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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 31, 1919)
1 THE STJXDAY OREGOXIAN, PORIXAJTD, AUGUST 31, 1919. Even Withont the Plor Hat the Startling- Resemblance Persists. v. To Resemble President Wilson So Closely That Everywhere Yon Went People Stared, Wondered and Even Insisted That Yon Were the President? This Has Been the Embarrassing (and Amusing) Experience of James J. McCabe, District Superintendent of Schools in New York, Popular Educator and Composer, Here Introduced to You. I 1. ? Vws V iV- He Does Look Like President Wilson, More Like Him, Probably, Than Any Other Man in the World. Bat He Is Really James J. McCabe, District Superintendent of Schools in New York. New National Air AMERICA My Country, 'Tis Of Thee (AMERICAN tdnb) This tune was written in response to the feeling that our beautiful anthem should be sung to music com. pussd for H by an American, and that the borrowed tune of "God Sara the King" should be used solely for the British anthem, to which it rightfully belong. & F SMITH . JAMES X McCABB Maestoso (MM J - ) Witt fervor ? vigor; moderate Hi, not too to'ta. a i i i i k bJ i I J J i i hi i i i J i i ffn i f im rer '& 4 4 J j I Zfi hi - ,'J U t Pi rs V ' ' " ' T a t i T 'My country! 'tis of thee, Sweetlandof lib-er-ty, Of thee I sing; My na-trr conn-try, thee, Land of the no-ble freeTbyname I love; Let mu-sic swell the breeie, And ring from a U the trees Sweet freedom's song; Our fa-lhers GodlloThee, Au-tbor of lib-er-ty, To Thee me sing; Land where my I . love thy Let rrtor-tal ' Long may our Wheal Sir. MeCtke startled that faaaoaa frtara' baaaaet with the worda "JtS7 I set ... r. BT WARREN HARTWELU ATA BANQUET given at the Friars Monastery in New Torlc las -- spring in honor of visiting pub lishers and editors front all parts the country, a little difficulty arose. I was not a real difficulty, but a make believe one, although few knew tha the quarrel about a waiter was a bit of play-acting devised for an interest Ing purpose. The head waiter (or the clever comedian who pretended to be the head waiter) "called oat" the men. O yes! There was some excitement o much that the authors of the Joke were delighted. There appeared In the doorway of the banquet hall, at the crisis of the controversy, a stately figure wearing a discs: overcoat and a plug hat. The diners stared in amazement. Was this President Wilson? The way in which those near th edoor fell back, the awe that filled the faces of the at tendants, the strange silence that fell where there had been a buzz of talk throughout the great hall, indicated a profound amaxement. however much It may have expressed of actual con viction. The stately figure moved to the midst f tha tables and with the lifting of a hand m challenge to attention a solemn voice begxu: -May 1 not ... V Then the Joke was out. The choice of one of the President's familiar phrases Increased the stsrtling illusion and at the s.nne time began to make it apparent that the chief magistrate of the nation really had not surrepti tiously crossed the Atlantic. The voice that counselled brotherhood and for bearance was admirably modulated and succeeded in holding rapt and breath less attention to the end. "After July 1 faihrrtdied! Land of the Ptlgitm pride! From ev-'iy mountainside Let flrL-e -dom ring! roik and rill. Thy woods and templed hills, My heart with rap-ture thrills Like that a bove. tongues a-wake; Let all that breathe partake; Let rocks their silence brrak.Th sound pro long, land be bright With freedom's ho-Iy light; Protect us by ThynvW.GrealGod, our' jngl J J- m n . ef SSug 1 L J 1 . f f L CopTgkt HCXXYU Jmm,, Jf IfrCmt U3 Sulh 3rStgnUtn.r All Jttftlt v - . . .f .x . . .- ' ' .111. SfPKRJXTEXDE.Vr McCABETS Ml'SIO FOB MMEBICA" WHICH HAS BEEX WIDELY ADOPTED THROUGH. OUT THE IMTEO STATES. IT HAS LONG BEEJV MR. McCABE'9 EXPERIENCE TO , EXCITE WONDER AS TO WHETHER HE REALLY IS THE PRESIDENT. waiters will be different," said the voice "everything will be different." There was a burst of applause and the kind of laughter that follows a genuine tension. "Who la heT" That was the general question, echoed from one end of the place to the other as "President Wilson" though the name, by a clever reservation, was never mentioned and every decorum preserved retreated to the door. Presently the figure returned, with the real Wilson smile, minus the high at. and was In due time introduced as Kriar James J. McCabe. He is Friar McCabe at the monastery. Across the river he Is District Superin tendent of Schools McCabe, and an ex ceedingly Interesting personality. That smile represents a real sense of humor, and Superintendent McCabe has needed the sense of humor. Without it his conspicuousness as the man who looks like Wilson might have been annoy ing. As it is, Mr. McCabe takes the fre quent glances and stares, the amazed looks, the wondering conferences In public places, entirely In good part. In fact he is used to it. The smile is al ways ready. If you are able to get bim to talk about it he can give you some amusing and often remarkable stories of actual happenings. Naturally he has had to be a bit conservative as to ven turing In any neighborhood where the President is actually expected. Ninety nine committeemen out of a hundred