Show TART START RADIUM R A D I 1 TUY M BANK AN T london institution will rent precious element to scientists promoters Prom otera experience Exper lenco trouble in obtaining sufficient quantity of curative yield small london londom A response sponge re tar far beyond the expectations even ol of the promoters prom otera of 0 the scheme has hag attended the uon in london of 0 a radium bank a place placa where that ultra precious element may bo be stored jn in security and hired out to medical men scientists and others othera who wish to use it but can not afford the SO 80 a milligram which la Is its ita present market price the actual locale of tho the bank ta Is ultimately ti to be in the neighborhood ot of cavendish square la in the heart of doc torland but for or the present temporary offices have been opened in Moor gate street hera a reporter found himself one of a host of 0 anxious inquirers Inq utrera after tho the modern philosophers we have been perfectly amazed said the manager ma at the stir that the announcement has already caused although it was only a day ago I 1 have been besieged by applicants principally of course by medical men for whose use the bonk bank Is being chiefly organized As AB you know the enormous expense ot at radium Is and will bo be for some time the great drawback in its use both for medical and scientific purposes for an average operation some boine fifty milligrams aro are needed costing about and it ta Is therefore only at one or two of the large london that it can be used to any extent so a little body of men have do de aided to establish this bank from which wo via shall let out radium at for one ona days daya use of milligrams and tar for each subsequent day at halt bait per cent nl on the value of the amount used securities will of course have to bo be giver elver and it is happily one of 0 the characteristics of radium that its faculties are arc to all intents and purposes inexhaustible apart froni rom getting the required radium continued tho the manager tho the whole thing to Is supremely simple there Is no need ot of spacious strong rooms halt a million worth takes up no more space than it a duchess duch esa tiara and we shall only stock it to tho the value ot of dut but the iho getting it Is the difficulty hitherto the main source has been the pitchblende from the joachin boschin thai mine in bohemia Doh emla this yields one part la in but to Is practically monopolized by austria the djs covey covery at 01 radioactive radio active now being worked by an english company in the bed of a stream near guards guarda in portugal where miraculous cures used to happen not unconnected with the iba radium has added to tho the supply but not to a very cheapening extent so tar far as england itself Is concerned there are two cornish mines that hays have yielded a little but the availably supply of pure radium Is in tensely limited owing to the enormous difficulty of extraction although radium exists in air sea water and almost everywhere there to Is hard ly a pure ounce in the world un one of the first things that we shall have to do Is to net met about finding new sources of supply As to our bank it will ie be organized very much after the model of at the similar institution in paris through which ma most of f the radium used in england has hitherto come and of other radium banks which are being established in new york berlin aud and vienna |