The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-07-06
FAME AT so MUCH A LINE.

4 Company Organized in san Francisco
to Write Biographies Comes t. Grief.
A special dispatch to the New York star
from San Francisco says: a suit which has
been brought in the Superior Court here by
W. c. BOyne against the History Company.
for salary due, has disclosed some Of the
richest testimony ever brought 10 the sur
face on the Pacific slope. Mr.. Boyne had
been engaged by the company TO write up
the biographies of CALIFORNIA; wealthy and
influential citizens. The work was 10 be
known rs chronicles Of the Kings" IL was
afterward changed 10 CHRONICLES OF The
Builders of the Commonwealth" \ circular
was always sent out 20 parties with money
10 exchange for fame, calling his or her at
tention to the prospective book, and the
number who responded with gust0 and dusto
ran into the hundreds.
The main reason why future generations
should not be deprived Of the biographies OF
these builders OF the commonwealth was
set forth i'm a supplemental prospectus, M
which II was stated that the publication
was not 10 be restricted 10 certain year.
10 was 20 be continuous, sort OF blosraph-
ical perpetual motion, new biographies
being inserted as those entitled 10 place
shall come forward and take it,; aud thus
proprietor claimed, was "a feature
never employed in any similar work, and
gives to this Western world book OF her.
aldry, registry OF true nobility, such as
10 European aristocracy ever enjoyed"
After all this had been thrown before the
Builders Of the Commonwealth B0yne's work
commenced. IL was his duty to talk these
men Of prominence into the pages OF the
neyer-ending book Of biography. OF course
it was expensive, but prospective builders
were told that monuments OF marble would
crumble into dust, but that the printed his
tory would live forever.
There were various prices for which a
man could live on forever in this "ChrOni-
cles of the Kings" Here is the price list
ibe price OF undying fame, portraint oi
steel, a. per exhibit ID, with four pages
print, $1,000; portrait on steel, as per eXhi-
biz +. with six pages print, 81 800; portrait
on steel, as per exhibit +, with eight pages
print, $1,000; portrait on steel, as per eXhi-
bit +, with ten pages print, $500; portrait
on steel. as per exhibit +, with twelve To
fifteen pages print, 5000; portrait on steel,
as per exhibit +, with twenty-five to thirty
pages print, $4,000. Following will be
found some printed instructions which Mr..
BOyne was armed with:
lin some instances. as in the case Of AFRO
other mOnOpOlisis, u may be we'll 10 state
that their life and dOings are being written
up for this work; that the same is bound 10
De published in some form; therefore, is il
not better 10 have II right than wrong
Complete than incomplete! In the case OF
objections TO price, c0st and exclusiyeness
must De the answer. We are browning
only kings"
Fac-similes OF contracts signed by ex-
Senator Tabor. OF Colorado, for $l0,DDo
worth Of undying fame, and eX-tioyeruor
George G. Perkins, OF California for l,0CO
worth, We're shown, and among the other
crowned heads might be n entioned J. u.
Freeman, OF Los Angeles. twelve pages,
1900 worth; Ex-Governor Dow ner, sixteen
pages for only 5000; NJ. j. Church, OF fses-
no, Sie, 900; George II. SESSION, Of New York,
&lOMO; II. W. Corbttt, OF Oregon, 5000;
William Gilpin. OF Denver, secured "A Si0,-
40 fame plot in the work, and SO on through
= maze OF names representing not less than
9o each. The work prospercd wonder
iully.
Tho publication OF these names and the
manner IN which the thousands flew into
the History Company's hands by this means
has created sensation throughout b Q Pa
cine coast, owing 60 the great prom hence
Of the parties mentioned.