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;, . Ari Leiirs'oifillosry Sioi'y aboui' ' ' lien .esi'ijeo Ll ioa'i'y' Canadian.» g: Who "Has. he mos? violeof ser of opioloos' in Tamra"; ._ Aiol. helllf'éési mapped'oui'EL - his lis'e- uofil has" so; "'1? 1a preligioof'is Vino? demon-r" I» Worflifla' iiafful, {bf cold ' V soup.".LL'.v'_ ,fifl/EOLger. lrWis re-z" "ffgveal'sj ~L$¢me§hing of lack L lilamm' . 3's religion and Smeltmg, was his3 * 5 made much money ~The Whole Red Lake reafiion. Lots of people a. superstitious feeling t Mr. Hammell's faith in _ I H _ s V A n years it will be---" he ' ' begins; eudLgoes: n' vith precliotions no more ' extravagant prob v ' hen he once made Y _ about Hill/"Elem ' sees fulfilled. : L_ , If they are not i . i: will oot'be from LLan'y look of'persouaE effort andexpenditure ' 3, oh Mr. Hammel'l's o 't- He has'already spent 3 $110,000 for the Mel holdings there, ad- joiningthe old Ho" $500,000 "foprotec «people who follou _ e L "'Withhi'yrfix'emyegfl L "I hoperiohave es ' Vinojjuletion at, the 11' é worldly stake of the it we gssagsigsgeus sesame; L : 'L ~'always the 'LalieLShoregthe--i-- Hefthioks r big low-grademine- Th are lots of people , , they omens very'greatmifies. ,i = ' LL ' i ' r V L VL ' ' myself. If my dream does L gone buimyself Will hurl " f I , So With Pickle Cm' ' : ovoi'ihE'World Withoutge stokekihis ,oximL/moueig in it 'Lehe extent of a halfy-Lmillion guarant :Anély.now.'Uchi: "Inw ' T Steeol _ ofldilutiri'g stock. Selligig stock from " l L L ' leegyuiheimineiuy, Vfieflses V 7 V - ' _ r V efsubjL'e'ets m'wl'uolflie» book no disagreement, and 'Whioh in-_ elude mining, finence', government, philosophy, . eligio'n. architecture; and 'QOrcelains. ' * L f He talks ekcitedly, with swift gestures but v flithout an ninstaut's' pause. , Jack. rrHammell ' théd 'L lis'i'shai'e: of pilloliciizy [in the lost L L'V'LlOfyea'rs, he has neVer been interviewed. 7L - The record. remained clean when, this reporter 'qfinished'an-hour's session, his questions still ' possiljilities which the. airplane held {gr mine. llL out g 3"' y at exploring new fields from the ain'has since Syndicates adoptedhis technique 01" flying a dozen prospectors to a plainrand dropping them at intervals for a monfli's work. Incidentally, of course, it has all but ended the kind of pros-- pecting which Hammell himself know so long and which he recalls sentimentally today. The proSpector.has ceased to be his own man and has gone on the company payroll. He himself pays his prospectors $150 a smooth, and 10 per cent. interest on ' their holdings, and he keeps a fatherly eye on what they do with it. They are still apt to discount the values of security. They are still apt to unsalted. There Wasn't'time. , r : i For. any understancling' of him, it has to be I realized that Hammell is still a prospector. In ' eVery generation there appear people who are Violent izidiVicliielists. and who fret at the littlerrestraints of society.yTheir feel itch. _ In Elizabeth's time they stuck privateering libenses in their pockets, went out to fincl Eldorado'snd in passing cliecovere'd a new Werld. L1.Ha111mell'sL,heyday it was a mining license, Eldorado was the Whole pro-Cambrian shield, and the new world was the north country. TOday they fly planes for Mr. Ham- Hmell and his like, or else for their own amuse- , - L; who both nd oo usmess man..Af'cer-25 years} lbl Jac- EElirsm'uszeyll'Inex1ag'ecllto"find ' eofivglyihrough the sticky 7 malice. Todayhe is one of moms dozen in ihé mining business, sedlofvery Considerable Wealth and the ost'violentfset 'of'opmion's in Tosonto. ' . At 61', John E;LHammell looks a 'goocl 50, an _ : ,"L'Lillusioo perhaps heightenecl by the fact thathe is a nattyudresser. His'suit', on this occasion, '7.was in two of the lightel'shades ofibrown. 