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Indiana tribuÌˆne. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1878-1907, 1906-06-13
Mbonoale Seisbts.

Gin programm, tpie ss islten In
anberen aIs erftlaff9en Yauoepile=
Sbeatern 9e9eben uirb, wirb In biefer
@ode In Nbonbale 6eigbts geboten.
glfe 2apman. eine ausae3ei6nete edn.
germ unb $dnaerin, fnost groben Beis
faa; Der gornetbldier 9auie Wides
bsroisnt nit bolsm @e9t bic Mnsrfens
nung bes publifums unb mus f9
naa iebsm Wortrase gu einiaen 3uga.
BEN berfsben, BrOmn unb pbipps bal'
ten nit ibrer bumoriiiiI9en parobie
v8lue green's" pornebmli@ in ber sd.
esmtihle Gcene bie 2a9musfeln Der
3ub6rer In fdnbiger 8swsgung unb
Sod Wad hberrai9t INNER mieber
auf's Neue bur9 feline blibi9elen
Menperunsen bon @Oittm unp @barat-
ter isiner &oQs.
Der .3it" bes stbenbs TT isbsnfans
5rduIein Mae6elb, bie NIT ibrem
y n8rid Bag punibin9" ssist, baB eins
Grau berartise @a&en 10 gut mie Elm
Wann ausfabren tam; NIT WuFtbe'
9leituna bdIt He 3u eIsi9er 3sit bre,
Bags" tn gewssuns unb bemonfriri
an benieIben bic beliebteRen .3nod-
Out.blOws" Der bsri9iebsnen Gaut'
fdmpfer bon &uf.
Indiana tribuÌˆne. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1878-1907, 1906-06-13
/ Soba &itosr. /
Gebirni6las ra9t ieinem Seben elm pISt
Ii9es Gnoe.

Nm Wittuo9 WOrqen, 3pii9en 3wei
uub brsi ubr, farb Der felt etwa %
Sabren BET Der Snbianapolis greping
@Ompanp bef9dftiste SObn &ieber on
sinsm @sbirni6lage.
Der 10 pl6bli9 aus benz 2eben @e'
i6isbsne srfreuts f9 BEL feinen Mitar'
5sitsrn nllesmsinsr aatuns uno Be-
liebtbeit. @r uuroe am Is. Wdr3 1912
In Wartt s9sinfelo. 8s3irtsamt yieu.
Itaot, 9rsis Wittslfranten in gapern
geboren uno fam i'm Sabre 1882 na9
Snbianapolis. gr mar Bisrbrausr
uno arbeitete 3eit ieinss 2sbens nit
elmer tur3en untsrbre6ung, no er bier=
islbit cine WirtbI9aft ftibrte. In graue.
reien; in ben Iebten Sabrsn mar sr als
Ha9tmd&tsr In Der frfbsr S6miot'
i1en Brausrsi beibdftist.
Ro9 tim 2 ubr am Witttpo4 WOr.
gen fpra5 er nit benz 8raumeiffer Der
grauersi unb befano er R& gu Der 3eii
nod Bel gutter @siunbbeit. 9lls um 8
n6r Der Ra9tmai4iniif Neu bur9 bic
Office bes Sbippins=@lerts sing, mo
fi8 Der gsrforbsne ssu6bnlia aufbielt,
fanb sr ibn auf sinsm Stuble fBenb
lsblOs bor. Ser iofOrt berbsigerufene
Or. Saepb Btiblsr tonnts nur ben Be-
reits eingstretenen Bob burd @ebirns
i9lag conffatiren.
Der 0eriforbene mar Mitslisb bes
8ierbrauer neutrality-suspicious.; er
mohnte go. sic Of MorrisfraBs.
Seine Wittpe uno feds sumsift erwa4-
iene 3inber betrauern iein Nblebsn.
Indiana tribuÌˆne. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1878-1907, 1906-06-13
8ei@e sefnaoeil.

