New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-09-27
COAL OIL JOHNNY
GETS SEVERE JOLT.
CARL JAEGER DISCOVERS THAT
GASOLINE is UNNECESSARY
.sss LUXURY.
CHEAP SUBSTITUTE
WHICH KNOCKS SPOTS OFF
GASOLINE.

GASOLINE.
What promises to put a crimp into
gasoline prices and back Rockefeller and
the Standard Oil off the boards is an
invention or rather discovery claimed
to have been made by Carl Jaeger of
Minneapolis who is known to quite
number Of people here as the promoter
of the Northwestern Battery Co. Mr..
Jaeger claims to have produced a SUBJ
stitute for gasoline. He was in the city
Saturday in connection with matters
pertaining to the Northwestern Battery
Co. and discussed his invention with the
Review.
The preparation is made of coal tar
but the formula he was not willing to dis
close. If his invention turns out to be
the success he claims for it, it will simply
revolutionize automobile traffic and cut
such a big hole in the dividends Of
Standard Oil that their stock will certain
ly take tumble. Besides that it will
prevent Rockefeller from making such
large donations to various institutions
of learning and otherwise unless he
Immediately raises the price of kerosene
to increase his returns, so that he can
still afford to be generous with endow-
ments without attacking his capital.
According to Mr.. Jaeger his prepare
ton is in paste form and is sold in tubes.
All you have to do is to dissolve this
paste in water and pour the liquid into
that part of the machine that is now the
receptacle for gasoline and then start on
your joy ride. 1t does the business Just
as effectively as gasoline, only more so.
Tests have shown that a Ford can be
run about sixteen miles with one gallon
of higs. test gasoline which at presenss
market prices is worth "a cents. With
a gallon of Jaeger's substitute you can
travel in your fivver more than twenty
miles. And what is more, Jaeger claims
for his preparation that it can be manu-
featured at profit if sold at 1Oc gallon.
That the preparation does the business
has been conclusively demonstrated.
It was demonstrated for about three
weeks at Philadelphia from which place
Mr.. Jaeger only recently returned and he
has in his possession kilograms from
moneyed men who urge him to return to
the city of Brotherly Love as soon as he
can because there are all kinds of people
who are ready and waiting to invest their
money and run opposition to Coal Oil
John.
The substitute was also tried out
successfully at Minneapolis week ago
Saturday when Henry Ford's manager
of Detroit was present to see the demon
stration. So impressed was he with the
possibilities of this preparation that he
got into touch with Henry
himself who is now on a business trip in
the West and Ford has notified Mr..
Jaeger that on his return trip which will
be some time this week he will stop off
at Minneapolis and make the necessary
himself.
But we need not go as far as Phila-
delphia or even to Minneapolis for evil
dence that the substitute does the BUSH
ness, because it was tried out right here
in New Ulm. DR.. Fritsche tried it OUT
with his Dodge last Saturday morning
and he informs the Review that he could
not see any difference in the results
between actual gasoline and the sub
stitute. He had his chauffeur with him
and they took a spin of about seven
miles into the country using the substi-
tute only. For time the speed limits
were ignored, at least the Mayor thinks
so, from the way the chauffeur made the
car hit the trail. Whether going at
high, low or intermediate, crawling
along at a snaiPs pace or initiating a
speed maniac, the substitute was always
on the job, and did as effective work as
the highest priced gasoline.
There is therefore no question about
Jaeger's substitute producing the neces-
sary energy. The only question that
remains to be solved is whether or not
it can be manufactured as cheaply as the
inventor claims it can. If it can, then
the Standard Oil monopoly is destined
to receive solar plexus blow from
which it is doomed never to recover
unless they grab off the supply of the
necessary ingredients of the Jaeger pre-
paration.
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