The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-14
FORT UN E
PAU.
How a Dream of
Gold Held in Ha-
Waii Ended.
ROMANCE OF
A CONTRACTOR
Poor People in the East Who Will
Vanity Wait for Honolulu
Millions.

/ United States Attorney Baird received
/ by yesterdays mail a letter from the
Assistant Sunday Editor of the Boston
Post, which illustrates we'll how noun
tains may grow out of mole hills. The
letter is in inquiry as to where some
81, 250, 900 is represented in Honolulu,
which sum he understands has been
left TO Eastern heirs by Isaac Newton
Hayden who died here a few months
ago. The letter is accompanied with an
Excerpt from the Sunday Post, where
in, in blazing headlines, the story is
told of an humble contractor, living
unostentatiously in Honolulu, who had
Accumulated the sum of s., 250, 900. only
to die friendless, leaving no known
heirs. But, according to the Post, the
energy and perseverance of that organ
has succeeded in bringing to light six
heirs living in various prts of the East.
The photographs of all of them, to-
gether with one made from an old tin
type of the deceased, taken twenty
years ago, are published. The heirs are
represented as being poor and very
much overjoyed at their prospects.
What their disappointment will be
when they learn that the story of the
magnificent fortune is only a Sunday
than described.
AS a matter of fact when the con-
tractor died here it was reported that
} he left an estate of all the way from
} $4,000 to $1,000 in personal property, but
George r. Carter, who was appointed
special administrator to investigate the
matter, reported that only $40 worth of
personal property and a large number
inf iSfia oh no I'm
the name of the dead man. The report
supposed, by the allegation of a petit
ton filed by Thomas A. Lucas, who
} represents himself as being a creditor
J and bondsman of the deceased, and pc
titioned for letters of administration,
stating that he believed the deceased
had left property to the value of $4,000.
A relative Of Hayden here objected to
the appointment of Lucas as admins
traitor and stated that Hayden had died
possessed of about so 900.
There seems to have been nothing
done in the matter of the petition of
Lucas. but George r. Carter was APP
pointed special administrator with the
result already given, the value of SAC
and a number of outstanding debts be-
ing the total of the deceased contract
or's estate.
The heirs discovered through the per
severance of the Boston Sunday Post
are Mrs. Jemima Obrey, Mrs. Elizabeth
Hayden Powell, James Hayden, Doug
las Hayden, Cyrus Hayden and John
Hayden. In the article a story ot
the contractors life is Historically
told-how he dreamed and was am
, bilious as boy, and how his
dreams lured him away from a quiet
country home: how he learned the car
penter's trade and labored his way
across the continent, growing more sue
cessful with his progress and leaving
I asting monuments in buildings and res
licences which he built, behind him; how
= his dreams lured him on westward af
l. ter he had worked his way to the Pa
cific oceans edge, and how he sailed
for the Hawaiian Islands. where all hi:
dreams came true. He secured privat Il
and Government contracts and began
to roll in riches. Anxious and skillfu
mammas with manageable daugh
tiers sought him and all kinds o
matrimonia snares We're laid for him
but these, according to the Post, he wa:
chary of AID therefore never married
Then" say the article, zone day HI
Q1ed. hlnQ IEEendS assisted at the pier
but the funeral services were held from
an undertaker's rooms in cosmopolitan
Honolulu. No relative was there t
shed tear" etc. etc, etc, ad infinit
UNI. Then the writer of the story pro
ceeds to tell how the National Banl
of the Government" held a "princel!
fortune to the credit Of the dead man:
heirs and how "the SUNDAY Post be
oo,1 n work mn tba oaSa - with the re
suit of finding six heirs to the reputeC
wealth. These heirs will suffer sac
disappointment and perhaps the Bos
ton Sunday Post will be somewha
Icrestfallen when Attorney Baird's repl!
dispels the dreams of great wealth tina
have been inspired by the energetic pei
of some pipe-dreaming Sunday writer
-~&>