Mr. Townsend to Mr.
Hay.
Legation of the United States,
Brussels, May 21,
1900.
No. 54.]
Sir: Referring to my dispatch of May 8, No. 53,
in regard to Mr. or “Dr.” Paul Edwards, an American citizen expelled
from Belgium for practicing the art of healing without a diploma and
contrary to the law of the country, I have the honor to transmit
herewith, for the information of the Department, three clippings from
the Paris edition of the New York Herald, which seem to conclusively
disprove Mr. Edwards’s assertion when in Brussels that he did not claim
to be a doctor. The letters from “Dr. Edwards” and his would be, as well
as “grateful,” patients might prove to be “Dr. Edwards’s” very ingenious
method of advertising himself.
I have, etc.,
[Inclosure.]
Clippings from Paris edition of New York
Herald.
letters to the
herald—information and comments on many matters of general or
private interest—views on current events—coal supply of england
found to be extremely limited—a desperate question.
To the Editor of the
Herald:
Your editorial entitled “Another rise in coal,” in to-day’s Herald,
does not assign the real cause for the rise of 5s. per ton on coal
in England.
Lately a prominent geologist and surveyor carefully examined into the
coal supply of England and found it extremely limited as compared to
the usually supposed quantity. It leaked out among the railway
companies last winter that the coal question was a desperate one,
and immediately the Great Central suspended its intended dividend. A
great authority has just declared that the very industries of
England are facing imminent danger in the coal question.
You are right in saying that the war has nothing to do with the
matter, but you do not point a remedy. There is one; it lies in
chemistry. The incomparable Tesla, of America, has discovered how to
manure land by the application of the nitrogen taken from the air.
This will make the soil produce from five to forty fold its present
quantity or amount; then plant the land with rattan, which is a
Malayan cane, and utilize the products for fuel or heating purposes.
I am assured that the land will produce, when manured with nitrogen,
from 30 to 100 tons per acre, and as the rattan contains
considerable saccharine, it will make splendid fuel. The nitrogen
is, of course, treated, by some electrical process known to
Professor Tesla, before being injected into the soil.
Cane produced thus can be pressed into cubes and used exactly as we
now use coal. Having several advantages over the latter, among which
are its quick-starting superior heating qualities, it would soon
become the popular house fuel, being clean, light, and economical.
Kerosene or petroleum will never solve the problem, as it is not
produced in any of the British Isles, and is very dangerous when
being transported in large quantities.
Dr. Paul Edwards.
Paris, May 9,
1900.
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wants doctor’s address.
To the Editor of the
Herald:
I see in to-day’s Herald a letter from Dr. Paul Edwards. Can you or
any of your readers give the doctor’s address in Paris, and mention
whether he is seeing patients here?
One of Your Daily Readers.
Paris, May 12,
1900.
dr. paul edwards’ address.
To the Editor of the
Herald:
I read in to-day’s Herald a letter from one of your readers inquiring
for Dr. Paul Edwards’ address in Paris. I have much pleasure in
stating that his consulting rooms are situated at 2 Rue de la
Bienfaisance, where he sees patients daily.
I take also this opportunity of informing another of your inquirers
in your Sunday edition respecting the treatment of “gravel” that I
was first attracted to Dr. Edwards’ office by a letter from him in
the Herald of June 20, 1899, in which he spoke of his being able to
cure “gravel” in from one to three days.
One of
Dr. Edwards’s
Grateful Patients.
Passy, May 14,
1900.
