The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-07-24
GOOD LUCK OF
F. N. SMITH
Late Manager OF
Moana Hotel
To We'd.
BRIDE AN HERES
OF HIN MILLIONS
Something About the Career of a
Family With Colossal Cali.
fornia Fortune.

An heiress to the Him millions is pre-
pairing to go to Honolulu to marry a
hotel clerk. There is nothing strange
about that for the Hihns with all their
wealth are very simple and unostenta-
tious family. While the founder of the
fortune lives they will probably never
attempt to break into society, for they
are ali kept too busy adding to the cash
in hand to think of social designations.
And that, by the way. was perhaps the
reason why Billy Cope, the ex-hushand
of the lady who is about to remarry,
according to my Santa Cruz correspon-
dent, severed his connection with the
family. Billy Cope married Katie
Him, the eldest of the three daughters
of F. A. Him, many years ago. He was
I then in the hardware business in Santa
! Cruz but being unsuccessful he sold out
pany at a small salary. He drudged
along for some years with no prospect OF
OUTLYING his father-in-law, and so one
day he left for Oregon and later on his
wife sued for and obtained divorce
Mrs. Cope's fiance is F. M Smith, who
was formerly clerk of the St. George
hotel in Santa Cruz, and who is now en-
ployed in a similar capacity in Homo
lulu. The marriage is to take place in
October. Another daughter Tessie, is
married to George Reddy, who was also
a hotel clerk, and the third daughter
Aggie, caused futter in Santa Cruz
social circles about a year ago when,
after being admitted to the bar in this
city, she procured a license to marry
Charles Younger, an attorney of the sea-
side city. The marriage never took place,
however. They explained that they OBJ
tanned the license for lark to surprise
their friends. But there is prospect
of their engagement being announced
some day. That the thrift of old Him,
if not his fortune, has been inherited
by his children is evident from their
close application to business, and from
an incident in connection with Mrs.
Cope's preparations for departure She
owns a residence in Santa Cruz which she
! decided to rent but before doing SO she
gave it thorough cleaning, and she
hired no one to do the work Even the
scrubbing she did herself.
F. A. Him Is q multi-millionaire but he
has never figured prominently IN finan-
cial circles. He owns considerable bust
ness property in this city and when any
of II is in need of repair he sends his
carpenters and plumbers and painters
up from Santa Cruz to do the work. He
owns half the county of Santa Cruz,
but most of his interests are at Capitola
to which he has DETECTED the summer
traffic much to the disgust Of the people
of the once popular seaside town. He
owns all of Capitola including the hotel
and cottages which he built with lumber
from his own lumber mill, and he con-
trolls the few stores that get the patron
age of the summer visitors. Some time
ago the owners of the electric street rail-
road in Santa Cruz contemplated tap
ping Capitola for the summer trade but
they found that they could not reach
that point without a right-of-way from
Him, and that they could not obtain.
Like Jay Gould, Him started in life as
a peddler 1t was In that capacity that
he first visited Santa Cruz about the
year 1850 He opened a store there for
his wife who a milliner, and they
did a lucrative business with the Mexi-
cans and Spaniards. The big tract Of
land which he now owns was formerly
the Castro ranch. The owner of il be-
queathed it to the Catholic church and
Him was engaged by the disinherited
relatives 70 break the will. He made a
contract by which he was to obtain half
the land if the will was broken and he
then hired the lawyers. They won the
case and II I'm secured half the tract
under his contract and the other half
by foreclosing mortgages on it.-Town
Talk