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

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Breathed Fatal Fumes Takes Pre-
cious Metal, He Says, and Evolves
Commercial Products at Small Cost.
Or. Frederick W. LANCE of Scranton,
"a, in whose laboratory G. G. Dick
1nson, the New York banker, is said
TO have inhaled fumes which caused
MS 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.
lie 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 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 vet. His
references to the breaking up of ele-
ments and to the possible synthetic
creation of metals from other com
pounds account in a 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
come to light in his laboratory which
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
pound Of salt which had every ap-
pearance of being the chloride Of sill
yer which he had labeled it and also
large can of a 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.
Probably hundreds of the Industrial
arts said DR.. LANCE, Twill be affected
by the process which / have perfected
Chloride of silver, for instance, sells
at retail at IS cents an ounce. / am
able to produce it at considerably less
than the present wholesale rates and
have actually received S. a 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.
II have been sending these salts of
silver everywhere without even telling
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
I was offering salt. sugar or flour. I
told them merely to,test the substance
and asked what they would give me
for it.
Il have had theiproducts 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 Is per cent moisture
Uses Six Substances.
81 do not feel disposed at this time
to give the details of my discovery,
Is / 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 I start
is treated with fuxes in the powerful
heat of a furnace.
There are six substances used in
the composition of these fiuxes. The
compound contains silver of
great purity when the mass is treated
with either hydrochloric or nitric acid.
The resulting chlorides and nftrates
are of exceptionally good quality, while
they have been made at low cost"
DR.. LANCE was born i'm 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
physics under Professor Atwater and
other well known scientists. He OBJ
tanned his medical degree from the
Hahnemann Medical college in Phila-.
1elphia and has since been practicing
IN his native city.
DR.. LANCE talks in direct. incisive,
way, and when he becomes deeply in
-erested in the discussion OF his in
rention his eyes kindie with enthusi-