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FINE LIKE SKETCH
OF DR. J. A. HOLMES
Director of the United states Bureau
of .Mines, Kcccntl) Appointed
b) President Taft.
Editor of Ti?e Advertiser:?I am en
closing a brief sketch of the life of
Dr. Joseph Austin Holmes, director
of tho t\ S. Bureau of mines, written
by Collier Cobb, professor of geology
and minerology in tlie university of
North Carolina and published in the
Charlotte Observer September the
22nd. Professor Cobb for a number
of years was closely Identified with
Dr. Holmes and it is doubtful if any
man in the country knows more of bis
genuine worth. Dr. Holmes being a
I native of this county and having been
' successful in a line of work peculiarly
! his own. i believe this sketch will be
! interesting to all of your readers.
D. M. Norwood,
September 2Gth. Laurens.
The director of the recently estab
i lished Federal bureau of mines lllus
! trates the advantages of a proper
heredity, influenced by an advantage
ous environment. But this environ
ment lias been one that his hered
ity forced him to seek, and bis own
' rigorous interaction with whatever
environment, lie lias made for himself,
has been effective in placing him
in charge of one of the most im
portant bureaus of our government.
He has risen to the directorship of
this bureau, which his own energy
has created, by sheer force of merit,
when all political odds and party ex
pediency seemed against his appoint
ment, if that education is best which
givi t one the power to select his
own environment and then bring
about the adaptation, one lias to look
far atieid before Unding a better edu
cated man than Joseph Austin
Holmes.
Born at Laurens, s. C, November ,
23, 1*.*,!". son of Bov. /.. L. Holmes '
and his wife N. Catherine Holmes,
horn NMckles, Joseph A. Holmes came
of the best Southern stock. For gen
orations lie had been well-born, his
family on both sides having always
been people of character, means and
pi/ijHon. Coming into the world in
South Carolina just before our civil
war. his childhood and youth were
spent under Circumstances well cal
culated to try the mettle of a hoy.
and In the duties of the home he :
early came to bear a man's part.
The son of a Presbyterian preach-j
I er. who was himself a lover of na- 1
ture, the hoy was reared in a hottte
of culture and refinement. The home
was a large octagonal house made
of reinforced concrete, occupying the
center of ample grounds on the out
skirts of the village. and having
every convenience that the ingenuity
and skill of its occupants could de
vise and Bupply. The house was sup
plied with running water, which a
hydraulic ram brought up from tin'
brunch, TlVlS w:,s l'1".' 9'" ,n'.' Holmes
home &{ >\ Urne when the ll'ttins that
came Into the nj&fpV little* village
ran from Alston oVtff Kodden' rails
capped With strap-iron. Htii the
home had an excellent libra,V. and
one could see in it here and there in
struments and appliances for the
study of the realm of nature, most
of them mad.' in the workshop of
the home. The writer recalls espe
cially a high.grade telescope made
and mounted by the minister him
self.
One son from this home became a
lawyer, but later entered tho ministry
of tic Presbyterian church. Tho
children got the besl of their instruc
tion hi homo from their parents, but
they also attended thq Laurens Acad
emy, famed in Us day for !'!?? thor
oughness of its instruction. Joe. who
w: s skilled with his ll|ig< ra and handy
with tools, went to Cornell, where he
mittle his own living and took his
degree of Bachelor of Agriculture In
1881, with visions of rebobilitatlng
the harren farm- an! mending the
broken fortune- of li; stricken state.
Immediately upon his graduation
he was elected to tho professorship of
geolqgy and natural history in the
CnlVersity of North Carolina, and tu
tored upon the teaching of subjects
that now rdqUh'C the entire time Of
nine specially trained men. As soon
a< he had acquainted himself with
the geography and geology of the
state, ho bog?ti ah active campaign
for the reorganixat'.nn of the North
Carolina Geological survey and for
'he building of good roads throughout
the state, in both endeavors he was
eminently successful. The State sur
vey was established In 1891, when
Professor Holmes became state Oool
ogist; and from 1885 to 1900 he In*
creased the annual tax money for
public roads from ten thousand dol
lars to three quarters of a million
dollars, thus adding more than a
thousand miles of macadamized road
way to the capital of the State.
