The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-20
FAIR SISTERS LOSE HEAVILY,
MRS. TANDERBILT MORE, PROF.
ABLY, THAN MRS. OELRgCHS,
Phelan, Crocker and Spreckels Estates Have
Large INTESTINE In San Francisco
Reaity-Bonds OF Spring Valley Water
Company Were a FavOrlte Security.

Large Inyestm ents In San Francisco
Reaity-Bonds' Of Spring Valley Water
Company We're a FavOrlte Security.
Among the heavy losers by the San
Francisco disaster are Mrs. Herman DEL
richs and her sister, Mrs. William x. Van
derbilt, DR., who are the daughters OF the
late United States Senator Fair Of Cali
fornia.. The bulk of his large estate, which
he left to his children, was in a Fran
cisco real estate. The land is still there,
but the buildings are mostly gone.
Mrs. Oelrichs told a Sun reporter yester-
day that. her own personal loss would no
exceed So 5000. even II the insurance on
the destroyed property was not paid.
The only holding g l had in real state
in the burning city said she, we re the
Rialto and Crosby buildings in Marke t
street. They were modern freproof struc-
lures and they were worth about the sum
I have named. | got them in exchange
for the Paramount Hotel, which l built on
Mob Hill. Formerly I owned ten or a
dozen hotels in San Francisco, including
the Paramount and the Lick House: but
l sold or otherwise disposed of them be-
cause l did not care to remain in the hotel
business" ..... .
Mrs. Oelricbs was greatly amused at an
interview in which she was quoted as saying
that her loss was tremendous and that
there was little doubt that the larger part
of her fortune had been swept away. She
was also described as being in a state of
"feverish anxiety
Il am certainly anxious, she said, 'as
l suppose everybody is who has lived in
San Francisco or who has friends or rela-
lives there. but / am far from being over
come. as this. article says. The two build
ings that l owned there were fully insured,
and | DO not believ " that my actual losses
will he very heavy. 1t is tr,ie that I de-
clined to subscribe to the Hearst fund,
but that was not because ! felt that l had
been IMPOVERISHED by the disa ster or that
not afford to do anything for the
sufferers. 1t was simply because | had
;maele plans. to contribute in a different
manner"
Mrs. Oelrichs has obtained through
Harry $. Black the services of the Hippo
drome company without charge for Satur-
day afternoon and evening, when both of
the regular performances will be given for
the San Fra ncisco sufferers. Up to six
last evening Mrs, Oeirichs had sold
twenty-seven boxes. The price fixed is
$25 but she said that a number Of the pur-
chasers had paid her 500 each. The patron
esses selected for the Hippodrome enter
tainment are Mrs. Charles p. Alexander,
Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer, Mrs. W. X. Wander
bilt, Jr., Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Mrs,
George Gould, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney,
Mrs. James Speyer, Mrs. Ogden Mills, Mrs.
.Stuyvesant Fish, Mrs. James W. Gerard,
Mrs. Charles Childs, Mrs. Stanford White
and Mrs. Harry Lehr.
Although she no longer owns the Fair
mount Hotel Mrs. Oelriches ia deeply in
in the fate of the structure. The
hotel was one of her hobbies and it was
under her personal supervision.
She said that Judging from its location and
he materials of which IL was constructed
she could not conceive how it could he de-
There is nothing in it that would burn
under ordinary circum stances" she said.
1t was Absolutely fireproof from cellar
to roof" .. =
Mrs. W. X. Vanderbilt, Jr., left the Hotel
st. Regis for her country home on Long
Island yesterday morning. IT is said that
her holdings-of real estate in San Francisco +
were greater than her sisters. from the
fact that she had not sold any of the prop
erty left to her by her father. Among
hem were 200 houses in the Mission district,
we're destroyed.
Some Of the heaviest investments in San
Fran cisco real estate are estimated as fol-
ows:
The James u. Phelan estate, SIS, QOQ,COO
he William H.. Crocker estate, $12, 900 900;
NJ. n. De Young, s., 900 600; tho Spreckels
SIS 5000, 900; Mrs. Hermann Oelriohs,
-, 900, 900; Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, DR.,
a, 900, 900: the Hearst estate. 50, 900, 900;
D. o. Mills, $4,000, 900; the Sloss estate,
900 600; DR.. Herbert Law and brother,
IS, OOO, OG0; the Sharon estate, 81, 000, 900;
he Lloyd Tevis estate, $4,000, 900; Mrs.
eleanor Martin, 81 800, 600; the Flood estate,
u, 900. 900; the Lunning estate, $4,000, 900;
Cunningham, Curtis Il Welsh, 5000, 900,
nd the A. P. Hotaling estate, S. 100000.
Many of the wealthy citizens and big
Institutions of the city were heavily
Interested in the bonds Of the Spring Valley
Water Company, which supplies San Fran
,isco with water. If it is true, as reported.
the reservoirs and mains were badly
damaged the loss. will be heavy. Some
hing like $40, 600, 200 of the bonds are said
o be held by the financial institutions
lone.
.SJO0. OOO FOR UNIVERSITY,