackteg
manufactu-srs blossom forth into ons OF the
biggest businesses OF its kind IN the world
The recipe FOR Ba1bury cakes dates rom the
time OF the civil war. when the now familiar
dainties were invented by Old dame and dis
posed OF with level iTn-lrttaTiry 70 EoyaIlst and
Roundhead alike Tradition has IL that she be-
dueathed the secret as q d0w-y 70 her daughter.
whose husband aruassed fortune by their sale
while still q young man Since then their manu-
tactUre has enriched quite a score OF PEOPLE. and
they are now made il enormous quantities and ex-
ported TO the ends Of the earth In single year.
IL IS recorded one Bar0Ury baker alone disposed CT
no fewer than $3.50 JwOPerny ones
When O few months age the monks % Ia
Grande Chartreuse were expelled from France. tina
senior abbot carried with him tiny caskst OF
tempered steel which never left his possession FOR
a single instant. Other treasures-1ictures tapes
tries. jewels even-IniEhr go by ordinary goods
train. but not this For therein reposed the recipe
for the world famous twin EqueUrs-the charrreuses
green and yellow For centuries the precious
room. Originally It consisted OF a single fragment
OF parchment six inches by nine. But as time
went by other ingredients were discovered-thera
are said TO &c fewer than 137 OF them row
and supplementary directions and instructions
continually being added until the one bit OF skin
has grown a volume or over one hundred pages
1t is. without doubt the most valuable book IN
the world; for its lucky possessor. supposing hs
were a private individual. would be more secure
from want than II he owned the mines OF De Beers
or the fee simple OF the c-ushngs or al the Rand
And the queer part OF tho business Is that the
mendicant frtar who first invented chartreuss
thought but little OF his Iqueur.
SO. too DID the orisnators OF many other recipes
that have since proved valuable gold mines
their heirs and Successors It 5 said for example,
that Giovanni Fartna, the inventor OF eau De CO.
Iog1e once offered 70 sell outright the formula OF
its preparation for the equivalent. IN English
money. OF about $50 since then. II IS estimated.
the value of the famous scent sold has amounted
TO some 80 100000. and the estimate Is probably
under the mark.
But the value OF all recipes. whether OF ancient
or modern times. sinks into irsignihcance beside
that Of formula which has Just been evolved by
a French chemist for the manufacture OF genuirs
rubles. OF rubies which al events are quito
from genuine ones. For this no
4oto.t0 pounds sterling. $ said 10 have been re-
fused. The formula covers three large sheets o.
parchment II s written out in elaborate cipher.
the Key 10 Wnlch exists IN the inventors brain and
nowhere else And each OF the three sheets is de-
posted separately one II The strong room OF
Partisan bank: another IN a steel vault underneath
a London sale deposit coErpacys premises. and
the third Il place o1 security the locality OF
which varies from month to month and IS always
three sheets is useless without the other two even
assun1ing-which Is extremely i-npro5ahle-thar ths