Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-23

ease and safe operation. Or this new
test of all the devices that will aid in
fog flying. one of the greatest diff
culties flyers have to face-that also Is
coming at Just the right time"
Here is the career of this son of cop
per kings who became godfather OF
winged progress. He chucked educa-
ton after he had spent one term at
the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale
a youngster of II impatient to get
into real work He went down to
Aguascalientes, Mexico. for the Ameri-
can Smelling g. Refining Co., one of
the companies controlled by Guggen-
helm Brothers.
Down in Mexico Harry rode muleback
to scattered mines, and collected
buckets of ore samples and analysed
them, and SWeated under the hot sun
and liked it, and learned about men,
mules and copper. That inquiring mind
of his began to feel its oats, and he
decided it was great mistake to quit
school; he wanted more education. lots
of it, the best he could get. He made
bee line for Cambridge University
England.
There, having an excellent and catho-
lie mind, he worked for a degree in
around with political philosophy and
international law for the sheer fun OF
1t; and having good body, he won
his blue at tennis and captained the
Pembroke College team. Then, with
his A. b. slowed in his trunk. he came
back to America. He returned to Cam
bridge to get his M. A. five years later.
There was a big job on hand, they
told him after he got that A. B. The
Chile Copper Co., fresh Guggenheim
project, had whale Of a promising
property down in Chuquicamata, Chile.
The new-fledged A. B. from Cambridge,
% years old, was sent there to help
develop it, He found himself in
desert, waterless, bleak, uninhabited
He took his coat off, forgot Cambridge
and the classics, and set to work. Two
years later he was put in charge of the
operation Of the Chile Copper Co. They
piped water in from 40 miles away,
transmitted power from the seacoast
80 miles off, bought and installed all
the latest mining machinery, set a min
ing town OF 10000 people roaring in
that desert-and before long were pro-
ducing more low-grade copper at
lower cost than any other mine in the
world.
March, 1917. Harry Guggenheim, by
nature jump or SO ahead, saw that
airplaneS would be tremendously impor-
tant in this war that America was deS-
tined to get into month later. He
was on To-day holiday in Florida.
He bought a Curtiss flying boat and
had his first flying instruction, came
up to Long Island, formed with others
unit of young men who were dare
devils enough to take to the air in
those early days. At the end of his
private training he applied for COM
mission in the Navy. He was sent to
the naval air station at Bay Shore to
take his aviation tests, and was COM
miSSioned lieutenant junior grade) in
the Aviation Corps of the Naval Re-
serve Force.
When he was relieved of active duty
at the end of the war he had the rank
of lieutenant commander in the Naval
Reserve Corps, the United States naval
aviators wings and the brevetto SUI
periore Of Italy.
Copper again. Also, tin and nitrate.
1t was at this time that the firm OF
Guggenheim Brothers actively started
the development of nitrate properties
in Chile and tin mines in Bolivia; and
Harry Guggenheim took leading part
in the organization and operation OF
these enterprises in their development
stages.
Harry Guggenheim one day ran into
Chancellor Brown of New York Unl-
versity, and the latter enlisted his aid
in raising funds for a course OF aero
nauticS there. Here was service right
in line with his experience and some
of his most intense interests. He saw