Rings, Radio and $300 H. G. Perry Traces History In Cash Missing Of Refining Industry from A Chinese youth, Chiang Chien-Dawn of Man to Present chin, was brought before the First Special District Court yesterday and Summarizing the history of oil recharged with fraud and larceny in fining in a lecture given recently which he was alleged to have before the Science Group of the timized a cabaret girl by obtain-British Universities Society, Mr. H. ing her ornaments and radio by G. B. Perry, of the Standard-Vacuum fraudulent means and stole $300 in Oil Company, described the various cash from her. He was remanded uses and methods of extraction of in custody for a week pending fur-crude oil employed since the dawn ther investigations as it was be-Of man. "Geologists tell us," said lieved that he might have similarly Mr. Perry, "that oil comes from/sedi-victimized other girls. mentary secretions laid down in the The victim, Miss Loh Mai-lee, met making of the earth's crust, dating the youth some months ago and as far back as the Cambrian period, they soon began to like each other' some thirty six million years or more the boy boasting that his father before the dawn of man. However was manager of a jewel shop in ihere is no record of man's use of Nanking Road. He often went to oil until comparatively recent times." her home in Yates Road and once The speaker stated that the ignite took her rings saying that he would ability of petroleum from oil seep-have her initials engraved on them ages has been the object of worship at his father's shop. He also took by many races and cited the fact away her radio set promising to that even to this day the burning of repair it. candles is associated with religion.
Evidently thinking that his job Dividing the history of petroleum had not yet been completed, he went into three periods, Mr. Perry includ-to her home again on April 21 ed in his description of the first, without returning the things which which he defined as extending from he obtained from the girl. He the dawn of man to 1850, an excerpt threatened to commit suicide stating from the records of Herodotus, B. C. that his father would not allow him 450. This record refers to wells from to marry her, producing a letter hich three substances were removed, rting to have been written by namely asphalt, salt and oil. The his father. She became alarmed speaker also described the methods and, being illiterate, she gave the employed by the Chinese in the letter to a neighbour in order to utilization of oil and natural gas long know While the- exact contents he before the Christian era. Bamboo way the youth was alleged to was utilized for the making of balers, n $300 from a drawer and ropes and pipe lines. Wells were zw y. He never showed up sunk to a depth as great as 1000 feet, since then.
The matter was reported and to the present day in Szechuen to the police who had the lad and Shensi the salt producing dis. trested on Monday in a hotel in tricts are still using the same methods yn Ya Ching Road. of extraction. The natural gas obtained is used for heating the evaporating pans and the wells quite frequently choke up with a gush of oil.
Petroleum Development Placing the second period in the development of petroleum between 1850 and 1900, the speaker remarked that this period was characterized in the Uniled States by two features Methods of supply and manufacture were primitive and the coun!
akaning, through the ad lities for illumination and heat-a greater need for petroleum in suitable forms. At this time whale oil, rape seed oil. lard oil and crude iurpentines were being used as illuminants and there was need of a more inexpensive substance. Thus. [at this period, kerosene reached its highest peak as a lighting media.
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