The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-07-13
A GRANDSON OF OLD MARYLAND.
His Success in California Pen-Piotured in
Gustave Dore STYLE.


Gustave Dore Style.
Correspondence of THE SUNDAY HERALD
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, July l.
When the California epidemic broke loose and
inoculated thousands with an increased lust for
dust there lived in Prince Georges County,
Maryland, one Jacobus Rudolph The plague
for adventure seized him, and, delirious with
the gold fever, he Westward hied, with a COM
pass for his Moses, jerked beef for his manna
alkali beds for his Elm injuns for Amale-
kites, and Placer County for his Canaan. Not
withstanding these disadvantages he got there
just the same, breaking the Hebraic record for
long-winded travel by thirty-nine and one-half
years. Being an honest man he succeeded not
In politics. Not wishing his pockets picked by
State Legislators he let the other fellows repre-
sent Ell Dorado in the Senate. Desiring neither
corns on his conscience nor bunions on his
fame he let political preferment slide. He was
born exactly sixty-three years ago, more or
less, and steadily progressed in age till the date
of his death His claim to space is based upon
the fact that he was the sire of my subject
young man whose name now clicks the tele-
graphic sounder and chokes the columns of the
occidental press. Rudolph, Jr., never went to
college. His tastes tended neither to foot ball
nor regatta. He began operations with treas
ury surplus of health, q flush bank account of
hope, and handsome revenue of expectations
At first the dividends were not large Legal
learning was the shore for which he pulled but
not having the cork jacket Of influence he often
times had to turn on his back to gather steam
and finance in order to pursue the uneven tenor
of his way. In 1888 he graduated from the
law office of Driscoll & Farley. In his ex
animation he made his interlocutors turn their
ribs over on the other side and seek shelter be-
hind the ropes. He stopped all questions and
landed in return. Puzzlers were met hard and
grassed. After his admission he kept on study
ing and did not know it all, thus violating
time-honored custom among graduates AL
though so newly passed the box-office of the
law he has now an orchestra pew IN the middle
aisle OF his profession. In the year following
his admission his digestion became impaired
and he grew mellow, but when the reader is in
formed that the young lady was the Pacific
Pandora, or beauteous millionairess, Matte
Coons, he will see that Rudolph's mellowness
was due to his rpeness. He now became a
quadruple expansion and triple-screw cruiser in
the sea of Fashion, swamping all dug-out COM
petitors and never slowing up in passing Alex
andria. Somebody happened to say he was a
good lawyer and he got the reputation of it.
At length the famous California case of Den
tce vs. Florence Jarndced along, and he took
a hand in it.. He also took everything else that
was III IL. AL tne roundup OF the case he got
the drop on the jury with a sweating speech
Instead of talking in the Anacostia and George
town of the case he came right down to the
Market Space of the question. He never loafed
in the suburbs of his subject. He forcipped
the stopper from the socket of its neck and
poured sarcasity on snobocraty. He became
an oratorical Vesuvius and Pompeiized opro-
nents with the red-hot lava of his wrath He
made an argument of many horse power that
kept atloat despite the weight of the other
side. 1t had fast colors and stood washing by
the opposition. Every fact was clinched on
one side and hand-sewed on both. He tore
down threeply fence from his windppe
climbed through his coat, unbuckled his hal
terspenders, split his phiz, and broke the
breech OF his countenance so well that the op-
posing argument looked like the Republican
party after the next election. Some men make
more cackle in laying single point than he
did in Matching his whole speech. He stuffed
law into the jury until they didn't know any
thing about it. He hurled logical bricks
through the sympathy of the jurors, pumps and
handkerchiefs were manned, and every juror
bailed liquid sorrow from the depths of his
leaking. soul. ,Niagaras of grief coursed through
every facial hatch and skylight. Every eye
pie got picked in their own brine Eyes were
lost in the surf. Every orb was so wet that
there was not dry one in the whole audience.
Quillsts of the Frisco papers grasped the tilers
of their Spencerian clubs and piloted his praise
to press. 1t was great speech and the YER
dict went right. | need not write his fee, ap-
preciating as do the value of your space
IPsE.