The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-10-17

work is one of the best examples Of the famous
master
The beauty of this canvas has attracted thou
sands, and not few offers have been made to
purchase it, of $780, 900 coming from a New
York financier Seven times thieves have at
tempted to cut it from it's frame, but each time
they were foiled by the vigilance Of the priests
Four Of the would-be robbers were captured and
are now serving terms or have died in the prls
Of Jasco
In. June, 1918, when the cathedral was nearly
destroyed, the section of wall ON which this
painting is fastened stood through all the quake
In June, 1912, when crack more than foot
wide was opened in the top of the wall above this
painting the cash ran downward almost to the
end Of the mahogany frame and then divided
into two cracks or tssures encircling the can
vas but never touching it. The Indians believe
and the priests aid them in this belief that moth
ing can harm ia santissima Virgen de Guada
lajara," and far the terrific tremblers have
failed to injure it in the least
The canvas was given to the Guadalaiara do
cese by the king of Spain shortly after the PENN
sular war as a mark Of gratitude for the large
sums Of money turned over to the crown bv this
branch Of the church in Mexico and it was hid
den ten years in a niche in the cathedral to keen
1t from the French at the time of the occupation
of Mexico.
"The top of the bowl of the crater beneath
Guadalajara" said Professor Garcia while here
is approximately 1,500 feet In diameter but the
actual bowl is much wider. I should say 1t is
quarter of a mile in width, and how deep no
man can say
The composition Of the escaping gases indi
Gates that they are coming from burning coal
and sulphur in a molten state, precisely the COM
bination which causes the eruptions of Mount
Colma, the only active volcano on the North
American continent, about 80 miles due south of
Guadalajara Undoubtedly Colima, which blows
Off in q regular eruDtiOn ahout tha
every September Is connected in some unknown
manner with the hot springs miniature geysers
and many dead volcanoes which cover the ter
ritory reaching from the southern end of the
Sierra Nayarit, about go miles north of Guada
lajara, to the sea at Manzanillo
Il would not care to prophesy but believa
that the annual fall eruption of Colima will see
some sort Of disturbance here, though it may be
only heavy earthquakes and not the breaking out
OF the volcano. We ran diamond drills so deep
into the earth in the center of Guadalajara that
they came back almost red hot, no matter how
slowly we operated them. We lowered the best
thermometers into the holes made by these drills
and they recorded heat beyond the melting point
of lead.
We analyzed the gases coming from the fs
sures In various parts of the city and we found
that they not surface gases coming from
pockets IN the earth and released by the earth
quake, but that they exhibited all the character
istics OF gases which have been taken from the
vents of Colima and Popocatepet volcanoes
Lastly we traced the scores of earthquake
shocks which were felt here during the ten davs
of our stay and we found that every one was
volcanic in it's origin and not caused by the slim
ping Of faults in the earth as are some of the
coastal quakes Of this country and the United
States All were trepidatory, that is to say. nm
and down quakes usually local in character and
not oscillatory, as are most earthquakes which
extend over large section of the worlds sur
face.
"This our first hint that the ouakes were
volcanic-the confined area over which tho
tremors were felt Then the seismograph, which
was brought here from Mexico City and set nm
indicated with its needle finger that the source
of the shocks were almost beneath the CITY.
I'VE knew the quakes were volcanic and con.