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Show YANKEE IN DIAMOND FIELDS. Commissions to Study a Country Which Produces Such Men. Mr. Alfred Mosely Is an Englishman who admires American ways bo much that ho sonda commissions here to study us. Mr. Mosely docs not ndmlro us without a reason. It Is not a very specific reason, Its namo Is Mr. Gardner Gard-ner F. Williams, and it la by wny of bolng nn Amorlcan mining onglneer. Mr. Williams directs tho diamond output out-put of tho world. Mr. Mosely made his fortuno In South Africa. Ho watched Cecil i Rhodes' dream of 'empire develop nnd know tho men who mado It real. The omo who took his Imagination wnB Gardner Williams. . Hero was a. man who had lert Michigan nt tho ngo of 15 to go with n pioneering father to California fn the flush dnys of tho early mining camps, had hnd u tasto of Calirornln mining, had gono when still n young man to explore In South Atrlca and l.-ad becomo n general manager or the great monopoly of, tho dlnmond mines. A fighter or financial battles and a nianngor of men, n writer, a scientist and ono ot the world's grentost engineers, en-gineers, ho so stomped his personality personali-ty on tho people among whom ho lived that ho was feted nnd choorcd by all South Africa when ho retired last spring and came back to the United States to build a homo for his lelsuro years In tho land of his birth. World'o Work. |