Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1912-09-06


Made to Entertain Visitors to Con-
gress OF Applied chemistry-Many
Points of Interest VIII Be Visited
ny the Delegates.
Washington d. c., Aug. 31,-Presi-
dent Taft, Mrs. Taft Secretary of Ag-
ricllture James Wilson and coterie
of he most distinguished men in the
United States, it became known today,
will greet the 600 foreign delegates to
the Eighth Annual Congress of Ap-
piled Chemistry, scheduled to con
veue in this city next Wednesday
Following the speech of welcome by
Pr sident Taft and other distinguished
members of the reception committee,
the visiting party of chemists will be
entertained at a lawn party given by
Mrs Taft and the ladies of the diplo-
matic corps This entertainment will
be the first of a gay round of banuets,
luncheons, receptions, concerts and
excursions which will greet the dele
An erica.
In addition 10 the 600 foreign visit
ors to the Applied Chemistry Con
gress, over 1000 of the most promi-
nent manufacturing chemists i'll the
United States will attend the DELHI
erations Of that body. The meeting
in Washington, while the first upon
the scheduled of the congress is more
in the nature Of a social event than one
of actual business. The first regular
session of the chemists will be held
at Columbia University, New York, on
September 6. terminating on the Is
of the month during which time every
phase and angle of manufacturing
chemistry will be discussed and ex-
planned by both the foreign and Amerl-
can masttrs of the science.
Among the many prominent foreign
ers who will be present here on We'd
nesday are Sir William Ramsay, X. c.
b.. T.. r. S. the great authority on rad
Jun; Sir Boverton Redwood, ID. Sc.
who has visited every mineral oil dis
trict in the world and is the leading
authority on petroleum; Sir Robert A.
Hadfeld d. Met. +. r. s., who deyel-
oped manganese niekle and other
methods of hardening steel; DR.. Sam
uel Eyde, of Norway, who developed
the process of extracting nitrogen form
the air for the manufacture of fertil-
izers: Professor NJ. L. Lindet, repre-
senting the French Ministry of Agrl-
culture and Professor William H. Per
kinkin, of the Victoria University of
Manchester, England, who is the faith
er of the analine dye industry.
From the standpoint of the manufac-
turing chemists the most interesting
features of the congress will be staged
in Columbia University, New YORK;
Here commissions appointed at the
London congress will report on the
unification of methods of food analy
sis, the publication Of terms for report
ing the aRalyticis of soiis, fertilizers
and ash; the standardization of analy-
teal methods to be applied to resins;
the STANDARDIZATION of tests for the
stability of explosives; the establish
ment of a central bureau of fermenta-
the commercial supply of patent drugs
and the means for determining the
same; approximation in the pharmacO-
pias 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
divided into twenty-four sections, each
section having a direct bearing upon
some distinct feature of manufacture
ing chemistry. To accelerate and
demonstrate the addresses and theor-
les advanced chemical laboratories
with in riding distance Of Columbia
University have been thrown open to
the visitors.
The sectional division Of the Con
gress is as follows;
Analytical chemistry, Inorganic
chemistry; metallurgy and mining; ex-
plosives, silicate industries; organic
chemistry coal tar colors and dye
stuffs; industry and chemistry of su
gar India rubber and other plastics
fuels and asphalt; fat fatty oils and
soaps; paints. drying oils and varnish-
es; starch cellulose and paper fer
mentation; agriculture chemistry: by
giene, pharmaceutical chemistry;
bromatology, physiological chemistry
and pharmacology; photochemistry,
electrechemistry; physical chemistry;
and political economy and the conser-
walton of natural resources.
A "trip of thirty-six days has been
decided upon as fitting climax to the
coming convention This tour viii be
participated in by all of the visiting
chemists and will have on its itiler-
airy Philadelphia. Pittsburg, Niagara
Falls, Detroit Chicago, Omaha, Den
yer, Glenwood, Colorado, Salt Lake
City Bakerfeld, Cal; San Francisco,
Los Angeles, the Grand Canyon Of the