The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-14
Princess 4n1efine.

he had said repeatedly that ne intended to
leaye q great part OF his fortune to the
city, and as his estate amounted to about
S3,000,000 the loss of the will created
sensation. His wife and the two doctors
who attended him were charged with de-
stroylng 1t and snit was begun bv the city
to force the producing OF the will. One of the
lawyers of defendants had the cheek to
say to the city that he would find the Will
Tor % per cent of the amount OF the estate.
This was refused, and the case is vet I'M
settled. During Mr.. Yesier's last sickness
these doctors and his wife never left him
alone with any one for moment"
W nat Kind OF man was Yesler ?"
lie was a very good man, and always
liked 10 help young men along. He would
lndorse any ones note almost, and he lost
100000 in five years by going security for
his friends. Shortly before he died he gave
trust deed to his nephew to manage his
property, and 1t is believed here that he
Intended him to be his executor. Henry
L. fesler never ousted a tenant if he
thought he WAS trying to get along and he
was greatly imposed upon. One man, a
baker. had house of his for seventeen
years and never paid cent rent. During
the most Of the time he sublet part OF the
house, ana he was getting $50 mon tn for
loom in it when he concluded he wanted
to use that part of the house for restau-
rant and he ordered the tenants to leave.
and they had their wires in aud did not
want to move. They concluded to try and
rent the whole place of Yesler and offered
him 500 month. Mr.. Yesler heard them
and refused, saying:
=" would like TO oblige you, but can't.
That man is one of my oldest tenants.
why, he has been with me seventeen
years
The fact that he had not paid his rent
ana that he was cheating him seemed to
make no difference"
Seattle has large humble r of men who
have made fortunes In money and mines.
Judge Thomas Burke, the great LAWYER of
this region, is worth million. l.. 5. j.
Hunt, the owner of the Seattle Post-ln-
tellIgencer, and one of the big holders of
the Monte Christie mines, came here worth
$4,000 and he is now quoted at from three
TO i've millions. and there is a bakers
dozen OF other Seattle men who are rich
beyond the dreams of avaTce.
1t is the same with Tacoma. Seattle's
rival city, which is only forty miles
further up the sound, and which is filed
with the homes OF rich men. During my
visit there L met number of tnam and /
heard OF others. What surprises me most
is the number of young men who have
grown rich. Mr.. Hunt is not over 49, and
Allen I. Mason, one of the big milliOnaires
of Tacoma, is under 40 Mason's wealth
illustrates the value of newspaper adyer-
Using. just ten years ago he was teach
Ing school in Jacksonville, Ill. He Dor
rowed $1,000 for three years to come to
Puget Sound, settled in Tacoma and went
into the real estate and loan business
During live years his transactions amounted
TO more than three millions. He is now
building house in Tacoma which will
cost S125, COO, has given the city public
library OF 10000 volumes and oWns all sorts
OF valuable property. He considers the
newspapers one of the secrets Of success,
lie put all his money first into newspaper
advertising. He started In by advertising
his real estate in religious papers, spending
at hrst 500 month and increasing til he
was spending about $500 month in this
way. Then he tried the big Eastern dailies
and one Sunday he spent 10000, all that
he had at the time, in putting two-nage
ADS IN the big Sunday newspapers OF New
ork. Boston and Philadelphia. The re-
suit was that the letters came in by the
oushel, and half of them contained money.
ana MI Mason says he is still getting
business from the advertising of that time.
About two years ago Mr. Mason and a
friend OF his, Mr. Charles Reeves, who
has also made fortune in Tacoma real
estate, went round the world together.
Ihey carried camera with them and
photographed themselves in all sorts of
shapes. They brought back lot of plum
der, and among other things Mason bought
mummy and struggled il out of Egypt
and across here 10 Tacoma.
Hugh Wallace. who married Mildred
Fuller is fast making fortune in Tacoma
He is under 80 years of age, but he must
already be worth 500, 900, and he is. l am
told, good business man. He is espe-
cially happy just now in the possession of
a son who is said to look much like his
grandfather. the Chief Justice
he biggest Individual property-owper
OF Tacoma is, am told, G. b. Wright. who
used to be president of the Northern Paei-
fic Railroad, and who owns over $40. OO0, 900
worth OF Tacoma buildings and lands ana
stocks. MIR. Wright Is said to be worth
S5O,00o,O0O. He pays one-eighth Of all the
taxes in Tacoma, and he recently bought
the Hunt system of railroads and paid
S25, 600, 900 foE them. HeNis now about 20
wears old, and he is called the father of
Tacoma. He had the tunnel built through
the Cascade Mountains and thus made
Tacoma the terminus Of the Northern Pa
cihc Railroad. He made many of his
friends rich at the same time, and the big
business blocks, the msgn ficent home,
and the solid Improvements of Tacoma
with Its forty or fifty thousand people
stand there as monument to him.
FRANK Il. CARPENTER,
Seattle, Nav s.