The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-06-14
Especial Correspondence

(Specih OOrfeSpOnOence.1
SCRANTON, Pa, June IA
Was Chas. Courier Dickinson,
financier. founder of the Carnegie
Trust Co. of New York. a disciple
of Hermes Trismegitus, the father
of Alchemy?
Dickinson died suddenly and
mysteriously shortly after visit
to a local chemical laboratory. 1t
now develops that his death was
due to his having breathed GER
tain noxious fumes exhaled by a
retort during the process of an
experiment in metallurgy. There
is reason to believe that this ex-
pertinent, first described vaguely
as bearing on a Commercial proc
ess" invented by DR.. F. w. Lange
OF Scranton, was really an expert
ment in Alchemy, and that DR..
Lange, Chas. Dickinson and Stan
ton Dickinson, a brother of the
deceased, were associated in push
ing scheme for the transmuta-
ton of the baser metals into gold
or silver.
The Dickinson brothers came to
Scranton on May 16. They were
taken to the Lange laboratory to
witness the crucial experiment in
the LANCE process. Certain mate
rials-said to have been the baser
metals. lead, tin, anthony, etc.
were fused in a crucible heated to
a temperature of 1000 degrees
Fahrenheit.
When the reduction of the ma
terials in the crucible had been
accomplished, and before the mol
ten mass had thoroughly cooled,
the door of the furnace was open
ed and blast of hot gases gushed
into the room. Chas. Dickinson
was directly in line with the
open furnace door. He coughed
and swooned. Victor Hedgepth,
who was another witness of the
experiment, was also affected,
but less seriously than Mr.. Dick
inson. DR.. LANCE and Stanton
Dickinson, who were near an open
window. we're not affected.
The Frustrated man was hur-
ried back to New York. In al
week he was dead. There was a
T1mor in Wall street to the effect
that he had committed suicide.
The Dickinson family physician,
however. says he died of "pneu-
monia."
DR.. LANCE has given out the
following statement relative to
the experiments he has been max
ing In transmutation:
-Four years ago, while expert
menting with process for the re-
ductfon in the cost of making sill
Yer chlorides, / ran across a secret
that has been sought for ages and
which is SO far-reaching in its eff
feet that 1t will revolutionize the
world. I discovered the means of
increasing an atom of pure silver
to 100 times it's size and weight,
and of equal, II not greater, fine
ness. For months and months II
tested and tested. Finally one |
day ! subjected matrix of silver
to heat Of 1000 degrees. One
hundred times as much silver
came our of the furnace as had
gone In"
Chas. G. Dickinson was a bril-
liant young financier. His career
In Wall street has been a some
what spectacular one. and he was
on the road to success, as the
"street" defines success. 1t seems
that he was not content with the
tombstone of finance. however.
He must needs seek the touchstonel
OF the alchemist. Now. like Par
aclesus. who poisoned himself
with draft OF his elixir of life.
and like many another who has
sought for the Master Draft or
the Philosophers Stone, he has
paid with his life the penalty for
prying too curiously into the veil
ed secrets Of nature.