The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-03-06

I through Win QlSll4cIlOQ. OcndNeQ per
fectly, and added lot to the moral
/ tone Of the towns they visited under
the truly-goOd mask They were aided
! in this kind of harmless deception by
the lack of telegraphs in southern Cali
fornia at that perfcd. and they didn't
return to San Francisco by the same
road they took on the outward bound
tour.
Upon their return to San Francisco
Pardee and his queer outfit rested up
for about a week. and all hands fresh
ened themselves up for the new whizz
the young spendthrift had on hand. He
chartered one of the Pacific Mail
steamers, Temporarily out of use, had
her gorgeously fitted out for yacht
ing cruise and started with his bunch
for a loaf of southern waters.
san Francisco's finest string orches-
| ira went along with them. and there
was virtually flunky for each passen-
ger. One of the men who went on this
cruise, who afterward settled down to
conventional citizenship, told me of the
roaring time that all hands had on this
trip They went as far south as Cal
lao, Peru, and took in all of the MeXi
can, Central and South American ports
on the way. In some of the ports they
dismayed the American residents and
the representatives of the United States
government by their riotousness. Par
dee and the men had innumerabl
scraps ashore with the natives.
When they reached Valparaiso the
gang decided to adopt the truiy-good
tack, and they all marched in solemn
procession to the cathedral. Pardee
lent his orchestra to the cathedral choir
for the rendering of the music of the
mass, and all'of the swell people of the
town who were present were impressed
by the piety of the distinguished Grin
goes Before they left Valparaiso Par
dee gave the archbishop $4,000. 10 be
expended for the poor of the archepis-
copal diocese. They went to Callao
from Valparaiso, and in Callao they
were on the tUmuituous tack, so that
there must have been some puzzled
west coast South Americans when
notes were compared. From Cdilao the
ship struck across the Pacific to Homo
lulu, which wasn't any tepid town it
self in those days. And they made
things rock all over the Hawaiian is
lands for two months. Then the death
IN runaway accident of one of the
men in the party threw a gloom over
the outfit. and the steamer returned to
San Francisco. after having been out
for more than six months.
"Pardee suddenly disappeared on the
day he reached San Francisco. and the
next 1 heard of him was that he was
betting 10000 at a clip on the horses
in England lost track of him alto
gether then for more than year.
Il was sitting in my San Francisco
office one day when a dapper young fell
low. with a full black beard, walked in.
IT was Burt Pardee-
Hello there, cub ! said to him.
When did you get back?'
Ship got in last night was his
the cape on a collier from Liverpool
Broker
Nope. Got 50 left and he jingIed
the silver in his trousers pocket, grim
ming. How about that job of mine?'
It's up there still I said, but I
inta of
Francisco warehouse. He hadn't been
at work more than three months, hap
by as a clam at high tide. and never
letting out the first squeak over the
blowing in of his fine roll, when his
mother and sisters whiSked in one day
from Philadelphia. They carried him
back east with them, and that was the
last that California ever saw 81 him to
my knowledge, although he wrote to
me for ten years or so. Burt was a
warm boy and good thing with his
money, at that, but he wasn't any
whimperer"
His turn having arrived the Texas
man said:
There was a boy down my way who
wasn't any wilmer, either. after he
went through his million. That was
jerome Cation, whose father joel Ca
ton, owned one of the biggest cattle
ranches in the Panhandle. When the
old man died he left the boy, who was
MS only progeny, l1e WnOle lnlnS. Inc
kid was only 20 years old at the time
this was in '7S-and his health wasn't
very good. Some people put it into his
head that his lungs were affected. He
went to New Orleans specialist to
find out about this. The specialist ex-
amined Jerome. and pronounced him
goner
81 How long have got to live?' asked
Jerome.
Well. you may last as long, as three
years, if you take care of yourself
said the doctor, but you'll certainly
cash in by that time, any way you fix
it
win. hey?' said Jerome. Wen,
then, I'm a-gOing to have three pretty
warm years, you hear me a-talking"
'Whereupon Jerome went at it.
He spent the first one-tihrd of his
million in cash exactly within the first
year. most of il in Paris. AT the end
of that first year he felt pretty well,
too He had brOadened out and gained
flesh and Sinew- The second year he
without seeming to knock his health
SOS he could notice it; but this fact
didn't hold him in.
I'm feeling all right just now ne
said, but that doesn't change the dice
any That lung sharp probably knew
his business. and I reckon this coming
year'H sure wind me up
Then he started on a trip around the
world with half a dozen companions,
whose expenses he paid. At the end of
the year he was back i'm Houston,
stronger than bull moose. and health
Ter than a Shecp-fed wolf. with just $50
in cash and a remarkably complete
wardrobe.
80 Never heard Of such a sell as this
said young Cation, cheerfully. in de-
scribing the thing to the superintend-
ent of the Gulf < Colorado railroad, 10
whom he applied for a job as station
agent on the line
He got the job, worked at it for
nearly six years, and then all OF sud /
den he collapsed and died of quick con-
sumption for a fact"
''Talking of consumption said the |
man from Idaho, ''do-er-we-um-
And they went below.