The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 20, 1902, Page 13

THE SUNDAY CALIL. 13 w vere der river Eder rolls down through de off! Du Lieber Gott, but what a fall T big trees. Dere is all kind of fish dere. haf. I roll, und I roll, und I rell to get Und dem deers! But dey Vill not let you from der wheels under, und den dey haf fish or shoot. I can see dot vater run- to pick me up. I could not walk after, ning out of dem hills now, so colt und und I felt like someding in my insides goot it vas. was gone. My leg was stiff. Und der “‘But dings vas changed dere since I vas pain near my heart—if I had know den a poy. Vell, one day in June, I had vat I know now!” Just then the pain been hafing a goot time for nearly tree caught him and I entreatéd him not to monts, ve vas all one day der hay fields talk, for I felt a strange sensation in my in, und I tink I like to ride on de back of own heart. “Ne excitement,” his son had de hay vagon und let my feets dewn warned me sadly before I saw his father. hang. My brudder in law, vas de horses After a little he resumed: “Ach, such drifing. I climb up on der hay befere de paln as I haf suffered, but I did not let vagon go, und I vas singing a German my folks knew from dere, und I did not song, somedings apout der hay! I shtand go to @ decter, for I did mot vant to be a - man without further plans for, this world. 3 “But for dis I be now vn my vay back from Germany. Forty years it vas since dere T had been, und last’ Abril I made my mind oop dot I vould go Und stay in de Vaterland one year vid mine sister und bradder. 1 come to dis country ven ,1 vas a leetle-boy, und three trips I tqok to Europe ven I vas single. Und bad luck I bad on all dem trips. But of dot I for-’ got all on der shteamer iust Abril. I vas a jolly goot fellow, und ven de moosic band blayed I took hold of the vimmen und dance. But ven I come back I could not do dat.” He leaned back and wiped his eves. “But ven I got dere to Rengers- dere one minute pefore I sit down en der robbed, but I went as fast as I vas able to hausen in Hessen, vere my sister live— back, und in dot one minute der horses Cologne—my brudder he keeps der hotel vas lofely, dot valley of der Lune, shtart, und take dwenty years my life near de catedral dere —but ven I reach dere de pain vas so great dat I just shtop to bid him gootbye for a few days, und den I shtart for Hamburg—I say to myself dat from dere I vill go straight heme. But my pain nefer left me und on der vay to Hamburg I hat te shtop at Kussel for one day. Den ,1 get to Hamburg at last, und I hunt up der German doetor. “He did not tell me that I two broken ribs haf, und he did not know what der matter vas. He say get home queekly! Se I take der Graf Waldersee, der first shteamer oudt. Ven to the shteamer [ get—dey haf gifen me one berth mit one ladder up. Himmel! how in it I got I don't know, but der mext morning I haf to be.lifted oudt und put under der care of der ship docter, und dere I shtay wid nedings but pain undll to New York we come. I almost haf to be carried to der train, und to my shleeper I gets und dere I lays mit my shoes on till we geés to San Franciseo. Den I could not valk for de pain, und dere vas no one dere to meet me, for 1 did not let dem know I vas hurt, though my vife she write me that she had pad dreams aboud me. “My little draveling bag I found I haf leaf in Jersey City, und I send a telegram to dem to send it oudt to me. It in it hat some German books, my medicine, a Ger- man Bible und four pottles \of peer—I bring dat to show how goot dey fasten up der pottles in Germany. Dey sent it te me py Velis-Fargo Company, und ven der poy bring it here he vant for me to pay six dollar und sefenty-five cent. It vas robbery! Der bag vas not a trunk! T leaf it down dere at der office und dey keep it yet. I for it will not pay. “It was aboud der 1st of September ven I got to my home here. Den I went to der German Hospital after I haf a doctor here for a vhile, but dere dey did not find out what was der matter vid me, though they say dey thought I had two ribs broke vhen I haf dot pad fall. But efery day I gomplained of dot sharp pain in my breast, but dey did nodings for id. Dey didn’'t know what it va Oh, it vas dis- couraging after I had been avay so long and spent go much money. But now it is worse. “Ven I did nod get better I vent to the Lane Hospital in San Francisco. Dr. El- linwood he examine me and found a lump in my breast—here vere der pain vas. On