Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1909-05-10
"JAN" CHESLEY
is DEAD

best known Of the Old timers OF Car
son City, died Saturday evening in
san Francisco. He was 81 years old.
Jim Chesley is remembered in this
State for the many Iovable qualities
he possessed. He was one OF the
keenest Of spOrtsmen and lived a
keen life, enjoying the good things OF
earth and doing by his fellow men
tnat he would they should do unto
him.
Chesiey was a native of New
Hampshire and he rejoiced in and en-
JOyed Il fine mind and vigorous body.
! He was one OF the best auditors on
the Pacific Coast and Tor years mas
been the cashier Of the San Francisco
Chronicle Company.
/ Many Il time has Jim Chcsley tided
over a needy reporter. In the middle
, OF the week, any time during the
/ hours he was in office, and these
! hours We're long, he was always will
/ ling to advance a little on the cur
rent weeks salary and he never
| questioned an expense account. All
that was needed was the department
ncads 5 name to the billet and Jim pass
eu out the money. He has undoupt-
edly lost many hundreds OF dollars
through dead beats on the Chronicle
| who stood him up Tor an advance
when they did not have it coming.
He was member OF several clubs
in San Francisco and to the last few
weeks OF nis life he hunted and fished
with the same old Zest. Always OF
a iOvable and kind nature any Nevada
/ man knew he could 90 into the Chron-
.v!r office, Yell at HIM and cause him
/ TO drop his business at a moments
notice and devote himself to the en-
/ tcrlainmrnt of his friend, generally
some old-timer he knew here in early
j days,
| The "ChrouicIe Says:
lie was first attracted 20 the west
! by the mining developments in Ne
yada and while his education did not
lit him tor mining work, he remain
ed in Nevada for some time, first "a
file clerk in the legislature, and after
wards u private secretary TO the Gov
crnOr.
Coming later TO Sacramento he
became the accountant for the firm
OF Chcslcy q Co., making many
friends in that city, and coming to
san Francisco in lhe late 1OS. He
vas first engaged as cashier for Fry,
Mel 4 CO. This was the heyday of
the mining excitement, and it de-
VOWED upon his as cashier of the
firm to handle large sums OF money.
1t was in 1852 that Ches!ey first be-
came associated with the Chronicle,
and he remained with this paper
through a period OF twenty-seven
years, occupying a position OF great
responsibility as cashier and treasur-
e.
He remained at his post up to al
most tne day OF his death.
His integrity and faithfulness
marked him as a man in whom con,
tidence was never misplaced. AS
honest as Jim ChcSley' will Ions re-
main phrase and Il standard that
means much to those who had been
associated with i'm for the last TWEEN
ty-seven years of his continuous
service.
But those who knew Ch"sicy only
as the man behind the desk failed to
SNOW the Sweetness of his charactcr
iluuting was a sport thai was dear to
his heart and an open avenue to bet
Ter acquaintance to hose who have
listened to his narratives Oh the ear
lier times when he had shot for the
market in the country between Fort
Bragg and the Eel River He was 4
sportsman in the truest sense OF the
/ word. He loved a good morse ana
even in the latter years of his lille he
renamed one OF the pest SnOlS III lne
State His love OF nature was sin
cere and unaffected, and there are
many who remember delightful dis
cussiOns of vacation plans with jim
Chesley, ending perhaps with the of
fer OF the loan OF his shotgun.
For some time ne had suffered from
| rheumatism. contracted in the year:
when he had lived in the open an'
! spent many nights lying IN wait 70
4 game. Yet he never allowed his sui
4 fering to keep him from his work
and those who saw him most neve
thought of aim as a sick man. H.
: did not complain. His position
4 brought him into contact with man