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A CALIFORNIA ROMANCE,
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ISCIDE.STS I-X TI/E LI' ,01".1 L.STON.
The Story of tho California H3ank
Presideont's gifo--How Warwick Mar
tit Collected. an Old Dobt and 'Dotty
M,.rtin got a Silk Dress.
A. San Francisco correspondent c f
the New York "sun. writes : To-day
we have spcnt at Bolmont, the mag
unifil.enit counItry seal of the late Wm.111
C. Ralston. We have boen the
gu.sts of Sonator Sharon, into
whosio hamiti Bl3 uont fell after
ltzdston's suitido Belmont is situ
atedi about tventy- five miles from
San Francisco. It contains about
210 acres of irrigated land, in the
-'iddle of which is a pialace, which
cost ti],500,000. There are twenty
live splendid horses, greenhouses
fillet with thoisusainds of rare xotics,
and orange, ban ana and lomca trees
growhig in the open air. It was
hero that Ralston used to hold those
magni'ietI f S, even down' to the
eve of his bankruptey, wheli he found
hinself in debt to the fabulous sum
of 81(00,000, amil, broken-hearted,
left the president's seat in the Bank
of Califoi'nia, and went cut to the
bay and drowned himself. Senator
Sharon, who is Considered to be
worth anywhiore from ten to twenty
millions, rAow keeps up Belmont
and entertains his friends' there
every Sunday. It is here that he
enitertained Lord J,)uf'rin, General
Shermanu, and, in fant, where he has
cntertained alost every person of
note who has vis ted the Pacific coast.
But Ralston used to entertain his
friends here by the hundreds. It
was no uncommon thing for him to
have fifty people at breakfast. No
fairy tale can suirpass the real story
o IF Rals ton's princely entertainments.
He would often charter a train of
Carr out of San Francisco, fill them
with his friends, and, withrbands of
music, vino and pum)tuous ban..
'Pet, make t night of it at'Belmont.
"Do you. think Ralston's )ind was
sound when he was doing these
startling things ?" I asken .3eniator
Sharon, as I wandered and wondered
th rough mirrored rooms and among
)maibles and bronzes, and over Au
Ih,.sson and Axminster carpets. "Do
you not think it was incipient in
sanity ?"
"Yes," replied the Senator. "I
think Ralston's mind was wrong for
a year before his suicide. His tin
altishness was a mania. Ho liVed
-itirely for his friends. He wo .ld
wear the (oarsest clothes, eat the
commonest food himself, but when
it came to a friend, or even a casnal
uequaintalce, he delighted to startle
him with the mbst lavish entertain.'
mnoit. -
"You were his partner ?" I sug~
gested1.
"Yes, we built thme Palace Hotel
together' ; b)ut before it wvas lhalf
(lone, I saw that Ralston was on tihe
verge of ruin. I don't think now,
wvhen I look back, that poor Ralston
ever had a hundred thousand dol
Jars free from all debts int his life."
"And lie died owing ?"
"He died owing sixteen millions.
He was president of the Bank' of
California, but the bask's capital
wvas only a shell for yoai's. It was
all used to carry on his ningnific'nt
schemes. Why, w~hen lie died h
was carr'ying Belmont at 'an expengo
of a hundred thousandi dollars a
year ; carryinig four ililiohs in the
Palace Hotel, a hotel which 'cost six
millions in gold ; carr'yi~ a million
or so in the Grand Hotdl and adja'
cent prloperty on l\ontgome'y street;
building' a miliosdollar -' 'piiate
residlenco on Pine" street. and, be,
sides, wvas carryinlg -severdl manu
facturing' compapiies, 'and keeping
up the cre'dit of thu -Bank of Cali%
fornia to aL t61 mfillion-dlollar standa
ard when it das an insolvent shel11,
hogelossly bmikrupt."
"And youi know how the bank
stood ?"
'Wes, I knew it at last ; but
Ralston was too proud to 'tell me.
I had twvo millions in thb bdhk, and
wvhen we pushed Ralston to''tell us
how it stood he hadn't the 'face to
do it. Blroken-hearted, he' looked
away vacantly, and said: 'The
cashier will ,tell you,' and then,
grandly andl dublimely, rather than,
tell 'of his ow~n misfor'tune, put on
his hat, walkbd heroicaly to the
beach 'and ~howned himself.
"And "thk e~ect on tLhe people
"Simply awful ! It wtgs dreadful.
Hundreds oLfb'ank men" shed 'tears
in the street--not because Ralston
had ruined tlieih, but because -thoy
loved him-because all San Francis
co loved the man. He had taken
sixteen millions of dollars from tho
capitalists of' San Francisco and
given it to the people. They wor
shipped him; and what wonder
that they should ?"
