Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-04-16
EXPERT IN RAISING CHECKS.
Western Inventor Makes Discoveries
In Search For Indelible Ink.

Stanley ]. Morrow Of II West Pratt
street is perhaps the most expert ant
accomplished check raiser in the coun-
try. His work, however, is done only
in honest experiments. For twenty.
five years Mr.. Morrow has been work
ing in an effort to perfect an ink thai
cannot be renewed from paper and 9
paper from which ink cannot be re-
moved without leaving traces Of Its
having been there. and 1t was while
he was thus engaged that he raised
hundreds of checks and drafts and ac-
quired proficiency in his work.
Mr. Morrow says he has at last
made the discovery for which he has
so long sought, and that he now has
a paper and an ink that, IL used, will
effectually protect banks and others
against the doings of the check rails
er. He has applied for patent on the
process and the application Is now
pending before the patent department
at Washington.
In his laboratory at his home Mr.
Morrow has a vast array Of bottles OF
chemicals lined up, all Of which he has
been using in his efforts to discover q
nom -eradical ink. Il have made this
matter a study for twenty-five years, u
he said, "and I have here everything
known to chemistry for the removal of
ink from paper believe know more
about inks than any other man, and
there Is no chemist who Is better in
formed on the chemistry Of inks than
I am. I have been able to remove
from paper every ink that has been
put on the market, but I am not able
to remove the ink that I have just
perfected after all these long years of
research. Therefore. I feel that If
cannot remove It no living man can,
and that IL this ink Is used In a check
or draft 1t affords absolute protec-
tion."
The array Of bottles contained these
chemicals: Acetic acid, oxalic acid,
alcohol, ammonia, perchloride Of soda,
pyrophosphate Of soda, hyposulphate
Of soda, cream Of tartar. chloroform,
ferro cyanide Of potassium, peroxide of
hydrogen, chloride Of tin, aqua regia,
nitric acid, tartaric acid, and combi-
nations Of these agents. These, he
said, are all the substances known to
chemistry for the removal OF inks.
There are no others, he says. And
none Of these will destroy the traces
Of the ink that he has just produced.
IF I had turned my knowledge of
how to raise checks to dishonest pur-
pose," said Mr.. Morrow, 81 have no
doubt that I could have been the most
dangerous man the banks Of the coun-
try would have had to deal with, but
my aim has been to produce an ink
and a paper that would prevent banks
from being swindled in that manner.
During the years that I have been at
this work I have astonished many
bankers with the ease with which
was able to change their checks that
had been written with what they were
pleased to call safety ink and on what
was assumed to be safety paper.
Even right here In indianapolis
have demonstrated this. One bank in
particular pays IS quart for ink
that 1t uses in writing checks, and
drafts. The cashier felt secure and
told me I could not take the ink from
the paper. did 1t just the same and
showed him how II was done, and
proved to him that his safety ink was
Of no value in the hands Of one who
knew what to do with it. Here is
the check that I raised for him as an
example Of what could be done with
his ink" and he held out check
that, though 1t had been raised, bore
not even the slightest evidence Of the
change News.