Die 2et&e bss S.idbrissn eobnss
bon 6srrn unb Trau Sulius 1obiemer,
305 Wsif Wegaris Strabe, tuel9er am
Sonntas I'm White @iper srtrunfen
unb ieitber bergebli8 geiu9t worben
mar, muroe geifern bon anaben, wel&s
on ber llnslhdsfdtts fif4ten. aufgs.
fiI9t unb ans 2aub 9e3ogen.
Die 2ei4e murbe Der 2ei&enbeifats
ters6irma 9utewiler Sons hbergeben,
tuelae hiefeIbe nod ibrer 8ebtentam'
mer on Wsf Wartet etrabe trans'
pprtirte.
Indiana tribuÌˆne. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1878-1907, 1906-06-13

Sobn Gans, 19 Sabre aft, go. 812
2.rinstOn Strabs. fuhr gefern nit
feinem 6abrraoe auf Der Warfet Str.
In unglhdliasrWsiis In stpei sufammen
astoppslts automobils binein. gr
uurbe iu gOosn eei9ieubert unb bon
Dem bintsrn automobile tiberfabren,
nobel er sinen Beinbru9 erIitt. Nls
bic golis,i oie llngIhdRdtte srrsi3ts,
mar Der Derunglfdte beretts bon
6reunosn mad isinsr @obnung &c.
bra9t uoroen.
Indiana tribuÌˆne. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1878-1907, 1906-06-13
@tnbra9e.

Die 2sqer bon Grau u. @aiberion,
1882 unb bon 9errn @effie Softer,
1888 ROrb 9slauare Strabs. uurben
esfiern bon Sieben beimsefu&t, weI9s
eie @asu6ren erbra&en unb ben Snbnli
nit fi9 fiibrten. Die Weloungsn uur.
ben Der pOlisei gema&t, tuel9e mad
ben Siebsn fabaoet.
Der 5arb.ge Wirtb Sobn 8anfs,
40l Wef Horo etrabs, bsri&tets
sefern Der pOIi3ei, baB In ieiner Wirtb.
i9aft ein gInbru9 berhbt murbe. Die
Stebe tparen iebo& berf@eubt tuorben
unb batten In Der gile bsr Glu9t sinen
2orb nit Rartoffeln surhd seIaHen.
Indiana tribuÌˆne. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1878-1907, 1906-06-13
Wsbr 9iebftable uao tsiae Sers
baftnusem.

