Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1910-06-09
new WIZARD
OF CHEMISTRY.
Or. Frederick ". LANCE Tells
Of His Silver Salts.
DEEMS DISCOVERY IMPORTANT

Banker Dickinson of New York
Breathed Fatal Fumes Takes Pre-
cious Metal, He Says, and Evolves
Commercial Products at Small Cost.
DIR. Frederick w. LANCE Of Scranton.
Pa. In whose laboratory C. c. Dick
1nson, the New York banker, is said
to have inhaled fumes which caused
his death a few days ago. made n
statement recently. in view of the
many conflicting rcnorts concerning
his supposed feats of alchemy, in
which he said that be IS the discover
err of an important process for tile
making of certain salts Of silver at 81
low cost that it will rcvoutioniz,
many industries.
He declares that his method is such
that industrial chemists cannot com
pete against it with the ones now EN-
p'oyed 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 yet. His
references to the breaking up of elc-
ments and to the possible synthetic
creation Of metals from other com
pounds account in Il way for the re-
ports which have spread over the
United States concerning his powers.
Hints at New Facts.
DR.. Lange hints ut 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 bottle containing Il
pound of salt which had every ap-
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 solo
to a firm of wholesale druggists.
"Probably hundreds of the Industrial
arts" said DR.. Lange. will be affected
by the process which | have perfected
Chloride Of silver. for instance. sells
at retail at 70 cents an ounce. l am
able to produce it at considerably less
than the present wholesale rates ard
have actually received So a pound for
it. with tie offer on the part of the
dealer to take carloads ut that price
or course | am unable to produce any
large quantities of the salt and simply
offered what did to test the practica
biity of my invention.
"NIy process can be used in MAXIM:
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
ana have received back analyses ana
offers to buy the substances from me
at good wholesale rates. These men
did not know from my letters whether
| was Offering salt. sugar or -four. !
told them merely to test the substance
and asked what they would give me
for it.
Il have had the products of my worl,
assaycd 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 So per cent pure sill
Yer and u per cent moisture.
Uses Six Substances.
81 do not feel disposed at this time
to give the details of my discovery.
especially as 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 Guxes in the powerful
heat of furnace.
"There are six substances used in
the composition of these tiuxes. The
resulting compound contains silver of
great purity when the mass is treated
with either hydrochloric or nitric acid.
The resulting ch!orides and nitrates
are of exceptionally good quality. while
they have been made at low cost"
Or. 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
physics under Professor Atwater and
other we'll known scientists. He OBJ
tanned his medical degree from the
Hahnemann Medical college in Phila-
dclphia and has since been practicing
in his native city.
DR.. LANCE talks in a direct, incisive
way, and when he becomes deeply in
tercsted in the discussion Of his in
vcntion his eyes kindle with enthusi-
assn and his manner becomes earnest.
Ua 10 smooth shovor and his bowed