The San Francisco call., 1898-12-24
THE YELLOW MONSTER
 AT THE EXPOSITION
DE GARMo CRAY DELIVERS ONE
 PARTING SHOT.
No One Dreamed That He Had a Wife Being Driven to Suicide in
 Southern California.
Oakland office San Francisco Can


 90S Broadway, Dec 23
 Ihere was evidently a little jealousy over the management of the Oakland Exposition. Charles Sometimes Count) de Garmo Gray says so in a letter he has written to the directors of the exposi- ton. It is all contained in one sentence. but it suggests a volume The last sen tence in the letter reads as follows: But surely the eleven directors should not be led by the jealous mouthings' of one of their number
 The jealous mouthings" are referred to in the letter as being an article contrib uted to local paper, the author of which Count de Garmo Gray believes Is Director Craigie Sharp.
 Craigie Sharp is secretary of the Board of Trade. He is a man of great hustling ability, and has managed the last two ex- positions. Prior to the opening of the exposition this year there was a feeling that Craigie Sharp was not the man for the place. It was thought he did not have sufficiently advanced and original ideas and so new man was sought He did not require much seeking, however for De Garmo Gray, armed with volume of testimonials, appeared, and very soon the directors, or some of them, were infat- uated with him. De Garmo soon wanted to control the directors. and on one or two occasions what Is commonly known as the riot act was read to him. One of the directors is Craigie Sharp, and Mr. Gray always avoided Mir Sharp whiIe Sharp never went out of his way to avoid MT. Gray.
 Two days after the show closed an item appeared in the local paper headed Sharp Says I Told You So.' " The ar ticle then went on to state that Mir Gray had been a huge failure as a manager and that the exposition as compared with the eXpoSitions managed by Craigie Sharp was a worse failure. Although MT. Sharp denied writing or suggesting the story, Gray at once attributed it to his rival.
 This article. which is well suggested by it's title, was the beginning of the bad blood between the directors and Gray that ended in the threats contained in the jealous mouthings" which is Charles de Garmo's parting shot at the directors who undertook to discipline him.
 In his testimonials to the directors it is stated that De Garmo Gray has success fully managed dog shows cat shows, pet shows, pure food shows, Irish fairs national shows, baZaars, Hebrew festi- vals. international eXpostions" and at least twenty other kinds of shows. Oak land directors are wondering what his next prospectus will contain regarding his experiment in Oakland.
 While here De Garmo Gray lived three romantic months. No one knew that he had a broken-hearted wife starving in Los Angeles. who was ultimately brought to suicide. He did on two occasions ob- tain an advance from the directors on the ground that he wished to send money to his wife, who was sick in Los Angeles but according to the story of the woman and her friends none of the money reached her.
 But De Garmo Gray did not lack for womanly attention, although his wife was starving to death. He had several lady acquaintances in this city, some of whom were probably not contaminated by the acquaintanceship. But there was one young lady to whom he was paving particular attention, and to whom he sent bouquets frequently. This young lady was considerably attracted by the insinuating charms of Gray. and. was much surprised when she learned of hIs wifes suicide. Had this acquaintance ship developed there would probably have been repetition of the sensation created tn San Francisco by the breaking off of the engagement of Mir. Williams of South Africa 10 prominent belle of the metropolis.
 It is also recalled that Williams and Gray were acquaintances for years in South Africa.