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

simply inherited. display the yellow
that's in them when they reach the end
of the coil, and make all of their
friends weary with their contriteness-
The only man / ever met who in
herited his money, spent it like sailor
and was dead game after he went broke
was Burt Pardee a young fellow well
remembered by many now grizzled Cal
ifornianS who. were young-infernally
young-with him back in the seventies.
Pardee was young chap of the in
corrig1ble scapegrace sort He belonged
to a swell eastern family. and had got
his education partly at OXFORD ana
partly at Heidelberg-I say partly, Cor
| the boy was fired from both Institutions
| of learning for deviltry OF an unma-
ltcious, though disqualifying, character.
His father was q millionaire, but he cut
his scapegrace son off without dollar
when he died.
Young Burt Pardee struck Califor-
mia in 1872, and when he turned up at a
grape ranch / owned in Napa county
the manager gave him job as tame
keeper. He was a bright whelp. fine
looking and accomplished, and if an
aunt of his hadn't died in Philadelphia
about six months after he went to work
for living in this vineyard of mine.
the boy would have been better off. The
aunt left him 81, 00O, 900 in United States
government bonds.
His sisters got all of the old lady's
real estate and personal property, so
that young Pardee didn't even have to
return to the east to get hold of his in
heritance. lawyer came out to the
coast, and the first thing the timekeeper
on my wine ranch knew anything about
his luck, this lawyer plunked into his
hands a certificate of deposit fer an
even $2,000,000 in the bonds of the most
solvent country on the map.
7 happened to be at the ranch at the
I % vat F1nT. fnr
for knew that he'd go to the devil at
a lope- When he had finished his first
talk with his lawyer he strolled over
to my Office and said to me:
Cap, this is a pretty good job I've
got here among your vines. l hate to
give it up. But this dough they've left
me has made me a bit too hefty TO work
just for the present, and L wish you d
give me a vacation for year or so,
with the understanding that l can have
the job back when I need it,
"Of course, 1 assented to his boyish
proposition I didn't make any attempt
to talk TO the young fellow about pru-
dence and carefulness and all that sort
of thing, for l was only about fifteen
years older than he was, had had a
pretty fair sort of a fling myself when I
was his age, and knew perfectly well
that an Independent youngster with a
mammoth bank roll suddenly tossed at
him is going to let out what's in him
well. the streak that this Pardee
boy made in the atmosphere when he
quit my grape ranch was a caution u
locustS. | knew that he was due to
engage in some tall sprinting when he
got hold of that money but he beat all
of my calculations without half try
ing.
First he went to a San Francisco
trainer OF pugilists and took a three
months course of sprouts to get himself
back to the rugged physical shape he
had been in at college. At the end of
three months, trim. hard and fit as
fiddle, he dawned upon San Francisco,
the population of which at that time
included a great many bright, compan-
ionable, and wholly and frankly disrep-
utable people, men and women, most of
them from the Atlantic seaboard.
This crowd sure had a noble thing
of it I'm young Pardee when he fell
among them; not that the youngster
was by any means a fool, but simply
because he liked them and was willing
to show his liking for them. 1t took
about a week to provide his entoura ge
with ornamental gear wherewith to be-
deck themselves. thus implanting JOY in
the bosomS of the SWEETEST tailOrS. mo-
disteS, hooters, jewelers. and haber-
dashers in San Francisco.
When they were all rugged out TO
his satisfaction, about 100 of them, Par
dee chartered a southern California
stage line and took the bunch over the
southern section of the state for about
a month. The commissariat consisted !
Of about a dozen coaches, filled chiefly |
with the damp stuff of the hising kind, !
and one of the best of San Francisco's |
brass bands was at the head of the |
stage-coach procession.
The sensation this nOmadic gang of |
jewellers created throughout the coast
country is still we'll remembered by
folks who were grown up out there at
the time. They had different ways of
conducting themselves along the line of |
the trip. In hiking through one town. /
for example, all hands would dangle |
their legs out of the coach windows !
bawl carnival songs. pave the streets /
with emptied bottles and whoop like a |
parcel of Modocs.
The very next town, perhaps only a |
dozen miles away, would get an entire |
~ different sort OF deaf. Banners bear
ing the legend. San Francisco Sunday /
School Teachers association would be |
strung out at the sides of all the |
coaches. and the mob. with their hands /
sedately clasped in their laps. sitting /
upright. and all apparently engaged in |
profound theological discourse. would 1
enter the town precincts with the de- I
mureness of a crowd of Quakers on an |
excursion. On several occasions. when |
they put UP this deal i'm far southern /
California towns. the religious element I
invited the layout to churches and a /
there was not a man or woman in the |
crowd who had not been we'll educated |
and had not received at least a start on (