The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-09-06
BERL|NER
TURNS Up
The Genial Sol and His
Instructive
Yarns.

1
| the steamer City of Columbia fame
| struck town again on Monday after
noon, renewed old acquaintance TO
about twenty-four hours, and depart
to New York Sol was a second-clas
passenger aboard the army transpor
| Sheridan, having come from Manila
where he has resided ever since leav
like the Arab of old, quietly folded hi
tent and stole away.
| Despite the fact that Sol Travelled
| second-cIass, ha showed letters and
newspaper clippings to prove that he
| can be rated as wealthy Philippine
sugar planter" on the Coast on the
| ground that he is heir to a legacy OF
| 800, 900.
Sol did not quite look the part OF
a rich man when he blew into town
for his collar was frayed and his shirt
| bosom displayed sundry dark tobacco
stains as well as others which accu-
mulate with travel. Furthermore, ii
would seem that although his brother
died some time in February, accord
ing to SOILS statement, yet the heir
has been so careless as to delay start
ing for the old town of Gotham until
the middle of August. Sol hasn't re-
ceived red cent of that hundred thou
yet. The father of ia Petite Rosa"
who, at one time sang on the Orpheum
stage, and whom he now declares, lis
the only living American artist in the
Philippines" displayed to his wonder
ing friends yesterday, a copy of the
Manila American of June IS, which had
big headlines telling of Soils windfall.
The American gave the following state
ment of his luck:
Sol Berliner, Mayor of Sheepcamp
Bay, Alaska ex-chief of police of the
Benguet railroad and later a detec-
tive in the employ of the quartern1as-
ters' department, thrice killed-once by
cholera, once by the head-hunters of
the hills and once by the fiendish WELD
ers of the bolo in the Dios dos coun-
try of the island of Samar-and local
character of renoWn, has overcome this
varied assortment of vicissitude and
has come out On top with flying coIors
and hundred thousand dollars legacy
to his credit in New York City"
+. j. Sullivan, a sailor on the Wis
cousin and Sol Berliner are old friends.
Sullivan recently brought to Sol let
ter which had been placed in his hands
by Soils son, in New York City, prior
to his sailing for the Philippines, with
the request that he search for its
addresses in Manila and place the let.
ter in his hands, volunteering the in
formation that repeated attempts to
communicate with his father had fail
ed to disclose his whereabouts.
The letter was opened and this handy
man, so cool in all emergencies, fairly
lost control of himself as he read it's
contents informing him that his broth
er, Julius Berliner, who started life in
New York City as boot and shoe deal
er and afterwards entered Wall street
as stock broker, had died, leaving to
MN and his, neat fortune. To his
wife, julius Berliner, who died at the
age of SO years at his home on 18th
street, New York, left a legacy of
S25O,000 to his adopted daughter $780,
600, and to his brother Sol 100000
The letter which Sol claims to have
received from his son. was a model
of its kind, and was signed by one
Charles Berliner, Alderman 18th
Ward, New York City" The new Of
fetal had not yet learned to spell his
title.
In this letter the son is alleged to
have written his papa about julius
death and requests, and the choice of
Sol as administrator.
The son, in this letter, hopes that
Sullivan, to whom he would entrust
the letter, would find Sol, his father,
and winds up with Papa, dear papa,
come home to u.s. This would indf-
cate that Sol has been negligent in
looking in upon his son, or even notify
ing him of his place of residence
Then Sol showed another letter, which
he stated was in answer to q cab. egram
he sent to his son, asking him to raise
ten thousand plunks on his share of
the estate. This letter sets forth that
it is impossible to comply with this
modest demand for cash, as under the
laws of New York, no estate that had
not been administered upon. could be
mortgaged, and there was nothing to do
but for Sol to come back home to New
York and administrate.
$50 you see l am coming into a for
tune" said Sol to an awe-stricl1en cir
Gle of friends. You know 1 am build
ing a $4,000 theater at Manila, TO be
the finest structure in the Philippines,
and, of course, we must have good
people to play there. So I am on my
way to New York to get a company of
players together to take back with me-
There's good business down there for a
good theatrical combination. Rosa, my
daughter, who played in Honolulu, is
the best ever in Manila. She's a great
singer"
And then Sol wandered off toward
Nuuanu street to look up some more
of his old acquaintance behind the
swinging doors.
The arrival in Honolulu of the Ber-
liners-Sol, Mrs. Sol and Rosa, their
daughter-was much-advertised affair
in September, 1898. They arrived on