El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-31
CHEMISTS Of
WORLD WILL
Be HERE
Thirty-six Day Tour of the
Country Includes El Paso
in It's Itinerary.
MORE THAN 600 TO
MAKE TRIP TO WEST

Washington, D. c., Aug. 31--Presi-
dent Taft, Mrs. Taft, secretary of ag-
riculture James Wilson and a coterie
Of the most distinguished men in the
United States, it became known today,
will greet the 500 foreign delegates
to the eighth annual congress OF ap-
piled chemistry, scheduled to convene
in this city next Wednesday.
To Visit FL PasO.
A trip of Sc days has been decided
upon as a fitting climax to the coming
convention This tour will be partici-
pated in by all of the visiting chemists
and will have on its itinerary Philadel-
phia, Pittsburg, Niagara Falls. Detroit,
Chicago, Omaha, Denver, GlenWOod,
Colorado Salt Lake City, Bakersfield,
Cal; San Francisco, Los Angeles, the
Grand Canyon of the Colorado and Ari-
iona, FL PasO, Texas, Fort Worth,
Shreveport La: New Orleans Birming-
ton, n. c; Asheville, N c., and Wash
ingtOn, D. c.. arriving in New York
Tuesday morning, October p.
The officers of the congress are:
Patron, the president Of the United
States; honorary president. Edward ".
Morley: Sc D. Phi. D.. IL D; president,
William II. Nichols. Sc D, IL D; sec
rotary, Bernhard C HesSe, Phi. D.
Following the speech of welcome by
president Taft and other distinguished
members of the reception committee
the hlSAl4lS parry u GAACAA1SlS Will DC
entertained at a lawn party given by
Mrs. Taft and the women Of the diplo-
matte corps. This entertainment will
be the first OF a gay round of banquets,
luncheOns, receptions, concerts and -ex-
cursiOns which will greet the delegates
during their lengthy stay in America
Nearly 5000 to Attend
In addition to the see foreign visitors
to the applied chemistry congress, over
1000 of the most prominent manufac-
turing chemists in the United States
TrTH ~, p b.
BODY The meeting in Washington.
while the. first upon the schedule OF
the congress is more in the nature Of a
social event than one OF actual busi-
ness The first regular sessions of the
chemists will be held at Columbia uni
verSity. New York, on September s,
terminating on the 18th of the month.
during which time every phase and
angle of manufacturing chemistry Will
be discussed and explained by both
the foreign and American masters OF
the science.
Among the many prominent foreign
ers who will be present here on We'd
nesday are Sir William Ramsay, K c.
b, F. r 5 the great authority on "a
dunn; Sir VOVertOn Redwood. D. Sc,
who has visited every mineral oil dis
trict in the world and is the leading
authority on petroleum Sir Robert A.
Hadfield, D. Met F. r. s, who de-
velOped manganese nickle and other
methods Of hardening steel; Dr. Samu
Ell Eyde of Norway. who developed the
electrical process of extracting nitro
gen from the air for the manufacture
of fertilizers; Prof. " L Lindet, rep
resenting the French ministry of agri-
culture and professor William H Per-
kin, of the Victoria University of Man
chester. England. who is the father Of
the analine dye industry.
To Report on Food Analysis.
From the standpoint OF the manufac-
turing chemists the most interesting
features of the congress viii be staged
in Columbia university. New York. Here
commissions appointed at the London
tiOn of methods of food analysis, the
analyses of soils. fertilizers and ash;
the standardization of analytical meth
DDS to be applied to resins the stand
ardiZatiOn of tests for the stability Of
explosives; the establishment of a CEN
trail bureau OF fermentation organisms,
greater uniformity in the commercial
supply of potent drugs and the means
for determining the same; apprOXima-
ton in the pharma cOpeiaS Of the world
to common standards of activity and
uniform international patent and trade
mark legislation.
To discuss all these varied subjects
the international congress has been d.
vided into "a sections. each section
having a direct bearing upon some dis
tant feature of manufacturing chem1s-
try. To accelerate and demonstrate the
addresses and theories advanced chem
ical laboratories within riding distance
OF Columbia university have been
thrown open to the visitors.