St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-14
How the Bonanza Kings Of the Golden
State Live and Enjoy the
World.
After Filling Their Golfers to OVERLOOKING
the Ten Millionaires Make New
York Their Mecca.
Senator Fairs Strange Infatuation
for Items of Interest Regard-
ing His Divorced Wife.
Sharon's Liveried Servants and STAN
ford's Railroad Schemes, Vine-
yard and University.
Wealth of Pacific Citizens.

Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.-An old Cali
| fornian last night gave me some interesting
gossip concerning rich men of that state.
He said that Sharon, when he died, left a
property in the neighborhood of $40, ,OOO,-
900. He says that the current impression
upon the Pacific coast is that the marriage
between Sharon and Sarah Althea Hill was
a genuine one, and that she will recover
| her widows interest in the estate Sharon
was never popular in San Francisco. He
so openly defied the laws of society that he
was received in but few houses. Sir Thomas
| Heskith, who married his daughter, was
| rough Englishman who came out to San
Francisco to hunt for a fortune. He
used to behave in the rudest man.
ner to people there, as if he
! did not regard them as civilized. He once
| attended full-dress dinner party at lead
| ing gentleman'S house in the rough dress of
! a mining camp, with his trousers tucked in
| his boots. He was, On account of his num-
erous eccentricitles. dropped by San Fran
| cisco society. When Sharons daughter
married this eccentric Englishlnan her
father was delighted. He found out from
Sir Thomas his son-in-law, what the livery
of his family servants was at home. He
had all his servants at the Sharon country
place don this Heskith livery. The major
ity Of the
| SERVANTS STRUCK
and refused to put it on and were promptly
discharged. Sharon was very similar in
character to prominent citizen there who
is known as Lucky Baldwin. Baldwin is
now worth several millions. New York is
regarded as the Mecca of the California
| Of roIi
MIA until their money is made, and then
they thirst to go to New York for new
victories. G. P. Huntington, Mackay,
Keene and d. o. Mills are some of their
leading men who have transplanted theiI
homes from the Pacific coast to New York.
The shrewd capitalists of the Pacific coast
| believe that Mr.. Mackay would have done
better if he had remained in San Francisco.
When Fair first arrived in Washington his
| favOrite guests were young ladies. Al
though he was fresh from
VERY UNsAvoRY RECORD,
of a divorce trial. the facts disclosed there
appeared to have no impression upon Wash
ington society, as his dinner parties were
numerously and well attended. Fair is said
to lead at present very lonely life. He
has no intellectual accomplishments and
J cares nothing about reading. He takes
| very little interest in the senate, and
through his lack of education and political
experience will never be able to make any
thing of figure here. He is evidently very
much broken up by being separated from
his family. This California gentleman,
who used to call upon him in his rooms last
winter, said that the senator invariably
spent his leisure in reading California pa-
pers, hunting up stray paragraphs about
/ 1xtjfo Mr- Faie
entertains very largely and is prominent in
the society of San Francisco. Fairs sec
retary had orders to mark with blue
pencil every paragraph relating to the SEN
ators former family. The senator then
spent his evenings
| GOING OVER THESE PARAGRAPHS,
evidently taking great pride in them, at the
same time br0oding over the fact that he
had lost his relations with his home people.
Fair has devoted himself to the pleasures
of the table to great extent He is a very
heavy feeder. He eats as much as two or
! three men would ordinarily require at each
meal. The result is that he is grow
ing heavier and heavier, and less in
clined to anything requiring on
intellectual effort. Stanford, the junior
senator from California, is the richest man
Oh the Pacific coast. His wealth is esti-
mated at $40, 100000. He is the largest
railroad builder in the world. He has also
the largest vineyard in the world, having
$500 acres set out with grapes. This Cali
fornia friend of his says that his bequest of
$15. 900, 900 to the California university is
absolute, and, although it is managed by
him, cannot be revoked. Mr.. Stanford in
tends to give away all his money before he
dies to public institutions to be founded by
himself The university is his pet idea.