Show Gripping Story of Early Days Days' in O California lif The IT e Golc Golconda Bonanza tI by Jerome A. A Hart Marked by Simple Realism By JAMES G. G WOOLLEY Reminiscence thinly veiled beneath beneath be beneath be- be neath a gauze of fiction or pure i fiction of ot such sound realism that it partakes of ot the nature of or historical ical teal anecdote Is The Golconda Bon Bonanza Jerome A. A Hart in The ciocon- ciocon da ia Bonanza has woven a a story I that grips the reader at every page I and visualizes the California that i was before Los Angeles set out to 1 free I In his pres presentation the aut author 10 r has resorted to an unique method devoting de the opening opt chaPter to toa a a. setting seating for tor the story mory The people people peo peo- pie their manner of ot living their conventions their social castes in I those days when the great silver I camps of the Sierra Nevadas s were I i 1111 in their heyday are entertainingly I i described J JI I The action centers centera on the bitter 1 I war between two rival mining magnates mag nates nates each seeking control of a I mountain of silver Their mine superintendents are are riv rivals ls In love for fOI the daughter of or one of the mag mag- mag-I mag I nates With love and fortune at stake take the contest w waxes with In I in- in desperation from the stock exchange to the underground workings workings workings work work- ings of the mines Rough miners toil half naked I through the pages to die by hunI hundreds hun hun- I in the final clash Stockbroker Stock 1 broker dandies gunmen society I i I matrons matrons beautiful debutantes artI artists art art- I I chorus girls and an enchantress enchant- enchant art I loess ress who defies the tongue are played as pawns In the mighty contest San Francisco Is the hubon hubon hub hubon I on which the story revolves All these elements work to a co con conf- 11 elusion A midnight revel re at the height of festivities is plunged into into In Into in- in to a strange and startling climax The stock market marlet crashes fortunes are swept awa away an Earthquake shakes the bay city and the love motif stands out transcendentally beautiful from the debacle It Is a gripping tale entertainingly entertaining entertaining- ly to told d and possessed of a tt charm unusual In contemporary fiction Pioneer Press San Francisco |