Salt Lake Tribune | 1906-10-02 | Page 9 | Honor to "Wizard"

HONOR' TO "WIZARD" ' Man Who Pound Beautiful Color in Ooal Tar Visits America. 1KEW YORK, Oct. 1 Sir William Henry Pcrkin, tho inventor of the dyu mauve and who has been called the , "magician of coal tar," is in TScw , York, having arrived from London bat-urday bat-urday night. Tho distinguished chemist : is tho giieat of Prof. C. F. Chandler of this cltv. , . . I During his slav it is the intention of ! chemists from all over tho country to honor him and a oeries of eutortain-nionts eutortain-nionts nnd sightseeing trips has Dcea arranged for him. OhemiatB gonorally have benehted by Sir William's great discovery of fifty years ago. SinC6 the day when the eighteen-year-old youth saw a wondrous M)lor shade come "out of a deuso black residue, scores of perfuincs and countless count-less beau li ful colors havo evolved from the original discovery. Nearly twenty chemical firms throughout the world have madn exclusive ex-clusive business of coal tar products, and in this country alone it is estimated that $100,000,000 io invested in Sir William's discoverie?.' In speaking of his discovery yesterday yester-day Sir William said: "I was in the laboratory of tho German Ger-man chemist, Hofmaun, when I discovered discov-ered mauve. I was thon IS. While in an experiment to find qniniuo I failed, and was about to throw a certain black residue away when I thought it. might bo interesting. The (solution of it resulted re-sulted in a strangely beautiful color. You know tho rcat."