The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-10
Mrs. James Daniel, Formerly
Mrs. Robert Hastings, Travels
in Haste From London
to This City.
She Leaves Her Husband at New York,
Joins the Rev. DR.. Hemphill and
Crosses the Continent
of an Old Domestic
Quarrel.

The domestic infelicities Of the house
OF Hemphill and that of Hastings are
again stirring local gossips with a pros
pect Of new sensations in a domestic con
troversy that is we'll known to San Fran
.ciscans. The Rev. DR.. Hemphill has
chased across the continent and back
again, his stepdaughter and her husband
have Travelled from London to this city
and the Probate Court is likely TO be the
scene of another battle of the family The
stepdaughter of the Rev. Dr. Hemphill
it will be remembered, is Mrs. James
Daniel. Before her marriage to Mr..
Daniel she was the widow OF Robert
Hastings and a woman Of enormous
wealth. She had two children by her first
husband and it is over these children and
their financial interests that new quar-
rel has arisen.
Daniel arrived in the city last night
from New York. He came looking for his
wife, but he did not find her. She had
preceded him by two days from New York
under the protecting wing OF Rev. DR..
Hemphill. Mr. Daniel was unable, in con-
sequence, to locate her, and is exceedingly
wroth The story of his mission and Of
his Journey is particularly interesting.
Money is the basis of it. When Judge
Hastings died he left, in addition to his
enormous fortune, a very large private
income to his son, Robert Hastings. In
the distribution of the rest of his estate
the old man willed that his property
should remain intact until his youngest
grandson. a son of Robert Hastings, had
reached the age OF 81 years.
When Robert Hastings died his wife,
Mrs. Mamie Hastings, inherited her hus-
. bands estate and income and became the
guardian of her children. Her mother,
Mrs. Coghiu, had married the Rev. DR..
HemphilI. Mother and daughter could
not agree. and the daughter left the city
TO seek a new home. She had secured
from the Probate Court princely month
~ allowance for her children, and her
mother and stepfather insinuated that
she sought so large an amount in order
that she might use some of it herself.
Mrs. Mamie Hastings did not take
kindly to these criticisms and went to
London TO live. She met and married
James Daniel. The marriage did not
meet the favor of the Rev. DIR. Hemphill
and his wife, but Mrs. Daniel seemed to
be supremacy uninterested in their opin-
ion She took steps TO become a British
subject and to transfer her guardianship
authority gradually to the English
courts.
Not long ago she was informed by her
attorney in this city that through the
agency of the Rev. Dr. Hemphil the al
loWance made by the Probate Court to
her children had been greatly reduced.
She and her husband determined to come
10 San Francisco at once. Mr.. Daniel
declared last night that there was at
that time nothing to suggest a disagree
ment between him and his wife. Hus-
band, wife and two children left London
the day before Christmas and arrived in
New York on January /
At New York Mrs. Daniel was met by
the Rev. Dr. Hemphill and the next thing
that Mr.. Daniel knew his wife, the two
children and the Rev. DR.. Hemphill were
on the way to this city. They left New
York on Tuesday and on their arrival here
registered It the Palace Hotel. Mr..
Daniel left New York two days later and
reached this city last night He could
not obtain apartments at the Palace and
registered at the Grand He scouts the
rumors Of gossips that there is to be
. divorce proceedings between him and his
wife. He declares that were it not for
what he calls the unwarranted and selfish
Interference OF Dr. Hemphill everything
would be peaceful in his home.
When Mr.. Daniel arrived at the Palace
last night he was besieged by reporters
but ne refused 10 say anything in connec-
lie wanted the best suite of rooms in the
. hotel but the clerk informed him that the
rooms were all taken and that he would
nave to go across the street to the Grand
.Itotel Tor accommodations. This did not
seem 10 please Mr.. Daniel. and he had
no hesltancy in venting his displeasure
on all nose who approached him.