The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1886-01-22

MuSU letlu d uelElTx manu-
For those who talk yet fail to do,
But "build upon the sand"
ELIZA Cook.
Daughters of Bonanza Kings.
I saw newspaper paragraph the
other day about Miss Jennie Flood,
the daughter OF James G. Flood, one
of the partners of the Nevada Bank of
San Francisco, and one of the rich
men ofthe Pacific coast. 1t was an ex-
tract from letter written from San
Francisco by lady correspondent of
the St. Louis Globe Democrat who
was out to the Sandwich Islands last
summer, and who writes about society
at Washington every winter. She
said Miss Flood is very plain and a
very economical young woman, and
intimated that it was Il lucky thing
that young Ulysses Grant did MT
marry her. She is very stout, has a
round, red face and combs
her hair straight back from her fore.
head. When Patti was in San Fran
cisco last winter she had box
every night, and sat up in full and
somewhat painful view, and held IN
her hand always II big bouquet, but
she was quite unmoved by the most
rapturous strains Of the great Adeli-
mas voice and did not once throw so
much as q single rose from her big
bouquet during the entire season.
This piece OF gossip about Miss Flood
suggests some interesting facts about
the daughters OF that very remarkable
group OF men who suddenly made
enormous fortunes on the Pacific
coast. A daughter of Mr.. ID. o. Mills,
for a long time President of the Bank
Of California, but now q resident of
New York, married Mr.. Whitelaw
Reid, the editor and principal bro.
prietor of the New York Tribune
She has distinguished husband and
is most happily situated in life. Ex-
Gov. Leland Stanford, who is in
Washington as q senator this winter,
had but one child, and that was son,
who died a short time ago in Italy.
He is now childless and will prob
able die SO. An associate of his in the
Central Pacific railroad syndicate
wherein he made his money was Mark
Hopkins, who went out to California
from Massachusetts, in 1S4S. Hedied
six or seven years ago and left thirty
or forty millions. He never had any
children, but his widow, who got
at least $50, 100000 from his estate,
md I,,En 10 1,,o 0f Tho r;ol,,,k
in the world, had adopted 81 son and
afterwards married him to IL relative
of hers. The young people now live
with her, and will, no doubt, inherit
the bulk other fortune. She is now
building n residence Mt Great Barring
ton, Mass, her old home, that will
have cost when completed about ST.
600, 900. AS she is 60 years old, this
splendid palace will probably be en-
joyed not so long and so much by her
us by her adopted son and his wife.
James c. Fair, who, like ex-Gov.
Sanford, is q senator at Washington,
halls from Nevada, but belongs to the
Pacific coast tribe of rich men. He
has no grown daughters, but a num-
Der of children yet young in years.
He is divorced from his wife, but had
his children with him in Washington
winter before last. John w. Mackay
has no daughters of his own, but the
story OF Miss Eve Mackay, his adopt.
ed daughter, is well known. She is
counted the blest daughter of one of
the blest California milllonaires, and
has made a match that is called illus
trious because her husband is Prince
Colonna. Two other daughters Of
these rich men of the Pacific coast
married foreigners. One was Miss
Sharon, daughter of ex-senator sha-
ron, who recently died. She is now
Lady Hesketh, of England, and is
said to be most a lovely woman. 1t
was after she left California to live
abroad that her father became involv-
ed in the noisome Sarah Althea Hill
scandal, which was, of course, a great
humiliation to her, but which she
bore with becoming patience and for.
titude. She was not in California af-
ter that scandal fell upon the public
and did not see her father in his
last illness. HeCicd amost lonely and
unnnourned death, having been almost
entirely deserted by both family and
friends. Before his daughters mar
riage he was very fond of her, and al
lowed her every luxury that money
could provide. He fitted up Belmont
for her, the most beautiful country
seat in America, probably, west OF
the Alleghanies. Her aftianced came
to San Francisco for her in the finest
private yacht that ever entered the
Golden Gate, and as her friends bid
her adieu they said if there was ever a
child of fortune, she was the one.
Little did she dream that the sky
would SO soon be overcast with the
cloud OF scandal that darkened the
last days of her father. 1t is fact
not generally known, perhaps, that
Lady Hcsketh'shusband first propos-
cd to a daughter OF Charles Crocker,
who is as rich as Stanford and who
made his money the same way. He was
rejected, mainly because Mr.. Crocker,
a very plain and blunt gentleman, OBJ.
jected. He told the ambitious young
foreigner one bright morning that he
thought his daughter could find a man
in America entirely good enough for
her. Perhaps so, but she went abroad
after ALL Shefellin love with n young
impecunious Englishman who went
out to San Francisco, and, Schiliing
like went to serving as conductor or
a street car. He was thus employed
when Miss Crocker met and loved him
They were married secretly and livec
apart from the enraged millionaire
father for two years. At the end o
that time the old gentleman gave {
1.eat feast at his house. and anon,