der next dayv he took dot X-ray. He ex- amined my left arm, which vos uselEssL und den dot pain strike and take my breath avay in my breast. Den dey holt me, und der X-ray come from behind. I heard der doctor call oud, ‘Oh, here it vas,' and den [ didn't know vat der mat- ter is. But, ah Gott, now I know!” His breath came quickly and his voice fal-ered. but not from pain now. “Den he sent for anoder doctor and dey told me dot fos a blood tumor dere in HENRY PROSIVS the world, but presence at his my breast. It vas from dat fall in Ger- many; my rib, I tink, scrape an artery; it vas in dot main artery from my heart off, und my rib it vas eating into. Ah, I haf lif so honest and hard-working, too, but death to me soon comes. -One day ven I cough or excite myself dot blood tumor vill press too hard, und ven it break through dof artery wall membrane I am deat! Read dot latest news; it comes to-day’s mail in."” He handed me a letter Francisco physician. The last line was enough to read. It ran thus, “All comes from that injury, and must certainly end suddenly in death.” It was a ghastly message. His voice went on: “Death stares me every day in der face. ind me; I nefer a iying. Vonce, perhaps, ven had earlier known, der might haf been some operation to safe me, bud now —if der pain grows worse I don't vant to live. No, ven I found out of dot tumor 1 vas reliefed ven I know vat it Is, efen if dere is no cure. Now I vas here waiting. My vill is made und my vife und family I will leaf comfortable—vell off. Dat boy August he vill carry on der bookbinding bisness, from which I retire some years ago. it now, und he vas smart. My tombstone I haf ordered first of all —for fear 1 might it not get ven I am dead. It vas just a plain stone—but vat vill' be on it is der most interesting. You know for forty I haf kept the sev- enth day for the Sabbath. I haf twenty- one Bibles und I pelief them, but I don'd pelief der preachers. Dey blame der Devil for everyting. I keep der ten command- ments, und my Gott Is a merciful Gott Vy should I be afral I don'd pelief in der hell of der preachers. I pelief dot hell is der graye. Dere is where I soon go, und I sleep dere until der resurrection. I wrote der verse myself. So people don'd take me for an infidel I begin with der 139th Psalm. Den my verse, like dis He raised his finger and quoted to me in a solemn tone, broken by coughing. from a San He tends to I came in dis world naked und bare; I haf gone through dis world vid trouble und care. Now I am dead und gone, do you know vhere? Right straight to hell, und you follow me dere: “Whoever reads dot dey run avay, pe- cause dey don'd vant to follow me to hell. Und den comes my name, und my age. You know I am not so gld. “My parents both lifed to be ofer eighty. Ach, ven I first know that T must go vid- out varning it bring der tears in my éyes, but now I vas ready. Id is not my death. Dot vas easy. But it is to leaf my lofed ones. Dey know id. Ven ve fiad oudt aboud dot tumor der doctor he take my vife one side und he say: ‘Madam, your good man is very ill. He can nefer get 1. Treat him kindly. His days' is counted.’ “Now 1 tell you more aboud my grave- stone. Den I put Psalm der sixteenth to 2in dot ver Der Psalm say: ‘Thou leave my soul in hell.” No. I am not more afraid of going to hell than I voud pe to eat beefsteak und onions. Id 1s der grave, und Christ vent dere from der cross und dot makes id oot enough for me. Dot is my pelief. I pelief it is one dellusion to sav dot der soul shall lif be- fore der final resurrection. It vos in der Scripture: ‘Der soul that sins shall die.” “But 1 haf triéd to keep der Sabbath und der commandments, und to me in all my pain der day ven I am dead is petter dan der day of my birth. I long. for my- zelf alone, for dot day to come. Der doc- e = \THE LARGEST Aogues | SMELTER IN e - then = THE WEST. ”";‘.‘tv fisst word N faraway Shasta County stands the & k to the day that made him sixth largest smelter in the world: and needless to say, the largest in all Call- e Like £l fornia. With its nine great smoke- stacks and ‘its acres of roasting flelds 1t looks ini the busy season like a great burning town. This is the Keswick smel- ter that handles all the ore for that mar- vel of a copper mine—the Mountain Cop- per mine, commonly known as the Iron WHO Are AH" Giants. mily c n, h is a_gentleman fa ant vote " hei not a small wo- He has a little bit of a wife, though he | measures 6 feet 4 inche:. He is 36 years | ht be feet 9 inches. proud has a daughter, a nurse in a' San of age and welghs 1 Mountain. 