The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-19

manipulations and the rigging" of a
| stock market.
He was good natured. very nervous,
| f-OpiniOnated, generous with the poor
! and took good care Of his relatives. Like
/ all great men he had his weaknesses, he
! believed himself a second Booth or Irving,
| and he smoked Malta cigarettes.
| He was snrawd TO degree, knew the
| value of men 10 matter financially speak
| ing). and had the faculty OF attracting
men to him.
"Barnato abhored diamonds as personal
ornaments, and never wore a stone, de-
spite the fact that he practically owned
the Kimberley mines. In his office In pa
mond Square, stood wooden buckets along
the walls, filled to the brim with uncut
stones. On the entrance Of a customer
one of the clerks would take a pail, as he
would a bucket OF water, and pour the
diamonds on a table, whose edges were
slightly raised.
Then Barnato would sort the stones
with lightning rapidly and pick out the
kind wanted by the customer. He could
take 1000 uncut stones. and in half an
hour appraise the lot to penny.
when on the floor of the stock exchange
or when a crisis was at hand, Barnato was
as cool as the proverbial cucumber. He
never lost his head in a financial emergen-
-.
II went through the panic In the autumn
Of 1889 and the spring of 1880, and have seen
shares drop from 500 to 100 cents in day.
1t was then that Barnato showed his char
acter. While everybody else was half
frantic and unnerved, he sat in his chair
in one corner of the exchange, smoking
his cigarette and giving orders 10 his
brokers. Time and again he saved the
day by taking all the shares offered for
sale-transactions that amounted to sew
eral million dollars a day.
During the fbrpa wears I knew Bar
nato he never showed any signs of mental
weakness. His was a strong personality,
with a strong and Gear brain, though an
uuedoCated one, behind il.
He was not a heavy drnker, neither
did he smoke to excess so that if his sui
eide was the result of insanity it must have
been due to congenital courses.
Some Of the Barnato claimants live in
this country. A Cleveland, o., dispatch
says:
In a two-story frame building al 40 Per-
~ street, lives Mrs. Jacob Blackman, a
handsome woman. who claims to be the
daughter Of Barney Barnato. Blackman
is a cigarmaker.
Mrs. Blackman said to the correspond
ent tonight: Il believe Barnato killed
himself TO escape meeting his first wife,
who recently started for South Africa to
expose him and claim her rights.
Barney Barnatos real name was Bar
Yagistoff, Sovalska, Russian Poland, for
ty-seven years ago. In that town he mar
ried my mother, and they had four chill
dren, three sons and myself
Some years after his marriage my
father suddenly disappeared from home
in Poland. My mother traced him to
Bristol, England, and induced him to re-
turn home with her. When they reached
Hamburg on the return journey my father
disappeared again He returned to Bris-
tol, where he remained some time man
aging a tailoring establishment, and sent
monthly remittances to my mother.
Soon afterward my father disappeared
again, and my mother ascertained that
he had gone to South Africa, where he
was travelling under the name Of Cohen
After short stay in the gold country
he returned to England and told fabulous
tales Of the riches of that part of the
world
He had considerable money at that
time. My mother made a second trip to
England but she was to late to see my
father, who had returned to South Africa
Soon after that our family came to the
United States. My mother vowed that
il she could ever get enough money to-
gether she would go to South Africa and
hunt my father down.
Several months ago we employed a de
tective on the case. After an investiga-
ton he advised my mother to go to Jo-
hannesburg and prove her claim to a
share of Barnato's wealth. She sailed
for that country six weeks ago"
Mrs. Blackman has not heard from her
mother since she left this country, but
believes Mrs. Balebtzki had met Barnato
and demanded her rights as his lawful
wife.
They think that Barnato, being inform
ed by her that she had the proof. set sail
for England to escape her for the time be-
ing. and that the fear OF exposure so
weighed on his mind that he sought es-
cape in death.
Mrs. Blackman expressed the utmost
confidence in her ability to establish her
claim as an heir of Barnato. She SAYS
her father had certain peculiar marks on
his body which she would be able to recog
nize al a glance.
Mrs. Blackman and her husband expect
to STAR for England next week
Townsend Percy recounts I'm the New
York World some interesting reminlscenc.
es of Barnato In the following:
BarnatO was already a considerable per-
sonage and a coming man when l first
met him. / was employed upon the Lon
don Financial News and he frequented
the places I'm London which were the re-
sort for the better class of Bohemians. IL
there be any classes in Bohemia. At The
time he was a prosperous diamond broker
in Hatton Garden, a rich man, but with
no desire or opportunity, had he the So