The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-08-29
WHY MADISON FLED
He Played a Flush of
Maidens' Hearts.
BUT FOUR KINGS BEAT HIM.
He Married a Daughter of Each,
Then Repented.
LONE JACK OF CLUBS IN PURSUIT
The Jacks Daughter Was a Village
Maiden and the Best of the
Five Wives.

looks Frank Madison won five titled maid
ems. He didn't have to go 10 Europe.
either to become distinguished through
his wives. nor did he make his entree to
the society of the blue bIooded females
through the medium Of large letter of
credit.
Frank Madison hardly knows himself
how he came 10 associate with queens,
princesses and the like. but he did asso-
ciate with them. and now he holds flush
of hearts. He played against four kings,
however, lost his pile and came back on
the steamer Australia to pass the re-
mainder of his days in California.
Madison is an acquaintance of William
Vermiyea Smith of the schooner Golden
Fleece. who also has the honor of having
married princess of the Pelews. Smith
is still pacing the smooth white beach of
South Sea island clad in breechclout
and string. but Madison says he may
return to civilization soon. for traders, like
chickens, are sure to come home to roost.
The extreme difficulty of maintaining
five wives within radius of about 100
miles caused Madison to have family
troubles.
Four kings and jack of clubs chased
him out of the Caroline group, and be is
now in America full of remorse and ma
larial fever
"Ihis thing of marrying princesses
down south goes against sailorman's
grain" explained Madison. 1T IS true that
| was married to four Kings daughters
and also fell in love with a village maiden.
who, by the way, was the best of the
whole lot.
81 went south eight years ago. was in
a whaler and deserted at Honolulu. 1
worked my way about the islands until
fell 10 with an old monarch who fancied
me and offered ME one of his daughters in
marriage. l accepted, for the girl wasn't
bit bad looking, and had about made
up my mind that / would live forever in
the South Seas, was so much taken with
the place.
1.-The marriage ceremony was a little
crude, but there was something so simple
and unaffected about my bride that
almost forgot about her being a savage,
and for the while l must confess adored
her,
I'VE were first united after the savage
custom under a matched house in her
fathers village. Two days later a travel
ing missionary happened our way and
baiIPd him.
"'Old man. said l. Just step up this
way with y our books He read the ser
vice ana l was a deal happier, l can tell
YOU.
at as only two years that had been
married when my wife was taken III and
died. l felt her loss deeply and left soon
after she was buried for Yap. l could not
bear 10 stay at my former home.
1.-The old chief didn't like my going away
and swore that he would get even with me.
| never gave him the chance.
Madison would not give any particulars
about his subsequent marriages. He ad-
mItted that he had married four other ma
tive girls, but it seems that in the latter
cases the able seaman proved trif1e friv-
Olnus.
When he first became acquainted with
Adventurer Smith, the Golden Fleece, was
at the Peews. Madison had Just escaped
from vengeful King whose daughter he
had forsaken to court duSky maiden of a
neighboripg island. He had settled down
to life of matrimonial harmony far from
the evil influence of a wrathful sire. so he
thought, but be made miscalculation.
News spread to the island where he had
last taken refuge that discouraged Madison
and made him fear visit from an un-
friendly tribe. so he pulled up stakes and
tried to reach the Fleece, but the vessel had
left.
These events in thelife OF Madison trans
Dired during late years. In rapid rotation
he became entangled in the meshes of
other winning maids, and was known
throughout the archipelago as ''The man
VIII marries."
One by one he grew weary of South Sea
women and the natives commenced to look
upon him suspiciously.
The china te down south got too warm.
Yes, it was the climate. though some peO-
pie say that the kings and the jack of
clu bs were on the warDath.
Madison returned to America, at any
rate, and says he has no further desire to
become tropical Mormon.
Smith and Madison are not the only men
who boast of having won many wives in
the south. Captain Al aerreckson,
Swede who went trading about nine years
ago and won an Amazon of the Marshalis,
is said to have been married four times
since his first matrimonial venture. He is
still on an island in the group, and has
TWO sons and three daughters living with
him.
King" Banks, the abs condDg cashier
of Wells, Fargo & Co.. who was reported
as having become beach-comber. is al
legged to have married a second time, and
has settled down again in comparative
comfort. This story, however, neither
Madison nor any one who is sat home" in
the islands conld verify.