The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-08-22

him TO be more cautious abou+ +-,,-.
ing politicians. 09l-
1t was the great sorrow of Mr. HIM
lngton's life that he never had cb;I
dren- He adopted tWO-Clara FIizahat
Prentice, the daughter of a '4q-er Nh
Kept a grocery al Sacramento when ~
and the late Senator Stanford vyers -
the dry goods business at the So
place When the girl was left an M
phan IN 1862 Mrs. Huntington rool-
charge of her, and formal adopfio-1
papers were afterward made out. She i
now the Princess HatZfeldt. hayfnq
been married in 1889 10 the heir of or,
Of the oldest and proudest hoUses -
Germany. This was another great. dis
appointment. Mr.. Huntington wanted
his adopted daughter TO marry Soma
enterpriSlng American of his own kind
but she was infatuated with the titfa
OF princess and the prince was wiIlir,-
TO confer il upon a handsome Ar,.rf,
can girl provided her father would nav
his debts and remove the heavy mort
cages that incumbered his estates
Mr. Huntington was generous. bur
exacting. He paid the princes debts
TO the last dollar and invested a sum
of money for the benefit Of his daugh-
n
come, but was beyond the reach of Ter
husband Several times he has been
appealed to for financial assistance and
has responded literally, but il is sun
posed that in his viii he has left q
legacy with such conditions that il will
be forfeited if the prince Overdraws his
account
An adopted son. Arthur ". Hunting
ton; a nephew, H. Z. Huntington. and
Mr.. Swearin, a pTOtege, viii doubtless
come in for a large part of the estate.
Mr.. Swearin is a graduate Of the naval
academy and resigned from the navy
some years ago 10 take charge of Mr..
HuntingtOn's shipping interests at San
Francisco. In addition to acting as
general manager of the Pacific Mail
company, Mr.. Swearin is the purchas-
ing agent of the Southern Pacific rail-
way system, vice president and treas
urer of several allied corporations. and
has been regarded as the confidential
representative of Mr. Huntington in all
his California interests.
H. E. Huntington occupied a similar
relation in connection with Mr.. Hunt
ington's interests in Texas and appears
as the vice president of several of his
corporations. Archer Huntington has
ing yards at Newport News, for which
an English syndicate has been negO-
tiating for several months, but has
been unwilling to pay Mr.. Huntington's
price The last time I saw him I asked
if the Englishmen were going to buy
his ship yards.
Il wish you would find out" he re-
piled. for I can't. They came over
with engineers and experts and made
an inventory of everything, including
all the old nail kegs and wheelbarrows.
and counted the keys in the doors and
made a note of where the glass was
broken in one of the foundry windows
Then they asked what 1 would take
for the place. 1 told them They went
off and 1 have not seen anything Of
them since If you see them before I
do | wish you would tell them / am
waiting for an answer TO my PROPOSE
ton"
1t is generally understood that Mr.
Huntington asked S6000.000 for his
Newport News interests and that the
Englishmen offered $1,OOO,0OO less
Mr.. Huntington was fond of old
fashioned poetry, and used to read
johnson, SOuthey, Keats, Goldsmith,
COwper, Kirk White, COleridge and
OLNEE EsHSllSA h4ANGtS VI tA-e Ael-ft
fury with a great deal Of pleasure
Crabbe was his favOrite- He kept a
volume of Crabbes poems in his Office
desk. He believed that Lord Bacon
wrote the Shakespeare plays, having
reached that conclusion, as he used 10
say. as a purely business proposition
There is no evidence, he said, that
Shakespeare could even write There
is not a line of his manuscript IN eX-
istence. and only one or two question
able autographs. The vOluminQus
writings attributed to him could not
have been so completely destroyed eX-
cept by intention, and they were too
we'll known and valuable 10 admit OF
such a thing. Mr.. Huntington had
theory that Shakespeare, being sort
of stage manager. put what is called
the stage business into Bacon com
positions. and that Bacon, desiring 70
conceal his authorship, allowed them
to be produced under Shakespeare S