1940 - part 2 - Vredenburgh.org

ELLIS BRINCS BACK FANTASTIC
STORY OF OWN RESURRECTION
By Addison N. Clark
ECENTLY, Addison N. Clark of Oak·
R land, California, received a telephone
message to the effect that "Captain Ellis
. of the Steamship
President Cleveland
is in San Francisco
and wants you to
get in touch with
him."
C I ark scratched
his head - knowing
no salty sea captain
of .that name. The
Cleveland had ar·
rived from - yes,
that was it: The
Addison N. Clark
Philippines. And his
old friend "Cap" Ellis
(Ernest Wm. El·
lis), had been over there among the googoos,
with Engineering Equipment and
Supply Company, building mills, etc., for
three years and a half. Immediately Clark
phoned the purser of the President Cleveland.
Yes, Mr. and Mrs. Ellis were aboard
-that is, had been, but were ashore. (It
developed that they'd taken in the Stanford
football game that afternoon.)
Next day Cap and Mrs. Ellis found their
way by dead reckoning to Bellevue Ave~
nue, Oakland, locus of the Clark "cabin.. '
They caught Clark in a blue flannel shirt
and a pair of ragged and very dirty pantaloons,
creating a flower bed where a thornhedge
had stood-giving an expert imitation
of his mucker days.
Whereupon the two mining engineers,
who hadn't seen each other for five years
(since Cap was metallurgical engineer and
mill superintendent at the Empress mine
in Grass Valley and Cap Clark did some
consultation work for that property) gave
Mrs. Ellis a first-rate imitation of two long
separated sorority sisters getting together
in a clinch.
"This," observed Ellis, "is a resurrection."
"Two resurrections," replied Clark.
"Let's make it three resurrections," suggested
Mrs. Ellis. So they rang one
Charles Wesley Strine, construction engineer,
who was associated with Ellis on
Philippine jobs, but returned to the homeland
nearly a year ago. Soon Strine rolled
up in his car.
But the whole resurrection story isn't
out yet:
Last May in Manila Cap Ellis died-literally.
Was pronounced dead twice by competent
physicians-then miraculously came
back to life.
Fond of swimming, and finding heat-relief
in it, on Sunday, May 26, Ellis was
taking a dip in the long pool of the Manila
Polo Club. A strong swimmer, liking
to swim under water, he dove off the curb
and swam thus the length of the pool j
climbed out, dove in again and started
back. And that second dive was the last
thing he knew until Tuesday. At some
interval later two boys, seeing Ellis' form
under water, motionless, and perpendicular,
arms outstretched, hailed passing Henry
Hesch, and showed him what they saw.
"That's all right,"
said Hesch, "that's
Cap Ellis - he's a
fine swimmer, and
he's just stunting."
At least 10 minutes
aft e r that a
woman passed..
Hesch him s elf in
trunks and having a
drink at a table under
the trees, heard
her scream. He tore
to the pool, saw EI-
Ernest Wm. Ellis lis yet motionless,
dove in. Afterwards
Hesch said, IIJ had the feeling of rescuing
a dead man!"
They got Ellis on the shore, and Mrs_
Margaret Hanson, wife of a Ma.nila businessman
and who had had Red Cross firstaid
training, gave him artificial respiration
for full 30 minutes. Then the ambulance of
St_ Paul's· hospital screamed up and Ellis
was taken thither. Mrs. Ellis met the
ambulance en route and trailed it to the
hospital. There Dr. L. Z. Fletcher took
one look at the prostrate form, listened for
heart action, and, arm around Ruth Ellis'
shoulders, started to comfort her in her
bereavement.
"But Doctor-he isn't dead!" she cried.
"He gasped when Margaret was working
on him!" Dr. Fletcher turned Ellis over
(he was face-down still) and barked an
order for the oxygen tanks. Then he and
the nurses went to work.
