Show the boyhood 0 of famous americans eitzgerald JV ritz gerald john hays hammond two boys started on horseback rom from san francisco to oakland their aunt with whom they were staying w while h I 1 I 1 a their father was in the rast east consented to the bip rip they took a small compass a shotgun fishing t it c b k I 1 e and CU in money c y with them blankets were also tn in tile the extra equipment for the lads planned on doing a bit of camping before and after ti aliey aey v visited Is their friends in oakland john hays hammond the older ot of tile the two lads WEIS was fourteen years old nia ills brother was two years yeara younger they had been brought up in the california of civil war days and they were accomplished complis hed riders and skilled in the ways of the great outdoors by the time most boys of today are still playing with toys their father a graduate of west point and an army officer detailed to duty in california had taught thern them self belf reliance a love for outdoor life and instilled in them a spirit of adventure from the time they were able to walk so it wasil t unnatural that they should make up their minds to see something of the world instead of taking the ride to oakland and back to san francisco they had heard much of tile the yosemite valley then a comparative wilderness and they turned their horses heads in that direction seeking the adventure that appealed so much to their venturesome dispositions occasionally they stopped at small hotels but for the greater part they slept in the open they shot their own game varied their diet with the fish that abounded in the mountain streams and thrived on their own cooking by I 1 the time they reached the yosemite they still had a substantial part of their money left from there they ventured into nebraska and by the time their father returned from the east and traced them through express company agents they had ridden approximately 1000 miles on horseback and all this in a period of less than three months while seeing the country young john had an opportunity to inspect his first quartz mine tie he spent several days daya watching the operations there that experience was largely responsible for his choice of mining engineering as a profession a career in which lie he has gained world wide renown arid and great fortune the trail that started ath alth the trip to tile the yosemite semite to carried him to practically all parts of the world through dangers and hair raising adventures in south america africa and elsewhere and to friendships ranging from lowly miners to crowned heads john hays Ilam mord was born in 1855 in san francisco to which city ilia his father who had been a major in the regular army luring during the mexican hlex ican war had been detailed his 1119 mother was a sister of col jack hays flays famous as a texas ranger and later the first sheriff of san francisco young hammond dammond spent much time at his uncles home ills mother died when he was a little fellow als father and uncle between them taught him to ride to and to hunt lie proved that he was an apt pupil when he and his brother made their mlle mile trip into the wilds depending largely on their skill with rod and gun to live as they rode through the country the youngster was educated in the public schools of san francisco later he went to a private preparatory school in new haven to qualify for admission to yale lie he was enrolled in college at tile the age of se seventeen enteen and was graduated in WO 1876 at yale he be was a classmate of 0 former Ll president resident taft from yale he went to germany where he spent three years in the roal school of mines at freiberg he returned to the united states and went to work for senator george hearst of california at 75 fl a month ills his father wanted him to be a civil engineer but the lure of mining was too great and lie turned doun don a better paying job with a railroad to begin his chosen career ile he made progress enough to warrant him in going into business for himself for a time lie he was too poor to pay an office boy and swept out his own office ile he r rode 0 e through the dangerous dangerous apac apache e country on a bu business sines mission in n 1882 later almost losing g his it life e in troublesome bl mexico exico lie he came into worldwide world wide prominence when lie he went to riluth africa to act us as an expert for parney parcey barnato and cecil at their vast diamond holdings ile he was accused of being implicated in the jameson raid on the transvaal republic and was sentenced to death but he was pardoned and went on to greater fume fame oud and fortune tor tune UZI 1030 1330 by the north Amert american caA i newspaper non alliance All lanco 1 |