Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-09-05
MRS. BONANZA nAckAY.
some Revised Details as to Her Very Hn- teresting History.


 some Ee~ised Details as to Her Very In-
 terestinE History.
 Louise Hungerford. with younger sister who is now the Countess Of Telf- sner, the wife of Italian Count, left New York when about twelve years old, says the Working Woman. John Hun gerford was a tourneyman barber in Now York, but enlisted in tue Mexican war; later he was employed at his trade by one George w Ciprico. whosas shop in San Francisco was known as "Montgom. cry baths," and the chair that Jack Hun- yerford used is pointed out to the cus- toners of the Ciprico barber shop to this day Mir Ciprico advanced $500 in gold to his employe. who immediately sent for his daughters. When Louise Hungerford and her sister arrived in San Francisco they went to the house of Mir. Ciprico. who took them into his family. they be- ing nearly the same age of his own daughters. Here they were treated as members of the family, being taught Italian and French and music by the daughters They lived with their bene- factors six or seven years.
 In 1865 Flungerford opened a barber shop on his own account at Mokelumne Hill, Cal, and Louise. who was then about nineteen years old. acted as her fathers housekeeper-~they having one room in the rear of the shop He was proprietor of but short duration, for he soon "busted" up in business During this period a Dr. Bryant, who kept a small drug store at Nevada City, about one hundred miles from Mokelumne Hill, paid attention to Louise, and she was married to him after a short courtship Dr Bryant. be- ing man of dissolute habits, died two or three years afterward of delirium tremens, leaving Mrs. Bryant no means of support for herself and daughter Eva now the Princess Colonna. Her fathers failure in business and her husband s death compelled her to seek service in the family of J. w. Walker, brother of the late eX-GovernorWalker of Virginia, and there she met for the irst time J. w Mackay, superintendent of the Bull lion mine at Virginia City, New. Louise Bryant, for brief time previous to her going into the service of Mir. Walker, had tried hand at keeping a boarding house for the miners
 Mir. Mackay was comfortably fixed and
 
 miners used in those days. simply a cabin of two rooms So he courted and won tho Widow Bryant. Her father in the meantime had gone back to his former ''boss'' and procured employment | and helped to pay the youngest daugh- | ter's board. Mrs. Mackay was cook and general housekeeper and laundry-wom- an, and helped entertain her husband 8 co-workers in the mines
 Mir. Mackay soon after attained great | wealth, and Mrs. Mackay and her sister l had the advantage of common school education and could speak fiuently Ital- ian and French, through the association of the Ciprico family, who were re. markedly we'll educated-three of the | daughters of Mir. Ciprico are school teachers in San Francisco to-day When 1 Mrs. Mackay, her daughter Eva, and her sister went abroad, it was to got away | from her former associates. When she returned for the first time to San Fran cisco she called upon the Ciprico girls, but from that day to the present she has | ignored her former teachers and bene l factors.
 The people of San Francisco who | know tho facts as above stated are indtg naut at Mrs. John w. Mackay's ingrati tude to family that had done so much for her in her early days of poverty anG somewhat adventuresome life.
 Joh@ @Eungerford-now known as Col Hungerford of the United States army was formerly known as "Jack Hunger I ford, the barber" He was good artist and there is no disgrace attached to hi , business. Louise earned her daily breat , as boarding-house keeper. But tn, worst of ingratitudo comes in to- thos, who took care of her and gave her tn advantages of an early education. Thi we think the worst of crimes.
 The above is a true history of tn Bonanza Queen of European society.