July 16, 1975 (8 pages)

ly Doris Foley f lasting repose of the faded beauty lies yd Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y., on Summit — ‘the 37th Street gate. Quite unadorned, by a plain marble slab bearing the simple Mrs. Eliza Gilbert, died Jan. 17, 1861, age . . (Photo by Miss Ida Mullens, N.Y. the California State Library, Sacramento) Hawks of Calvary Church, and was also attended he Congregation of the church, and to them, while igious conversation, she exhibited a thorough er past erratic life. On Thursday, the day she died, ther bedside, and when asked by the clergyman if , she had found forgiveness with her Savior, not pak, she nodded assent. She was then asked if she . found full forgiveness for her past life, and she ed the affirmative. , he had found forgiveness for her past life, and she ad the affirmative. ath her kind friends who attended her in her no pains to make the funeral as respectable as leed, we may say it was all that an event of this could be. The funeral took place yesterday. The . services were at Mrs. Buchanan’s house, and the yhich was quite large and attended by some of our e citizens and their families, proceeded to re the body was interred. Lola’s last appearance c was at Mozart Hall in this city, where she e of lectures in the-fall-of-1859, since which time ietly. Her constitution had beef broken down by early life, and she was compelled to be careful. In 60, Lola had an attack of paralysis, and her life f. She recovered sufficiently to be removed to he lived until October last, when she returned to 1as day she walked out, took cold and was seized of which she died. ways: very generous to the people about her and ast meal with a friend. She was captious, irritable oubtless she inherited her bad qualities from her 3 very fond, too, of being thought a scholar and a iad a smattering of information upon a great and was very quick at catching up the ideas of ut her. She talked well and could entertain a large ns at the same moment. As a writer we have no er capability. Her letter, which attracted so much ne first arrived here, was written by ex-Senator Bavaria,’ a play produced as hers, was prepared Vare, and her lectures were the work of Rev. C. @ a ne Eccentric L AND THE NEWSPAPERS “Lola did not die in a state of utter dependence or friendly hospitality as many supposed. She had-some money, $300 of which she left to the Magdalen Society; the remainder, after paying off her just depts, is to go to charitable objects. “The peculiar circumstances in which Lola was placed, must be considered in viewing her career. She was an illegitimate child, _ and early deserted by her mother. She had talents:and decided to make use of them to get on in the world. She was a Becky Sharp on a grand scale, only not quite as heartless as that imaginary character. Her most eccentric actions were speedily reported, but her many acts of generosity, especially to the poor literary people (and there are several of this class in New York who can bear testimony to this,) were known only to the recipients of her careless bounty.” Lola Montez has been remembered in California chiefly for her introduction of the ‘Spider Dance’’ to the theaters of the fifties, however, she may have played a more decisive role in California history, especially in the destiny of Grass Valley, just by being there during those critical mining years of 1853 and 54. John Southwick, Superintendent and Director of the Empire Mine, financed her social gatherings, which included interested Eastern and European investors. The early development of the Empire, the most famous of all the gold producers, stands as proof that if Lola did indeed preside over a kind of investor’s salon, she was successful. John Southwick’s company owned half of the Empire Mine in 1852, John Rush owning the other half. The construction of a mill for crushing quartz on Wolf Creek, in 1853, was a crucial point in the mine’s history. In 1854, the Empire Mining Company bought up the Rush interest for $12,000. The mine was worked successfully, . falsehoods which have been published against me, I have never yielding $1,056,234 by 1864, the year John Southwick’s Company disposed of its stock. The Golden Era noted in its issue of November 16, 1856 by — coincidence a few days before Lola left California that quartz mining had all but failed three years previously because of the damage done by ‘“‘a large number of speculative schemes.” *« nearly 2000 companies had been formed.and probably half. as Pe many leads were opened and had machinery upon them. In many instances these preliminaries were made for the purpose of getting gold out of the pockets of New York and than from the quartz ledges. Lola held forth in the cottage in Grass Valley in those crucial days, and her feminine beauty and sparkle may have charmed wary investors into a renewed faith in quartz mining, The woman who had held court in Bavaria was perfectly capable of holding court as her contemporaries noted in Grass Valley. Wherever she went or whatever she did, she was a woman to be reckoned ; with, a mercurial of spirit of fire andice. ~~. Let Lola herself have the last words: Nevada Journai, January © 1, 1858 (From the Philadelphia Press): ‘‘To the thousand malicious replied, it being my determination to leave the events of my life to history, while I leave my calumniators to that God who has or° dained an especial act for the punishment of ‘all liars’ and who, if the Bible be a true book, will find the next world a good deal hotter than they have made'‘this one to me. “LOLA MONTEZ” COVER ILLUSTRATION for book "Lectures of Lola Montez", including her autobiography by Charles C. Burr, 1858. (From “The Magnificent Montez", by Horace Wyndham. Se EE SEE I ee a RTT =r = ees if ANC cca ee we . ahaa = a ae SE IES + we Courtesy of Hutchinson Publishing Croup, Ltd., London, England) _ (CONTINUED NEXT WEEK) ea ee "swe eee a TE ey < aS 0S SE we es 0 rere London capitalists rather ~ Tae Matevatey a ae ae Ped es

