The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 19, 1897, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1897. 9 FLOERS - DIMONDS IND ISSES How the Guatemalan Don Juan Won Winsome Lillie. GATHERED HER FAMILY TO HIS HEART. The Gay O!d Lover Had a Fine Turn for the Romantic, LISPED HIS PASSION IN BAD SPANISH. Attorney Dimond Declares That the Whole Blair Family Were Deceived by Barillas. 1f the lawyers are permitted to have their way there will be no romance and shelf. At one fell swoop this doughty old breaker of hearts carried every bui- | wark, leaving in his wake a trail of broken hearts, love letters, photographs and | other odds and end8 for the law-sharps to | worry over. | " The pictare Dimond drew vesterday of | that memorable night ia June last, when Barillas pledged his troth for the hear: of Miss Blair, over wine and flowers in the | Delmonico’ restaurant, showed that the | | suitor bad a fine turn for the romantic. The first foaming beaker had scarcely dizappeared when, behold, the general, rising and reaching across the table for | the nand of his fair companion, he | dramatically exclaimed, *'Si si, senorita; | all, all aud more.” To slip on a dismond ring was the work of an instant. Ribas | hastened to explain to the woman that | Barillas wished her to be his wife, and the citedel of love was successtully stormed. What young woman of 21| years of age, born in Oakland, could re- | sist such wooing as this? was the argu- nt of Dimond. next scens is just as good. The | ¢ won is sent home in a hack, loaded Ribas was commissioned to order expen- sive dinners from the Palace Hotel. To Mrs. Phelps he declared in his enthusiasm one day that Lillian was “the fairest flower a man ever had for a bride.” All this was related by Dimond by means of the introduction of certain type- writien documents, which the attorney said he drew up at the tim Blair had engaged him to prosecute the Guate- malan Don Juan for breach of promise. Copies of these documents, which were declared to contaln in substance the stories of Barillas’ wooing as the lawyer heard it from different members of the Blair family. But there arrived a time when a change came over the spirit of the aged suitor. Dinners at the Palace and Delmonico, drives to Peralta where Barillas had paid for a year's schooling for Miss Blair's brother gave way to the final parting, and then one evil day the lover made his ap- pearance to say good-by. He had re- ceived a telegram from his partner in | Europe which necessitated his immediate presence in Paris. Havpiness gave way to weeping. for with diamonds and flowers, to inform her | never a lover, according to Dimend, had a mother and sister of ber bappiness. The | more ready command of hi r valves. following morning the sister and the | In his anguish he almost feil down the faithful Ribas call to secure the parental | front steps of the Blair residence. But he Mrs. Blair, however, was not so | would come back. It was only a matter ily deceived as her daughter. She had | 0f six weeks or o until he would clasp her ideas about people of different nation- | 8gain “his whits flower,” and $700 was alities m g, and (b there was a | left as a sort of surcease with the sorrow- discrepanc: the ages, for this love- | ing ones behind. scarred veteran was one and fifty. But| The following day the Guatemalan and Barilias swept sside such a feeble barrier | Ribas left for Europe. He wrote a lotter with one slight effort. He placed love | from Port Costa, and almost daily Miss above everything. Where there was true | Blair receiveu letters or telegrams from love national t sure. In him until he arrived in London. Then it bis earnestness b ll-springs_opened | was she began to pine. Days passed into | and copious araughts of tears filled his | weeks and still no word from the recreant, pleading eyes. The supreme moment had | In December she wired for $1000, but at | arrived, and the mother recalled her |this time Barillas was frolicking about dauphter, who had discreetiy retired, | Europe with another girl, May Taber. | Biushing, she allows Don Juan to lead | Miss Blajr sorrowed until adyised to seex | her to her mother for the blessing. Kisses | the services of Dr. K. F. Perrault, who, | follow all around, for, as in matters of | on learning the true nature of her malady, | money, Barillas was_generous with his osculatory favors. First he | fiancee to his heart, then the pr mother-in-law and sisters. | struck her love dream to the ground with asps his | the news that there was a very lively and pective | estimable lady in Guatemala who pre- sided over the bouse and fortunes of “T can only be happier when we are | Barillas. | married,” enthusiastically, or, rather, serene settles on the househcld. But Barillas has not vet played bis last card. he says, Never until that time, said Attorney Ribas does it for him,and joy | Dimona, did he believe Miss Blair knew of the deception that had been practiced upon her. He believed that the whole To reach the mother's heart he magnani- | family had been basely wronged and that mously asks permission to call her “mam- | poetry about Barillas and his loves. It | ma,” and in return be wouid be “her son | for breach of promise. was the reason why he entertained a suit MISS BLAIR Lisiens as Attorney Dimond Tells How Barillas Wooed and Won Her. was shamefal enough to picture him play- | Manuel.” “Miso soy muchacho; mi so| Atlornoy Eisner, however, Insisted tnat fully httering the carpets of a prospective | bombre,” he adds to Ribas, mother-in-law at a time when she, dazzled by his titie and tbe stories of his coffee | L2i8 Tise: "I am no longer a boy; 1am a man.” Although bpossibly plantations, feared to remonstrate. Now they are picturing Don Juan, not asa tuneful cavalier at all, but as singing faulty metaphors in bad Spanish and worse English. And those fifteen million pesos that helped open the heart of Miss Lillie Blair are going in the shuffle with a rapidity that threatens baukruptcy, for it appears now that the legal sharps have discovered that at most there was not much over half a million "as an available balm for tbe wrenchea affections of his many admirers. Bat this detraction must cease. Barillas made love like an old time knight, even it he bad recourss to dictionaries and in- terpreters to push along his cause. At- torney Dimond still declares tbat the whole Blair family fell before the Central American’s effusiveness. He gathered tbem into the pockets of his capacious heart. this gay old deceiver, and in their confidence they forgot to mske inquiries avout the wife and family who awaited bis coming to Central America. It was like an oasis in a dreary land, this coming of Barillas into the lives of Miss Blair and her family, to use Di- mond’s metaphor. They were poor and unsophisticated ; the Guatemalan rich and worldwise. The floodgates of his affe tion let forth such torrents of friendship and endearment that even the natural precautions of a mother for herdaughter’s wellare-and good name were laid on the unnecessary statement is sheer effasivéness, And now for the future, tured it in radiant colors. There would be an extended honeymoon trip to Eu- | the result ol‘ ‘igive up their jobs at ance’ as cashiers in | | cigarestores, for no scion or relative of the | haughty Barillas must work for a living. | | were capacious enough to make all happy. | Miss_Blair had been earning $6 a week, but Barillas shuddered at such thoughts of poverty. Heorders the faithtul Ribes to give the family unlimited credit, and when Miss Lillie modestly purchases a | sealskin sack and some few silk dresses he upbraids her for her economy. “Miss Biair told me she could have spent thousands of dellars,” said Dimona. Some