The herald., 1897-09-27
A CLEVER DAD
Who Manipulated His Sons
Cash to Advantage
BUT FOR HIMSELF MAINLY
AND FINALLY MOVED A SHED
AT NIGHT
BUT FOR HIMSELF MAINLY
While the Stars and Stripes Bid De.
hance to His Offspring-The
Conclusion Of the Odd Case

| One Of the strangest suits that has
occupied the attention of the local courts
has been tried before Judge Shaw this
week. AS a matter of fact there are
several suits, in which father and sor
were pitted against one another. Joseph
| W. Fawks sr., of Burbank sought tc
foreclose a mortgage against Joseph
w. Fawks, jr., and the latter demanded
return Of certain goods on a suit fol-
claim and delivery.
Since time began, almost, the changes
have been rung on the command that
children should honor and obey their
parents, but 1t took the wisdom of Solo
| mon to inspire the quiet tip to parents
not to provoke their children to wrath
And in the case just concluded Joe
Fawks, jr., would not have to travel far
to find excuse for getting wrathy. For
the old man is bird, to use a vulgarsm
and flies high, and since his arrival in
Burbank from the frigid east appears,
from what developed in court, to have
feathered his nest pretty well, and also
as it seems, at his sons expense.
The facts, as developed during the sew
aral days trial, were necessarily iso-
lated, but from what could be gathered
10 supply these lapses it would appear
that old man Fawks has an aptitude for
spending money, while his son Joe has
just as happy an aptitude for making it.
Old man Fawks was a manufacturer
of certain patented advertising ma
chimes in Chicago, and his five sons went
on the road for their fathers firm. Joe
made money for the firm and himself,
too, and religiously and like a good lad
turned it all into the business The
brothers, however, bought their ma
chimes from their dad outright, and all
they made above they slowed away in
their jeans. When Joe found this out
he registered a very vigorous protest,
but his father told him to be good
sonny and work away; that if it wasn't
for the money he was making for the
firm they couldn't keep afloat on the
financial sea. But sonny didn't see
things quite that way, for he considered
the arrangement unfair. Finally the old
man let Joe buy the machines like his
brothers, and thereupon Joe purchased
twelve machines and came to California.
He kept on in California and it proved
a veritable golden state to him, for the
first year he cleaned up $1,000 The next
year he returned to Chicago, and when
his father learned how much money he
had made his eyes grew as big as moons.
"Ah," he said reproachfully "if you had
kept on working for the firm all that
would have belonged to me-" Truth to
tell, the old man was rather mournful
for shortly after his firm collapsed, and
some of the partners cinched him for
all his patents and made him $4,000 in
debt He became sick, too, and wanted
to come to California, and being in prac-
tical poverty, young Joe very naturally
and very properly, sent him out to the
sunny south. The boom" had struck
Southern California, and people had
money to burn, and old man Fawks'
mind became inf1amed. He wrote to
young Joe that he was a heart-broken
old man, but if he would only send him
some money to speculate with that he
knew he could place it advantageously.
The son wrote back that while he was
making good money on the road he was
working hard as horse and didn't in
tend to fulfill the proverb by spending
it like an ass; that he was willing to
trust his fathers judgment and sent him
$4,000, and that they would go shares on
the profits. Following the receipt of this
amount young Joe received a most
promising letter or two, and then ar
rived letter in which the old, man
stated that he had plunked the money
on an option on some land. He begged
for the Lords sake to send another
$4,000, inasmuch as the option had al
most expired and he stood to lose the
first amount if he didn't pay up. The
second $4,000 was forwarded, and then on
the same plea third amount of $4,000
was extorted from young Joe, making
an aggregate amount of $4,000
About this time the old man had to re-
turn to Chicago in consequence of law
suit over his old partnership difficult
ties. Young "Joe" footed the bills and
finally got back for his father his pat
ents and the $4,000 for which he, had been
mulcted. The father then returned to
California while "Joe" went on a busi-
ness trip to London. His stay there was
altogether spoiled by a cablegram he
received from his father in which he
wanted more money or the property
would all be swept away by the board.
The son left England as quick as the
steamer could carry him en- route to Cal
ifornia. He wanted to see just how
things stood. When he arrived in Los
Angeles he was taken out to Burbank
ard shown some jack rabbit land which
Ahis father told him was his. Burbank
wasn't the place then that it is now, and
young Joe" sighed sorrowfully as he
demonstrated with his father. But 1t
couldn't be helped, and he asked only
that they straighten the matter out and
get everything financially even once for
all. But old man Fawkes would not say
what he had done with the money he had
received. saying that all he could do
would be to turn over what property he
had purchased.
The boom" had broken and Joe" re-
turned east. The shortcomings of his
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