Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-01-21
A CALIFORNIA BARONESS
HETER DONAHUE'S DAUGHTER
MARRIES A GERMAN BARON.
7Our Million Dollars Left by the Argo'
naut Horseshoer.


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-
naistakable foreign air. He rode
about a good deal In the swellest
equipsges that could be hired. He
was accompanied by a striking-iooking
lady of youthful mien and strongly
marked Celtic features.
The two were the Baron and Baron.
ess Won Schroeder, of San Francisco,
New York and Berlin. The Baron,
though a genuine article of baron,
does not look to be the wearer of such
title, while that of Baroness" fits
the Hibernian face of his excellent
wife about as a genuine diamond fits
the bosom of a negro minstrel.
Though permanent residents of thi,
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"
The Baron and Baroness Won
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 daugfaer.
Baron Won Schroeder appeared about
the same time from Germany, and
though poor as a 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-
tinent.
The other day, when the Baroness
clad in gorgeous sealskin and the
Baron with fur trimmed coat and a
ten-pound cane left the Richelieu to
enter one of Mr.. Payne's luxurious
drags, an old Sacramento man, who
happened to be enjoying Major Drum
monds hospitality, smiled, and said;
"I wonder what old Peter Donahue
would say if he saw that. Dear old
Petel 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 besl
horseshoers in New York when he
went TO California in 1849. He worked
at his trade up to 1S53-shoeing horses
and in general blscksmithing-and in
1854 he started up a little foundry.
Peter used to get an ounce of gold in
dust (s16) for shoeing horse and
four ounces of gold for "setting" the
tires of 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
in San Francisco when they sold as low
as $40 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 Won Schroeder, and is valued
at S250,000, was built upon ground
which cost old Peter two ounces Of
dust OF S32.
"When Peter had grown rich he
puilt 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
bic beginnings. he had set in the arch
over the doorway big medallion in
stone representing the arm of Vulcan,
and under it the motto: Labor Omnia
Vincit.'
''The old man had not been laio
away many months when the Baron
and Baroness Won Schroeder sent q
stone cutter to chisel off the arms of
the Vulcan and the motto, and insert
in letters of gold the simple names:
sDonahue Won Schroeder