weeks of unalloyed bliss followed. Barillas was a constant caller at the | house and flowers and candy presents | | flowed in profusion. His ardor never waned. For hours he would talk of his home in Central America and draw maps | of his coffee plantations. He was worth many millions, but oh! so lonely. He | calied Lillie “My life, my sister, my fair white flower.”” The younger sister. Emily, he asked to be'bis ‘little sister,” and showered on her all manner of pet names in Sopanish. They would never this entirely | in the contrary of this, Eisner | rope, after which everybody would go to | embarrassments. Central America and the family hacienda. | being seen in the theaters for the reason, | Miss Liliie must take lessons in Spanish. | Dimond said, given to Miss Blair that he Both she and her sister must proceed to | did not understand Englis by who forth- | Miss Blair had toid bim from the begin- with translates the lover’s sert ments in | ning of her acquaintance she knew Bar- illas was married. Dimond was positive it was remwarkabie the Central American had never taken the woman he claimed as Barillas pic- | fiancee to any public_functions. Dimond saw only in this the craftiness of the miilionaire in providing against possiole Barillas had avoided ish, Eigner—Did it strike you that Barillas, man of much experience, would not ave wr'tten such letters as he sent to | The heart and possessious of this cavalier | Miss Blsir with any serious intentiona? Attorney Thornton objected to the as- sumptiof that Barillas was a man of ex- verience; Eisner—Didn’t you realize that these letters were mere Spa fusiol Achs—-Because a man comes from a Spanish country he cannot be said to be a Bpaniard when he act Barillas did. Attorrey Eisner did you think that it was necessary to win Miss Blair that Barillas wrote those letters? Ana Attorney Thornton dxorpnd a re- mark that every man who writes s love letter is more or less of a fool. It was to vindicate himseif and his friends, Drs. Perrauit and Cranz, Dimond said, he had instituied suit to recover $10,000 for lezal services against Miss Blair. He learned that sl her sisters and her mother had made affidaviis de- ciaring he had asked them to enter into a blackmailing scheme against Barillas, and he wanted the world 10 know the in- want for anything again and ihe faiwbful | side truill, COLORED DRESS GOODS, | x.n—47 pleces EXTRA FINE ALL- 25¢ WoOL FRENCH BEIGES, i gray and tan mixtures, former | price 75c a yard, on tpecial sale at 25¢ a yard. 1 case 52-INCH ALL-WOOL UNI- VERSITY CHECKS, former price 75\:; yard, on special sale at 25c a yard. 2 cases 38- INCH FINE ALL- WOOL FANCY CHECKS, hand- some colorings, former price 60c a | B¢ pleces 4LINOH SILK AND 9UC wooL FRENCH NOVELTY STRIPES, former price $125 a yard, on special sale at 50c a yard. —3 cases 38 to 44 INCH ALL-WOOL AND SILK AND WOOL DRESS GOODS, ih pinbead checks, chey- iots and stripes, former price 73¢ and $1.00 a yard, on special sale at 50c a yard. | SILK DEPARTMENT. 3-' —1000 yards COLORED CRYSTAL 9C BENGALINE, in pink, lavender, | Nile, beliotrope, gray and purple shades, regular price $1.00, will be closed out at 35¢ a yard. 50¢ 55 —300 yards COLORED MOIRE AN- C TIQUE, evening shades, reguiar vatue 85¢c, will be closed out at 55¢ a yard. 75 —500 yards BLACK RHADAME CTSATIN, 24 inches wide, heavy quality, regular value $1, wiil be closed out at 75¢ & yard. e | 7" —1200 yaras BLACK BROCADED OCTSATIN, small, medium and large designs, regular price $1.00, will be closed out at 75¢ & yard. 7520 yaras CHANGEABLE TAF- OC FETA SILK (a new shipment), extra quality, regular price 90c, will be closed out at 75¢ a yard. 1 00-1500 yards IMPORTED $ o BLACK BROCADED SATIN, regular price $1.50, will be | closed out at $1 a yard. : BLACK DRESS GOODS. | 93—t Risces 385 INCH ALL_ WOOL DCTIMPORTED FANCY WEAVES, marked down from 50c, will