Evening star., 1934-12-30
CHAPTER XXXV,
BY FRANK G.. CARPENTER.

CHAPIEh AAXV.
BY FRANK G. CARPENTER.
OST of the senatorial babies
M of this year, 1885, have been
wv born with silver spoons in
4 4 their mouths. One, however
is so enormously wealthy
that his spoon must have been re-
fined gold, and big as he is, almost
worth his weight in diamonds. Leland
Stanford of California; There he
sits at the very tail end of the Re-
publican back row, that big, fat
shouldered man with a neck almost
as thick as Cleveland'S and a beard
as sandy as that Of Brigham Young's.
That man is said to be worth s75,-
O0O, 900 and he sits there reading a
newspaper through a pair of rubber
trimmed spectacles, dressed in plain
black broadcloth but little better than
the Sunday clothes of the day labor
ers all over this United States. The
small black necktie did not cost over
o0 cents, and his whole outfit" as
they say in the State from which he
comes, would not bring $40 if sold
to secondhand clothing man.
Seventy-f1ve million dollars! It Is
impossible to conceive of such a sum.
Invested at per cent. and in Cali
fornia that is very small percentage
indeed, 1t would bring in $4,000. 900 a
year, more than S86 900 a week. more
than $4,000 day and more than
$500 an hour. This California Sena-
on HI =
still have money to spare, and the
best OF 1t all is he has made all of
his money himself.
Born near Albany. N. Y, about 60
years ago poor farmers boy, Leland
Stanford worked in the Summer and
studied in the Winter; at 25 years of
age he had finished his law and been
ADMITTED to the bar. He then moved
to Wisconsin to practice. and had not
nre burned out his Office he might
De there yet. This fire led him to 90
to California, where he arrived when
the gold fever was at its height. He
settled at Sacramento and went into
business. He made money rapidly, got
into politics and at about the BEGIN
ming OF the late war was elected Gov
ernor Of California. Leland Stanford
tnen organized the Central Pacific
Railroad, being the chief force in
pushing it to its completion. Since
ne has made money right along and
ms great wealth is invested in all
Kinds OF paying enterprises. He has
ranches. vineyards, railroads. mines
and other wealth rivaling the widest
conception Of Disraeli's in his
"Lothar," or Dumas in his Monte
Cristo." He is the Croesus of the
Senate, and is, with perhaps the ex-
cept1on of Vanderbilt and Jay Gould,
the wealthiest man in America.
All his wealth. however, will not
keep sorrow away. Within a short
time ne has lost his only son, a bow
OF is, and though Parson Newman
was paid, it is said, $4,000 to pro-
nounce his funeral sermon, words
were not rich enough to cure. STAN
ford's grief. Since this Senator STAN
lord has endowed a college at Palo
Alto with $4,000, 900 in honor of his
son, and has made will leaving his
immense fortune to the State.
Senator Stanford is a Spiritualist
and he has given, it is said. a great
ceal OF money to the mediums since
his sons death. He is noted for his
generosity. and is said to be a pleas
ant fellow in quiet way. He does
not love society. but, like Vanderbilt,
he is fond of good horses. and on his
great breeding farm at Palo Alto
he keeps about 1000 fine steeds. On
this farm $50 hands are employed and
the overseer gets salary of $4,000
a year.
New officials.
Cleveland is choosing the aristocrats
of his party as his officers. the ordi-
nary Democracy is getting nothing.
Bayard, his Secretary of State, never
sits down to dinner in anything else
than a swallow-tail coat and a white
necktie. His family has the bluest
of blue blood in their veins and
doubt not the English book of her
aldry has place on their parlor
table. Lamar. his Secretary of the
Interior, has also distinguished an
cestry, his fathers and forefathers
holders. Secretary of War Endicott
boasts Of his pedigree as going back
to the eminently respectable Governor
of Colonial Massachusetts,, who burnt
the witches, and even Postmaster
Villas, from the wilds of Wisconsin,
has a grandfather to whom he can
point with pride.
In his selection for foreign Min
listers the same rule has been carried
out. Men have been chosen who have
family genealogical trees, and in most
cases men whose ancestors have been
noted in our country's history. Phelps
OF Vermont, who is to be Minister to
Great Britain, has ancestors, one of
whom was eXiled from England for
acting as clerk of the court which
sentenced Charles I to be executed.
Phelps himself Is known in Vermont
as the aristocrat of his party in that
State, and this charge was made
against him on the stump during his
candidacy for Governor some years
ago.
Then there is Pendleton, "Gentle-
man George" the aristocrat of aristo-
Gratis. The man whose body is made
up of terrapin and champagne, whose
grandfather was Hamilton's second in
his duel with Burr and who was a
most intimate friend of George Wash
ington. The man whose grandfather
was a Federalist with the most aris-
tocratic tendencies and whose fathers
father. following in his own fathers
footsteps, was Whig member of Con-
gress away back in the days of Clay
and Webster. Pendleton went back
on his ancestral training in his youth
and joined the Democratic party. The
leopard cannot, however, chance his
spots, and George Pendleton is so
much of Republican in feeling and
actions that his party in Ohio have
repudiated him.
George H. Pendleton is now about
go years old, and his health is perfect.
He was one of the f1nest-looking men
in the Senate. He stands as straight
as Lake Superior oak, his large head
well thrown back, his chest well to
the front, and his paunch rising in a
billowy swell under his closely but
toned black diagonal coat. A line might
be dropped down his back from the