The San Francisco call., 1897-01-21
TR|BULATIONS
Of AN HEIR
Young Mr.. Hall Solicited
to Aid Authors and
Inventors.
An Oregon Lady Would Found
an Institution for Sweet
hearts.
The Graphic Vision of Dramatic
Author With Pay of Twenty
Eight Scenes.
81 wonder if he's an inventor"

81 wonder if he's an inventor"
perhaps he has new method for turn
ing soap into gold"
"If he only had long hair he might be a
playwright"
well. whatever scheme he has on deck
he appears harmless, anyway"
These and a chorus of like rem arks
greeted casual visitor as he stepped into
the mail order department OF the En-
porium and asked for Ira Jarman Hall
yesterday. They were delivered by a
group of merry. laughing girls. who were
all attention and exchanging sly w1nks
Immediately upon hearing the magic
name of Hall.
Mr.. Hall is the young fellow whose
wealthy father in England has just dis
covered that he has q fourth son, and is
now on his way to California to lay claim
to him. The whole story was published
exclusively in THE CALL of a month ago.
Since that time young Hall has learned
that the path of one receiving recognition
from father worth $26.000,000 is not
strewn with roses. HIS very existence
has been made misery by people with
schemes needing financial assistance in
order to attain perfection, and peo pie
with philanthropic ideas miles abe ad of
their age.
Hardly mad the doors of the Emporium
been opened on the day after the publica-
tion of the story when a nny-looking
little German appeared post-haste and in
quired for Hall. He found him, and
thereupon unfolded tale wonderful to
hear. 1t loses none of its entertaining
features by repetition.
In broken English the visitor explained
that he lived on Third street and was a
test medium. He had just written a
thrilling play that would insure not only
fortune to himself, but to any one who
would render him the pecuniary assist
ance necessary to put it on the market.
The sum required was just $4,000, and Hall
chance.
The author of the play was referred to
Sign-Artist Cohen, with the explanation
that he was Hail. legal adviser and would
hear the story. With the play, a huge
roll of manuscript, under his arm, the au-
thor clim bed the stairs to Cohen's apart
ment, and in the presence Of q small army
Of employees proceeded to explain the
literary value OF his production.
ut is a wild, lurid melodrama," he
poured forth in excited tones, land con-
tains five acts and twenty-eight scenes,
and is entitled 'Labolfski, the Counter
feiter.' All, gentlemen, the scenes are
wonderful
An examination CT the article in ques-
ton showed that it was a tale OF Russian
counterfeiters, in which certain New York
rogues played leading parts. The villains
talked of Russian and American money at
the same time and all of them in two diff
ferent languages.
One sublime scene represents a creek
running across the stage. Three counter
letters got into fight in small skiff
white crossing the rivulet and were
stopped by kick in the side delivered by
Laboliski.
Another priceless dramatic gem repre-
sented woman in the act of dying and
while IN the death agony being. cheered
by the song of a buffoon, "Shell Be an
Angel BY and By
These scenes formed only two of the
valuable features of the play, and only
$1,000 was needed to .boom" 1t. In ABOUT
hfteen or twenty years the writer would fall
heir to $50, 900 and would REIN burse Hall, if
it were not success. He mas about worn
out his shoes in countless trips to consult
with Legal adviser Cohen since that
time.
On the occasion of one visit the man
with play went into a trance, franti-
caliy scratched his hair into picturesque
proflsion and exclaimed:
What do see? Ah, see in the misty
distance room. 1t contains a vast safe.
Your father stands at the safe. He
opens 1t. 1t is full of money.
See! He takes from 1t a marriage GER
tlficate and record of the family births.
Now he discovers that one son is missing.
HE says that he will go IN search oil
him. and take him TO his bosom. 1t is
grand! 1t is beautiful"
This was only the beginning of the
heirs tribulations. Peope wishing assist
ance have simply stormed the young man