Show HE GOT BACK HIS PRECIOUS RADIUM lud Hail f Him u I Into a u Ponder While Prof Abbe Was 1 Making I Now ew York April 27 The j.-The The mysterious Iou ious clement radium has Imas developed c strange e explosive Ic properties In iii the lie laboratory lab lab- oratory of Ir PIU Prof Robert Abbe of or St. St Sl tul Luke's Lukes es hospital this his cl city Dr DI Abbe Abie 1 had a lucky escape from serious inJury in- in Jill Jury jU for which he Is being con 1 by hl his surgeons fellow clu and sd- sd cl- cl clent ent t Ills His Ils experience Is 18 a warning to all al who handle radium PICe Professor ol Pelum of or Columbia University Uni Buil- succeeded In iii restoring restoring- to Pro Pie fessor Ul Abbe AbIe all al of or his exploded radium even el e lo tu the lie last particle though at al first Url it jt Deemed that the precious so Sf suddenly dispersed was Irretrievably abl ably lost In Imi December 1905 Pro Professor ur Abbe tu to lo use his own words received recel from lom Professor Hugo Lieber 50 of or pure radium bromide o of the thc strength th of just Imported from Ber tn lin un Ho lie had It Il transferred to tu a small smal gins glan Ia stube lube in iii II which il It was hermet hermet- Ial sealed after drying The radium was ivas used dali dai daily h by Pro Pro- I fl or Abbe for months beil being cleansed ed alwa always by JY Immersion In carbolic acid followed by alcohol and always hand hand- Id lell carefully In the thc forceps Radium Finally one umme dR lay day on oui remo ll removing Jl It 1 rom from a sliver CI 1 tube lube by a thread tc tied about It I. I tw radium stuck luel In th the opening u of the tube lube smith and Hlll Professor or Abbe AhIe presed It lightly with wih the lie en end of or orthe I the lie metal forceps Instantly the tIme ind radium exploded will willa wih a loud report the glass being shattered shatter shatter- hatel I ed cd Into numerous small mal fragments much of the lie radium being belL distributed a against the hit tH Inner lining of or the tube lube At the lie same hC lime Professor or Abbe sana saw san a cloud of ur pulverized ra radium lum come comae from rom the lie tube as large as his hand hant and fall fail fal in a shining shower hower to lo the tue theCa Ca cat jie carpet lw I. I 1 Laying tIns the tube lube carefully on omm a clean cleat sheet of paper Professor Abbe Ahbe made madea a chal chalk outline on un the carpet around the lie area within which he supposed his precious radium had hac fallen falen though nothing of oC it i was visible In II hope of recovering it It he laid a aI I large e photographic Roentgen en a ray plate phate upon the lie carpet ln believing It make Its Is impression slon through h the lie double dou thou ble hIe paper envelope To his chagrin only one spot pot showed at the coiner corne of or the when developed Tim That nl night ht he lie tested the carpet el ca with wih a U of or which glowed brightly I j at nt a spot SIl some sonic distance from the time suspected sims sus area That spot he lie again tested tested test test- ed with another photograph Scatters on Small Radius To oro hl his delight every smallest grain o of radium made Its autograph on un tho lie plate though only a few could be seen to glow gloss In Imi tho thio dark durk us ns thc they had luid Hunt Inlo hito tho thea V hP Tin The atomic weight of ur the lie the radium was so o o great that hint il it had hod mill within i ni ulen a vcr very small radius lehl being kept together 1 by its Ia heaviness 1 Professor sor Abbe Abb cut out a big hI piece or of the C cat carpet pet smith ami put limit It and the lie tulo tube tubo at nt tho ho disposal of or Professor Pegram or I u Columbia The TIme latter late with delicate beaters succeeded In ill extracting extracting- all al orthe of or the time precious particles from flom the carpet so o much so that when the thc piece of ur I carpet carpel was subjected to tu the photo- photo test none remained The Tue raj radium ra- ra j Ilum which had hail been dispersed l I against t the title side of tH time the tube was also Onal dually resolved 1 an and amid the tIme radium restored I ed to the tube To 0 guard guald against another an ami- an- an other othol explosion lon a fine lne platinum wire has ha been beau used fussed inlo the lie end emid of the lie tube to permit the stored up positive c electricity to discharge through It It on the lie theory theor that the he negative current I passed out through th lie iho glass with wih t IV beta rays as |