Show john hays Hi hammond ammond at 40 and at 70 tile the seventieth birthday of john alays Ifa inmond came around the other day tin and found him comfortable in a mansion that dominates the idock creek park washington pretty easy that for a man who in 1890 was under sentence of in south africa j 1 I 1 experiences have anve covered the earth and at forty lie was a genuine soldier of fortune tho the year 1805 found him in the employ of cecil It hodes the empire builder and in charge of the great gold mines tit ot johannesburg south africa the It landers foreigners had few 4 privileges 08 under the boer president 4 oom boni paul kruger they were goaded into a rebellion of sorts which 4 bulted tod in tl lie ie jameson raid captured ly by the boers and f 4 1 three others were condemned to death for high treason and sentenced to be ro hanged it was ns only after desper ste me erforth and the lie payi payment nent or of it a alno of each that tile alie four regained liberty since then II ammond lias has done important engineering jobs till all over oer the world lie ile has lectured at half it a dozen of the lending leading Ainer ienn universities lie ile has been abroad as special represent anthe of the government gm eminent several times at home lie he lias has been president of inn ilan nina exposition commission chairman of the united states cotil coni commission nils president of the american institute of mining alining engineers and what not lie he Is a leading spirit in ia several movements to promote americanism |