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Show OR. J. ft. HOLMES 5 PASSES UT DENVER j :j rTiu.it hi4 ni ur.. 1 tu mim J TAK1JV in Tl3lir.HCUMSIH, i Had IWtii In t'oor Health l"or Sottral j Month and Came West In the ltoe 3 of Impnitruuut Well nmt Jlot j ravornhly Known to Mining Opera- 1 tors and Miners In Carbon Comity. J DKNVKIt Colo Jul) II Joseph ; Austin Holmes, director of the federal J bureau of mines at Washington I) C, 1 and a wldel) known geologist died nt , his home earl) loda) or tutientllosls, 4 Or Holme hod been In poor health J for several months. Ho came to Den- , cr about four months ago with hi 4 famll) In the hope of regaining his ; strength but grew steadll) weaker . Dr Holmes waa it )ears of age and 4 n native or Houth Carolina. He hod been director of the bureau of mines , since Its creation b) congress In 1910 rrevloutl) he hod been chief of tho ; technological brant Ii of tho United . Htates geological surve) In charge of 4 Investigation of mine accidents. His rervlce with the federal government , began In 104 when he was placed In 4 charge of the United Hlates geological surve) laboratories for testing fuels . nnd structural materials at Ht Units 4 and later nt l'lttsburg , Ho was n graduate of Cornell Unl- crslt) nnd was afterwards professor 4 of geological nnd natural hlstor) at the Unlverslt) of North Carolina nnd was state geologist for that stale from 1191 until 1101 He Is survived b) a widow and four children I'nthtr of Mines Hurt an. WAHIHNHTO.S', I) C, July 13 Dr Joseph A. Holmes was regardrd b) his nssoclatts In the government i strvlce as the father of the burtau of mines, which t a rampjilgn of educu- tlon and experiment has largely re- duced the death toll among the underground under-ground workers. He also was nccretl- ' Ited with making "snfet) first" a na- , tlonul movement He took It for tho slogan of tho mine bureau's work nnd i It spread to nil phases of all Industrial , activities. "The saddest part of It all," said ' Van II Mnnnhtg, nctlng director of the mines bureau, todn), 'Is that Dr Holmes was a victim of overwork and ' his devotion to his duties In behalf of . the safety of tho million minor In the United Htates. Ills continual In- ' tlnletue on going onl) where his . trained reecuo crews should go, sharing shar-ing the danger that should have gone only to inoro robust men, serlousl) nf- fected Ills health Dr Holme was a mart)r to the ruusc of aafct) among the miner nnd his name Is added to the honor roll of bureau rescuers who have glvin up their lives to tho cause ' |