be placed on sale at 25¢ & yard. 9565, pioces JEINCH ALL-WOOL 9C ™ STORM SERGE, marked. down from 50c, will be closed out at 25c ayard, 2' —35 pieces 37-INCH FIGURED OC ENGLISH ALPACA, marked | down from 50c, will be sold at 25¢ | a yard. WOOL FIGURED ENGLISH | NOVELTIES, marked down from | 65¢, will be placed on sale at 35c a | yard. | » ¥ ,—2 cases 54INCH EXTRA FINE| 99C ALL-WOOL ENGLISH STORM | NEW TO-DAY-DRY GOODS. A A A A A A A A e A A A A R A A A A A - CONTINUE OUR :GREAT UNLOADINGOF OVERSTOUK It is not surprising that the GREAT UNLOAD- ING SALE OF OUR GIGANTIC OVERSTOCK OF SPRING GOODS has literally TAKEN THE TOWN BY STORM, for never before so early in the season have such STUPENDOUS REDUCTIONS been made yard, on special saleat Hoayard. |on NEW AND FASHIONABLE GOODS and never have buyers been quicker to recognize the advan- tages attending a prompt selection from the thou- sands of matchless bargains offered, a few of which we submit to illustrate the MARVELOUS MONEY- SAVING OPPORTUNI- A good | DOTTED SWISS. TIES AFFORDED THIS WEEK ! NEW SUITS AND SKIRTS. $745 & —LADIES' SERGE DRESS SKIRTS, double lined and richly braided, worth $6; Spe- cial Sale price §4.50. —LADIES’ SUITS, plain colors and mixed effects, Jacket lined with fancy silk, worth $10; Special Sale price §$7 45. MEN’S FURNISHINGS. | At 158 Cents. | 120 dozen MEN’S, LADIES' AND CHILDREN’S ALL-SILK WINDSOR SCAR¥S, | with hemstitched or hemmed ends, in a variety of the newest designs, regular | prices 25¢ and 50¢, will be closed out at 15¢ eacn. At 5 Cents. | | 200 dozen MEN’S EXTRA SIZE WHITE HEMSTITCHED HANDKERCHIEFS, { regular price $1 20 a dozen, will be closed out at 5¢ each. | At 25 Cents. | MEN’'S NEGLIGEE OVERSHIRTS, in a variety of new shirtings, made with banded | collars and yoked backs, regular price 50c, will be closed out at 25¢ each. At 7 Cents. heels and toes, regular price $1 60 a dozen, will be ciosed out at 7}4¢ 4 pair. At 15 Cents. | | 350-—25 pieces 46-INCH ALL-PURE-|132dozen MEN'S FULL-FINISHED HEAVY COTTON SOUKS, rmade with double‘ | walue for 2ic, will be closed out at 15¢ & pair. ; At SO Cents. ‘ | SERGE, marked down from $1.00, 72 dozen MEN'S UNDYED WOOL AND CAMEL'S-HAIR UNDERSHIRTS AND DRAWERS, extra well finished, regular price 85c, will be closed out at 50c each. will be closed out at 55¢c. ’ SHARP &0 DECISIVE CUTS IN PRICES WASH GOODS! New Goods! —New Prices ! _ One-Half Their Value! Lots of Them! Just opened; 8 erand ling FINE WID. WIDTH BATISTE | WASH GOODS. new rich Dres- | den, etc., colorings, value l5¢ yard. Special this week at. Balance of our FINE BOMBAY DIMITIES that were 12)4c yard. On special sale this week a Those 74c YARD-WIDE FINE PERCALES were all closed- out, sowe add a new line of better grades and styies. Special this week ‘e T ine and fair grade WHITE Special this week at. 12i¢ ¥ 20 pleces FINE PINHEAD DOT- 5() TED WHITE SW18S, 42 inches OUC wide. Special this week ... Yard Ladies’ Muslin Underwear. MISSES' CHEMISES, made of heavy musiin, yoke trimmed, regular price 35¢, will be close CHILDREN’S DRAWERS, small | “sizes, made of heavy musiin, fin- ished with ciuster of tucks, reg | 1ar price 85¢, will ba offered at.. | LADIES' MUSLIN GOWNS, made of beavy muslin, finished with embroidery, worih §I, will be @~ | offered at....... A bl LADIES’ FINE MUSLIN GOWNS, finisbed with colored embroidered edge, worth $2 50, will be offered at LADIES' MUSLIN AND CAM- BRIC DRAWERS, trimmed with embroidery and lace, worth 75¢ £ and $1, will be offered at R} LADIES' CHEMISES, made of fine cambric, finished ' with_dsep ruffle, edged with embroidery, 715 Worth $125, will be offered at.... (90 HOSIERY DEPARTMENT. 