Telegram-herald., 1890-08-12

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Louise Hsagerferd. ~ith ; yoangof
sister 40 Is nos tbe Countess - Asii-
eaer. she wifs q lszli4n Ce1nf- tsis
New Yoxz uhsn about s~slve years cd
says tAs Working woman joan naa-
ge-fora vas 5oGrneyls&n barter "A Ne"
YORK. bat enlistea In EAe Asxlca2 var
later be was en- pioYed At bis tr%ae oy
eae George ". C.prico. whese shoP IN
San Fransisce vas knewn a. ~AoDsgosa-
eFg baths. And tae eE2ir that JACK Hun
gers9rd nsed Is pointed cut 70 tne Gus
tcners ot lhe Glprico barber shop % thls
day Mr.. Csgrico advanced $500 II gola 20
his empl0ye, who inmeaisteiy sent Tor
his daughters When Louise Hungerio-d
and her sister arrived in San Francisco
thsy went 10 the house OF Mr. ciPrieo,
Who took them into his family, they De-
Ing nearly the same age OF BIS own
daughters. here they were treated as
members OF the family, being taught
Italian and French and music oy tns
daughters. They lived with their bene-
factors six or seven years.
In 1855 Hungerford opened barber
Hill, Cal. and Louise, who Was then
about nineteen years old. acted as her
fathers housekeeD Der-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 DIR. Bryant, who kept a
small drug store at Nevada City, about
one hundred miles from Mokelumne
Hill, paid attention 70 Louise,
and she was married TO him after
a short courtship. DR.. Bryant, be-
ing a 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 husbands 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 first time j..
w. MaGkay, superintendent Of the Bull
lion mine at Virginia City, New. Louise
Bryant, for brief time previous to her
going into the service OF Mr.. Walker.
had tried hand at keeping boarding
house for the miners.
Mr.. MackaY was comfortably fixed and
could provide her home, such as the
miners used in those days, simply a
cabin OF two rooms. So he courted and
won tho Widow Bryant. Her father
in the meantime bad gone back TO his
former ''boss" and procured employment
and helped to pay the youngest daugh-
ter's board. Mrs. Mackay was cook and
an, and helped entertain her husband s
co-workers In the mines.
| Mr.. Mackay soon after attained great
wealth, and Mrs. Mackay and her sister
/ had the advantage Of common school
education and could speak hucntly Ital-
1 ian and French, through the association
of the Ciprico family, who were re-
markably we'll educated-three of the
daughters of Mr.. Ciprico are school
/ teachers in San Francisco to-day. When
/ Mrs. Mackay her daughter Eva, and her
sister went abroad, it was 10 get 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-
factors.
The people OF San Francisco who
know the facts as above stated are indig-
nant at Mrs. Jonn W. Mackay's ingrati-
tude to family that had done so much
for her in her early days OF poverty and
somewhat adventuresome life.
John Hungerford-now known as Col.
Hungerford of the United States army
was formerly known as Jack Hunger.
ford, the barber" He was good artist,
and there is no disgrace attached to his
business. Louise earned her daily bread
as boarding-house keeper. But the
worst Of ingratitude comes in TO those
who took care of her and gave her the
advantages of an early education. Thi:
we think the worst of crimes.
The above is true history of the
Bonanza Queen OF European society.