2 ‘rancisco hospltal, who is only of the ~ Then o mest Richavd Thomas Carey,| The mine that supplies the great part of g d“'j‘“ . "‘\‘{’.',“"’" height. p also a married man and not a small one, | the ore for this immense plant is located !urfl _n‘llr;h' m\‘.imi"{»v el "Q.]:'/zxyn %‘.,,r;:.; Carey is n)e eldest son, his height is 6 feet and 3 inches, and | ghout twelve miles northwest of Redding ) me. § it 60 e the tallest of the boys. He is tips the scales at 218 pounds. He 18| ;.3 by rail from the mine to the smelter and has a pleasant home up to a height ond look always ¥ street. Though he s great height does on of a heavy man. ears old. - il st comes the pet of the family, John | neis Carey, 2 vears old and yet a beau. He is a swell when he dresses his six feet two and a half inches in fine apparel. He does not welgh much; only is ten miles—and a very steep ten miles it 1s, too. In thaf country of mountains the present site of the smelter was the only one found available where the five or six acres of level land necessary for rs he lived with his fam- ack Mountains, and then Jose to go into the butche e old ge ) year wei 20 pounds. of e not give the impre i e superintending He owns to 39 vear 212 pounds. : a tor are out at th ighter-house, about five The next in order as to age and height ~ There are no finer specimens of huge | the plant could be located. king s miles from town is George J. Carey, who lives at Palo manhood to be found in California than| The Mountain Copper mine was discov- Mrs. Amelia Carey, the mother of this Alte and is the Carey family. ered by a surveyor named Magee, who o in"the butcher business. i located it on the theory that it was val- uable £6r its iron ores.. Then came a man, James -Salee, who thought it a fine propo- sition for silver and the property was sold in 1886 and over $100,000 spent on it in ex- perimenting to no advantage. Until 135 the mine was hawked around all over this country and England and generally con- demned. At last it passed into the hands of the Mountain Mines Comvany (Lim- ited), who disposed of it January 1, 1367, to its present owners, the Mountain Copper Company (Limited) of London, an English corporation. ¥ The Mountain Cepper Company soon developed the prc?)eny o6n the right lines and the huge smelter at Keswick was the “iecessary autceme of their work. The immensity of the present proposi- Hon is well illustrated in the recent im- provements the company has been obliged to make %o handle the large amount of ore from its own mine and also that of a smaller mine adjoining. It has con- tracted for power from the Keswick Power Company, with its sub-stations at Keswick ahd Redding, and now the elec- tric fluid is being turned on the machinery of the smelter to the power of a thousand hyrses. Even with all power and machiner: ploys over a thousanc ty thus drawn from the water power of & mountain stréams is found cheaper 3:!“ wood or caal or ofl for steam and e company soéon expects to operate ali its cars from the mines by an electric trolley system. At present the slag cars that dump the molten refuée on the bank of the stream at Keswick are operated in this way and the best idea of the fre- mendous efforts of the furnaces is to be had by watching them as they drag their tons of molten slag to be automatically hurled over the steep clifft. At night the lowing mass casts a reflection on the sky :‘hu can be seen for miles and might pass for a fresh eruption of a vast voleano. The three immense water jacket fur- naces that reduce the ore have a capacity / PAOTOS B> BOSHNELL K Emaririuy this improvement in the vast plant em- men. The electrici- ©of 200 tons each per twenty-four hours, and they are charged on an avegage of 160 times in each twelve-hour shift. The resulting copper mattes carry about 50 per t of copper. Special calciniing furnaces have recently been bullt for the smelting of the fines and they have a capacity of 250 tons per day. At first several tiers of roasting kilns were made of heavy ma- spury. each holding a 35-ton charge and all connected with one big smokestack, leading up the side of the mountain to carry away the fumes, but this was aban- doned on account of the frightful smoke proving so great an annoyance to the ‘workmen. 