Evening star., 1928-06-15

borer, then as mine manager and opera
tor, In all the deserted places of the
world where mineral wealth Is found,
he made for himself unique reputa-
ton and comfortable fortune His
books and monographs ON engineering
are standard text books In colleges to-
| day. To his admitted technical pro-
ficiency as an engineer he added proven
ability In organizing and financing. and
became identified eventually with a
group OF mining flnanciers and opera
tors with offices in New York. London,
Holland and elsewhere. This group
cal enterprises In most every quarter
OF the globe.
Goes TO Foreign Fields.
From California he went TO West
Australia, and thence 10 China, where
he was engaged In the development Of
coal and iron deposits when the Boxer
rebellion cooped him up with other
| foreigners In Peking. In that city he
underwent the siege of 1900 Before
the allied troops relieved The legation
| prisoners he had organized his first
| food relief for Chinese and other
refugees. Later he built a port in
China for the owners of the mining
| properties. Thereafter he initiated and
directed mining and metallurgieal en-
| terprises, most of which were success
| ful In Burma, Russia, Alaska and Mex
were employed by corporations of which
| l1e was acting as executive In 1919.
Keeping up mis- connections with
| scholastic and research activities all
during these years, he found time to
t%u lat NxAFf 1aks af 14fM
wife. DE Res Metallica." Latin work
which Is the earliest known treatise op
mining.
| When he was 25 years old he had
married Miss Lou Henry, who had been
one OF his sch0oimates al Stanford
University. When nc went 10 Monterey,
Calf, four years after his graduation,
to marry Miss Henry, who was visiting
her brother there, they found that the
only clergyman In the town was a
Catholic priest. AS both OF them wished
for religious ceremony, they were mar
Tied by him. although Hoover IL a
Quaker and his wife was an Eptsco~
| palian.
IL was the Rev Father Ramon Maria
Mestres, pastor Of the Church OF st.
Charles Borromeo, who performed the
| ceremony. Az the only clergyman in
/ the small town, he had obtained spe-
ciai dispensation from the bishop TO
| 0fiiciate at nom Catholic marriages In
! MS secondary capacity as civil magis~
| trate.
/ Hoover had come back from an engl~
| neering position In Australia, and had
| accepted another such position In China.
/ which required that he sail for the
/ Orient the following day Since their
/ marriage Mrs. Hoover has become a
| Quaker
! Before he was 40 Hoover had ex-
plore,' the interior of China for metals,
! penetrating t0 places that had never
seen white face before. He had been
| wrecked on the China coast He had
| served machine gun at the siege OF
/ TientAin He had suppressed riots In
/ The Ab0rtive first Russian revolution.
| He had incurred the wrath OF n Ger
! man stfafing party He had trekked
/ The veldt Of Dnuth Africa. ridden the
! blihn OF Australia. travelled by dr0shky
! over the gteppes OF Siberia,
Investigated Jewel Mines.
| In Asia Minor he had investigated the
old jewel mines OF the Phara0hs, The
old iron mines of The Romans In the
Alps had claimed his attention. lie
had lain for weeks deilriouA with ma
larial fever IN Burma.
But even In those days Hoover life
| Was not all made up Of wanderIngs In
| far places, lie had Offices In London,
| New York and San Francisco. While
| hih headquarters were IN London most
| Gf the time he was Il we'll known figure
In Shanghai. Berlin and Melbourne, ~
well ra IN New York and San Francisco
He vas trustee nf Stanford uniVer~
elty, and always alagieged 10 get back