@inbrs9er unb anbers Na9tsulen
feben an Der NorbIeite Der Gtaot nod
immer ibr li9tIaeues @eperbe fort,
9eraoe aIs Ob 9ar feine pOltaei In Sn.
oianapolis borbanben tpdre. @iner
oieier untpilfommenen Beiu9sr fam
3u benz Sauie BON $. .. 8ahett,
1920 @ollege Mbe., no er IN einem
Geniter osutli9s Spuren fsines Ders
iu&ten @inbringsns 3urtidlisB. sus
ireeno elmer llria9s brang er iebo1
ni4t in bas Saus Elm, pa6rf4einli9
wobl neil er bur9 0oriibsrgsbsn6e in
ieiuem 0Orbabsn 9sit6rt wurbe. Seit
elmer 9eraumen 3eit fino ieoen Sag
msbrers bOQsnbsts ginbrti9e ooer gins
bru6s. .Weriudls esmelbst porben, uno
Die pOli3si tappt iiber bic Sbdtsr In
allen oisfen Gdllsn i'm Sunteln.
5n ben meifen Gdllsn paiirten bisie
Siebfdble az elmer 3eit. mo bic 8euobs
ner auf Der 0sranba i6rer 6duier ias
BEN nnb idmmtli9e poli3ifen our ges
feblsausgabs unb Snfpsction ibres
aeuB.ren in Der poliaeiitation beriam-
melt tparsn. Seben Mbenb um z ubr
mub bic ssiammte poIi3simaht i'm
Sauptauartisr sri9sinen. no He bic
gefeble Der 8orgeisBten in @mpfang
nimmt unb elmer senauen Snipi3irung
In 8saus auf getleioung unb Iusrt'
flung, bic si9 Biz auf bic Sauberfeit
ibrer Sai9sntti9er erfredt. unter'uor'
| fen wirb. BIS alles oies erleoig III,
pergebt meifens mebr nls cine balbe
Stunbe unb bie meiiten polisiffen TOME
men erf Iange na4 @intritt b6liger
Sunfslbeit, 3u elmer 3eit alIo, penn
bic ginbruds. Sisbfdble bersits ausge.
fhbrt finb, In ben ibrer gewadung
unterifelIten Difriften an.
alts I'm 9isnf srerauts poliasibes
ANTE madten bic bb9iien Setter bes
gOlilsiueiens auf bieIe unprattif9e
@smp6nbeit aufmerffam, bod nurbe
bieien Warnungsn bisber tsine gscas
tuns sei9entt.
Sn benz 9efreben. bas 9etanntmer-
ben Der pielen EiebHdble burd por9'
fletterer uno @inbre9er m6eli6ff su
bnbinbern. iperbsn ben @sbsimpOlis
siifen, in beren Separtement bic nteiifen
berartiqen 9eri9te sinlaufsn, bic Beg.
SnItructionen ni9t BET ben absnbliden
3uiammenttinften mhnblid mitges
tbeilt, Ionbern elmer Der gew66nli4 3u
awsisn arbeitenoen 0etettips erbdlt eine
| i&riftliae Snformation hber einsn be-
| ffimmten Gaa; nur bieier unb fein Ras
msrab srbaIten alio 2enntnib BON
einsm bsgangenen gerbre&en uno tei'
nss Der tbrigsn @e6eimpolisifen =paare
tpeib, tpel1er Nrt Der ieinen @olleeen
tbertraqsns Saa TT. Wirb bann trOb.
benz ettuas tiber einen berartig bebans
belten Sall Iaut, 10 III let9t fsf3us
HELEN, tusr bon ben 8e6simen aus Der
S8ule sefAtuabt bat.
gs tpirb bsbauptet, baB bieies Sp.
fem bic srfolsreide Mrbeit Der @ebetm-
poli3ei peientli9 bebinbert.
ginem reIolutsn farbigen SanitOr,
Sam Souarb in ben Branbt Glats an
Noro alabama 6irabe, bat es bie
pOIiasi au bsrbanfen. baB fie penig'
Hens einen Der freGsn epiBbubsn ber'
baften fonnte. 6ouarb ertpii8te Sam
guHep nit einieen aus unbetuobnten
Rdumsn ssfOblenen aanoelabern auf
Der SIntertreppe bss @ebdubes. vi
3Os isin Weher mno btelt ben Sisb
unter Der Drobuns i'm gu fe&sn 10
lange fsF, bts bic berbeigsrufsns poIi'
sei ben @efaneensn In gmpfana nabm.
Indiana tribuÌˆne. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1878-1907, 1906-06-13

2ur3na9 Witte-na9t purbs BIZ
Jeuertuebr nod 1918 Wef gartp Ctr
gerufen, no ein Geuer In benz Stale
bon gna 2pnn auseebrp&en mar.
Sros ber promptsn @ingreifung BE-,
5euermebr, uurbe elm 69aben bon
$75 angri&ta. Ran bermutbet bat
Branoaifter bic urfaHe besieIben mar.
Indiana tribuÌˆne. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1878-1907, 1906-06-13

Utneennes, IL. SuHi. Der
14idbriee Srwin 6oGer. ber In Der iei.
mem Batter gsb6rigen prcfpstt 0il
3obIensrubs be!3dftigt par. murbe
bur9 faaenbes gea'in setrOffen unb
Hper berIett. as
Indiana tribuÌˆne. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1878-1907, 1906-06-13
Sabres= SsriammInug
Oes Seuti6en Club anS Ruiifs8ereins.

