The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 2, 1900, Page 11

THE SUNDAY CALL. 11 When the Late Collis P. Huntington Came as a Steerage Passenger to California =~ OLLIS P. HUNTINGTON cam sas passe or going. His was biding its time. Once he sent §190, tco. He wrote that steamers on that route. Mr. Raimond’s there were some of the Humboldters who office in 18 Washi was on p H He ¢ ( o i couldn’t afford the banquet's price, and Opposite i lory of the Ol¢ umbolalt RO e e B ; 5 zht. He hac p o ‘y 0 e }) a -9 10 His place is added to the empty on v w n year. ARAH COMS He thought it was | . ¢ - Ly e L Rt rrwed at Qan Jranctsco Concarning a Faw Others e e can ton has been the prime &ho Came on the where e e« v iy clors 1 ?Yf Humboldt, w h : has net ¢ & 5 mad of these bulld- er was flna > R. Taylor w N rt ™ - was told there]was v s S a lot of iron doors S . . and window s R ‘ ters for sale In Sh; ta. He = g there by st s Yr B. Perkins was in 1305 and died HUMBOLDT ' PASSENGERS. =R B W. Light A\ Shaw, Huntington nian who t ho - Trmirwoflk. LIAE 5] se ‘was the biggest Odd The Co- o ¥ 3 inquired i3 acts of b 5 ; s s e and . the cnal erudition st he t 102 © © On. thé 20th ‘of -August Togked-up the cantain™of a schodner bound | store that gréw :frigh the tept that Hunt- Shasia man gave him. the figures. simplicity up wit L 1ys la were oV but. new ones: 2 for Ederaimente, ‘ar e offéred T heip ington’ built Lltiywnose make dre they? ed the Co- m He and eve sre” -next Huinboldt salled through the ( load : het,~. The captafn -pald biny $1°per. Thi fiem' was. that of °Huntington: & a madn of ‘mules. _goor to starvation ‘hefore the Hutmboldt 1 on' the mnrring of Septembir.1-H tibur for’ his work.. The whale pay Hopkins-and. it .waxed. fich ~-and -Erew Stiredge of ‘San Fra " replied £ mules has £rOWN yoached San Francisco. The bill of far ton found himself standing.an the wioanted:ta more ihan the price: of: pass: " qpaes - is Gi¥ne amié’ to - be. multh T 1 < for well as steerageé, was' Ie of Washington:® and- : Manigbmery age,’ sb. Huntington redched -- the ~miries ‘mifHonalves, ‘Géod enoligh for me.” said the other. nt reets; where the boat had landed richcr fhan e had started for them. - . .. The time: never dame whap Hugtinglon “There's:ma carthly need of my nig up E ten W He may have: been & UULE bit. hormestck: “Tiis mintng was_terhaps the-only onie of | f6rget R frisnds of (e HuMboldt: He pri 1o Shasta. to Jagk at ‘em. Here's a hun- ~ re Ll He may have doubted the futiiré ' little. 1ijs enterpfises: that: failed :utterly. - But ' ganized a.soviety ealled -the ‘Humb< .iers, tllr"'l for :"};H Onhafl'"!m‘ and I'll pay you' . - Richard Kirby located at Santa Cruz 3 ef soup, téd hit, he:wasted ttle time at:it, - In ‘four days iy G - hiv llie rest when they arrive on the boat.” 1 n 1854 here he embarke he 1 “offe 3 J s le time’ + yS ani- he.irrangéd that they should meet Y. 3 ate in 1 wher mbarked in the esse Wednesday—Coffee, rice. tea At any fale; somebody 'asked: him how helsaw:that mining: for.Him faeant fallure 4t o banatiet sach 3k 0f AlGUSt - and B T e Jending. 290 tanuscy buyliest. of -Which-hu waw 2 ot f , ' . tea much_he ‘would take for his chances’in and he gave it up.”'Hg refurned to.trad" ‘brusfi:away cobwebs:3¢ forgetfuiness and. Sqt aboard of the Dover. on her return thorgheh Wuster. e, SEerCRel A1 o —— ‘ n .m-‘:‘»H ; DO o California. He answered, ™I wilt sell out. ing. feast. ipan bean soup. . Year by year the 5 nd found that of the Santa R..E. Raimond was a npative of New: Nic property day and bean soup 1P @ minute for, $10,000. Bavk. toBacramento. and. up .went -a " riumber at_the. hanuuet : dwindled. Aty "0 4 Gied here on the 1Tth of Sepe.. Cruz-Mov y hard ns to be superior to all othe : : ' staying he: became thé owner of $30,- tént. Collis: P. Huntington.opened a ‘store - ‘Huntingtoi's ‘probosal. Dlaces were 1ald - yomber. 18%. Mr. Raimond was ensamed § e of (00 Bhy (RIS, the firm of Kirby. v & Jong day, - 000 £ in‘it.. He'slept in-the ient. and when his ‘for those who: were. dead. 7 in_the Shipping business betseen here and - Srate, but now there are several large k o died worth The first move he ‘made. upon arriving employes _arrived - ‘éach .morning ‘they They : were & bit ‘gPastly, thosé empty. Mhuzatlan and the other gulf ports: - The notably -those at_Ste 2 : Kkton. ] here was to. the' mines, . Everyhody-eise . found their: empjoyer: at - work héfore ‘plac All the nough money . to ; They: grew . pumbe Pacific M ca a time to those sime Stockton tanneri Foe chough money 10 ¥gime of his fellow passengers did- not “was going theré,'teo.. Tt ‘was a matter ot "‘them. | ..’ : RS dther plapes- were fewer, and | B ot tlma 10 eall - e 't et (o' the Santa Crua Mouse o o live through that dict. It would have course—the accepted destinatien: This was'the tent that Hurtington built, © only .fonr mien sat down' together. . Hunt- Mr, Raimond did a fairly good business ‘4 £or their oy Wes e Sa pon Humboloe B & been bad enoush at best, and It was not . ‘Sacramento was to.be Teached, anil He ' This. was the. store that grew fram’thé “igton: could mot be bresent fo fake the up fo . the. outbreak of .the -Civil -War, ‘tosrapns have been reproduced 18 the ger at best. 1 the worst of its dfd not intend tp use his hard-earhed and ° tent that.Huntington -built. £ - fifth. But he sént.them a word of good i when Captain Benjamin ‘M. Hartshorne - property of James L. King. i W passengers’ money was gone kind. The water was viclous, hard-saved money. to get-there. Instead he” This Was the firm that grew. from the YHeer across the"continent. ' and John Bermingham put a ‘life of ZHOMAS B. MERRY,