The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-07-01

his requests is worth in part 5000 to $500
per acre. -,
Some years ago he had nine hundred
blooded horses. He raised them for i'm
provement of the stock and the fame OF
California. Palo Alto Farm is famous all
over the world. He set on foot the ex-
pensive and tedious experiments with the
camera to prove his suspicion that fast
trotting horse raised all his feet from the
ground at one time and was literally sus-
pended in the ar by his velocity. His
buildings at Menlo Park cost 81 100000.
ASSISTED BY GOOD WIFE.
Mrs. Stanford is described as a remark
able woman, graceful and easy in manner,
tender hearted and very charitable. She
owns fortune in Jewels, but makes no dis
play of them 1t is said that her jewels
are worth 81 100000 One diamond neck
lace is valued at S6O0,000 This valuable
collection is kept in burglar-proof safe
with time lock- Her sets of diamonds
include one of pink diamonds, one OF blue
diamonds with most attractive violet rays,
third with diamonds as yellow and very
nearly as big as canary birds eggs, and
fourth of diamonds of pure white.
Mrs. Stanford's sixty or seventy dia-
mond rings she keeps modestly strung on
piece Of black string. Mrs. Stanford
| entered with interest into all her husbands
benevolent schemes She is sensible
! woman. She has jewels which used to
belong to the Empress Eugene, and Others
which belonged to Queen Isabella Of Spain.
! The first memorial kindergarten in the
world was established in 1SS4in San Fran
cisco by Mrs. Stanford in memory of her
son. There are now twelve memorial
kindergartens doing good work in San
4 Francisco Six of them are under the
auspices of Mrs Stanford. To make the
Stanford Memorial kindergarten perpet-
ual benediction to the world, Mrs. STAN
ford has set aside 100000 as an endow
ment fund
This makes grand total of 100000
which has been given by her for the car
rying on Of the free kindergartens since
they were first established. The 100000
in Northern Railway Company five per
cent. bonds is placed in trust, and is known
as the Leland Stanford Junior Kinder
garten Trust The income Of the invest
ment is to be devoted to the support of the
! Leland Stanford Junior kindergarten
schools exclusively, so long as said schools
shall continue to exist, for the poor and
needy children of San Francisco. Her
munifcence has saved thousands of little
folks during the past twelve years. The
statistics of the twelfth annual report of
the Golden Gate kindergarten Association
show that during the twelve years Of its
existence it has had under its care and
training 5000 children. The children
were taken in hand by the association in
their earliest years, and are now from tif-
teen to eighteen years of age. She has
given great deal of money for the edu-
cation of young girls in various parts of
the country.
NOT AN ENEMY IN THE WORLD.
One of the evidences of his enormous
wealth that Senator Stanford was very fond
of displaying on state occasions was com
plete dinner set of solid gold. Personally,
he was a man of democratic habits. His
tastes were simple, and but very little OF his
money amply suf6ced for his personal
wants. Though he left the finest stables
in Washington it was, until recent years,
an uncommon sight to see Mr.. Stanford
walking modestly along the Avenue, his
carriage, with its magnificent horses and
its more than stately coachman and foot
man, following along conveying the sena-
tors private secretary to his home.
Mr.. Stanford's magnificent stud farm at
Palo Alto was, to some extent, the result
of whim. He was driving one day be-
hind a pair of excellent, but not remarka-
bly, fast, horses, Several teams passed,
and he was hidden in their dust. In a
moment of annoyance he declared that he
would hereafter ride in no mans dust, and
Immediately set about purchasing fast
horses. Then his keen business sense
showed him the enormous money that
could be made out of the breeding and sale
of fine horses, and in that way a moments
annoyance was the cause OF one OF his
profitable business ventures.
Senator Stanfords liberality was bound
less. The shrewdness of his private secre-
tary John Mccarthy, saved Mr.. Stanford
from many an imposition; but nevertheless,
the California Cresus spent hundreds OF
thousands upon people who abused his
charity. Leland Stanford leaves not an
enemy behind. No better evidence of the
great love that all men felt for the whole
souled old man could have been shown than
in the universal sympathy that went to him
when death robbed him Of what was dearer
to him than all his millions-his only child,
young Leland Stanford blow from which
he never recovered.
stanford University.
+ In 1884 Senator and Mrs Stanford lost
their only child, son, aged sixteen, who
died in Florence, Italy, of malarial fever.
The boy was precocious and had great
aptitude for mechanics. He also took a
keen interest in science, aud often expressed
the hope that he would be enabled to dc
/ something to give poor boys practical
, education. SO Mr.. Stanford's mind turned
| to the founding of great popular univer
D sity, different in scope and plan from any
e American institution, and with character
istic energy he had oil the plans arranged
in few months, and by the following
year, when he returned to California, the
: main outlines of the scheme were made
8 public and the trust deeds of a royal en-
dowment we're executed,
The body of the lad was brought from
Italy. taken to California, and splendid
D mausoleum erected about half mile from