Die atitrige SabressVerIammluns
bss Ssutidsn Club uno Rufitsgereins
fanb unter benz 0orib bss prdfbenten
6errn Charles 2raub unb unter sabls
rsi9sr Bstbsilisuns Der Miitslieber
ltatt.
Na9 grlebieung siniger Routine.
Ssi9dfts fam Der fOlsenoe Sabresbe'
ri&t oss Yrdfoenten aur 0erlefung,
Der nit Isbbaftem Beifaq bon ben
anueIsnben entsesenssnOmmen wurbe:
Wert6e Serrsn!
Siermit hberrei9e i'd Sbnen als
prdRoent bes Ssuti4sn Club unb
WuRtbsrsins meinen Yeri9t iiber bas
lsbts Ysrsinsiabr.
Der Ysrsin bsfinbet fid in bliiben.
benz 3ufanbs uab iif in fteti9em Wa&.
len begrifen.
Die 3on3erte bes Wereins tparen 10.
tpobI In bisisr Saiion wie In Der bers
saneenen tn ieber Sinfibt Elm @rfOlg.
Sn Der Gusfibruns Der splDefer.
Seisr biefss Sabres tpiden mir Bon Der
fraberen Wstbobe ab.
Der Nerein Iiefer.e bas programm
uno engagirte bic 3prOler Sruppe bon
6srrn 3einsr, tpslGe uns cine nor3tg,
li6s unterbaltung lieferte.
Sas qidnif Der Attiben am 19.
Iueuf mar aub In bieiem Sa6r tpie
i'm porbersebenben eine 9elungene uns
terbnItung. nur mar babei su 5ebauern,
bnB fi9 bie 6srrsn bonn Ordsiter ni9t
bsfsr baran bstbsilistsn.
Sas idbrli9e sfat.Surnier Nnfanss
Wai. usI9sm aud bic Damsn BEL.
ipObnisn. tpar sablreia beiu9t unb mar
fir ale S6eilnebmer eine pur3hsli9s
llntsrbaltung.
Wiit benz 6fsntIi9sn 2onjert am
%. Mat fanb bic Saiion i6rsn Ab.
Tdlub.
Der 0ersin BAT fitb i'm lebten Sabr
um "a paiFps Witsiieoer permsbrt.
Der gbor bsfsft aus AZ 6erren unb So
Damsn uno bas Oedsfer aus 56
6erren.
Sur9 ben SOo bsrlursn mir fOlgsnbe
Witslisber:
6erren: Otto MilIer, Atbert @al,
Seurp SQnun, g. q. Stssrtn, Wm.
6aerls. 9. Granf e9mibi, @m.
Musde. unb eriu@e i'd bic 5srrsn FG
au gbrsn uniersr bsriforbsnen Witglie-
Der bon ibreu sitsn su srbsbsn.
Sas @eoeiben bes Uereins In mufi-
falii9sr !Sinf&t III uniersm tpsrt9sn
Siri9entben Ssrrn u. grneifinoH mel.
der NIT unsrmhbli6sm gifer Rets be.
reit war bie SntereRsn BEG gsreins 3u
f6rbern, 3a berbanfen unb Id ipre9e
ibm biermit i'm Namsu bes 0ereins
meinen Sanf aus. Qeiber 1T er auaen
blidli9 bur& 2ranfbeit bsrbinbsrt I'M.
ter uns 3u iein. mir bofsn isbo6, baE
er In gdlos tuieber bergefeQt 3urhdtsb'
rem pirb.
Gum S9lub ipre4e Id benieniaer
6erren, pel4e on ben beri9ieoener
@omites bienten ebsnfalls meinen DAM
aus.
CHARLES 2raub.
prdfbent.
Sarauf purbe CUR Beamtenuabl ae,
| f9rittsn, welde folgenbes &eiultat e.
CAB
prdRbent-@lemens gonn.gut, ST
1. Diee.prdRbent-Otto q. 2ieber
2. @ies'prdibent-J. O. Mueller
prot. sefretdr-@eo. 8. Sacob.
9orreip. @efretGr-Mlbert Qrul.
6inana'Setretdr-Otto 6. Ripp.
| S&abmsifsr-Nb. O. @o9er.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 50. 6aafe.
Indiana tribuÌˆne. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1878-1907, 1906-06-13
Seranba : Hletterer

