The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-02-11
FORMER HONOLU[AN
REVIEWS INDUSTRY
America Caught Mapping IN
Fields VIII Conquer the
World
So Says Dr.. |. |. Van Slyke OF
Impetus Given American In.
dustries BY War

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DR.. l.. l.. Van Slyke, head Of the
che i.istry departm, Mt OF the New York
experiment station at Geneva in a
re, ont address gave resume of war s
of et ON the chemical Industries. In.
tht early days DIR. Van Slyke was a
teacher al Punahou. He spent several
months vacation in Honolulu last year
and was widely entertained, and hrs
views on this important topic will
therefore prove doubly interesting, be
cause Of his eminence in the scientific
field, TO his friends here.
In part, DR.. Van Slyke addressing
the Business Mems Lunch Club, at
Geneva, said:
seTo many people, chem stry Is
chiefly the seitnce OF ssmClls and
the Industrial branch Is simply the
chtmistry Of dollars and cents.
Chemistry II Scientific Emciency
80 hcmical industry or industrial
chemistry is the application Of the
science Of chemistry TO the promotion
OF the material welfare Of mankind by
decreasing the cost Of the necessities
Of life and multiplying the number and
variety Of its eonveniences and com
forts. 1t takes old methods and re
sources and improves their efficiency;
il finds new resources and develops
them into new and useful products.
aIn presenting this subject, | have
in view: (lst) To give you some idea
of what our chemical Industries are,
their immensity, completely, economic
importance and wide usefulness. (2mdl
Some facts illustrating the effects OF
IL al int ~ los
in general and few in particular.
(3rd) The industry of the coal tar,
dyes. Any one Of these topics affords
material enough for q course of lectures
and it is obvious that the treatment
nrTst be brief and necessarily super
fetal. So, w., o., -. ~. : ..5
Many Industries H.. ~.
seWe commonly think of a chemical
industry as one concerned chiefly with
Z the manufacture of chemicals and
drugs IL means much more. Every
Industrial operation which calls for
eli mieal control is q branch of indus.
trial chemistry or chemical industry.
There are literally hundreds of them
You can get rough idea Of the
extent of our chemical industries II
1 give a list of about forty different
groups: asphflt, artificial camphor,
balting-powders and yeast, bleaching,
cleaning and polishing preparations,
Lrewing, canned and preserved foods,
celmlold and nitrVcellulOse, cement,
eli m Gals proper and pharmaceutical
products, chocolate and cocoa, cOpfec,
tionerg, coal tar oils and products, corn
~ tacts, dyes ami dy g mat r ais, earth.
enwa.e, porcelain, china, etc, ex;
plosiyes and eombustibles, fertilizers,
-four, glass, ineande jccnt gas nantes,
Illuminating and heating gas, leather
AMI tanning extracts and milk pro
ducts. D..
Another Group Includes a..t-
"Metals and ores, such as copper,
iron, steel, aluminium, lead, nickel, zinc,
gold, silver, alloys, etc, mineral oils,
petroleum, etc, oil cloth aud linoleum,
Oh ON TgaIine, paints and varnish, rub.
Der, natural ard artificial photographic
materials, paper, fins, dry plates, de-
seloping agents, etc, soap and IA pro,
dacts, la, sug r and starch, textiles,
nIercerizcd Gotten, artificial silk, aye,
ing, etc, vegel able oils, eottoHseed,
elte, peanut, etc., volatile oils and syn
thelic perfumes, waters, mineral, ETC.,
distillatioh products, wood alcohol, ace
tie aci 7, acetOne, Creosote charcoal, tur.
pentine, etc 81,
The number of Observation-Disclosures
estal lishments in the United States,
aggrcg ates many thousands represent
ing b lions Of dollars of capital, and
employing hundreds of thousands OF
wtrkmen. About one-fOurth of all onl
manufactured pro lucts come from
chemical Industries and about one-fith
of our workmep are engaged in them
This brief, outline statement is suf
6cient to give some appreciation of tbs
oierwh9lming immensely eomplexity
and impo. lance of our chemical indus
tries. a..' =.u-... ...r
..The rise of chemical industries has
taken place practically within fifty
years and the growth has been par!ieu
Ia iy rapid in the last twenty five
Wholly new chemical industries have
been created from old resources de
yclopcd anew and new resources dis
\ co%erld, In the old chemical indus
trias, accurate. dependable aud nonfail
ing methods of operation by chemica
y control have been substituted for thos'
~ ,pf,thnmb,n "fheltPr:skclter' - an,
,.hit,and- miss methods which one
gave 10 such industries the charaete
Of lotteries There is not a single fcl
Of Industrial eptcrprise which has no
been in some way helped by chem 81 ry
Corn, Dyes and Fertilizers cd.
DR. van Slyke spoke In detail of III,
hundred or more products, now mann
faetpred from corn by chemical pro
( eesses; the tremendous Development b
the soap industry Portland .eementr
textiles, paper and pulp, wood vast
utilization and dyes. Every on
thousand pounds OF coal ran be mad
TO produce 70 pounds of dyes, h
stated. w..
Potash, phosPhOric acid and nitFoge