Connecticut western news., 1889-11-27
A CALIFORNIA BARONESS
PETER DONAHUE'S DAUGHTER MARRIES A GERMAN BARON.
Four Million Dollars Left by the Argo-
 naut Horseshoer.

naut Horseshoer. A tall, slender and not very impos- ing figure stalked about the Richelieu for couple of days this week, says the Chicago Herald. The tall young man was quite dark and had an un- mistakable foreign air. He rode about a good deal ill the swellest equipages that could be hired. He was accompanied by a striking-looking lady, of youthful mfen and strongly 1 marked Celtic features. ss-s. -- The two were the Baron and Baron | ess von Schroeder, of San Francisco, New York and Berlin. The Baron, though genuine article of baron, does not look to be the wearer of such a title, while that of "Baron ess" fits the Hibernian face of his excellent wife about as q genuine diamond its the bosom of negro minstrel.
 Though permanent residents of this country, the Baron and Baroness hug their titles with death-like grip. Neither would for one moment lay aside the precious prefix to their names or substitute the plain American "Mr. and Mrs." ...s.. -.... ....--;-;
 The Baron and Baroness von Schroeder are very rich-that is to say, with greater accuracy, the Baroness is very rich. She is the only daughter of the late Peter Donahue. of San Francisco, who died few years ago, leaving about four millions to his widow and a son and daughter. Baron von Schroeder appeared about the same time from Germany, and though poor as church mouse he and his title attracted the attention of the rich Miss Donahue. The Baron and Baroness divide their time about equally between New York and San Francisco. They have beautiful residences on both sides of the con- tincnt.
 The other day, when the Baroness clad in a gorgeous sealskin and the Baron with fur trimmed coat and 8 ten-pound cane left the Richelieu to enter one of MT. Payne's luxurious drags, an old Sacramento man, who happened to be enjoying Major Drum mond's hospitality, smiled, and said:
 ssI wonder what old Peter Donahue would say if he saw that. Dear old Pete! He was the salt of the earth. He could take twenty eight fingers a day regularly and snore the roof of his castle at night.
 "Peter Donahue was one of the best horseshoers in New York when he l went to California in 1949. He worked at his trade up to 1853-shoeing horses and in general blacksmithing-an in 1854 he started up a little foundry. Peter used to get an ounce of gold in dust ($16) for shoeing a horse and four ounces of gold for "setting" the tires of a wagon.
 "It was Peter Donahue's little black smith shop that formed the nucleus of the present magnificent Risden Iron Works of San Francisco. Old Peter, however, made the bulk of his fortune in real estate. He bought water lots i'll San Francisco when they sold as low as $10 each. What is known as the Academy Building in that city, on Pine street, which has passed from the Donahue estate into the hands of the Baroness von Schroeder, and is valued at $250, ,O00, was built upon ground which cost old Peter two ounces ot dust or $32.
 "When Peter had grown rich he built a great stone vault in Calvary in an appropriate spot. With the pride that he ever felt in his antecedents, and of the wealth that had come from hum ble beginnings. he had set in the arch OfcI IAc uoOIWaI d ClS H1cuaIAoA III stone representing the arm of Vulcan and under it the motto: Labor Omnia Vincit.'
 "The old man had not been laid away many months when the Baron and Baroness Won Schroeder sent 8 stone cutter to chisel off the arms of the Vulcan and the motto, and insert in letters of gold the simple names ':Donahue Won Schroeder"