@iebt tpieber eine Soriteluns.
Free press., 1906-10-06

terry calls for great deal of cobalt, and
cobalt at two dollars a pound, Mr.. Edi-
son feels, would be looked upon as a
luxury by most of those very fortunate
persons whose pocketbooks enable them
to view even the imported gasoline tour
ing car as positive necessity to their
well-being.
Mr.. Edison has inspected cobalt de-
posts in North Carolina. He has been
to Canada. He will go to Missouri. He
has other places on his visiting list. Will
his patient quest be rewarded by sue
cess? That is a question that automo-
bile manufacturers are anxiously asking
themselves. No one who knows Mr.. Edi-
son doubts that he has got pretty nearly
what he says he has in his storage bat
terry. Mr.. Edison has never been of that
type of man who announces that he has
something which time sooner or later
proves that he has not.
To invent and perfect an electrical
storage battery for widespread CONNER
cial use has been the dream, the ambi-
ton, of Mr.. Edison for years Nay, it
has been his hobby, to the practical ex-
clusion of all other scientific investiga-
ton. He has worked day and night
over the problem; he has frequently
thought he stood on the threshold of
success, only to be disappointed the next
day, or week
In all these years that he has been
struggling with the problem interviewers
have had hard time to get him to talk
on any subject other than his storage
battery. His fellow scientists have
twitted him good-naturedly on his lug
Free press., 1906-10-06
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that is used for the groundwork of the
old-fashioned blue and gold sign boards
the presence of oxide of cobalt as a
base makes it blue.
So remarkably does cobalt possess the
power of making things blue" to use
a common expression, that even the
faintest trace of it will render iron Stag
distinctly blue. 1t could almost be said,
in all truth, that cobalt, in compound,
blues the world.
Had it not been for cobalt the writers
of the old fashioned adventure novels
would have been deprived of one of their
stock and always thrilling incidents the
invisible letter, written between the lines
of the visible letter, and always reaching
the heroine in the nick of time and keep
ing her from dying OF anguish or hope
long deferred.
A chloride of cobalt. when. dissolved in
great deal of water, gives invisible or
Free press., 1906-10-06

and quartz sand. The molten mass is
poured into water and finely powdered.
This powder it is that is used after the
fashion of indigo and to stain the dainty
blue note-paper that is favorite now-a-
days for carrying tender messages around
the world.
Cobalt, when compounded with oxy-
gen, also gives blue color, and oxide
of cobalt is used exclusively to color
glass, porcelain and pottery. The color
ing properties of cobalt blue, essentially
the oxide of cobalt, is so great that the
addition of one-thousandth part of CO.
bait blue to white glass is sufficient to
make the glass a decided blue.
Cobalt blue, as a pigment, is used By
painters and water color workers; they
could not get many effects without it.
Old Sevres blue, a very famous porce-
lain blue, Kings blue, Thenard's blue,
variegated blue, turquoise blue, deep
blue, employed in porcelain coloring, all
more or less widely known blues, have
cobalt for their base And then there
IS zaffre, hal1y blue crystalline stuff,
Free press., 1906-10-06

