Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1911 — DISCOVERS A NEW DYESTUFF [ARTICLE]

DISCOVERS A NEW DYESTUFF

Prof. Hodgson Gives Bradford City Council an Asset Said to Ba of Groat Commercial Value. London. —The Bradford City council is tn the enviable position of being the owner of a new process of dyeing, which is expected to be of the greatest commercial value. Three years ago the Bradford Technical college appointed Dr. H. H. Hodgson as lecturer on chemistry, with the specific duty of carrying on investigations in applied chemistry which should keep Bradford as an Industrial community abreast of modern developments. , Prof. Hodgson Is understood to have discovered a new dyestuff, which has been provisionally protected under the patent laws and meanwhile the city council has been called upon to decide what shall be done with the new municipal asset. . t Three suggestions have been made. One Is to sell the patent rights outright, another Is to have the discovery worked on a royalty principle, and the third Is that It be worked directly by the corporation. The lastnamed suggestion has been declared Impracticable, a sub-committee, composed of men prominently connected with Bradford trade, has been appointed, with power to deal with the matter. Having regard to the financial and commercial importance of precious discoveries, such as aniline dyes, Bradford ratepayers are looking for-' ward with eager interest to further developments. Prof. Hodgson was a poor scholar at a Bradford elementary school, and won a scholarship which took him to the secondary school, and thence to Cambridge university.