New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-15
Inventor Has a 25-Year-
Old drudge Against
Standard Oil.
HIS BULLETS TOO
DEADLY FOR KAISER
But Germany Took His Cement
Hardening Process, Says
Auto BenefactOr.

II the Standard Oil Company tries
TO buy Louis Enricht's perfected cent
a-galon substitute for gasolene
bucket OF water. squirt Of the green .
stuff. and on your way-it will dis
cover one man who has the courage
TO say no.
II will also discover y, isn't always .
good policy 20 be thrifty 70 the point
Of harshness in dealing with an in
ventor. for II the late Henry Fisgler
had turned over $4,000 TO Mr. Enricht
without any haggling or 20 do one day
abou, twenty-five years ago. the man
with the big secret wouldn't be SO anX-
ious to-day TO see the octopus turn up
its teutacles and cash in
To be in a. the death Of Standard
Oil IL Enrich,'s admitted ambition. He
has cherished y. he says. ever since an .
offer 20 save the company many thou
sands year for one single lump pay
ment Of less than a year savings was
met by Mr. Flsgler with counter Of .
fer Of one single grsnule paymen, Of
$1,000.
The chemists disapproval Of this
species Of haggling was 80 great that
Nv not only did not take the $1,000
but now, after the lapse Of quarter
century. he is resolved 20 do no bust
ness with the corporation which looms
Ne the likely highest bidder for the
secret or the magic green bottle.
Chemical Easy TO Make.
For. with his chemical problem
solved, Enricht sees before him a cont
mercial problem quite as difficult IN
less he sells out 20 the octopus and
permits future sales OF casolene 70 be
at whatever price the war-ooos;ed
market will stana J. has occurred 20
him there Is no way he can protect 'i'.
discovery, once II has been patented
or once the minutest quantity OF It
has passed from MS hands The COM
pound. he says. is so simple that any
automobile owner can make II az home
y. the cellar.
Nor was this the only cross which
old Mr. Enricht he will be seventy
mis- next birthday found himself bear
ing last night Although his first pub
lie demonstration OF his compound had
gone off without hitch in the after
noon, visiting newspaper men having
been unable 20 prove that anything
but the contents Of the green bottle
was making the engines thrum and
the wheels so round, at least part OF
his sudience had been manfestely
unready 70 believe there wasn't some
trick about II.
This patent dlsbelief-one OF the re-
porters had even brought along me-
chanical expert who kept shaking his
head obviously and muttering TO him
self-did not seem to worry Mr. In
RIGHT. He vas uniformly courteous
and was not deferred, when II was all
over. from telling about his grudge
against the Standard Oil. He also told,
although the reporters listened with an .
air too astute 20 be altogether polite,
Of various other Of his inventions and
chemical discoveries.
Explosive Bullet Refused.
One. he said. was an explosive bullet.
which ne offered 10 the German govern
ment through Captain Won Papen early
in the war and which. he said, wss
turned down on humane grounds. Sull F
another the Kaiser accepted, accord .
ing TO the chemist. Il vas process
for hardening cement beds quickly and
explains. Mr. Enrcht points out how
the Germans are able 20 get that here
to-day-and -gone-to-morrow mobility out
Of their great Skodas. By using his
process. he says. his countrymen can .
make ready A mounting for one OF the
big guns in six minutes. whore formerly
the cement took forty eight hours 70
harden.
The chemist said he had the coop.rs-
ton and supper, Of his wealthy neigh
Dor. Benjamin Franklin Yoakum. pro-
moter and chairman Of the board Of the
St Louis & San Francisco Railroad,
in his projects
Mr. Yoakum was not a. home 10 cor
roborate this. but hackmen who drove
the reporters from the Farmingdale
Long Island railroad station 10 the
Enricht residence had anticipated what
the chemist admitted by connecting the
names OF the two.
The birthplace Of cent-a-gal.on gas
modest dwelling is backed by two
outbuildngs. in one OF taem Enricht
ana Ms son were NlNhtTlNp Win ~A'
engine Of a cycle-car.
Father and son expressed surprise
that their humble researches had at
tracted folks all the way from the city.
Shows Charm Working.
With something OF the stage presence
OF Ching Ling Foo, the elder Enricht.
whose towering height and trailing
mustaohe in themselves we're rem MIS-
cent Of the famous Chinese magician.
produced wooden wand. Win u he
tapped the gaSolene tank OF the cycle
car.
Empty he said
Next the magician called attention
70 faucet st the side Of the barn.
Water" he saio. Nothing but
water"
The Younger Enrich,. who had slipped
cuie,ly, into the job Of working the
properties. drew of a bucketful.
His father whipped the little green
bottle from his coat pocket, poured part
81 its contents into the bucket and
stirred the mixture. Son poured II into
tho tank. A couple Of batteries dry
ellis we're procured and an electrode
connected 70 them vss dropped into
the compound.
Son cranked the motor Il began 20
throb Pale smoke gushed from the
exhaust pipe. Thither rushed the canny
reporters. shifting. Alas. the pale
- 80 MAYA sucCes.ive % Mary