INVENTS VITALIZER TO PRESERVE FOOD

INVENTS VITALIZER TO PRESERVE FOOD

Dr. Cox Demonstrates Appliance to Save Fresh Fruits and Vegetables.

Dr. Harry Barringer Cox, the inventor of the dry battery, the ground wireless and many other contrivances in use throughout the world, demonstrated at the Waldorf-Astoria yesterday an invention to preserve indefinitely fruits and vegetables without the aid of ice or chemicals. He predicts that his invention will revolutionise the food trade in small and a very large scale; that it will make possible unprecedented transportation of fruits and vegetables without cold storage, and will permit them to be turned so cheaply that the apparatus will be installed in every home.

What he has done, Dr. Cox said, is simply to discover the earth currents which reach vegetables so long as they are on the ground and which cease immediately they are cut. On the bottom of a tin he can places an instrument, by means of wire, connecting the "vitalizer" with a gas pipe, water pipe or any other medium substance ultimately connected with either the water, or the pipe is not necessary to establish connection with the earth currents.

Dr. Cox estimates that his invention will make possible a saving of $1,000,000,000 a year through the conservation of fruits and vegetables which now go to waste in the United States. Incidentally he believes that his device will prove a real factor in bringing down the high cost of living.

The magician who draws a rabbit from a silk hat excites no greater wonder than after you have watched Dr. Cox put his hand in a tin box and draw out grapes, labeled 1918 and carrots dated a year later, both as firm and fresh and sweet as if they had been picked or dug up yesterday. He had with him several containers, in each of which were kept a variety. In the containers were oranges, potatoes, sweet and Irish; parsley, tomatoes, peaches, summer squash, celery, watercress and other food products which he has carried all about the country with him for months and years.

Dr. Cox calls his container a conservator, and says in the course of time it will be introduced to the public. There will be no cost in the way of upkeep of these conservodors, nor is there, Dr. Cox says, any chemical condition under which they will not operate.