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40_154 Los Angeles [house]hold servants consult. When we do get in we are received simply and cordially by Mr. Doheney. There is a barbaric splendor about the red plush of his parlors that is in amazing contrast to the refined though costly but quiet elegance of the Huntington mansion. Mr. Doheney himself seems a plain honest man, simple and unaffected. His dress is very plain. As a whole he is plan as an old shoe and puts on no airs in spite of his vast wealth. He took us around his great palm house himself. He knows palms, not scientifically, but knows their habits through cultivation. He has an arrangement by which he can precipitate a fine mist and "so make it rain", which the rainmakers are unable |
40_155 Mar. 29, 1924. to do in these drought years. He joked a bit about this. We had a meeting of our group at the Hotel Huntington. There were also present D. M. Linnard, owner of this hotel and many others, and Dr. Willis Baer, Vice-President of the Southwest Bank, formerly President of Occidental College. We incidentally discussed the question as to whether Doheney bribed Secretay Fall or made him a gift. It seems certain the Doheney, says Baer, may give any one his likes _10,000.00 or _25,000.00, [cont. p. 201] - A lovely Penstemon of the Sierra Nevada, P. davidsonii Greene was named for Geo. [George] Davidson, Director of the U. S. Geol. [geological] Survey on this coast. He was a wonderfully profane man and tradition has it that his objurgations on Mrs. Curran later Brandegee were soemthing appaling to listen to. He collected some plants for Greene. - Sniffle Weed. Imperial Valley, acc. Bridwell. Perhaps Sida hederacea. |
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