Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-10-18
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The Deserted Homes of the California Mutt
miilionaircs.
Strtiling up aristooratic California
street, says o San Francisco correspond
ent, Senator Stanford's home Is tho first
one seen. a magnificent dwelling 1t Is.
AS least $2,O00,000 was spent on its cree
ton. The decorations Of the rooms cost
more than 100000, whiles pictures and
furniture are valued at $l.500,OO0. Bot
the owner is not there. Both the senator
and Mrs. Stanford are at noted springs
in Germany, seeEip. that health that is
possessed by nearly every plowboy and
mechanic in the land Lonely has been
and Is that home? Senator Stanford is
the weaithiost maa on the Pacific coast
but unless tn advice of his physicians rs
carried ont TO the letter, tho days OF both
himself and wife are bat few, and what
is worse they are childish. Senator Stan
ford has neither son nor daughter 90
whom TO leave his gold.
But tc pass on. Immediately adjoln
ing Stanford's house, and occupying She
remainder of the block, is that of Mrs
Hopkins Searles, but known until her
marriage few months since with Mr.
Searles OF Massachusetts as Mrs. Mark
Hopkins. An imposing edifice, this Hop
kins mansion, and cost million and q
half 10 build Poor Mark Hopkins! He
planned this house, but by constant ap-
piicatiOu TO business and the requirement
OF wealth as the duancier of the Central
Pacific company, he lost his reason be-
fore it was com pleted. Ons day he was
strcllIng with an attendeEt along the
s,reot when ho suddenly exclaimed:
"What iHferngl fool buit that houseN
I He died soon after. Lest ye8r his widow
worth q round $40 GO0,O00, married and
/ is living in Massachusetts. Ohly Gst-
want occupies the Hopkins mansion
! Disgonally across the street from this
/ IL the brown stone residence Of bonanza
king James G. i GOD. It is said that this
residence cost $3,0O0,0OO. Every stone
| in the building, and even the fence, was
| brought from Connecticut. Tho fence
/ itself, with its bronze gates, cost SGOOOO
| Bot the house is also tenentless. Floods
eyesipht has nearly left him. He, with
/ his wife and daughter is in Europe, try.
ing TO regain health, while control OF his
business under the advice Of physicians,
has been placed ia al others hands
Next GENES the residence Of Mrs. Col
ton. she who was given such prominence
a few years since by the newspapers or
account of her suit against O. Z. Hunt
iSgtou. Ia this suit the famous Hunting
ton letters 70 Cotton wero produced.
Cotton vas chief law adviser OF the Cen
tral Pacific railroad, and siuce bis death
his widow has lived but little At their
home. To-day the curtains e,e drawn
low and the shutters closed, denotipg tbs
absence of the cvner.
The last Of the homes az the million
aires ia that OF Charles Crocser, whose
death hes just taken place. Btt~esu a
million end quarter and o million a.
hs.f Was spent Id It's erec ion, but it has
not been much occupied Of iate. For
! months Crocker has been fighting against
ususlIy fatally disesae, aud 81 TIE time
Of hi. death was absent from his home
for the purpose Of restoring Lls health
His wife vas ia New York
Thus run the homes OF the millionaire
Not single ne i occupied By ia owner
no wonder thinking people ~ TIE GIG
look up TO Mob bill and fee thankful IN
their hearts that they have health, II not
gold BIZ the millions
The Berlin police have seized the r.
naming copies Of the October number Of
the Deutscae Rundscnau, which contained
the extracts from the diary OF the iat'
J Emperor Frederick