sympathetic ink. A faint pink in color
when in dilute solution, the color is not
dlscoverable when used on paper. Only
when the piece of paper is heated before
fire, thus causing the chloride to lose
the water, does the writing stand out
blue, thus enabling it to be read with
ease. The writing can be made invisible
again by putting the paper in damp
place or by holding it over .steaming
kettle, a Ia the heroines of long ago.
According to Watts Dictionary of
Chemistry" these are the properties of
cobalt: "Steel gray, 1ustrous, crystalline
plates; nearly white when polished !;
hard; somewhat malleabIe, very ductile
at red heat and upwards; slightly mag
netic, even at full red heat. The com
pact metal does not oxidize in air at or
dinary temperatures"
Chemically, cobalt is classed with iron,
nickel and manganese in the iron group.
In many respects It closely resembles
both iron and nickel, the latter more than
iron. It is found associated with silver,
nickel, iron, manganese and bismuth. II
IS difficult to separate cobalt from its
associates, especially nickel. It is seldom
Free press., 1906-10-06

ging in of the battery at every possible
turn of conversation 1t is scarcely to
be doubted that he has given more time
and thought to the battery than he did
to any one of his many inventions that
are now benefting mankind immeas-
urably. Mr.. Edison himself declares that
until he has perfected storage battery
along the lines that he has laid down for
himself he will not feel that he has done
his full share of the worlds work.
When one realizes how earnestly,
and with what singleness of purpose, one
might say, Mr.. Edison has pursued the
problem of the storage battery, does not
the Wizards more or less prolonged
trips here and there over the face of the
country in anxious search for the much
desired "evil spirit" of the old Saxon
miners SAVIOR of the intensely dramatic? !?
miners beds SAVIOR of the intensely
dramatic?
Cobalt, this gnome, this evil spirit that
holds such rosy promise for the future,
has been practically unknown to the
average person. Let US see what it is
and what it does
1t is the principal ingredient of color
ing matter known as smalt, which is en-
ployed by laundresses to correct the yel-
low color of newly washed linen, and
by paper manufacturers as a blue pig
ment for staining writing papers and col
oring wall paper Smalt is the only
substance that will give lasting blue to
paper, and, until an artificial ultramarine
was introduced, it was used exclusively
for this purpose. Smalt is obtained by
fusing roasted cobalt ore with pearl-ash
Free press., 1906-10-06

Is the evil spirit or the old Saxon
miners destined soon to revolutionize the
automobile industry?
Back in the middle ages, when the now
famous mines of Schneeberg were op-
ened, the Saxon miners were not long
in discovering that the silver was nearly
always associated with a strange mineral
and that it frequently replaced the pre-
cious ore altogether. Specimens of this
mineral were turned over to the wise
men of the kingdom. One and all pro-
nounced it useless. Thereafter, as they
mined, and their eyes fell on the con-
slant companion of the silver they were
industriously after, the miners, in con-
tempt, dubbed it kobold. That is to say,
gnome, or evil spirit; for, like an evil
spirit, they said, it was present only to
give them trouble.
Kobold, we of to-day still call this
though the spelling is now cobalt. 1t
was not until the middle of the six
teenth century, many generations after
the manners of the metal had been gath
cred to their fathers, that even slight
use for it was discovered Up to to-day
its uses have been limited when COM
pared with other elements; it is still the
gnome of old in large measure. But,
will this hold good of it in the near
future?
For number of years I have been
working on my electric storage battery,
as you probably know" said Thomas A.
Edison, in substance, recently. 1T has
been my aim to build battery that will
take an automobile a hundred miles
without having to be recharged. The
problem was battling until introduced
cobalt into the battery cells. Now / be-
lieve that l have the battery all right,
and the only problem remaining to be
solved in order to make the battery prac-
ticable is for me to find a way to get
cobalt in sufficient quantity and cheaply.'
How does Mr. Edison employ cobalt
in his battery? He smilingly keeps the
secret to himself. But, he says, if only
he can solve the one problem now con-
fronting him-that of cheap supply-the
use of his battery will cut down the
present weight of the automobile by
half. This of itself will greatly reduce
the price of the machine, thus tending
to make it a necessity instead of the lux
ury that it now is 1t will also increase
the speed possibilities. Last, but not
least, the automobilist will no longer be
dependent on gasoline, the favorite mo-
tive power of to-day, or steam. Both
are Objectionable for obvious reasons.
Against electricity none of these objec-
tions can be raised; it is a noiseless,
odorless fuel"
Thus, Mr.. Edison's battery, if the
hopes of its inventor in finding cobalt
are realized, will bring about revolu-
ton in the electrical world as great as
that which took place in the world OF
water when Robert Fulton demonstrated
that boat could steam her way from
port to port even better than she could
make the same trip by sail
Mr. Edison is now travelling about the
country, endeavoring to locate cobalt
sources of sufficient quantity and purity
to cheaper it to the point where his bat
tery will be practicable. Cobalt now
sells for two dollars a quarter pound
A few days ago it>was worth twenty
FIVE cents more A quarter of a pound
of cobalt has about as much bulk as the
same amount of iron. Mr.. Edison's bat.
Free press., 1906-10-06