Professor Holmes was the most
public-spirited citizen of Chapel Hill,
lie was a member o" the hoard of al
dermen, ami Interested himself espe
cially in the sanitary condition of
the town and in the grading and ma
cadamizing of the streets. He car
tied around with him less of himself
nnd more of the work In hand Cian
any other man I
He literally lived
Jt
ave ever known,
his work, with
out toe toast regard to its relation to
himself. So true was this that, while
State Get logist, he more than once
spent no much oin his annual appro
priation in prosecuting the work of
the survey that he did not leave
money enough to pay his own salary.
While professor in our University lie
seen red the passage by congress of a
bill appropriating money for the
building of a marine biological labor
atory at Beaufort for the use of the
United States llsh couiniiqr.ion, By
some oversight, the bill did not corry
an appropriation for the purchase >f
, the ground on which to erect the
building. But Mr. Holmes Invited a
number of universities to contribute
to the purchase of an island in Beau
fort Harbor on which to build the
laboratory, the place affording ex
ceptional opportunities for study as
it is the meeting-place of the north
ern and Southern funa and Bora
of the sea. The universities of Vlr
! ginla, North Carolina. South Carolina,
I Georgia and John Hopkins respond
| ed liberally. The Island was pur
; chased and presented to the govern
ment, and now each season sees a
; number of trained men carrying on
: at Beaufort investigations of inestim
able value to our fisheries indus
tries.
Prof. Holmes organized and di
rected the Department of Mines and
Metallurgy of the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition in 1904. He was in charge
of the United States Geological Sur
vey laboratories for testing fuels and
structual materials. at St. Lou Is
from 1001 to 1907, and at Pittsburg
since 1908. For sever;.1 years be has
l)eui chief of the tcchnologcial
branch of the United states Geologi
cal Survey, in charge of the investiga
tion of mine accidents. Since his
employment by the national govern
ment he has not only continued Iiis
work lor the improvement of public
roads, hut has made more than a
national reputation through his en
lightened efforts to prevent waste in
Utilization of the country's mineral
and fuel resources, and to safeguard
the lives of miners.
His Investigation of fuel resources
alone, begun ;.t the St. Louis Impo
sition, gave him promp international
recognition, and he was decorated by
the governments of Germany, Bel
glum, Italy and Japan. In recogni
tion of this work, the university of
Pittsburg conferred on him the de
gree of doctor of science, and at the
commencement of 1909 the University
of North Carolina made him dot tor of
laws.
Dr. Holmes is a conservationist of
the type of Garilcld and Pinchot, and
is an administrative officer of rare
ability. He has the iure gift of se
lecting the right man for a given
piece of work and leaving him to do
it in his own way. under no circum
stances burdening himself with the
details of tasks which the men Inj
ChOOfU'H lire fully competent to carry
OUt. 'Ultls was admirably illustrated
in his investigation of finds at St.
Louis, at Pittsburg and at the .lames
town Exposition, as well as In his
survey of methods of conservation of
resources and protection of human
life in use in the older mining com
muiTities of England, Germany, Aus
Irin and France. His work along
fhese lines was so thoroughly done
that mine owners and employes alike
petitioned for the establishment
of a permanent bureau of mines
and no one of them ever imagined
that ail) mo hut Dr. Holmes Would 1"
considered for chief of the bureau
When the organization of the Bureau
was intrusted to other hands, such ?'i
cry of indignation tiros.; throughout
the mining districts of the enfir
country t!;.: President Toft couui
hardly have dene otherwise than giv<
the potman lit appointment to D,
I loltnos.
He cr.nnol be bet-er described than
in the
Smit h.
(h gree
vcrs't;.
Soiled
Word? of l>:\ C. Alphon v
when presenting him for tin
of do; (or of laws at our un!
? ( eminence, as "A man of s<-il
common sens,., of winning pei
uctical elllch
lie
Chapel Hill. N
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