All day Monday a parade of friends
carne to see Ellis-and he talked with them,
called them by name, IIkidded" with them
... yet to this day he remembers not one
thing 0/ that Monday.' 44My body had come
back to life," he says, "but my brain had
not-at least, my conscious mind had not j
and what my subconscious was doing is
all a blank to me. The first things I remember
were on Tuesday morning-and I
Jeft the hospital for home that afternoon.
If it was death-and remember, two doctors
pronounced it that-then where was my
soul rambling in that interval? I don't
know, and the psychologists will have to
guess."
All concerned with the startling episode
are a unit in agreeing that it was the
persistent artificial respiration administered
by Mrs_ Hanson that actually saved
Ellis' life. His heart had ceased to beat
on that return swim up the long ,pool. His
body had partly turned black when they
brought it out. There was no water in
the lungs-so he did not drown.
ult all proves one thing," says Mrs. Ellis.
IIThat is this: That in many so-called heartattack
'deaths' lives may possibly be saved
by persistent use of artificial respiration.
Ellis supposedly was dead from heart.-attack-all
the water ejected was a cupful,
from his mouth. He had been Idead' for
perhaps a quarter of an hour-possibly
longer. Mrs. Han~o:m saved his life."
And-in the Orient, when a person saves
another person's life, the one saved forever
after acknowledges the rescuer as his
patron saint and spiritual boss.
The facts are worth serious considera ..
tion by every reader connected with mine
safety organizations.
Temporarily the Emses are in Los An ..
geles_ Cap is looking for a job on th~
American continent--and has a professional
record as long as the New Testament to
back the search up.
"No more Philippines for mel" he says.
"Japan's behaviour, backed up by the
Rome-Berlin Axis, is ominous. It doesn't
look good to me. We're back home to
stay!"
His temporary address is: c/o P. K.
Perkins, Suite 1111, Pacific Southwest
Building, Los Angeles_
NEVADA SCHEELITE CONCERN
IS INCREASINC PRODUCTION
THE Nevada Scheelite,- Inc., has just completed
the erection of a new mill for
its tailings, the mill to have a capacity of
approximately 200 tons in 24 hours. At
present this is being augmented by the installation
of preliminary grinding and
crushing equipment of approximately the
same capacity.
The company's mine is in the Sunnyside
district of Mineral County, Nevada, near
Dead Horse Wells and about 8 % miles
from the mill. A three-compartment shaft
has been completed to the 100-foot level
and is now being equipped with a 75-foot
headframe which is being moved from the
Mono Lake district of California. Addi·
tional equipment will be purchased to en·
able sinking to the l,OOO-foot level. The
mine is fully equipped with Caterpillar
Diesels and generators, blacksmith shop,
wood-working shop, housing facilities, etc.
Ore is hauled to the mill in trucks. In
the past, production has averaged around
1,000 units a month, but the company expects
to increase this to between 2,000
and 3,ODO.
The Nevada Scheelite, Inc., is a Nevada
corporation, headed by Oscar L. Mills of
Los Angeles, California. R. R. Crum of
Whittier, California, is vice-president. Harley
Hammond is in charge as superintend·
ent at Dead Horse Wells, which is between
the postoffices of Rand and Rawhide in
Mineral County, Nevada. The company
frequently is confused with the Mills Alloys,
Jnc., with which it has no connection
beyond the fact that both concerns rent
office space from the Mercury Oil Tool
Company in Los Angeles and occasionally
the Nevada Scheelite company sells a cer·
tain amount of its scheelite production to
the Mills Alloys, although practically all of
its present production is under contract to
the Molybdenum Corporation of America.
ARIZONA SECTION, A.I.M.E.
WILL MEET ON DECEMBER \4
HE ANNU AIL meeting of the Arizona
T section of the American Institute of
'Mining and Metallurgical Engineers is set
for December 14, 1940, at Ray, Arizona.
Program arrangements are being made by
Brent N. Rickard, director of the institute,
810 Valley National Bank Building, Tuc·
son, Arizona, with other committeemen.
College of mines students at the Unlve~of
Arizona will go on a field trip
at "That time and will attend the convention.
Page U
THE MINING JOURNAL lOT NOVEMBER 80,