Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1886 — RICH CALIFORNIAS. [ARTICLE]

RICH CALIFORNIAS.

ome oi the Late Senator Sharon's I’eanUar* Mackay'.-* Wealth. An old Californian gave ma some ior 1 eresting gossip concerning the rich lenofthat State. He said that Sharon, 'hen he died, left a property in the eighliorhood of twenty millions. He bys that- the current impression upon ae Pacific coast is that the marriage etweeh Sharon and Sarah AltL- 'a, Hill 'as a genuine one, and that she will ecover her widow’s interest in the state. Sharon was never popular in lan Francisco. He so openly defied he laws of society that he was received i but few houses. Sir Thomas Heskit, too married his daughter, was a rough Inglishntan who came to San Francisco o limit for a fortune. He used to heave in the rudest manner to toe peole there, as if he did not regard them s civilized. He once attended a fullress dinner party at a leading San Franisco gentleman’s house in the rough ress of a mining-camp, with his trousrs tucked in his hoots. He was, on ccount of his numerous eccentricities, jopped by San Francisco society. \Tien Sharon’s daughter married this cceutrie Englishman her father was teliglited. He found out from Sir Thomas, his son-in-law, what was the iverv of his family servants at home, le had all of his servants at the Sharon' ountry place don this Hoskitli livery. The majority of the servants struck, ,nd refused to put it on, and were •romptlv discharged. Sharon was ery similar in character to a prominent itizen there who is ' known ah Lucky Baldwin. 1 Baldwin is now worth several nillions, and has done everything that le can to acquire social recognition. A lit his variegated assortment of wives las been too much for the Sun Fremise o people, and in spite of his- money le is never seen in society. His is livug now with his third or fourth wife, he others having been lost either by livorce or death. He has built a heater, a hotel, and has gone into a lumber of enterprises simply to attract niblic attention. His latest project is o go to New York and build a theatei here.

New York is regarded as toe Mecca if the California money-makers. They ire fond of California until their money s made, and then they thirst to go to 'sew York for new- victories. C. P-. Huntngton, Mackay, Keene, D. O. Mills, ire some of the leading men who have .ransplanted their homes • from the Pacific coast to New York. The shrewd :apitalists of tlie Pacific, coast believe hat Mr. Mackay would have done letter if be bad remained in*San Fran•isco. Senator Fair, bis old partner, prophesies that Mackay will lose* his iortuno if he does not keep out of East3rn speculative fields. It is understood hat Mr. Mackay had $20,000,000 when le left tlie Pacific coast, pe has abonl leven millions tied up iii his cable •>e-herne, and a million or more in Mexilan railroads. It is estimated' that he las eight or ten millions left clear oienlanglements, but that he will lose these millions if he persists in hacking up hit lelegrapli and railroad schemes. — T. C. Crawford, in New York World.