The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-04-30

4
Who srsw ennfmoussy wealthy fron the1r
he past were replaced 81 succe1nien Of
n&phA&Atd plans, While be continued to
expFeAg Z hope ri what he vas pleased to
can - turn Of Tabor luck.
when Mra Augusta Tabor found herself
divorced woman. she still had the love
and compAnionship Of her son. Maxey,
Who remained faithful to her to the last.
helped amass she was granted q. ooc DO.
and BY careful Investments while Tabor
wealth diminished. hers steadily increased.
FOR yearu she found great comfort In the
Nr. Tabor needed financial aid she would
.He win come hack to me, I know he
VIII. she used 10 say to her nearest
friends and he ever needs me | shall
Mrs. Tabor once contributed a series OF
ARTICLES 70 Western magazine In which
she graphically described incidents Of pic-
neer days Ia Colorado. One particularly
touching experience she tells as Follows:
We reached Trout creek in the evening
and the next morning the men went out
hunting. All day long ! listened for the
back until long after nighsfasl, and I was
desolate indeed A little hurro came TO
my tent and I bowed my head upon aim
and weps in loneliness os soul Only for
could not have found their way back
After Tabor's second marriage. friend
of the first Mrs Tabor said 10 her:
Augusta are you thinking about him
tthere was only one hlnb YETI
Yes. only how I can help him."
With that end In view several deals.
were made about eight years ago In which
Mrs. Tabor was supposed 10 be the silent
partner. bur the aid they gave proved only
temporary tiding over rough places
She died in Los Angeles. Cal, before
Taoer's complete failure. She knew that
wishes could have awaited he would have
again counted his millions
The final decadence OF Senator Tabor's
fortunes may DO systematically traced in
newspaper head lines that have appeared
with varying dates in the last few years.
One in - says. Senator Tabor Fails. y
A little later. '.Taborss Arizona Mine Sold
tionai statement. Back 10 Pick ana
Shovel" and q change Of fortune the next
year is foreshadowed In Tabor. Denver's
Postmaster" and ..Stra.ton Aids Tabor ,.
Upon the day when the Tabor Grand
opera house and the Tabor block passed
into stranger hands, Tabor asked permis-
saon to retain two articles in the opera
wagon carried away to his rooms an iron
safe from the box Office and painting Of
Richelieu and Julie. life size. in oil. In tho
scene where the chancellor OF France de-
presented to him by the citizens OF Den
yer at the time that the opera house was
opened by Emma Abbott in 1Sal
In 1856 Mr. Tabor was almost penni.ess
Men who had been aided by him In an
open-handcd and liberal way passed him
IN the street with q nod az cold a. the
brow of Pixies peak. Others In humber
eircumstarces brushed by him in the city
carried them home. He wore clothes that
showed worn seams and careful repairs
and once in the course Of the year when
he came ou- In change Q! rsir,snt an
enterprising newspaper announced that
Tabor had new suit. Through all Of this.
friends reiterated the mans unfalterinG
faith In his finai success. When every
thing else seemed to have failed utterly.
Tabor turned again tn the mining camp.
One day In 81 he ana the second Mrs.
Tabor and their ~ o daughters, Lille and
Ward. Boulder county. Colo. Then it was
found that Tabor was going TO work
the long abandoned Eclipse mine two and
half miles south OF town. Ii IL on the
big Gladys vein and |. was for this special
development that Stratton advanced twice
the amount of money which Tabpr thought
he would need to put the Eclipse on pay
ing basis. This fund Tabor seefaed TO re-
gard AS sacred trust. and the closest
economy was practiced In the family, so
that every dollar could be turned into the
Eclipse. Just across the road from the
shaft Tabor built a cottage facing the
Arapahce range of mountains. and from
which. upon clear days. can be seen the
haxy smoke of Denyer--the metropolis
which Tabor had helped to change from u
country town.
Then came what Tabor construed into
new streak OF luck-his appointment as
postmaster at Denver. and when he re-
turned there little more than year ago
he received a welcome which had i'm II
much OF the cordially OF old-tme friend
ship. When death came he WAS in the
midst of old acquaintances. and his long
estranged son was at his bedside at the
last moments
What became OF the Stratton money has
not been told. 1t may be already invested
In the Eclipse-fhe sole earthly possession
OK the widow and children today--a life IN
surance for good sum having iapsei oniy
q short time ago.
III. A. w. Tabor viii be remembered for
the next quarter Of century as the man
who, more than any other one, contributed
to the first building OF handsome edifices
In Denver, the man who was always gene
erous to his friends in his years OF pros
perfty. the man who never reptned In adj
versity, the man who thought hts own
portrait d more befitting ornament TO the
opera house that he had built than the
face OF q dead foreigner. although that
foreigner was Shakespeare. the Colorado
man who. according TO Gene Field. once
upon q time wore a lace nightahirt that
was vari0uxly estimated at from $50 70
1900 but more than all as = one-ttme
mining king whose throne crumbied when
kn NJ . fyfc ard tof AL fns, "