The Nome nugget., 1927-05-14

LAKE HOPATCONG. N. J., May 13. uP)- of Hudson Maxim. died May 9th from anemia and tio stomach trouble with which he had been suffering ma for months. he
 The following biographical sketch of his life fri was furnished by the advance service of the Asso- cated Press: 'a'
 Hudson Maxim, inventor of more "concen- Na trated destruction Of high explosves< ap smokeless powder and automobile torpedoes than ns any other man United neverthe- ar less, lifelong hater a stauneh advocate Le peaceful arbitration. champion of all mankind UT in rouble and the self-appointed guardian of AS thousand little birds that nesed in the great trees Ia his palatial estate in New Jersey Uni
 Two of Maxm's discoveries jn his experi- ments with high explosives be said in large oy measure have revoutionized modern warfare. ha They the first smokeess powder made in Am D erica and the first be adopted by the United
 States Government and 'maxite" the first high ex- posive bursting charge ever successfully employed " in armor-piercing p,ojectes. In addition to these he also invented steam-propelled torpedo and
 perfected high velocity rifle with speed of NJ mile a second NJ
 Hudson Maxim. boy, received practically no education, yet as self-taught scientist dered close upon ambition of Goethe in 4 other line, make all knowledge his own" Hh nine years old before he learned the alphaDet despite the violent winters of his native Mane he 1s years of before he owned his first pair of shoes and his first hat. He pitched hay IL for three days 75 buy his first Il ography chiefly that he might look France ito l: where Napoleon used live' 1;
 Against odds which many would have been II insurmountable, Hudson Maxim struggled ob- q tain education. Choosing the difficult 9 offered Rents Hill, Maine, he completed ? his academic studies at the of 25 years, and 2 was graduated with wide knowledge of chemis- 2 try, engineering and the natural sciences. Hardly B was he out of school when he formulated the hy 3 pothis of the compound of so-called atoms B which has become generally accepted theory only B within the past few years. 3.
 As young he first decided upon 8 printing and publishing business f spent five years in this work Psfeld. Mass. i Even this time working. 4 with the originated a process for
 color printing, which tried Even
 ing Journal of Psfeld. said have 5 daily newspaper issued in the United
 States. 5
 His love of chemistry, however. find 5 ing sufficient expression in the printing business. 6 and in 1888 he sold began experimenting G with explosives and ordnance he built G. a dynamite factory and smokeless powder mill 6 Maxim, N J., a place named for him, and in 6 operation with Dr. Robert c. schupphaus. perfect s ed the powder later adopted by the United States z Government.
 It in connection with this invention that q the strife between Hudson Maxim and his brother,
 Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, first came to light. It ' seems that Hudson Maxim, whose baptismal name 7 was Isaac, had dropped this early in life 7 and assumed that of Hudson Maxim Sir Hiram s inventor of the Maxim gun, later accused his young c CT brother of attempting to set up company in s New York. by mis-representing himself as Max
 i'm, the inventor of the gun The controversy con-
 tnued for number of years whereupon Hudson S Maxim issued statement to the that he never
 had invented gun intended to do so A The brothers unable to reconcile their differ A ences, however, and remained enemies for more than 20 years.
 In connection with his physical power it may
 be added that Mir. Maxim had marvellous chest, and throat development. with chords which
 enabled him to be beard in articuate speech more than mile away.
 His experiments with dynamite nitroglycerine, gun cotton and other explosives resulted many
 har-breadth escapes, yet he seemed to fear A the dangerous substances with which he was asso-
 ciated for many He had his assistant blown to atoms several occasions. had buildings shattered his head, and great pieces of metal
 In hod in thn >I1. As-.