The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-06-08
new WIZARD
OF CHEMISTRY.
Dr.. Frederick W. Lange Tells
Of His Silver Salts.
DEEMS DISCOVERY IMPORTANT

Scranton Physician In Whose Office
Banker Dickinson of New York
Breathed Fatal Fumes Takes Pre-
cious Metal, He Says, and Evolves
Commercial Products at Small Cost.
DR.. Frederick w. LANCE Of Scranton.
Pa, in whose laboratory C. G. Dick
inson, the New York banker. is said
to have inhaled fumes which caused
his death few days ago. made a
statement recently, in view of the
many conflicting reports concerning
his supposed feats Of alchemy, in
which he said that he is the discover
er of an important process for the
making of certain salts of silver at so
low a cost that it will revolutionize
many industries.
He declares that his method is such
that industrial chemists cannot COM
pete against it with the ones now en-
ployed and that they must eventually
make arrangements with him. The
physician also AYERS that he has per-
fected a metal compound for bearings
and valves exposed to the constant
contact of water which is better than
anything now on the market
Sovereign alchemist who can all the
savants confute and dross into gold
transmute," he says he is not yet His
references to the breaking up of ele-
ments and to the possible synthetic
creation of metals from other com
pounds account in way for the re-
ports which have spread over the
United States concerning his powers
Hints at New Facts.
Dr. LANCE hints at facts which have
he believes have not hitherto been
known, but at present he declines to
make any further statement concern
ing these researches. He deplores the
sowing broadcast of rumors which
have made it appear that he has been
working miracles.
He showed a bottle containing
pearance of being the chloride Of sill
yer which he had labeled it and also
a large can of substance which
seemed to be nitrate of silver The
physician asserted that he had manu-
featured in one afternoon $50 pounds
of silver chloride which he had sold
| to firm of wholesale druggists.
i Il1,,dradc, of tho ind ior
arts" said DR. LANCE, will be affected
! by the process which have perfected.
| Chloride of silver, for instance, sells
/ at retail at rs cents an ounce. / am
! able to produce it at considerably less
than the present wholesale rates and
| have actually received S. pound for
| it, with the offer on the part of the
dealer to take carloads at that price.
] OF course am unable to produce any
/ large quantities of the salt and simply
| offered what / did to test the practical
bility of my invention.
my process can be used in making
| dry cell batteries for automobiles at
moderate prices.
81 have been sending these salts of
/
the dealers what they purported to be
and have received back analyses and
offers to buy the substances from me
| at good wholesale rates. These men
did not know from my letters whether
| 1 was offering salt, sugar or flour. /
! told them merely to ,test the substance
and asked what they would give me
! for it.
II have had thetproducts of my work
assayed in New York, Philadelphia,
Boston and Chicago, at the United
States mint, and the reports all show
that it was pure SILVER. The latest re-
port came from Professor Wallace of
the University of Pennsylvania, his
analysis showing IS per cent pure sill
yer and 10 per cent moisture
Uses Six Substances.
ssI do not feel disposed at this time
| to give the details of my discovery,
especially as I expect to apply for pat
! ents on the processes. / do not make
silver salts out of nothing, for they
certainly are produced from silver
The silver matrix with which ] start
is treated with fiuxes in the powerful
heat of a furnace.
'aThere are six substances used in
I the composition of these fuxes. The
resulting compound contains silver of
great purity when the mass is treated
with either hydrochloric or nitric acid
/ The resulting chlorides and nitrates
are of exceptionally good quality, while
/ they have been made at low cost"
DR.. LANCE was born in Scranton in,
1861 and has lived there practically all
| his life. He was graduated from the
Wesleyan university, at Middletown
| Conn.,, where he studied chemistry and
4 physics under Professor Atwater and
other well known scientists. He OBJ
tanned his medical degree from the
Hahnemann Medical college in Phila-