would seize upon him as the real article. "There Is nothing for It," he says, "but to accept the inevitable. I've ceased letting it embarrass or disturb me. Better to smile though that, seemingly often makes this worse! or at least to take any mistakes as part of the unavoidable experiences of life. I'm fortunate. I might have looked like someone I didn't admire!" Mr. McCabe is a born educator, sin gularly modest, and always sure of a warm response in his work. It has been said that his career illustrates the doc trine that education is life, not merely a formal preparation . for life. . For tunate indeed is the school system that has a superintendent who is so prac tically the embodiment of what is de sired today in our industrial training. He knows work and its educational bearing because he is the product of that work associated with breadth and intensity of studying seldom observed under the favored conditions in the ordinary life of a boy. Four biographical facts make the first epoch or. 1 years Dirtn in ntw. York, death of father two years later, 1 a pupil in public school 22, Manhattan, and public school 23, Brooklyn, work in a printing establishment. Some boys are glad to go from school to shop, but a boy of 14, a member of a large family left, without financial means, is- likely to do some thinking about the serious phases of economic questions when he realizes that his apprenticeship is work, and that his compensation depends upon his progressive usefulness. Mr. Mc Cabe's experience was with high grade work from Scribner, William Wood, John Wiley & Sons, and other promin ent firms that, supplied copy covering history, science, art, genealogy, medi cine, and such technical subjects. The reading of that manuscript opened a field not usually enjoyed by boys In the grammar grades, and the practice in using reference books for verifica tion in proof-reading developed a habit of scholarly precision such as no ele mentary pupil is required to have in ordinary school experience. Printing offices of that standard are sociological centers, where manifesta tion of various grades of life may be studied. Mr. McCabe's experience in cluded association with boys and men, from the tramp compositor to raaga. line editors or distinguished authors. He was assigned to read copy or other wise assist editors and authors who . examined their proofs in the estab lishment. The district superintendent of today counts this printing office experience as perhaps the greatest formative in fluence in his career. Standing out In his labor as an edu cator has been the tuition courses and inspirational work resulting from his interest in music. At the age of 15 he was an organist and choir director. The transition to teaching occurred In 1S81 when Mr. McCabe accepted a position in a private school. The next year he was appointed teacher of music in the publio schools, thus opening a service covering music methods in the training school, mathematics in manual training high school, principal of pub lic school 24 and later of publio school 23, the school which he had attended; teacher and principal In evening high schools, and district superintendent. It was In December, 1901, that he was elected district superintendent, a de served recognition at the close of two decades of teaching. His new music for "My Country, Tis of Thee" has been received with enthu siasm by a great number of audiences. The new anthem is sung in hundreds of schools throughout the country and has even found its way across the seas. Being a patriot to the core, Mr. McCabe takes a great deal or satis faction In the success of the anthem. One . of ' Mr. McCabe's many loyal friends say of him: "Kindliness in service to others and for others is an effectual quality In Mr. McCabe's per sonality. A man can be considerate, without being soft, inspiring in lead ership without yielding the power to command, suggestive in directing utili trian scholarship . without condoning loose ideals or neglect, charitable in weighing the thoughts and the deeds of. others without conceding even one excuse for failure to put forth maxi mum effort for the best in mental, moral and physical achievement. Such a man is James J. McCabe' GREAT COPPER BELT IN EASTERN OREGON' HOLDS VAST WEALTH Wonderful Showing Made in Recent Developments of Hercules Mine, ar Baker, Oregon. BT JOHX ARTHUR. MIN7NQ ENGINEER. f-kAKER. Or.. Ang. SO. (Special.) pv Innumerable gold and silver mines and prospects are found in eastern Oregon. A few are actual producers, but many that produced largely in the past are idle at the present time. This Is due to the fact that the supply of surface free gold ores became exhausted and the values of the deeper sulphide base ores could not. at that time, be saved successfully. Th application of modern methods, such as hammer drills, or stopers and ball or pebble mills, will reduce the cost of mining and milling materially. By the us of oil flotation, or the "all slim ing cyanide process," or a combination of both. It is now possible to save be tween 0 ana 97 per cent of the values, whereas the extraction by means of the old method was from SO to SO per cent The Eureka A Excelsior, on of the largest mines in the state, milled nearly too. 900 tons of ore and only mad a saving of iS per cent of the values. At