The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-01-31

TSA Southern Pacific Rail-
GM "A road Company with its
WIN legion of employees. yet
/EsA he never made a friend
H<<Na%# A there or elsewhere.
S~#HN/HN// For thirteen years he
had roomed in the house
" of Mr.. and Mrs. A G.
Seymour, 53S Folsom street. near Second.
until Yesterday morning, when he was
found to have passed away as silently as he
had lived.
The people of the house took up his
breakfast, but could obtain no response to
raps upon the door.
That excited no particular alarm for some
time, as the roOmer was known to be
queer" and sometimes would refuse to
answer a summons. At last. however, Mr.
Seymour turned the handle and pushed
open the unlocked door
Right opposite him, in the rocker, his
hands on his knees sat the figure OF his
queer roomer stone dead.
Beside him. on trunk, was the supper
trav. its contents untouched. He had evil
IDENTIFY set down to eat his supper and i'm
mediately passed away.
Deputy Coroner John Carew was notihed
and took charge of the effects. The vaiua-
bles he found i'll the top drawer of the
bureau, uUlOckeu, AUOuI SJJ III CdsH WAC
discovered in an id stocking, and there was
a paper box full Of nickels
The room was in disorder. one wall being
covered with small pictures, among which
that of Adelaide Nelson figured conspicu-
ously There we're piles of books, chiefly
relating To spiritualistc or poetic subjects,
and some old letters from Eastern friends
and scraps of written matter Of no c0nsecu-
tive interest. together with a Typewriter,
represented the bulk of the effects. There
were no clothes 10 speak of. no knicknacks,
no new books, no recent letters.
The Deputy Coroner was directed TO the
valuabies by the following notice in the
bureau drawer:
My assets will he found either with this state
ment or on my person, or at the head OF my bed.
q. q. DRIVER.
Close BY was the strange viii, as follows
SAN FRANCISCO. Cal, January l. 1889.
In case OF my death | make this last VIII and
testament In favor OF my father. John NJ. Driver,
residing at 6404 H0uote street. Englewood.
Coos County. Ill. In case NJ his death prior TO
my own demise desire that my sister, Mary
Lucy Waggener, nee Driver. TesldinS at 6404
Honofe street EngiewOod, Cook County. ILL.,.
shall inherit all OF my effects. THIS Is my true
signature. c. u. DRIVER.
George Calvin Driver.)
G. C. DRIVERS ASSETS.
MS. 4-per cent registered bonds, principal
due In 1907. interest payable on the lst OF Janu-
aTv, ApFil. july aud OCTOBER.
No. SSl2, original date May Il, 1878. $500.
No. 11O7S original date July 27. 1873, $780,
No. 132oS, original date September r. 1878,
No. 1901, original date October 7, 1873.
$500.
No. 1905, original dale October IA. 1878,
$500.
No 2o21o original date January 20. 1879.
$500.
No. 402o9. original date August Is, 1879.
No 72s43, original date August 2, 1879.
No. G6o22, original date October Is. 1885,
$500.
Total $4,000
NJ s. 4-pei cent coupon bonds. principal due
10 Il 07, interest payable on The LIST OF January,
APRIL July and October.
No. A 464e.. ........... =. ............ $1,000
No Is Observation-Disclosures. 500
The above represents the par value OF the
bonds.
First mortgage coupon bonds OF the Southern
Pacific Railroad Company OF California prtncI-
pal due April. 1906 interest per ccnt, payable
April and October /.
Series A, No 6526. $1,000
Total par value $1,000
German Savings Bank, San Francisco. Cal.
number of bank book is SGT; interest payable
In January aud July, about pei cent; amount
san francisco Savings Union Bank. number Of
bankbook is IL ,597. folio 537; interest payable
IN January and July, per cent; amount OF de-
posii $500
Samuel Hazlett, banker. Washington, Wash
Two $500 certificates of deposit with Hlzlett
$1,000.
The certificates are not numbered and pay 4
per cent interest.
Grand total, $4,000.
i designate the Pablo Administrator OF San
Francisco as the most suitable, competent and
desirable custodian and executor OF my estate.
This Is my true signature, g. G. DRIVER.
George Calvin DTiyer.)
i desire that my surviving relatives. II such
there should be, shall remember me a. was last
seen by them in the earth life, Instead OF passing
through the crucixion OF contempt ting the
corpse afr II has been transpor ed 1000 miles
across the continent for burial.
Therefore. II there be cTemat0rY In San
francisco or vicinity at the time OF my demise,
would desire That my remains be Moderated
and the ashes sent 10 my relatives, otherwise |
dedicate to the Cooper dn prefereDce) or other
Ut Is immateTisD medical college my corpse IN
The interest OF medical science.
/ desire that both tie preliminary and final
disposition OF my corpse be without any funeral
ceremonies whatsoever. My soul alone Will be
fully competent % meet ia 4 second state of life,
that OF the universe, the supreme being, the
creator, the Infinite soul, the absolute Johovial,
God.
This Is my true signature. G.. G. DRIVER.
The Lord being immortal and the eternity of
time being eternal. the duration VIII be brief
until there shall be perpetual union beyond the
RubIcon. q. C. DRIVER.
Ii The assets on page do not In whole or in
part accompany this Will and the list OF effects
such assets Will be found either ON my per son or
somewhere about my bed-perchance at The top
If should be suddenly call across tie beau
tliul river without due waning.
&. c. DRIVER.
Something of the dead mans strange
modes of thought could be seen in this docu-
ment with its business-like exordium and
wild close.
The lady of the house, Mrs. Seymour.
could tell very little about him. although
she wept as she recalled that little.
She said lie only roomed there, taking his
meals at the Montgomery House. until two
weeks ago, when he ceased going out and
she sent him up his meals to his room.
He was about 46 years old and single
No; he had no relatives in this State and
no friends. No one ever came to see him.
De never went anywhere.
What did he do? He wrote at one time
for the Carrier Dove and other spiritualistic
papers for while. Latterly he said spirit
uallsm was all fraud.
For fifteen years he was stenographer for
A. N. Iowne, the yce-president of the
Southern Pacific Railroad. but for the last
six or seven years had done nothing. He
used very little tobacco.
He didn't like any one to enter his room
or disturb anything. Ii a paper were taken
from one part of the table to another he
would leave big notice of the fact on the
table written in large letters. Yet to The
housewives eye his room was always In a
litter.
They would hear him walking about at
night and talking to Spirits" but he
seemed perfectly rational In conversation.
lie was never known to be intoxicated,
though latterly he took port wine. He had
a fire in his room all the time.
He received one or two letters year, one
from the Treasury Department ut Washing
ton. ID. c., and the other from Illinois
He WAS very careful of his Comforts"
as Mrs. Seymour expressed ii, never stint
ing himself except to clothes, but never be-
Ing known to give away anything to any,
body. He paid his rent $40 a month, regu-
larry as also subscription for daily
paper
His regular daily programme was: Break
fast 20 A hack his