'ow the ore is burned in va- rious h scattered about over the mountain side at suitable points along the railroad. The ere is received in’bunkers from the mine cars and piled around flues made ‘of Wi on the natural .ground. fter the pil are properly shaped and per precautions taken for draught the ‘wood is ignited and the piles slowly burn for sixty days. After the sulphur has burned out in this way. the ore is :gdn loaded on the cars and conveyed to the smel ter. mth,l!he introduction of electricity as a 6TFT 6% 1N 220185 6TT. 27215, 212185 BY W LS TR S e THOTeY ~3 cheap power tne smelter has arranged for refining the copper by the electrolytic pro- ctess and thus the freight of $I5 per ton is saved on the sulphur that it was neces- tors gif me one year or less to be here longer, if I der pain could shtand. und now der time is nearly up. Efery efening ven I to:my bed go I vonder vhere I vill vake. I may drop down here looking stt at der peautiful earth—Gott knows. I haf to be slow ven I move around. und I can- not excited got, for den—pfist! I was gone. Der doctor speak of one operation, but it 1s too late now, und dey cannot get at der pain. But I know just vhere it is— dere is der drawing der doctor made of it for me"—he handed me a paper and then leaned toward me to point. ‘Dere is my heart—und dere vos dot artery—und dere vos dot blood tumor vat is creeping— creeping—getting larger und eating me up —py und py it put der life in my heart oudt.” The tears were in his ey :s now ready to fall, and he stretched out his hands and regarded them with a piviful look. Ome could not look into his eyes, they were too sad for words to describe. He said brokenly: “I haf scratched with dese hands for eight children—dere are seven of dem lif- ing now—I haf a little poy eight years old—und I haf two daughters, one of dem married to Frank Russ in San Francisco. I haf, Hved a careful life—I nefer drink or smoke—und I vas always so full of magnetism too—I could cure peoples—und if I only haf some disease I myself could cure. I vas always a porn physician. | nerve tonic dot haf make new peoples of many. Und Lam vell now oder vays. Look how I can kick my feet. Und how goot I felt ven I to Germany vent. I vanted to_shtay long enough to haf anoder snowball, und _see der big citles all. Den to be cut off by dis one iiétle pit of fate—dis one little ting dot Happens. It v ard. But I do not grief if 1 can h I baf one son dot died und vent fore me. I haf had my pisness droubles too. 1 got swindled dree years ago by dem green goots men from der East. Den once 1 haf in my pookbindery a lot of books dot vas to be delivered on Monday, der Fourth of July. Dey vas ready om Saturday. I vas keeping der seventh day, und der place vas closed. Der books burn demselves fire dot dere break oudt, und I lose dwelve tousand, fife hun- dred dollar. But I haf earn it all baek, und 1 haf blenty for efery one. Dot is a comfort to me. Ven I come to my age, I meant to do so much for peoples, but now dey can do nodings me. My days is counted, und der day ven I go is der best one for me. Good-by.” I went away with his sad words ring- ing in my ears. But through them therg unded no rebellious spirit, but one of calm resignation that but made the case The physic calmly call this i rism of the aorta. To Henry Brosius it is a decree of fate, and a cruel, pursuing pain, because of which th which forms his words his death.” ' Nearly a year has > his accident, and the tumor 1 by a wound to the wall of w almost to the the big size of a ¢ s grown layer upon layer, and is pressing forward, eating its way through bone and flesh’ or whatever is before it, until at last the pulsating blood of the artery will force way through the ¥ wail of the aorta itseif—a gush of warm blood and the life of Henry Brosiug will have flown. Now it Is only a quick stabbing pain, caused by the pumping pressure of the blood forcing the tumor against the nerve filaments surrounding it. The end will be painless, but it may be horrible. _Perhaps by constant erosion the anerusim will have eaten through the ribs and flesh with the blood pulsations back of it; a slight overexertion, and the end comes with a jet of blood pouring straight from the man’s breast. Or the current of blood may be turned instead by the forces of the pumping into the stomach, practi ally drowning the sufferer in his own blcod. But quick death will blot out for .him the manner of his taking off. Only those left will realize it. ALFRED DEZENDORF. sary to ship in the matte to New Jersey- to say nothing of the additional ex of ireating it at separate establishmen re.