some of these mines a lower grade ere. or so-called barren lone, was en countered at depth, ami work ceased right then and there. No attempt, was made to penetrate these barren sones, which, as will be shown, was th poor est kind of mining policy. Mvtker Lde Hlatary 4ate4. At th famous "Mother Lode" in Cali fornia moot of the value disappeared at about 0O foot depth, but some of the asor adventurous mining men sank Lbromh -Ih barren soae, which, was from 200 to 400 feet thick, and encoun tered bigger and more profitable or bodies at those depths. Every mine owner of that region followed the ex ample, and at this very moment they are mining In the "Mother Lode at depths of from 2000 to 3000 feet, profit able ore bodies that are from 10 to 300 feet wide. These optimistic adventurers were the men who made it possible for California to maintain its well-earned reputation of being the "Golden State. The application of. modern methods and sinking of deeper levels requires nerve, capital and knowledge. This com binatlon. Intelligently applied, will give these idle mines a chance to again be come Important gold and silver pro ducers. Now as to the copper mines of east ern Oregon. All copper mines that have a proper surf tee showing, and are lo cated on what I term the "copper sone," Improve with depth. A proper surface showing consists of leached-out copper or bodies, cropping out on the surface. I rem Dyke Mine Rich Oae. A striking example of this fact is of fered by the Iron Dyke mine. This property was examined and condemned, over and over again, by transient min ing engineers, but It was located on th copper son and bad the proper sur face showing, consequently making good when depth was reached. In fact it became so valuable that SO miles of railroad, through hard volcanic rock. was built close up to the mine, to facil itate the shipping of its product to the smelters. Incidentally it Is stated that Ui lessees were enabled to pay SiuO,- 000 In royalties to the owners, which paid for the option they had on one half of the property. All of this was accomplished within ' the first three years of their operation. The Iron Dyke has a mill of less than 150 tons daily capacity. The ore body. at depth of 900 feet, is 134 feet wide, averaging 4 per cent in copper and from $2 to IS in gold and silver per ton. This information was Imparted to the writer by Emmett F. Galligan, who was then In charge of the mine. Truly a remarkable transformation. In the upper levels the pay-ore was 25 feet wide, had 14 to Z per cent copper, with silver and gold values of about S3 per ton. Ore Vain Estimated SIO.OOO.OOO. It is said that reliable mining en gineers place the value of the present ore reserves In the Iron Dyke at SIO. OOO.OOO. All of this vast wealth was made available within the short period of five years. Other mines In the Iron Dyke camp are being opened up with encouraging results. The Rand-Mc-Carty group Is being developed by out side capital and better ore than the surface indicated is being shown up. There are numerous good prospects around Homestead and several of them that ar making a splendid showing under present development will be heard from in due time as copper pro ducers. I will now give my opinion as to how this great copper belt was formed. Ages ago. probably millions of years. there were massive flows of lava which, during the different geological periods, covered the surface for miles in width and length, one flow coming on top of the other. One of these flows was greenstone, the next one, resem bling silicious rhyolite, was deposited on top of the greenstone. Finally all of this was tilted by some dynamic force or upheaval, resulting in a dip of the flows, which now stand at about 30 degrees from vertical. The next thing that took place was a shearing or rend ing motion which bad an easterly and westerly movement, splitting and lis-1 surlng the affected country for about 50 miles in length. Naturally, the resulting fissures and openings were formed at the place of least resistance, which was at the con tact between the greenstone ana myo lite material, and that is how these vast crevices in the rock were made and prepared for the precipitation and reception of copper and other precious metals, and for the forming of ore bodies. These flows, monsters in scope, con tained thoroughly disseminated minute particles of copper, gold and silver. The oxidizing and dissolving metals, during these periods of ages, gradually found their way into the dee and long fissures made ready for them by na ture, where the values were deposited in concentrated form. These fissures were the storage reservoirs for all the slowly leached-out values for . miles around, just as the ocean Is the final repository for all the -water that oozes out of the ground. The big fissures in the earth gave the last lodgement to metals in solution, and the final crea tion of big metallic mines is therefore due to the gradual precipitation of met al into the fissures formed on this cop per belt. Herevles Mine a Wonder. Now we come to one of tha most im portant events In the history of Baker county, one that should cause Baker's population to at least double within the next five years. This is the wonderful copper showing being made at the Her cules mine. I cannot find