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Show ALVENZO HAY WARD. WM Alvenzo Hayward died in San Francisco a few M days ago. His life story would make a book that L would read more like a romance than a reality. IB He was an Argonaut; he went to California with Mm the first host; at that time the Golden State was M a land of enchantment that seemed to challenge WM the young men to try, and at tho same time It fl seemed to promise fulfillment for all that man WM hoped for and earnestly tried to attain. M Hayward became a miner. About 1854 he was M running a tunnel to tap a lode in Amador county. 'WM He spent all his means, then strained his credit to M the utmost. Men looked at him and shook their mW heads. To them he was a visionary, working on WM an impossibility. At last he was refused credit H for a sack of flour. He was hungry, and put up so M earnest a plea for the accommodation, that the WM merchant finally gave him the flour with the un- B derstanding that he should make no more appeals . i B for credit. He did not have to. Before that flour B was exhausted he struck tho ledge. It was not B any ordinary ledge It seemed to have just quartz , B enough in it to hold the gold in place. In a few ' B days his credit was good for a thousand sacks of fl flour; in a few months he was a millionaire. He B was a shrewd, careful man. Since then he has B opened many mines; he has lost much money, , B but has made more than he has lost; he has al- B ways been a public-spirited, high-minded man. His B charities were manifold, but the way he loved B most to spend money was to get behind men who fl were nearing the point he reached when that last fl flfil t If j ii sack of flour was his need; men who were strug- h! PI II r r i,i gllnB for a result but without the means to carry 111 H Ml ! I 1 ' on the struggle witn0llt helP- HI a t $h l If ; J An appeal In that form always enlisted his sym- Bp 1 III ; , pathy, and if on investigation he believed the BT ' HI ila fa ' chances for success were even, he never failed to Kfj fj 111 I ; j respond. He was, perhaps, the most purely rep- 111 ir1 IP l ' resentative Calif ornian of all the millionaires of I'i i Jl ' tnat 8tatef His raInd was clear' hls heart wnrm Bjul 'JM ! to the last. With him, too, California was all in Hi j A I j! j ; i nil. He believed it was the only state worth living I wl 111 in He matle investments in adjacent states, but I '' '1 1 III' i tnat wita him was in the way o sneculation only Hi;' ill I iff I I his heart was always in the sunshine of Cali- I '' 1 111? I fornia. There he toiled for well-nigh three score I ' vli II' II ' years; he sounded every note in the gamut of life; I If fi ' no one was ever mucn prer tnan ne! not many H ' j If i jS were richer. He believed that man was placed B' ' III '! I '1 upon the earth to work' and that nis responsibility H' iPill'l increased, and his duties to his fellow-men in- H i creased as wealth increased. He enjoyed life in H ' j 'I its fullness, and yet we suspect that he did not B 'I Si ! grieve as he realized that the tabernacle which H I'll j i held his soul was beginning to crumble, for of the H n i old band which were his friends every one was H I II: gone, save Haggin, J. P.Jones and D. O. Mills. B J . Bf r Ralston, Sharon, Tevis, Mackay, Fair, Flood ,Bell, B l' 1 HI '' Stanford, Crocker, Hopkins, Huntington, of the B'1' W I PI millionaire contingent, are all dead, and thousands Wm 'tlljl 'more in all walks of life. One by one under the B ' ' if I half-century's friction they grew silent, until there B $ y was not one to call over with him the old-time H c i j j j I davs when il dId not matter if thev were Bj J 1(1 poor, for the blood of youth kept their ar- B n hi teries throbbing and hope painted golden H ' ill ill pictures around them by night as well as B m 111 y day e nPe that memory continued to H ' ' m ' H ' Vw paint and frame those pictures before his eyes Hjj i m 'm J1 until "the windows were darkened; until the gold- Bi I -4 mW '' en Dowl was broken," and he went to his grave H, ,1; Mm fl "in a ful1 ase, like as a shock of corn cometh in, B M m 'M II in its season." |