The sun., 1916-10-02
THE DYE INDUSTRY.
A Statement Of the Case for Natural
DyewOod Extract Makers.

To II EDITOR OF THE 'SrN-sir: On
Of the Chemists Club, New York, there
was held an Industrial conference upon
American dyestuff manufacture. reports
Of which appeared In the leading Jour-
nails of New York and Philadelphia on
Thursday morning.
What did not appear. however. was
any report In regard to n statement made
by me. one of the chemists OF ]. s.
Young 4 Co. OF Hanover. Pa, to
the eject that the Industrial conference
was not upon American dyestur manu-
facture but upon a relatively small
branch Of It. namely. artificial or ami
line dyestuff manufacture.
After Or. Norton, the United states
Government expert of the Department
OF Commerce, had had the privilege OF
the floor and expatiated at length upon
everything that tho Government had
done for the dyestufY industry, I was
very courteously allowed to address the
assembled chemists. and drew attention
to the fact that had II not been for the
manufacturers Of the natural dyewood
extracts In the United States the dye
stun industry would have been in very
serious case for the last two years. and
likewise that I resented and objected to
the conference being entitled an indus
trial conference upon American dyestuf
manufacture when there were no rep
resentatives of the oldest established dye
stun manufacturers requested to speak.
nor even invited to the conference !
advised hat aside from the experiments
that were being conducted by the arti-
fcial color makers there had been
$4,000 tor OF quercitron bark peeled this
only. and this was a small amount com
pared TO the other dyewood used.
i also stated that our company had
been for many years supplying manu-
facturers OF fast color d~yestuffs in Ger
many and Switzerland with havine.
which is produced entirely from the
black oak or auercitron bark, and which
IL one OF the specific dyes manufactured
IN the United States more advantaeeously
h in any other place In the world. ]
also called the attention OF the chem
lists to the enormous plants in the United
states which have invested their capital
and energy n enterprise in tho i'm
proved manufacture OF dyewood ex-
tracts, and although some Of the aniline
people spd2e about their efforts In re-
gard TO the production Of materials OF
well known manufacture previously con.
trolled by the German color combine.
owing 10 their cheaper cost OF produce
tion and governmental protection, never
theless We a succeeded In producing
from domestic materials satisfactory
substitutes for dyesturs OF which the
raw materials had been imported from
Turkey and Mexico prior TO the world
war. which Is a very decided improve
ment upon anything that the aniline peo-
pie have been able to do. what they have
done being TO copy well known forms OF
manufacture. whereas the dyewood in.
terests' have been steadily improving
old products and inventing others.
Regarding the fastness OF American
dyes. a statement was made in the con.
ference TO the effect that the reason they
were not fas, was because they were not
used properly, whereas advised tina,
while this might be and probably was
they wanted fast dyes they should stick
TO the dyes that had been made by the
dyewood extract people for many years
some Of which were the fastest Of al
known dyes, and not use the expert.
mental products from the mushroom
plants that have sprung up IN the United
States recently.
II Is unfair to a large part OF our
manufacturer Of dyestu6s that their
statements should be passed over and
not reported while transformation con.
cerr.ine the dyes.uff situation Is spread
broadcast. CHARLES T.. DELANxY.
HANOVER, Ia. September 30.