mined for itself alone; it is more profit
able to secure it as by-product. But
the day may not be far distant when
cobalt will be mined for itself alone. In
its greatest quantity cobalt is now pro-
duced as an accessory of nickel.
There is evidence to show that the
use of cobalt in co1oring glass is one of
the rediscovered secrets of the ancients.
Modern Europe did not know of this
property of cobalt oxide until I54o; be-
fore that time the metal was supposed
to be worthless, in compound, as it is
now of itself-except in Mr.. Edison's
battery, of course. Blue pottery and
glass recovered from ancient ruins have
been found to have cobalt as base for
their color.
Not until almost two hundred years
after the first commercial use of this
gnome metal was discovered by Scheurer
ments. Now, nearly two and three
quarter centuries after Brandt, it would
seem that the element itself is to be
proved commercially useful and cause
startling revolution in transportation, if
only it can be produced in sufficient
quantity and purity to make if cheap
Unless it can be found in a compara-
lively pure state the long and tedious
process will render its use in Mr.. Edi-
sons factory impracticable.
The principal localities of cobalt pro-
duction to-day are Schneeberg, Saxony,
where the metal got its bad name; Mo-
dunn, Norway; Tunaberg, Sweden; Mu-
sen, Rhenish Prussia; Bolivia; Chile; a
little spot in Missouri; the Transvaai,
where pure variety of what is known
as speiss. cobalt, free of nickel, has re-
Gently been found; and Canada, where
it is mined as an accessory of silver.
The Canada mines are the latest to
be opened. The presence of the element
in the Dominion was not suspected until
! big cut for new railroad through
virgin forest revealed it in company witt,
its customary bed-fellow, silver. The
latter metal at once brought about an
influx of miners, who were not long In
making the discovery that the by-product
of cobalt would be very valuable asset
to the mines. Hence, to-day quik an
appreciable percentage of the ,aforld's
supply of cobalt is being obtaired from
Ontario. Round about the combined CO.
bait and silver mines, which are more
like diggings than mines, town of sew
eral thousand inhabitants has sprung
into existence, and it is now possible for
the traveller to go from New York to
Chicago without change of Pullmans
into the very heart of this region, which
only few months ago was veritabie
wilderness. Many Americans are living
in the town, and not few of the mines
are controlled by Yankee capitalists: il
is American money that is largely re-
sponsible for the rapid development of
the Canada of to-day.
The discovery and development of
several more cobalt beds as extensive as
the Canadian bed would probably bring
down the price of the mineral to the
figure desired by Mr.. Edison. And with
this Wizard of the Century on the track
of the metal, who knows where it win
be mined next, to the end that you and
I may behold another wonderful revo-
luton in transportation and other appli-
cations of electricity?