125 dozen CHILDREN’S FAST BLACK HI?SE_ narrow Tnd cable ; ribs, 1n all sizes, regular pric: Y 212:¢ Pair 15¢ i i Oc $250 a dozen, will be placed on sale 2 100 dozen LADIES’ FAST BLACK HOSE, extra high spliced heels, Tegalar value $4 50 a dozen, will be on sale this week at 100 dozen CHILDREN'S JERSEY RIBBED BALBRIGGAN VESTS (all sizes), drewers to match, reg- ular value $4 50 a dozen, will be placed on sale at 90 dozen LADIES EXTR HEAVY JERSEY RIB VISTS, also Drawers, worth $4 50 a dozen, will be sold &t... 75 dozen LADIES’ HIGH NECK AND LONG SLEEVE RIB WOQOL VESTS, also high neck and short sleeves, in white, gray and pink, worth $12 dozen, will be placed on sale at oa 25¢ Pair 25¢ 25¢ E: 50¢ Each 196 dozen MEN'S UNDYED WOOL SOCKS, made with double heels and toes. extra | 1o: jozon LADIES' JERSEY RIB 'WOOL VESTS, in white ana gray, high neck, long sleeves and bigh neck and short sleeves, worth $12 dozen, will be placed on sale at . ks 75¢ Each Murphy Building, arket and Jones Stregts. Murphy Building, Market aod Jones Stregls. Murphy Building, Market and Jones Strests, Murphy Bullding, Market and Jones Streets. When the original complaint i breach of promise case was drawn Dimond hed entertained ideas of attaching Baril- las’ coffee consignments to Castle Bros., in case he was successiul, to satisfy the judgment. ad Jearned at the same time that the old Atherton residence on the corner of Octavia and California, al- though ostensibly the private property of Mme. Barillas, was probably community holdings. To-day the denosition of Louis Hirsch, as the agent of Barillas, will be heard be- fore Court Commissioner Lawler. WANTS A HEAVY CUT. Supervisors Will Ask That Water Rates to Householders Be Keduced 20 Per Cent. Several mem bers of the Board of Super- visors are somewhat mystified over the manner in which the water-rate question is being handled by those who have been most active in the matter. Gatherings, dignified by being called meetings of the “water committee’’—as a matter of fact there is no “water commit- tee’’—are held and misleading informa- tion given out as the resuits. Several Supervisors have failed to get invitations to these meetings and have been kept in the darkas to the course that is being pursued. The latest “meeting” was beld in Mayor Phelan’s office down town, and 1t was given out that a cut of 10 per_cent in water rates had been fig- ured on. As a matter of fact, Supervisor Clinton stated that he would ask thatthe rates of householders be cut 20 per cent and that the rates to business houses and for irri- eation be materially reduced. He argued that the increase in volume of business would bring the company’s income up to within 10 per cent of what it now is and that the result would be that the divi- dends 1o stookholders would not be cut below 5 per cent. "This theory is combatted by those in a ition to know the real facts of the mat- ter and the results that would acerye from s0 heavy a cut, and it is proposed that no such reduction will be permitted by the board, which is plainly disposed to be fair in the premises, A meeting will probably bs held on Thursday evening to discuss the question of rates. Wil of Frans H. Fretz, The will of Frans H. Fretz, disposing of an estate valuea at $20,000, has becn filed for probate, Itcontains the following bequests: To Jagob Frotz §3000, to Anna Stoehr §1000, io Fhiiip Frols §2000. to Anne K';n:E 9 $2000, to Bresthecker $3000, J man Hospitel of San Francisco $300, to Echaeler the A HAMMAM NIGHT IND THE SEQUEL The Grand Jury Presents an Indictment Against Charles J. Whelan. Witnesses Tell H w E. W. Shaw Lost $200 in Coin and a Diamond Ring. ] Reginald H. Webster, Superintendent of Schoo's, Explains the Cost and Methcds of Census Taking. The Grand Jury yesterday heard the tes- timony of witnesses regarding the robbery of E. W. Bhaw in the Hammam Baths on Post street one night about 1wo weeks ago. According to the story told to the jury Shaw, who keeps a place on Market street, opposite the Palace Hotel, went to the baths along with C. J. Whelan, a railroad broker. The