Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-11-16


s, a,,ention and has had his name o'sh.
he ~ ,,om pole to pole through the
one ,i.,,, ofthe press and otherwise,more
ni'u ~ parney Barnato the king OF the
, ,.g., -" a, he Is nicknamed throughout
-. Tnslish.speaking world
''t IN. lie such Of it as is known to the
.,I,c reads like a romance in this "hu
. ,i,eleo age. Born in the Whiieehapel
.,,.,. Of the East end OF London the
,siid Of a Jewess Ia certain London
~ has been printing that he is OF
w " n not royal birth on the parental
II he was dragged up in the regu'a-
,,or Whi,eehapel style where the sur
81 ol the fteSt is the rule and
,h. exception. Barney finally at
,ss.se of eighteen or twenty decided
hv,, more remunerative fields OF
.,,on than the London streets afforded,
.sd 90 started Storage" for Cape
I'm South Africa, and driited into
Cranberry diamond fields with the
S y, half crown in his pocket.
Ii,,. he was successfully a dealer in
IA cloe."a copjurer, and incidentally ,
- al, he was not above improving the
mining hour in the fascinating pastime
.S,bs three card trick, or more vulgar
ss, perhaps more profitable thimble
,i,ens. But then every great man has
, na,, which envious maleonients de-
IN, IN yentilating and otherwise embel'
.'sIng in a manner detrimental to the
eb,rae,sr Of his more fortunate brother
n. that as II may, Barnato started
mail Hafir general store on the out
,li,,, OF Kimberly and near the diggings,
,nd rom then on he began to assume
ain, He 10, hold OF few diamond
Slaims which he sold for a fortune
Then gold was discovered at Johannes
bgrg N the Transvaal-Barnato 40, MS
slr,ebes on the famous Witwa,ersran,
md heigh, Presto. the lad who was
,,o,th Two bob and a tanner 100 cenisl
, lsW wears back, now, TO take the con
,,yatiye London Graphic, counts MS
millions no, by the tens but by the hun
J,sds his fortune being estimated as
eng over 500, 600, 600, thus placing
Nm, An the front ranks OF the ten richest
men OF the world at the present date.
man who can with utter sang
ifoid throw 10000, 600 into the stock
market 10 bolster up his own stocks and
preyent a panic, as he did IN London a
month ago. Is an individual not TO be
snee.ed al. Such man Is the king OF
Me KaiIirs. Yet despite all his mann
moth wealth the one wish OF his lille Is
Denied him, viz, to mix among the
creme de Ia creme OF society, ior as yet
every London club wherein his name
Ia, been presented for membership has
Win A consistency worther Of better
cause blackballed the successful lie
brew to a man.
Whenever hear Barney Banato's
name mentioned my mind goes back to
me 6fst time heard II. IL was In SO,
/ had been knocking around Cape Col
any for some months and "one SUM
mefs eve, "as the song says,saw crowd
Of boys including myself occupying
me back seats OF algalvanlzed iron stfuc'
lure designated out oil courtesy the Por,
Elizabeth theater. Most OF the stfuc
lures in Port Elizabeth and Cape Col.
ony generally are constructed OF galya-
nited iron and resemble an amateur
Hades, under midday SUM- We
were expeclantly awaiting the appear.
anee OF the Wheeler Comedy and
Speciality Co. whose subsequent diver
SONS would nauseate Sanpete
Dramatic Club Frank Wheeler, the
slar, essayed to sing comic song and
incidentally drown The patter OF the
thunderstorm upon the iron ROOT, but
hiled signally in both. Finally Miss
"a Somebody came out and sang a song
with refrain something like Berthe,
do you love me as you used TO dor
Bot the boys we're evidently ''on to- the
COY maiden and substituted the word
Barney for Berthe, carrying an indepen.
dent chorus with touching and telling
emphasis that fairly scandallzed the
better portion oil the audience. The
police we're summoned, but as they
were black, their reception was even too
hot Tor hem, used as they were to the
tropical elimes. To max a long story
short however, the municipal excnequer
vas enriched several pounds sterling
The next morning; and when Barney
Barnato was pointed out to me a few
days alter looked at him with more
than usual interest. Birnato was con.
s.defed fairly well oil then.
Anyone to look at him would not
imagine that Barnato was the iinancier
he is In TACT there are men today who |
Affirm that he Is simply the victim oil a
streak OF unparalleled good luck.hie has |
! anything a weak lace, with waery
blue eyes, puice nee glasses, sandy hair
and moustathe. with decided Jewish |
profile. lie is further credited as being an
unusually illllerate man SO much SO that !
10 his early career he had to trust to his |
lnends' versions OF documents. That |
he Is smart in worldly sense, however,
lheie Is no question, as the following !
incident will demonstrate, which was
VENT ated in the Cape Argus during 81,
when BlTnato sailed for England to |
commence the operations that since
have made him famous. He owned a
certain piece OF property, that wa. not |
on the Randi Reef but adjacent Alter |
getting their fingers burnt, investors |
i,sl' the above hole severely alone.
However after Barnato had been on the |
sea about week, IL got rumored around |
hal the white employees in this aiore-
said hole were buying in stock right and |
Iel but KEEP, mum as 10 what had been |
struck SO well did this ruse succeed |
.na' when Barnato reached England |
lNo weeks later he saddled dear old |
gll able Johnny Bull with the above
sloek, and cleared, 1t Is estimated a cool |
quarter OF million by the transaction
aloGe The world calls that smaIt.
whist others call II by another name, II |