SECRET OF GERMAN ANILINE DYES DISCOVERED.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14130, 5 July 1916, Page 2

SECRET OF GERMAN ANILINE DYES DISCOVERED.

I mo secret of making aniline dyes : ;c-fkoc] for generations in tlio breasts of a for/ German chemists, who have hr.nded it down from father to son as a p;-ior,]f..ss heirloom, has been discovered W a. San Francisco chemist, and the . o.M-niuwoment-. has caused a flutter I throughout the United States. ; 1-otiis. H. EiJkiMi, who lives with his , wife and baby in a tiny apartment at ; 1543, Jones Street, in San Francisco, is . tho man who claims to have solved the I mystery of the formulae which have

bv.ffled all the other chemists of the world,, and which have constituted the foundation of tho great German dyeing industry; one of the most important r-oKniftrei.il assets of the Teutonic

.Empire.

Eilken is a native of Germany, and worker! for years in a dye factory there, v/liore 8000 men were employed. Since ?u- came to Sa.n Francisco he has performed most of his experiments in his cramped living quarters. Thus far the chemist has .succeeded in producing eighteen "primary" colom s. He has an i'.oelible black dye. which is fast against both light and alkali, two shades of yellow, orange, red, two scarlets, two other shades of red, two violets, two I'Uies, and two greens. Other colours he proaises Mill be produced rapidly.