'meni. r , contrasting. decisively, with the green "mes L Hamnell was ifl'years' old when the itch-- ' of his tie, and shirt, the emerald of his . . . , * . " ' . Ge Cllfghnks,,ana mg g1 eami n g'blue, (this ring. mgr feet calmed him away flom Sim-2 7 ,_ This feeling for color is reflected in the deaf ' : mfaLtiOu ofthe'small offioeheusesfor hisown , ;; mills three--quartersufloor he rents from the, r Bank of Commerce. On 0133 wall a prospector," the "traditional homo, .r the ] .backgroimd, ' , fines eLSampleTLLof' gold-Ore. On: another, ' La 've e'tebleload.,o£ actual-Lsamples'izhat would pictur' d prospector plumb'loco, are 7 L ' L ' sinth I ska... « county, Where, his Irish parentsrrhad settled. They carried him to New York and other points south, east and west. The other and more important compose-direction came later. The records of this em are far from detaileciy but it is established that atherious. times he wash boxer fighting for $50 purses, that he , Worked for s _ financial house as something he Vaguely describesfas a f'Wall Street punk" sac}. that he rode camels iurEgy'pt and drove Khard bargains: in'yarious European Capitals. At, 'L auyEraize, fiche era'laLsLtedl? years, audit was ' 1904,:whenrhe'rrevisitedOntario andzhis home , - use sat in'the'King ' rpébpléfiaflaing about", , I 1? like Street _Le1egaiitly , dough}? ' ' ~ . "They talked millions like niokels," say Hammell. It was the of convérsstion 'to stir-the imaginatiou of a youngrhan with v a taste for outlandish places anti a hearty re« 7 , spec: forrmoney.' He Went north and learned! ' _ a ' , _ g mpofiant for. Canaéa as wen prospecting first--hand. Ola-timers fell: kin~ ' sior JaokVHeeroellgaud he expects io'tlo a Ship with a' newrfootloose rebel, and they took "Ore foi. both of them male mime; Eto 'him'also because he was a square-Tshooter.' _ _ V ' ' ' That he is, according to. his lightsnio one has - ' as "m utely Lploited' the nele 19 years, of a , . , . , ,. ' ~ " fully leans gems kindergarten", since questioned luythenorth or is Toronto. M £19}, immeaSufably, to _ epare 012 at leasta' decade ' ' 'Sxpec'ts toi.~live to 100, , Contrifiutiou to Canada E did very wellin the years that followecl. a 5 When the big? switch camoufrom silver to. " gold,rfrom 'Cobaltio Porcupine, ,heswitchecl too. TWEnty-yearsago he heal made '3 pile that to him seemed adequateamilie retired. Hie/put i 1' ' Behind, -,tl1e5 lonelineSS hard living - ' 3 .tha'c age the price £116 prosoector pays for, free- ' dOm' aniliadventore. fie rammed tothe normal , ' ifilife of a" man among lfi's'fellows. :He hateri it. '- c' e row, chi sod'iche '_ '_ But L be" Woof back "to fimSpeoting and , LL (Man men away ruse y. stayed it'juntilhthe late 20's.: He had ' ' f- a moneylbéhindjhimknow; and. he handledblg'ger {lienloefor'eL Flori, which misled into stables" ?saye "3" isn't * ' 'L blow the s 'is laying out another ' ' cosmos 1i 'shaifts are, already floor: one} We hope for'IL'a'. _ . . . -~"'ivl1ich 'th trying target 'in."but' I'm faking-the gamble :flgaiflefi a]: ' o'me true, no " f ' the swimn served. to" ' » e ueuer hearo r ing. The. company he-iormedlon'g Lago for, ~ fadea into obscurity, bout, turned gold miuing. ' into a mass--production industxy. All the big : '1'!ng get}: tempts Buddha which hair! ' _, neat place 2:: Mr. Hemmeli's Orig?! Hammell recalls how he got V the men who made the Flin liow he saw to it that; it was in sound bonds paying six $106,000 ea Flo}; strike delivered It per cent. p um. But the thing is, he, feels. that his own men ancl . if, many others are working steadily to S a result of his activities. That he 5e gliis justification, his contri- bution to ads. "Thirty~four thousand - men," be 'p y claims, "are working in the use of what I did." What he has done has made althy man. He has a house at Ch, among a great (leal else, ,branclis crowcl Chinese porce- "such items as the solver on [.5 Crown was carried. In. the 'a great, many other things, are "ml 3 bridge from Japan, f he himself designed, a large udwliouse. and e pavilion beside ,'pool where icevoream can be bothers. He is very proud of ecause design and decoration north today For hi him aver Tiflensr and 133m . dogs stone lent another 'br glass--wane all tlu to eggs have with a fieoision to 'Hemmell attends to policy: ads-64 Periodicals PECTOR has plenty of time to hinge out," he remarks. Especi- a brain as incessantly active as ' ' I , he will in time argue with himself a great many of the problems of man» kincl anti, in the absence of any third party, will reach conclusions which seem so sound as to be beyond question. Since these truths emerged without external help, there will be a tendency to discount external opinion there-- after. By findingmeans to express his individual- ism, Hammell is a happy man today. He runs his mines. He flies