The morning call., 1894-10-11
EXTREMES MEET.
Noble and PIebs Gould
Not Agree.
A FEUD IN GERKE ALLEY.
Alfred Boles Angered by Too
Much Aristocracy.
FAMILY PEDIGREES THAT COUNT
An Italian Exhibitor at the Fair
and His Wife Are
Mobiles.

That the plebeian instinct cannot SYM
pathlze with the naughty ways of aris-
tocracy was proven by an incident which
took place on the western slope of Tele-
graph Hill Sunday afternoon.
With The Midwinter Fair there came 10
San Francisco a young married couple.
noble on both sides Of the house. one
Italian, the other Spanish. They were ex-
hibitors and with reverses they moved into
neat little tenement at Gerke alley. of
Dupont street, near Greenwich. Aud then
their trouble began. Neighbors knew
them as Herman aud Mrs. BoIliue, but they
knew the neighbors as common people.
Mrs. Bolline prides herself on her family,
and when Mrs. Alfred Boles, the wife of
humble Italian living across the alley,
grew so familiar as to enter the B0lline
house unlimited the door was closed IN her
face Alfred went wild when he heard Of
the indignity shown his better half aud
Sunday last he forced his way through the
same portal with fire in his eye.
"My wife is a lady," be exclaimed in
Italian. 81 don't like you, Spanish, to in
suit her,"
Little Mrs. Bolline, the refined grandee
from AndaluSia, could but poorly reply,
anu UelDR without her nus DaQu'S Dr.
lection was Intensely excited over BOles'
intrusion. The state of her feelings may
be imagined when she engaged an attoT-
ney yesterday to prosecute her plebeian
neighbOr.
Mrs. Bollne's story, as told las, nightly
herself, has romantic color. She fondled
a bundle Of documents that gave family
pedigrees for centuries. and referred to
them repeatedly with considerable earnest
ness. the apparent object being to prove
beyond the possibility of doubt that she
was noble.
Her little home was neat and betrayed
evidences of refinement and taste.
She was reared IN wealth and luxury in
distant ADdausia. Her father is a man
OF prominence and noble family in Spain
Captaln-GeDeral Casa de Cama-nOw liv-
ing retired life after many years of act
i've service 10 the Spanish army. For five
wears lie was general of the Spanish forces
IN Cuba, whence he withdrew only fe3
wears ago. He Travelled a great deal it,
Europe and invariably his daughter ac-
companied him. She was educated in
Paris aud studied subsequently under the
celebrated musician, Lefebvre, in that
city. and followed up her studles in Lon
don. While travelling IN New York she
met her husband for the first time.
Bolline had good looks. an aristocraiic
bearing. fortune and claim to nobility
TO recommend him. His uncle is the Mar
quis Robert de San Msjano. an Italian
nobleman and general who DISTINGUISHED
himself in the African war. and bis house
includes he Marquis de Caraglio and the
Comte de Cartas. The family pedigree
is so extensive 1t is printed on parchment
and runs through several foolscap pages,
giving names of parents in black letters
and issues In smaller type.
Count Boline went to Chicago when the
fair opened and became manager of the
Venetian gond0lerS. Nearly all his
money was gone, out be succeeded in his
business, and listened to representations
from the MidwiDter Fair director-general
and assistant director-general with avid
ity. He came to this city with a Mr. Mo
retti, and together they had the finest ex-
hibil Of mOsaics, jewelry. statuary, etc, in
the Italian section.
I'VE lost $6000." said his wife. owe
were deceived, and now my husband is il
the Tacoma FAR trying to rake up some
thing Of what we lost here"
She admitted that the neighboring Ital-
Ian women are jealous of her because she
is Spaniard. witt mind above the com
mon people.