Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-10-17

bought a country place.
Not less bitter than his feelings to-
ward his daughter are the prejudices
of Claus Spreckels against his sons,
Gus and Rudolph. Ten years ago c.
Augustus Spreckels and II. NJ. Woolley
brought suit against Claus. J. ID. and
Adolph b. Spreckels and other direct
ors of the Hawaiian Sugar Company,
charging that defendants were de-
trauding plaintiffs of a large sum OF
money. A sensational trial was ex-
pected, but before the Gaze came into
court a secret agreement of Compro-
mise was entered into. The terms were
carefully withheld from the public.
and would have always no doubt have
remained secret had not Rudolph
Spreckels brought suit a long time
later to prevent the transfer OF stock
given by him as collateral security for
his brother Gus, from the Nevada Bank
to Honolulu, in order that 1t might be
placed in the banks name. Judge
Hebbard granted him an injunction
and Delmas and Shortridge moved to
set 1t aside. Then the agreement be-
came public property. II showed that
the old gentleman had made a COM
plete settlement with his son. Many
stories have been told regarding the
cause of the arrangement of the father
and his sons Gus and Rudolph. But
nothing authentic has ever been
learned, because the members of the
family never discuss their affairs. It
has been said that the wives of the
sons were in measure responsible,
but probably the correct version is that
IL arose through a disagreement over
financial matters. II is related that
the sons once refused TO return to their
father large sum of money he had
given them, when he needed II TO fight
the sugar trust. And II is said that he
was never very bitter against them I'M
til their attorneys questioned his hon
esty in one of the suits in which they
were involved.
As consequence of the alienation
of affections in the Spreckels family
tho palatial home of the parents in
Van Ness avenue is very lonesome
place. II is large family, three Of
the sons and one daughter being mar
ried, and several grandchildren having
come into the world, but only small
section OF 1t has the entree to the big
brownstoDe house in Van Ness avenue
j. ID. SpreCkels and his brother Adolph
have retained the confidence and love
of their parents, and their business in
terests are entwined with his, but there
is no cordially between them and their
brothers or the families of any Of
them, though | believe the cousins,
who are granddaughters OF Claus
Spreckels, have recently bowed polite
ly at social functions. Who can pre-
dict small fraction Of the COmplica-
tons destined to ensue when the estate
of Claus Spreckels is ripe for admin
istration in the probate court?
BY the way, hear that Mr.. and Mrs.
Rudolph SpreCkels, whom many people
consider the handsomest couple in San
Francisco, contemplate entertaining on
a lavish scale next season at their
country place, which Is one of the most
beautiful in California. Among the
VI thS plh'S HON DtlUB pre-
pared are a race-track and a polo field
They expect TO have many OF the sum.
mer sports at their home, and II SO,
they will be very much sought after
hear that the j. d. Spreckels's old
home at Howard and Twenty-frst
streets is for sale. AS 1t is an enor-
nous house on corner lot two hun
dred and forty-fve by one hundred
and twenty-seven feet, with a big gar
den and stable, it's hard to say when 1t
will find purchaser. 1t would take a
millionaire to keep 1t up. and million
aires aren't moving to the Mission
nowadays. Probably 1t may be con-
verted into family boarding house,
or torn down, and flats erected in its
stead.