ly Doris Foley f lasting repose of the faded beauty lies yd Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y., on Summit — ‘the 37th Street gate. Quite unadorned, by a plain marble slab bearing the simple Mrs. Eliza Gilbert, died Jan. 17, 1861, age . . (Photo by Miss Ida Mullens, N.Y. the California State Library, Sacramento) Hawks of Calvary Church, and was also attended he Congregation of the church, and to them, while igious conversation, she exhibited a thorough er past erratic life. On Thursday, the day she died, ther bedside, and when asked by the clergyman if , she had found forgiveness with her Savior, not pak, she nodded assent. She was then asked if she . found full forgiveness for her past life, and she ed the affirmative. , he had found forgiveness for her past life, and she ad the affirmative. ath her kind friends who attended her in her no pains to make the funeral as respectable as leed, we may say it was all that an event of this could be. The funeral took place yesterday. The . services were at Mrs. Buchanan’s house, and the yhich was quite large and attended by some of our e citizens and their families, proceeded to re the body was interred. Lola’s last appearance c was at Mozart Hall in this city, where she e of lectures in the-fall-of-1859, since which time ietly. Her constitution had beef broken down by early life, and she was compelled to be careful. In 60, Lola had an attack of paralysis, and her life f. She recovered sufficiently to be removed to he lived until October last, when she returned to 1as day she walked out, took cold and was seized of which she died. ways: very generous to the people about her and ast meal with a friend. She was captious, irritable oubtless she inherited her bad qualities from her 3 very fond, too, of being thought a scholar and a iad a smattering of information upon a great and was very quick at catching up the ideas of ut her. She talked well and could entertain a large ns at the same moment. As a writer we have no er capability. Her letter, which attracted so much ne first arrived here, was written by ex-Senator Bavaria,’ a play produced as hers, was prepared Vare, and her lectures were the work of Rev. C. @ a ne Eccentric L AND THE NEWSPAPERS “Lola did not die in a state of utter dependence or friendly hospitality as many supposed. She had-some money, $300 of which she left to the Magdalen Society; the remainder, after paying off her just depts, is to go to charitable objects. “The peculiar circumstances in which Lola was placed, must be considered in viewing her career. She was an illegitimate child, _ and early deserted by her mother. She had talents:and decided to make use of them to get on in the world. She was a Becky Sharp on a grand scale, only not quite as heartless as that imaginary character. Her most eccentric actions were speedily reported, but her many acts of generosity, especially to the poor literary people (and there are several of this class in New York who can bear

testimony to this,) were known only to the recipients of her careless bounty.” Lola Montez has been remembered in California chiefly for her introduction of the ‘Spider Dance’’ to the theaters of the fifties, however, she may have played a more decisive role in California history, especially in the destiny of Grass Valley, just by being there during those critical mining years of 1853 and 54. John Southwick, Superintendent and Director of the Empire Mine, financed her social gatherings, which included interested Eastern and European investors. The early development of the Empire, the most famous of all the gold producers, stands as proof that if Lola did indeed preside over a kind of investor’s salon, she was successful. John Southwick’s company owned half of the Empire Mine in 1852, John Rush owning the other half. The construction of a mill for crushing quartz on Wolf Creek, in 1853, was a crucial point in the mine’s history. In 1854, the Empire Mining Company bought up the Rush interest for $12,000. The mine was worked successfully, . falsehoods which have been published against me, I have never yielding $1,056,234 by 1864, the year John Southwick’s Company disposed of its stock. The Golden Era noted in its issue of November 16, 1856 by — coincidence a few days before Lola left California that quartz mining had all but failed three years previously because of the damage done by ‘“‘a large number of speculative schemes.” *« nearly 2000 companies had been formed..and probably half. as Pe many leads were opened and had machinery upon them. In many instances these preliminaries were made for the purpose of getting gold out of the pockets of New York and than from the quartz ledges. Lola held forth in the cottage in Grass Valley in those crucial days, and her feminine beauty and sparkle may have charmed wary investors into a renewed faith in quartz mining, The woman who had held court in Bavaria was perfectly capable of holding court as her contemporaries noted in Grass Valley. Wherever she went or whatever she did, she was a woman to be reckoned ; with, a mercurial of spirit of fire andice. ~~.. Let Lola herself have the last words: Nevada Journai, January © 1, 1858 (From the Philadelphia Press): ‘‘To the thousand malicious replied, it being my determination to leave the events of my life to history, while I leave my calumniators to that God who has or° dained an especial act for the punishment of ‘all liars’ and who, if the Bible be a true book, will find the next world a good deal hotter than they have made'‘this one to me. “LOLA MONTEZ” COVER ILLUSTRATION for book "Lectures of Lola Montez", including her autobiography by Charles C. Burr, 1858. (From “The Magnificent Montez", by Horace Wyndham. Se EE SEE I ee a RTT =r = ees if ANC cca ee we . ahaa = a ae SE IES + we Courtesy of Hutchinson Publishing Croup, Ltd., London, England) _ (CONTINUED NEXT WEEK) ea ee "swe eee a TE ey < aS 0S SE we es 0 rere London capitalists rather ~ Tae Matevatey a ae ae Ped es