Mr. Edhnond L. Goold, a guest of
Senator Sharon to-.iay and a per
sonal friend of Ralston, gives tuo the
following incident in the life of the
unfortunato man, which atrords a
clue to his character
Mr. Ralston in' 1848 was a clerk
on a Mississip'i steamboat. He
as generous and poor. One day
ho went into thohanking house of
Lako & Martin, in St. Louis, and
accosting Mr. M[artin familiarly,
said :
"I say, Martin, can't you lot me
hav $500 ?"
"I don't soo how we . can, Billy,"
said Martin, "unless you can give
us some security. Who can you got
to indorse -for you ?"
Ralston scratched his head a mo
nment and admitted that he couldn't
give any security. Said he : "Mar
tin, the fict is, I'm broke-dead
broke-but I've got a chance to go
in. with C. K. Garrison -down at
Pahama, and I must .havo $500 to
got there." . ;
A fter a while Mr. Martin decided
that he would lend Ralston $500 on
his oisAn account and run the risk of
payin ait, and giving it to him, Rals
ton started down the river to join
Commodore Garri'son. This was
in '48.'
"Did Ralston ever pay Martin ?"
I asked Mr. Goold.
"I'll toll you how it was," said Mr.
Goold. "Ralston ..forgot all about
it, or else he lost track of Martin
But fourteen yea's afterwards I met
Martin in New York. H was broke
then himself--gone all to ---pieces
hadn't a dollar. Ralston at' this
time was at' the neridin of his
glory, spending money dy" the mil.
lions. Well, one day Martin came
u:p to in looking very seedy, and
asked me if in my travels iii Califor,
nia I had ever met a.' man by the
name of Billy Ralston.
"Billy Ralston ?" said I. "B-i-1
1-y R-a-l-s-t-o-n I why I- .know a
man by the name ' of William C.
Ralston-nsed to be with CommoN
dore Garrison in Panama. - It was
Fritz, Ralston & Garrison in San
Francisco, but now Raldton is at
the head of it." . "
"Well, 'Mr. Goold, that's the same
Billy Ralston that- borrowed' five
hundred dollars of me down in St.
Louis .Li '48. Do' you think he
could pay it back now ?"
"Pa, it back !" said Mr. Goold,
"why you're joking., Pay it back I
Ralston pay five hundred dollars -!
Why, Martin, Ralston can pay five
milion dollars."
"Wbll," said Martin, "when you
see Billy in Frisco, you just tell him
'bout me-and if he ain't strapped
and if' 'twont break him up, I just
wish he'd pay m that t4e hundred
dollard." . '" ."
"The fact of it is," said Mr. Goold
as lie told thp" - torf', "I thought
Martini was jokidfg. ''I had no idea
that Ra'inton owed hita anything.
But whuen I got back -'to California
I thouglit I'd baniter Ralston about
it. - ( 'one day when I was in
Rglston's room, I said jokinglyt "'
"o'ea nice looking fellow,
lialston, to be cheatingsan old friend
out of fiva hundred dollars," ain't
you ?"
"What do you mean 7." said
Ralston. - '
"Why, when I was in New York
the other' day, a ihan by the fianne of
Nlartin". .
"What I" exclaimed Ralston,
jumnpingsto his fdet, "Warwick Mar
S"Yes, Warwick Martin"
"Where's his address ?"' "Hero 1."
Lie shouited to the cashier of t)1e
bank; "telegraph ten tho'iisand dol
lars-to the credit -of Wam'*ick' Ma'
Sin-quick I" and -Ralsto'n' ane
tround like a crazy man. '- *
"The next day,*' continvq&L Mr.
Boold, "Warwick' artin rq ~d--a
bologram from Labb & ~VW ' 8.4
Pine street, te5 call and # d4ci'Ve
something deposited to hNd eredit:'
"By jingo!" said MartiEigh1l8, 4vye
WI'l bot: Billy has sont my ;that "five
mundr'ed dollars; .-If he -has, "Gletty,
you can pick out a si k-drdss at
Stewartt's;" then -'he hurried %g to
Dbes & Wallasm. - 1 l ' -
"I called '" iso see about sorne
noney," kaid 'Mar t' lq~dking
Mlrough the 2lank soi-don at Mr,
bees. "You'say I h'Avo'sonme toan
siodit here"^ - - '-"
"How abueh areyou expectin~ asi
w~ho from" * asked' th4
ud-efully, As is the custom in
- continued on fourmt auA -