The sun., 1908-07-31
NOTES OF. A CROWDED LIFE
ANYTHING MR.. HAYES CAN'T RE-
MEMBER HE'S GOT IN A DIARY.D

/ But He Can Remember Pretty Well, Except
for q Gap OF IL Years Due 20 Fever
~ Remembers Finding Cullinan Dia.
~ mond and shows the Foot That Did It.
7 l'EsFrom the old tavern in Whitehall street
where roseate visions are still brewed with
the subtle aid Of neal wine OF Oporto there
came tall white vision yesterday afternoon.
| Tho superstructure rose more than six feet
above sea level and the oatamaran hulls
also white, were not less than No. lis. Es-
sprting the vision were several ultra
harnes who had bought The vision
unhinged at the Ship News Office and
the ultramarines got much finer view
Of the feet, which were worth looking at.
and were later photographed In the act OF
holding up the vision, whose card read
n part:
Z &c. E. Hayes. NJ. A. s. E.. F. G.S.
Consulting Engineer
MFR. Hayes, before relating few ipoi-
dents Of his very busy life. said he would
like to say that he was not. as some Of the
papers had reported in the morning. from
Dundee, but from Yorkshire. After clip
ping out all tho newspaper references to
himself and his marriage on Monday by
Alderman McCann at the City Hall to the
young woman who had crossed the At
tantic with him In the steamship Columbia.
Mr.. Hayes said the man in Ottawa
( TO whom Mrs. Hayes had sent the
fmitten was William Smith. tailor, Mr.
Hayes said he had learned that there was
ka marine hospital surgeon above the Ship
News Office and that all the ship news tele-
phones working at once might be used to
summon doctors from hospitals and other
= places. 90 he thought he would come down
a few shots at him. that is. II Mr.. Smith
were that kind Of man.
Mr.. Hayes intimated that he was not q
bit afraid, as he had been one Of the jane
son raiders in the Transyaal. for which
the disooverer Of the Cullinan diamond,
presented by the Legislative Assembly Of
the Transvaal to King Edward. and had
had adventures by flood and field that
The short hand expert Of the eombina-
ton got out his note book, remarking,
sPardon me. Mr.. Scheherazade. I should
5 like you to tell the l,Oo2d in detail.'
Thereupon. shifting his ,quid In the ap-
i proved manner Of a man who had just come
OF ship, the engineer related the follow
ing:
II was born in Yorkshire ~ years ago.
Ny father is Capt. Richard HAYES Of Scar
Borough. Yorkshire. who Is with the ship
ping firm Of Wilson'S Sons 4 Co. Of Hull
I'M one Of six brothers. all Of whom are
,gineers. They are scattered about the
arth, one being in Sy dney, one in London.
ne in Singapore, one In johannesburg
nd one in Nagasaki. We will all come
ogether on Christmas, the anniversary OF
he golden wedding of our parents
am the man who discovered the famous
hllinan diamond. the largest in the world
nd the costliest jewel in the crown OF
Ing Edward. being valued at $750.O00. !
as out walking with the manager Of the
ullinan property and his wife when my foot
truck something small and round.' Here
Nr, Hay yes looked at the foot, which seemed
ute capable of striking any thing that was
ound. Il naturally stopped 10 see what
was and much to nv surprise noted
lmmer like that Of diamond, stopped
ad picked it up and gave 1t to the manager.
need not say that was generously re-
Hded by the manager
"a remarkable incident Of my career in
tuth Africa was my experience in pros
sting for copper mines. There were
swenty. four other men in the party and all
OF them died Of African fever. recovered
after long siege and was surprised that
could not recall single incident OF my
former life for the preceding seventeen
years. Fortunately am methodical
man, and always have kept diary. The
with the past that had been utterly obliter-
ated was by reading. over my diaries:>
still have no recollection of the events. but
] know that they must be true, otherwise
they would not be in the DIARIES
MIR. Hayes remarked that there was a
street place. with its sawdust floors. Its
hstreless walls and its casks and oases
and bottles in Old World array. The port
vas remarkably fine, one Of the ultra
marines said, and then he noted that they
bad done all the buying; but Mr.. Hayes