Bisbee daily review., 1907-09-17
FINE TRIBUTE TO BENEFACTOR
 OF BISBEE
Douglas Minister Gives De- served Praise to Dr. Willis James, Who Was Made Great By His Kind Heart.
(By Rev. George Losle)

In the death of D. willis James the country loses one of the very best type of wealthy men. He was man of the highest business capacity and energy and eminently successful in his business career. But be was lar more than a mere money maker. He was man who thoroughly appreciat- ed life's higher things, was broad in his sympathies and conscientiously strove to discharge the heavy respon- abilities laid upon him by his great wealth. He did not belong to the class of vulgar rich in whose eyes wealth serves only as means for display and the selfish qualification ot personal desires.
 Mir. James was not born to poverty. as the Phelps Dodge business was es- tablished by his grandfather, MT Phelps, and the father of the late Will liam E. Dodge. He himself entered the office Of the company when scarcely twenty years of age, and for oyer f3fty-fye years has been ire 2ess worker in its interests. h Tst cent years and up to almost the Very stTue of kas death he was the controIi- ing factor in the affairs of the coln' lpony. Eyen so recently as the esrfy days of July. when the air was stiiLlnss mt n New York, Mir. James wenf rsgularly to the John street ofaee from his summer nome near MoFr!s, 1.. cover a site 50 by f60 feet. 1t wa town, N. J. It was about the middle of last month that he left TOT the mountains of New Hampshire, where he was at the time of his death yes terday morning. While Mir. James was not one oi those who could throw off all thought of business as soon as the office door was closed behind him, yet he had large interests outside of business routine. He was Q lover of books esnecialIv. of biography. He also kept Dosted along theological lines, and al the time of his visit to Douglas ir April spoke of several recent theoiogi cal works that he had been reading among others Dr. Charles Cuthber' Halls lectures, delivered in India These lectures are good stiff reading Pernaps the fact that Mir James re ceived part Of his early education il EAinburgh. in the days when th' names of Chalmers and Guthrie wer' words to conjure with, helped t mould his taste for strong meat Il theology in preference to milk 10 babes.
 In his religious sympathies Nil James was broadminded and catne lie. He was no mere sectarian wh finds 1t hard to really appreciate an. thing that Is outside his own lin fence. As one Of his associates r marked a few years ago: Yes, Nil James Is a Presbyterian, but he is nc church held very isrge place in hi sympathies. He was a thorough b' sHever in it's ideals and it's woTl faulty and impeTfec. es that wor might sometimes be. Aot long slEc after discussing the value of certai auxiliary agencies and expressin aearty appreciation of them, he T marked that the older he grew tf more firmly he was convinced thi the great hope for the world lay fhe church itself, adding that he q net feel that way when he was
 young man.
 Mr. James was always a gsnerol giser to all sorts of worthy cause h connection with the great majori Of his gifts his name was not know to the public at all. He gave sf,i0 eco to ,tbe Union Theological sen nary. and about the same time lar amount to the Episcopal cathedral
 New York. His benefaetions were T sBasmodic and Intermittent. but we the result of purpose and thought, a flowed in a steady stream.
 Socially Mf James was very geai He was fond of joke He was
 warm personal friend and admirer