The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-05-04
MAXIM BUYS SECRET
OF GREEN GASOLINE
CORPORATION Plans to Get Pat
ent and Make . Cents a
Gallon Auto Fuel.
TO MAKE ENRICHT RICH

nr. Louis t:nricht ~ ~Farmingdale, I.
T., has found a hacker for his two cent
a gallon green gasolcnc. The Maxim
Munitions Corporation announced yes
terday that Il had bought and secured
by contract the exclusive manufacture
ing rights, had already filed applica-
ton for a patent aud had bought land
for a plant In F~armingdale to manu-
facture tho fuel
The exact amount pr. tnricht got
for his invention il not To be made
public for a few days, nor are the
terms Of the contract. II Il, Taylor.
treasurer Of the company. said yesier-
day that the inventor might realize
something like u million dollars, hut
would not say just when. The contract
was signed Friday night and provides
that Or Enrichi Is to receive e roy atty
IN profits a. well as n sum In ad-
vance.
The Maxim Munitions Corporation is
sued n statement Yesterday saying that
experiments up TO this time prove
conclusively that the invention when
fully perfected in some OF It's MINOR de-
tails will be revolutionary III charac-
ter The statement went on To say
that experiments are still being made
FOR the purpose If proving beyond a
doubt the practicahility and commercial
value of this fuel" Mr.. Taylor en-
planned that this did no, mean there
was any doubt that the fuel was the
real thing. simply hat how to market
II required thought.
The announcement that the company
was going TO patent the formula. VI II
could, and put the new motor fuel on
the market-in other words. sell IL to
the pub~lic-conficts with Dr. Enricht's
oft expressed determination 20 dispose
OF 1t to nobody who would not give the
secret to the world a. a present. Any
way. Dr. Enricht has said repeatedly
that the green powder or iiued that
transforms ordinary water INTO fuel Coulu
he made by any one the I'M he
learned the formula. The company, now
ever. thinks IT can patent the rmu
Or. Enricht refused last night to COM
m.ent on the transaction in any way, but
his son said his father never nar said he
would INSIST that the secret he given TO
the public. Neither would pr. t.nricht
al his son explain Why the green gaso-
ltne secret had been sold To- the Maxim
Arm rather than to Henry Ford. who
had tirs, sent Representatives and then
gone himself to farmingIale 10 see the
Inventor.
Mr.. TAYLOR said. however. that the
Maxim Munitions Corporation had been
~ touch with Dr. Enrich, long before
Henry Ford got on his trail. ana So had
IL prior rldim. ON the day Mr.. Ford
saw Dr.. l;uricht the latter told reporters
lie had IN his pocket an offer from "a
big New York financier' of a million dol
lars AMI an Interest in "A company to sell
the fuol. ~ that time pr. i.nricht said
the interest ~ the company did not
appeal TO him. as anybody could make
his fuel and nobody need huy of any
company. According to Mr.. Taylor there
will be no new company formed. The
Maxim finn will haiidle it.
The laboratory and chcmical plant
will he erected. Mr.. Taylor said. on an
acre tract in Farmiugdale. near Mr.. En-
FIGHTS home. which already has been
bought and paid for. Ground will be
broker soon and experiments carried on
10 determine how the fuel can best be
marketed and sold.
A repr"Scutatiy, Of the Maxim Arm.
Mr.. TAYLOR sarl. saw one demonstration
OF the fuel after hr had tasted the water
Into which Dr. E.uricht poured the green
fuij, which is said TO hc composed Of
four siupl" chemicals any one can buy
for a few cents In an: drug store. This
fluid. il Is said. d~.coWpos"s water and re
leases the hydrogen ia n. When burned
in an automobile 1t has An odoV OF burnt
al,nonls and u Will do equally we'll in
any eXploS!N" engine.
The Maxim Munitions Corporation has
offices at l@o broadway. hudson
Maxim is its president and ON March =
q reorganization WAS Effected and the
board OF directors almost entirely
changed. Tho stock w"ut up several
points on the curb Yesterday when the
news Of the company's venture bccams
known.