artigles of value belonging to each were deposited, Shaw receiving a key to the box containing his diamonds and fnoney and Whelan a key to aboxin which his own belongings were stored. The jury seems to have been convinced that Whelan went in without anything of value and came out $300 ahead, while Shaw went in witn coin and diamonds and left the establishment without either cash or jewelry. The Grand Jury beard the festimony of M. Caro, the day clerk, and M. Marks, the night clerk at the establishment, Mr. Sbaw, the man who lost the money, also testified. At 4 o’clack the jury went into Judge Seawell’s court and presented an indictment charging Whelan with grand larceny. The indictment was piaced on the secret file. From what can be ascertained regard- ing the testimony submitted to the jurv it does not appear that any witneps testified directly that Whelan took Shaw’s ke; but it is said that Whelan can be identi- fi 4 as the man who got Shaw’s money and diamonds at an early hour in the morning. Shaw gave instructions to be called at 8 o’clock. It was presumed that Whelan, who was feigning sieep, over- heard the remark and vacated the prem- isesat 6 o'clock in the morning. This much is positively known, that when Shaw went for h:s valuables at 8 o’clock they were gone. The case promises to be quite interesting. Whelan is said to he well connectei by marriage. He was formerly an agent for a large commission house and subse- quently a traveler for a wholesale firm in this City, Of late months he has been on the railroad line as a promoter of busine:s in the passenger department. The Grand Jury had the pleasure of listening to Reginald H. Webster, Su- perintendent of Schools, on the subject of the school census recantly taken. The Auditor, it appears, informed the ju: that the demands for the service formed by the deputies The cost of the work last year sum charged for stmilar work this season did not differ widely, so the jurors were inclined to the belief that not a great deal of public money had been wasted. Some of the demands indicated more days charged for than the calendar number of daps from the beginning to the closing of the census, but this discrepancy was ae- counted for by the allowance of over- time. For example, eight hours’ service was reckoned as a day’s work and when a aeputy worked sixteen hours a day he presented a demaud for two days’ work. ADULTERATED .BRANDY, It Is Allowed to Be Labeled as the Genuine Califoraia Article. Deputy Collector Tobin's report as to the fraud in the San Francisco United States Manufacturing Bonded Warehouss Company on Bluxome strest is that he dis+ covered tbat fifteen barrels of California brandy, 104 proof, had been mixed wit eighty-five barrels of raw corn spirits, 190 proof, and the mixture rednced with water to 114 proof and Iabeles ‘‘Pure California Brandy.” Collector. Wise settled the matter yes- terday afternoon by givlng permission to the company to export the stuff to Kng- land on the company changing the label to “California Brandy.”’ Naval Officer Irish said yesterday that he would not allow it to leave tue port, because the mixture would be a death blow to the reputation of California brandies abroad. ————————— Union Stockyard Litigation. gnee of the Union Stockyard Company ot Francisco and others, to collect $8108 55 nd $3719 46 with interest from December 1, 1894, at the rate of 8 per Genta year, com- Pounded monthly. He also demands $200 attorneys’ fees and §907 for cash advanced to Ppay taxes, - Money for J. W. Clarke’s Daughters. The will of John W. Clarke, who died De- cember 8, 1896, has just been filed for probate, He bequeathed all of his $20,000 estate to his executors in trust for the benefit of his three daughters, Natalio, Parskava and Fedora, the income 1o be paid to the widow of the de- ceased. 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