The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-03-25
CORAL MAN IS
COMING AGAIN

Prof. Alexander Agassiz. the million
alre student of coral islands, and one
of the foremost scientists of the day,
viii again pay a visit to Honolulu next
winter in the United States Fish Com
will be loaned to him for a winters
cruise among the coral islands of the
South Pacific.
DR.. Agassiz has been in Honolulu be-
fore and his work in connection with
the investigations into coral reefs and
islands is well known. A magazine
writer tells of Agassz and his work, in
the following manner
Professor Alexander Agassiz, of
Cambridge, Mass, has a career more
fabulous than that of the Prince of
Monaco. The money kings of the
world would like to know what sort of
a new wonder the man is who refused
to see or answer letters of men who
have the worlds billions in the palms
of their hands. In brief, he Is
Massachusetts, aristocrat who does not
recognize, socially or otherwise, our
money kings, who doesn't care what
the price of copper is or copper stock.
No matter how low the quasi-copper
kings offer their goods, he Immediately
cuts the price lower and at
profit to himself. He owns the control
of the great Calumet and Hecla copper
mines on Lake Superior; his product Is
unlimited and close to the markets that
use it. This mine produces almost
Smon-pure ingots, and the deeper he
sinks his shafts, the purer, richer. and
vaster grow his deposits. Some of the
shafts are approaching 1000 feet in
depth, where men work by aid of ice
and wet blankets, but other shafts are
but fairly commenced, and he can start
new shafts at any time. What does
such a man care about trusts or COM
petition? Professor AgassiZ is an aris-
tocrat only to the world at large. He
is deeply interested in scientific re-
search, easy to approach by expert
mentors. impossible to be seen by 9TH
ers. He knows all men engaged in
pure science. and their acquaintance is
sufficient So great is their admira-
ton of him that he occupies without
question the highest office that can be
bestowed on an American scientist,
that of president of the National Acad-
envy of Sciences, a branch of the gov
eminent. His was the fourth name
announced as a trustee of the new
Carnegie Institute, next those of the
President and the heads of the Senate
and House. His father was the great
Louis" AgassiZ, but the son is really
greater His father bitterly opposed
evolution; the son has done as much
as Darwin to confirm the theory When
| the Calumet and Hecla was first aban-
doned he examined it carefully. He re-
ported it as far from worthless and
| rich property If properly worked. Inc
| directors believed in him. paid him
| $4,000 for his report and gave him
| fifty-one per cent Of the stock to
| work" the mine properly" The re-
| suits have brought him and them mil
| lions in profits. He has spent much OF
| the money in building up the great
Museum of Comparative Zoology at
| Harvard. His steamers have dredged
| the Gulf Stream for life on the floor
| of the ocean, yielding vast results;
have unearthed the coral reefs in the
Caribbean Sea and the South Pacific,
making him the authority on that sub
ject. Why shouldn't such a man de-
| spise mere money kings?"