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Show GIVES HIS FORTUNES ; 1 f TO THE POOR ' 1 rnjerli-k M Moeers, mining king and irlnic ot good fellows, whose career ca-reer Uie pit four years has been ex-traofjhur) ex-traofjhur) and enentrlc In Us lavish exptUlture of money, died suddenly the ether tlsy at the Tilth Avenue hotel, ho-tel, UVw ty He will be remembered remem-bered Ihm,,, Uho the blithesome prlnUpf old he wtnt along toislng tor-tuncsloto tor-tuncsloto n li 0f ( ia hom his fsncytnrnel Tho story of I'rrderlck Mooen rlso from trriy lo wealth Is an Intsrtst-Ing Intsrtst-Ing one.lndiid bis whult life wss one ot unuimiijr tiiinsntlc vlclsiltudes At lhleof M MrMnoers wss will-out will-out a d Jlsr At the ago of W he died, poiseisol of mi third of the Yellow Alter nines a properly for which tho Del Msri,of I tali vainly offered II.- too.ooo His father wss a co'ibtcr In Cambridge, Cam-bridge, Sim He wen1 In New York nt tho breiklnf out of Iho civil war. and for nionthi was n slrnft nrnb Then oil. The laSkle changed hands nnd Honors was out nt a Job Hoots next Jollied a nllbustrrlng expedition ex-pedition lo Cosla lllea. In Central America, nnd with his comrsdes lay In Jill one )ear expecting almost any (lay to be led out to execution lie was n sailor before the mast for the next year and n half Iti turning lo Now York, In broken health, he wiotn an article fur tho Sun nbout the hardship ot common sailors, which brought hint to public liottcu Ho was called to Washington by a tximmltli-o In congress con-gress to relste In detail bow American kallors were treated on ships sailing under foreign lings In April, IRt'i, Mooers John Mlnglc-ton Mlnglc-ton and Austin llutrlrm were living In a lent at Oolir, earning a dollar n day, and on partliularl) faturablo days a dollar nnd n half Tor weeks Mooers had pondered over tho problem of tho source ot the golden specks which they were dry-washing In tho brown desert consumption The next day the print- ! Hf er, his wlfn and two thlldrcn were tray jH cling In sumitiioim style toward San J Diego, where for nver a year, until th jjfl man died, they received from Mn, 'jM Mooers Ix Angttes bankers a, certain B monthly stipend jS A year ago a nun fell down tho Shalt ql In the Yellow Aster mine, Tho YellOF Aster company Hinstonrd the widow B liberally Mr Mmera hsppened to bo W on (he cars a few weeks Inter, and tha U widow came forwnnl and Introduced herself to him During their comer-sntlon comer-sntlon she upoko of her Ihrrt daughters daugh-ters nnd ot the plans of their desd ULb-r ULb-r tn send them east lo lbs paternal home A day or so later Mr. Mooare had bought round trip tickets for tho whotn family lo New Ilcdford, Mils. , Not only that, but ho secured berthi , In Iho Pullman cars for them, and gars , a 120 gold pleco to each ot the trio. I hllo In New iork last summer be ! overheard a colorcl man In tha hall J ' KICRDRIIICK MOOIIftH AND ISC1I1ISWT3 OF HIB LIPi: ho became it compositor on tho New York Sun, later Joined an expcdltim to Ilrnill, and before ho wna 21 made n fortune of some 113,000 In the diamond field along the Amnion IleturnlnR to Now York he married, nnd guyly spent bis little fortune within two years lie went Ixa lo the llraillln.it diamond fields Meanwhile the govcrmentnl policy pol-icy toward the diamond miners hnd changed, and allcna wire no longir permuted to inlno thero lie returned to hu type-setting this tlmo on tho llrooklyn Ilagle. OnnJny ho contributed an snlclo In the Udgle on commercial slfslrs of llraxll, attracting at-tracting the attention of tho proprb lor Thomas Klniells, who mado him a bookkeeper In the business oilier Next Mooers was caiblrr fwr'the Iiylo, at 5,000 n year Those were p.ilmy days of Jouniallsm In New York and llrooklyn llrook-lyn days when Ttedlsin put tnst sunn In the pockets of favored publishers pub-lishers Hut Tweed was sent lo prls- oands, Ono day It flisheil upon him that tho tinier camp wits tho center ot an enormous extinct crater, that the golden pirllcles In tho sand woro washed Hiiro through countless agis from ledges formed hy volcanic action, and If tho rim of the volcano might be found tho original ledge would bo a sourco of fabulous wealth Kor days he told nnd re told his story to his companions com-panions Finally Blngltlon nnd llur-i llur-i hem agreed tn go and search for tho lidge Two days of prospecting led to the location of the sevin mines known ns the ellow Astir group win re llntidsburg has slnrn grown up Ho rich wire tho spwlmens whackid from Iho uiitcropplng rock that the Yet-low Yet-low Asli r paid from Hie Mnrt llooi rs. Singleton nnd llurcliem bud tnki n over 1700 000 In oro from the golden ledgM up to January, 1900 Willi the knowledge that the Yellow Astir was to be the souno of thousands thou-sands of dollars every month as long ns ho would prohibly llti Mooers set nbout hating a gloriously good time with his suddtnly acquired fortuno. ' I know too will," said ho to friends, that my life has been ono of such hardship Hint I will probably llvo but a few j cars more-ten or twelve yenr at tho on tide and I mean to hnvo fun and mako some people remember mo for personal kindnesses nflir I nm gone And ho kept his word First be bought n magnificent mansion man-sion owned by 'Ihomas V Pitch, at 818 Ilonnlo llrao street, l.os Angolts Ho sent to New York and got bis aged mother his young aon and his brothers broth-ers and brought them nil In n prlvolo car to I-os Angeles Tho homo was furnished superbly Ho bought horse nnd carriage for the family's us, pro-vlded pro-vlded his mother wllh servants to anticipate an-ticipate her slightest wish and mndo sure that the homo circle should have a certain part of the dh Mends from tho Yellow Aster monthly All the real he devoted to all sorts of whims of pleasure A month loter, In Buffalo, ho found a printer of his own nam dying ot of tbo Imperial hotel, where b was i slopping tell another servant of how - tho sweeping of dusty carpel In tht ' i hotel waa gradually killing him will ., ' consumption Ho Inqulrud nt the ot- flco nbout the man, had rt doctor ex- 'i amino him, and found tbo caso n genu .t Ino one tor charity Shortly after tht i - man, hla wlfn and child wcro on tbeli way to California at Mr. Mooers' ox- , ptnse They are now In Phoenix, Arl tonn, nnd the man Is the chief cook at the Adams House Two months ago Mr Mooers vu f a blacksmith shop In IOn Angeles to I seo about shoes for his pacer, II j hard several men discussing tbo proa peel of getting gold at Capo Noma Nono of tho min know him He bo- jj canlo Interest"! In ono of tho youog yr V men because of his burning seal tn go t x to Nome He Invited hlrn to his houn ; 'i that day nnd seternl days thereafter. (- . On one of the first aleumora from Ce '),, rf attle lo Capo Nome, early In May, .' .,, ., r ' Itlchard II. Judson nailed north with '...- supplies and capital enough tu last two '.- years Krederkk M Mooers was his 'v ' , silent purtner |