The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-04-24
Prof. Enricht Has Compound
Which Costs Only II
Cents a Gallon
A GREEN POWDER
is GREAT SECRET
Problem Solved Recently After Three
Years of Work Demonstrations
Given in the Operation of Cars -
Secret Is Guarded.

NEW YORK, April 24-Louis En-
RIGHT, chemist and inventor of Farm
ingdale, i. l., has, or claims to have,
liquid that will make gasoline
thing of the past, put automobiles
within almost everyone 5 reach and
break the Standard Oil company S con
troll of the petrol market.
A Transparent greenish liquid is the
new genie of the automobile. Four
ounces of it, Prof. Enricht says, mixed
with five gallons of plain water such
as is used for sprinkHng lawns, viii
make five gallons of motive power
more stable and explosive than gaso-
line. And the beauty of it is that the
preparation exclusive Of the water,
will cost only IA cents a gallon.
He has been working on his fluid
for three years, the chemist says. At
| last, four weeks ago, he solved the
Iproblem, he says, and since then he
/ has been driving his two automobiles
about the little village without ever
stopping at the local garage for a drop
| Of the liquid that Is advertised outside
the door al 2S cents u gallon and still
| going up.
| But it promised to become a white
| elephant on his hands. He cannot fol
! low any of the usual ways of putting
| his discovery on the market. He can
not form company and patent the
fluid, nor yet sell it to any big corpor-
alton. The ingredients of the super
gasoline are so simple. he confesses
! that any lavman owning machine
could 90 TO the drug store and buy a
few ounces of them, mix them togeth-
en- stop at the town pump and then
laugh at the garage man.
| To patent it would be as bad, foI
five cents would bring a copy of the
papers from Washington to any one
and the formula could be obtained
As long as the average automobiles
made only enough for himself and did
not sell it nothing could Te done.
/ The idea j have, says Prof En-
rieht, his to set-.the government tC
i pay ntd7an award for my discovery as
Il public benefit Failing in this,
may try TO get the automobile makers
whose business has been injured bs
the high cost Of gasoline, to paw mt
for my formula in the interest of theil
business. l do not want a fortune.
have 20 other patents issued to mt
and fair income from them, hut
only want 4 fair return for my years
of labor on this discovery.
Would l sell it to the STANDARD
Oil contpaay?' he snapped back tn,
question when it was asked Il woull
not | want to break the STANDARD
! Oil company. | am not n socialist. ex
/ cept in theory, but | want the peopI,
to get the benefit of this. Would The
Standard Oil company sell my prepar
alton at few cents an ounce? Is il
selling gasoline at a fair price now?'
I Prof. Enricht gave a demonstration
of his fluid. He filled the gasoline
tank Of each of his two ears Will
water and poured in a sufficient guam
tity Of the greenish liquid Then II,
4 cranked mp the car and off she went
The method of making the fluid j.
simplicity itself. No apparatus i
needed beyond two dry batteries an,
an electrode in water tank His flu,
Prof. Enricht says, decomposes waite
INTO its constituent gases. hydrogen
and oxygen. Hydrogen. an explosiv,
gas. is fed from the tank into the cyl
inders, detonated by the spark plug
and exhausted in the usual way. Tht
only secret Is the mysterious fluid
which has the property of releasing
the hydrogen.
Of this secret Prof. Enricht is mos
jealous. His chemical bottles ar
marked in code, and he empties TIL
automobile tank after each run. Eacl
morning he mixes the fluid anew, S,
no theft breaking into his labrador,
may discover its preparation.
{ Prof. Enricht Is 60 years old. H
was born in NaEence, Germany, an,
educated at the university of Carls
ruhe.