Show DE LAMAR DIES MONTE CRISTO TO THE LAST Millionaire l Owner Omer of Idaho Mines l Leaves Fortune to Fight Disease Monte 1 Cristo De Do Lamar Lamax who began life Ife as a barefooted sailor the mast and antl ended In tho the owner of ot a 1 good and sliver silver mine maine two miles long died r recently In New York City and left lct 2000 to be devoted to the tho war ar on 1 lIu DO rp I hi I a h ICI f I o a A AHA AllnA I I m J. J J 1 7 J L. L rh tl A A. DeLamar he left the tho entire l income n for lIfo life from and ancl If H she sho ho should die dlo childless this will then go to war on disease too Capt Joseph Jpseph Raphael De Lamar was 70 years cars old His early carly life lito was crowded crowd crowd- ed with romance and adventure Beginning Beginning Begin Begin- nin ning as a a. sailor bailor ho he left his homo In Holland and finally became captain of ot ofa ota a ship sailing into New York 11 Ho He sac wages and In 1878 1578 went west to the gold diggings Thoro ho recon recon- the country countr and with great sagacity decided ed not to follow tho the blind rush to new diggings but bul to acquire a sound knowledge of ot metallurgy and chemistry In order to more judiciously Invest his means milling Sciences Ire ITe therefore returned to Chicago en engaged engaged en- en tho the services lof of oC a professor proCessor and antI devoted himself assiduously to stud study At t the end of or six months lie ho had be beCome become bo- bo come como practically e educated in mining engineering analysis and assaying Two years ears of travel among tho the mining camps resulted finally In his locating on a a. mountain six miles west of ot SIl- SIl vcr Yer cr City Ida where ho bought a a. group of O of cla claims ms for a email sum suni By filing I on a number of oC other claims he ob obtained ob- ob control of a property two miles long an and 1 ono one and a quarter wide covering cow cov eying ering the entire mountain Later Do Lamar told of oC this venturo as follows I The Tho people all around that section of oC the tho country laughed at and pitied me They The thought i 1 I was just Juat throwIng throwIng throw throw- Ing money down own a holo lioi in the ground never to get it back again The Tho place already had been prospected over and I abandoned It was no good they said they almost thought i j had gone gono ln Insane ano with the thc mining minIng- i fever ver and wan waa after millions that existed only in my i Imagination Il a gi n a t i 0 fl i But within a few months after be beginning beginning be- be ginning that work I cut my first vein eln twenty eight feet wide averaging L 30 o TIllS alone n tn I In f. r th mines worth r over cr without t any further strikes but at the tho same samo limo i I as the iho vein cin was wa reached indications Of of silver also were and fol- fol loed e us Within six weeks of shipping of-shipping ore oro was yas taken out that a assayed as- as i sayed as high as pet per ton i Then Than I knew that I was a millionaire million aire alre I established the town af or Do Lamar Lamar La- La mar mal built a mill a tram railway a hotel a a. boarding house laborers' laborers houses and a firebrick sc o costing which I ma mad madS a present pres pres- cut ent of ot to th tho town that bore m my name nama I j Since Sinet then he has haa developed clo more I mines among them thorn some somo producing j nickel Ho ITo also built hullt reduction works I I in Colora Colorados Colorado's os o's great reat gold old field Cripple Creck near Colorado Colora o Springs and auti built I I man many prosperous towns among which I are Isle Colo Cob and Do Lamar New Ncy b besides be- be sides Do Lamar Ida Jda Broke Into Society After Atter ho he became rich ho wont cast as ho he said eaid to break into Info society Harrison TIarI liar Har I risen rison then was President and Do Lamar LamarI I chose choso tho the Presidents President's son Russell Harrison Har liar 11 rison risen an as tho the wedge who would woul pry open the do doors re o of to him An account from a Washington ton newspaper or of ot th the tha I period contained the following Ho He b 1 had come cornu into view lew In the time Washington WashIngton Wash Wash- ington firmament like a comet Fresh from Idaho the owner of ot an Idaho gold and silver mountain that had already alread yielded ed him a fortune of or several million million mil rail lion dollars and was vas developing de richer every da day he would have had no trou- trou bue In becoming a Washington lion I But he ho was wa an old oM Montana friend o of Ru Russ Rues s' s Harrison tho the Presidents President's son an i I that young oung gentleman promptly became his sponsor at nt the national capital DC Do I Lamar was Introduced into tho the Presidents President's Presidents President's I dents dent's set by Prince Russell ho was vouched for tor as a a. good fellow follow to all the swell foreign legations ho showed a a. calm Inclination to make malee a stud study of or the society of or Washington ho was always as provokingly cool an and self possessed and he ho became the tho sensa sensation of ot the day Tho romantic mine owner was not inclined to deadhead his wa way vay In re return return return re- re turn for his flattering flattering- reception by ly the Washington ashington swell swoll set sot he gave e a bachelor bach bach- elor clor entertainments that were ivero the talk nf th hn ronna nf D b these was wag a party part at the tho Arlington that cost a cool and which is de described de- de scribed by In Washington correspondents as second only to tho Bonaparte ball bail ballin bailin in magnificence An An immense ball o of roses suspended cl clOver over tho the chair of or Russell Harrison ex excited ex- ex cited tho the admiration of tho guests During tho the after dinner Captain Captain Cap Cap- tam tain Do Lamar motioned to tho the head waiter walter Suddenly tho the floral loral bell fell I apart and tho son of ot the tho President was wag covered with a deluge delugo of oC roses roset The Tho Tho effect was startling and humorous The Tho guests made a rush for th th roses roses and carried carrle them away as ns souvenirs d 11 n Poor Girl After cutting a wide swath in Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington ton society ho lie departed and went wentLo to Lo New Now York City announcing that ho hu was going to marry the handsomest girl there This caused a flutter dutter and he ha had a gay time timo In Now New and andin andin in Newport und and Long Branch But nut he choose for tor his wife not a a. rich girl but buta a poor girl whose mother kept a u. boardInG boardIng board- board Ing lug house She was Miss Nellie VIrginia VirgInIa Virginia Vir Vir- ginia Sands a beautiful young oung woman oman He Ho built her a mansion at Madison l I avenue and Thirty seventh street stroet that cost bought a yacht had hal a aI ahouse ahouse house in Purls Puns and another In Cairo I E Egypt but ho soon became jealous of or 11 Mrs Do Lamar and In Paris I his child and divorced dl his wife I This child Is the daughter to whom he ho willed the income from I It was wat in iii 1898 that he ho divorced his I wife But Dut he always alwa's loved lo her and a afew afew I few years eat later he hc wanted to remarry I I her her but Jut she sho declined and married I James R. R Hatmaker Since th then n Do Lamar had lived with his and antl never married again It vas waa rumored years ears ago go that ho was waa going to Lo man marry Mme Nordica the opera singer but he lid did not Now at 70 jO years ears of or ago age the lonely Monte Cristo Or cit o-f the thc gold mountain has haa haslell I died lell and bequeathed a a. vast ost fortune to time the medical schools of ot Harvard Har ColumbIa Columbia Colum Colum- bia bin and antI Johns Hopkins universities to aid them In combating disease |