Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-11-27
(To be continued.)
NEW MOTIVE POWER FUEL.
Promises to Prove Complete SubstI-
tute for Gasoline.

Zoline the new motorcar fuel that
has been under a 1,OOO-mile test at
the indianapolis motor speedway for
the last two days, says an Indianapolis
dispatch Of Saturday, proved to be
complete success, and it will be man.
ufactured and put on the market
with the expectation that it will take
the place of gasoline throughout the
country. The disassembling OF the
Marmon car, which was used in MAX
ing the test, showed that there was no
i'll effects from the chemicals that en-
ter into the manufacture Of the new
fuel, and as the car averaged 90 miles
an hour for 20 hours and could have
made even a greater mileage, the test
is regarded as perfect in every par
ticular.
When the car was taken to pieces
under the direction of F. f. Edwards,
representative Of the American Au-
tomobile association, there was no
trace Of use except a small deposit OF
carbon on the pistons. Mr.. Edwards
and the other automobile experts pres
ent said the deposit was not greater
than would have resulted from the use
of gasoline in maxim" the same number
of miles.
Carl Fisher member Of the COM
pany that proposes to manufacture
zoline, said he was perfectly satisfied
with the test, also that his opinion of
the new fuel was that Of disinterested
experts who had watched the test and
who examined the car after it was dis
assembled.
It is understood that the company
will erect a large factory, probably
in the east, and that the inventor,
John Andrus of McKeesport, Pa, will
have direct charge Of the preparation
of the chemicals. The report that the
fuel can be manufactured at a cost Of
about two cents a gallon was neither
affirmed nor denied, but it was said
that it would be put on the market at
price greatly below that of gasoline.
is of Portuguese birth, a mechanic by
trade, with a predilection for dabbling
in chemistry in a small way. Andrus
resides in modest frame dwelling at
631 Ringgold street, McKeesrort,
where there is much rejoicing among
his friends over the success Of zoline.
Andrus, an inventor since boyhood,
had had other successes in his line Of
endeavor Several years ago while
working in the steel mills about Nc
Keesport, he conceived an idea which
he worked out in a practical way for
the toughening of armor plate, which
he sold to the Carnegie Steel company,
for $4,000. This sum, modest though
it was in proportion to the value of his
inventor a livelihood while he has
been working on Zoline.
Probably the oldest part Of Andrus'
work is the manner in which he has
manufactured the new power fluid dur
ing his experiments. Fearing that his
invention might be filched by un-
ScrupulouS persons, AndruS built MS
own distilling apparatus, which con-
sists of long stovepipe, water bot
tie and connections of crude plump
ing. The whole rests on a wheelbar-
row, so that it can be moved whenever
it seems necessary to get ii out or
sight.
What the new fuel is composed Of,
even Dr. w. II. Chambers and Charles
Harrison, Andrus closest friends and
associates with him in the manufacture
Of the new fuel, cannot tell. Nine
tenthS of it is water and the remaining
one tenth is distilled product, the
formula of which Andrus alone knows.
He has stated on several occasions
that the chemicals used in the distil-
ling process are Of everyday use and
can be procured at any drug store.
Andrus, while employed part of the
time at the National Tube works, Nc
Keesport, has worked nights in lit
tie wooden shed in the rear of the
Ringgold street house where he car
rieS on his experiments. On one occa-
sion his new compound set fire to the
crude laboratory, burning it to the
ground. Another time while riding
through the streets of McKeeSport in
a machine, using the new fuel, the car
became enveloped in roaring mass
of flames. which the fire department
was called to put out.
When asked why he did not install
frSt class LABORATORY, which He
could have done with the modest CAPT.
tai at hand. Andrus has insisted that
his own crude affair answered the pur-
pose and aroused no suspicion.
In conversation with close friends,
Andrus has stated that zoline can be
manufactured for IA cents GAL
lon in his crude way, and that it can
be produced much cheaper in large
quantities by modern chemical APP
paratus. His first tests with the fuel
were made in a motorboat on the
Monongahela river. and proved so
successful that he had little trouble in
interesting Carl Fischer Of Indiana
polls. to visit him last summer and OBJ
serve its efficiency in marine gaso-
line engine.
Few if any people outside of
Andrus' immediate circle of friends
and business associates really believed
that Zolne would do what he claimed
for it. In this way the young invent
or was able to proceed with his eX-
periments unmolested and finally to
produce the fluid which is now in
fair way tn urOVe the most efficient