words expressive endugh to emphasize the Importance of this strike to Baker county. The property can be reached from here by auto In less than one and one-half hours. The largest piece of ore on dis play weighs over ore-half of a ton. The copper sulphides are uniformly dis seminated throughout the rock and It assays per cent copper and S1.50 gold and silver per ton. I predict that we are about to wit ness more mining activity than ever experienced in this district heretofore making of a big mine. and this Is going to be brought about by practical demonstration of the mer its of the Eastern Oregon copper belt. It may take a little time to sink the deep shafts that will be required and build the big mills necessary for large materialize, and when they do thy will copper operations, but they ought to pay pay big, just like the great copper mines in Utah, Montana and Arizona. The strike at the Hercules was made at about 800 feet in the drift, where they were driving toward the second ore shoot, which was Indicated by strong croppings on the surface. It proved to be much bigger than ant'ei pated at this point, and of a higher grade than expected.' The vertical depth is only 180 feet, but where they are now drifting the mountain rises more rapidly, and, as they penetrate deeper the ore should improve in value and keep on improving, as the best results in copper 'mines are obtained in depth. The possibilities of the Hercules are very large, they can only be guessed at, and there are numerous others in the belt. Copper Hill Showing Fine. The next one to start operations will be the Copper Hill Mining company. owning 200 acres of copper-bearing outcrop, situated about 4 miles east of, and on, the Hercules lode. . This property was recently acquired by Charles G. Flanagan of Seattle. ' They have a wonderful surface showing and shallow depths begin to show a fair percentage of copper. The work of thoroughly prospecting the ground will commence next week. Possessing, as it does, all the requirements for a - big copper mine, the Copper Hill promises to be the next important copper prop erty in the belt. The Cox-Keating group of copper claims is also attracting considerable attention. It Is located between the Hercules and the Copper Hill and on the same lode. This property shows good copper sulphide ore and has the , SOUL OF SEQUOIA" DRAMA OF CALIFORNIA'S FOREST PRIMEVAL Complete Indian Opera to Be Produced in Natural Redwood Forest Will ' Portray Spell of Big Trees. C CALIFORNIA ' REDWOOD PARK. 5000 years and more of age form the en Cal.. Aug. 30. In the forest prime- rcling background to the natural stag J , , , . tAw.'upoa which this drama is to be pro- V val, beneath sempervirens tower ing 300 .feet, and which were . ancient forest monarchs even, at the time Noah's ark Is recorded to have rested on Mount Ararat, 234S B. C.,' Californ ians'and visitors will gather here Sep tember 6 to witness "The Soul of Se quoia." It is an Indian opera, and its premiere here will mark the first time in the history of open-air drama that a complete Indian opera has been pro duced in the natural redwood forest. Unique features in a setting. Of gran daur surrounded this effort of a Cali fornia composer, Thomas Vincent Cator of San Jose, and a California author, Don W. Richards, to. produce a history of the giant redwood trees in song and drama Their efforts are supported by the Sempervirens club of California which is financing the production solely In the interests of the California Red wood Park, a state park, ; with rree camp sites, water, fireplaces, Umbwood for Calif ornians and visitors. In the heart of the great Big Basin, Santa Cru county, a majestic amphi theater, is an inner amphitheater in which the production will be staged. Wild deer will be participants in the drama. A. M. Weaver, assistant state warden of the park, has trained these timid animals. For more than two years Warden Weaver has each morning and evening called to the wild deer who have answered from miles around and sped to his offerings of sugar, apples and barley. ' ' Alammoth pillars of living redwood. duced. This natural forest theater ac commodates more than 6000 people. California Redwood Park, set apart by the state in 1S01 as a public park, consists of 10,000 acres of virgin forest. It is 33 miles from San Jose, 70 miles from San Francisco, 26 miles from Santa Cruz, reached by good mountain roads. PRAISE GIVEN AMERICANS Australian Says Wealth Wisely and Generously Used. LONDON. "The typical American Is no more a boisterous multi-millionaire with coarse manners and only money ideals than the typical Englishman is the glacial, monocled, high-society sue cimeh who calls everything 'rippin' and ultimately marries a chorus girl." This was the comment of H. Y. Brad- don, recently trade commissioner for Australia at Washington, at a luncheon given him in London by Australian and other officials. 'Their 'home life in the states Is charming," said Mr. Braddon, "and their conversation' is directed to subjects of interest to the stranger in the most courteously considerate way. They have no special admiration for weait.i as such, but only for wealth as wisely and generously used." An experimental plant has been built at Hamburg that obtains power from th rise and fail of tb North, sea Uds.