north in his own planes for unclergrotmd inspections. He Writes outrageous letters to the heads of governments showing them the utter folly of their ways. He corre- M, ., on... 1,... mm: me'eswxeoet "This? 3613'" Jack Hammefl, the prospector, directs a giané nozzle in the placer gold fields in the Yukon. spends with important people who are sincere- ly fond of him. He thinks about the future. He subscribes to 64 perioclicals publisherl in various parts of the World, and he looks over each day's batch when he gets up at 4 o'clock each morning. After he has seen the sunrise which, barring Clouds, he hasn't miss--- ecl in years. he reads his papers fer three hours. After the day at the office, lie gets in another hour's reading. He hadn't thought up a routine like {his'when he retired back in 1918, and that was why the itching feet took him back to the trail. Which means that he is still getting a lot of fun out of life. while still taking it pretty seriously. He has studied for the 135i 45 years every religion on earth, mom's the strong points and weaknesses of each. His studies have led him to the conclusion that the ancient religions are all right if lived up to in their real truths. They were not much more than a preface to Christian philosophy. Christianity, M1: Hammell deter- mined in a long series of lonely nights, is ill: ' only religion to offer practical help to a mail face to face with realities. "If a religion is not demonstrable," he concludes, "it isn't worth a hatful of cold soup. ' Ll'Tlle trouble'u'ithv {fie worlo': to Christians, with few exceptions. have been orucifyiug Christ insteasi of preaching Christ was crucified. These preachers are objects of pity rather than censure." Strong Views AliensMoney » LOT of people wait outside Mr. Hamiell's door, and Write to him or phone him, in the hope that he will contribute a bit of his money to this and that. For the fun of it, he added up the "touches" ancl attempted touches made so far this year. They reached the impressive total of $3,500,000. Most of them got nowhere. Mr. Hammell has no doubts about who merits his help. He has strong vieWS about money and the misuse of the poWer it brings. He ex~ presses a keen distaste for "purseuproud auto» crate who think money is meant for the select few." He believes that they and their attitude toward wealth will cause what he vaguely but ominously, calls "trouble" in the not distant future. To him, the not inoonsiclerable fortune he owns means the comforts and beauty he can buy with it. "I've got a nice home and a lot of nice things in it," he says. "I (301761; blow my money on the usual things. I don't keep race- horses, yachts or women. I buy things that are going to make me happier for as long as I live and will still be capable of making other _ people happier after I go. ' "I. clon't use my money to ruin anybody. "I don't run markets up and clown, though it's easy enough to do it. That's not my kind of dough. My shareholders trust me and they're going to keep on trusting me. "Some of the boys who were north in my time are trying to crash top society. They're trying to buy their way in, forgetting what they used to be. They're another kind that are going to make trouble before long." _ " 'ifieiLRo'okefellér one Ford collections, hold-- r ing 'all there, ~i5"to know about politicians, - youth and imlustry, are outclassed by his, Hammell contends. "I' have a complete record ' of every politician, from cabinet minister (lawmsince Confederation, and I know enough about Some of them to blast them out from under their hats if I wanted to." His archives include dais on Quebec since the time of the Indianathe lowdown on Spain, Austria, and why the country let Hitler in, and the Jewish race since its inception. ' "l go's a great kick out. of'ii---waicli'u2g i'oe solflaggrandixement and pricle of these little sects and races," Hammell said. "But the next war won't be to end civilization. It will siert civilization. And you and I will live to see it." L A lot of strange icleas come to a man when he is out there on the trail, anal has been alone for a month or so, thinking the way prospectors have to think things out for them-- selves. Jack Hemmell said again: "There's go- ing to be trouble in Canada before long ané somehocly will have to take things over--m" 3a.; is '