The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-08-02

for a process he has discovered that
is bound to cause an upheaval in the
tanning and heavy leather industry,
an unassuming and little known Ger
man chemist of modest means is to,
day going about his daily tasks, 1ndn'
ferent to the fact that his discovery
is causing uneasiness andA alarm
among the masters of the leather man.
ufacturing world. .a..1 Il
Anyone knows that sole leather
costs good money and others know
that manufacturers and owners of ma.
chine shops the world over have for
years been bemoaning the fact that
their bills for betting leather ran so
high. But it is not generally known
heavy leather used for these purposes
are due to the expensive process of
tanning Inc hides and the long periot.
necessary to turn these hides into
salable leather. which delay in max
ing the hides marketable locks up
All imm, use amount of CAPITA.
For many years now the tuners of
not only he United States bu. tie
world generally have been turning
first in ono direction and then in an
other, tryirg to find a new process e
tanning leather. The tanners are to-
day more urG asy about this matt"
than eve, for the reason thar hem
lock bars. ILon which commodity tie
tanning '!dnstry depends, Is tas: be-
coming sea &c. They know that the
supply Of hemlock will las. only a few
years jonge, and each year sees the
price of hemlock bark becoming more
prohibitory
Years ago, a high grade Gelman
chemist by the name of Scnwarz in
vented the chrome process of tanning
now in general use in tanning the best
grades of uppers and light grades OF
leather. His invention or discovery,
olutionized the leather industry, and
was responsible for the establishment
of the great tanning industries that
are now located in Philadelphia.
Incidental to this change wrought
in the tanning of feathers, the Chrome
process, which was first used In the
Quaker City along about 1886, was re-
sponsible for the making of fifty mil
lionaires in that city alone.
Now, along comes another chemist
educated in the German universities
Adam Hoch, by name, and loving in
Red Bank, N. j., with a process OF
tanning that outrivals the Chrome pro
cess and has set all the leather world
aghast.
Hoch hasn't anything to sell the
leather trust or anybody else in the
leather business. He is an expert on
tanning made so by thirty years close
attention to that work. More than
twelve years ago he discovered pro
cess of tanning without hemlock bark
far cheaper than the present process
Not only that, but by his method
hides are turned into high grade solo
and belt leather in fourteen days
whereas by any known process today
the best leather workers can do is
to obtain the same results in seven
months. Furthermore, experts admit
that the hides tanned by this German
chemist are superior in quality to
those tanned with hemlock bark anc
treated for seven months.
For seven years Hoch has beer
operating an experimental plant in
the quiet of the New Jersey town
perfecting his discovery. His process
has been passed upon to the satisfac
tion of the Associated Leather Trades
OF New York state; the leather trust
from time to time have made over
lures TO him to adopt his process
But this wise German chemist, viii
the shrewdness of his race, has de
clined to enter into any dealings with
the combine. Several months ago al
offer came to him from that source
of 100000 and position for the rest
of his life, but it did not appeal. Late
ly, it is understood, far more sub
stantial offer has originated from the
same source.
But having proved to his own sat
isfaction and that of the leather eX
perts that he has a process that will
up end the wethods of treating leath
or 50 that Il can he nlaced on The