Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-02-06
No Idea of Leaving


notoriety which has occasioned my
creditors to be rather importunate, !
have denied myself to all visitors, but
have been transacting my business as
usual through my manager. 1 am feel
ing in the best of health and have no
idea of seeking foreign climes or of
eloping to Mexico"
Mr. Barbour laughed heartily as he
spoke of some of the Stories which had
been written about him, and said:
DO you blame me for keeping away
from some OF these interViewers and
creditors for few days? 1 expect,
through my agents, to have everything
adjusted smoothly and until this is done
/ am not counting publicity
Giving the reporter hearty shake of
the hand, Mr.. Barbour went into the
Douglas building to make visit upon
one of his friends.
While his intimate friends admit that
Mr.. Barbour is financially embarrassed,
he will meet every obligation if given
time, they assert, and that is one rea-
son why he has been advised to keep
away from interviewers and creditors.
Forced to Resign
For a long time Mr.. Barbour has
been known to be a heavy and some
what rash speculator in the real estate
market and he has handled some heavy
deals on insufficient capital.
He has not been dishonest, however,
in any way, saysthose who know him
best, and his associates hope to soon
adjust his affairs in a satisfactory
manner.
Last Thursday Mr. Barbour was
forced to give up his connection with
the Los Angeles Dock & Terminal COM
pany because the directors of that en-
terprise felt that Mr.. Barbour was taxi
ing altogether too prominent a part in
the direction of the big company and
that in his uncertain financial condition
his name did not lend strength to the
operations of the company.
Although the meeting al which Mr..
Barbour'S resignation was asked for
as chairman of the board was supposed
to be a secret one, in some way it
leaked out that Mr.. Barbour was no
longer connected with the Dock and
Terminal people and that led to sensa =
tional reports in the papers and resulted
In his creditors descending on him III
a body.
Believes Barbour Is Honest
Last Evening Dana Burks, president
of the Los Angeles Dock S Terminal
company. said that he had no reason
to believe Mr.. Barbour a dishonest
man.
How much he owes, have no man
ner of knowing" said Mr.. Burks. But
l have the fullest confidence in Mr..
Barbour as a man and cannot believe
that he would be dishonest and flee
from the city. He has no reason for
such action.
His connection with our company
was not so prominent as some would
think.
Barbour was instrumental in SELL
ing to the copany the land that it
acquired about the proposed harbor
and he was given block of stock as
commission. In all his dealings he
was always strictly upright, but in his
private business he was a large specu-
lator and took a good many risks.
when the directorate saw that Mr..
Barbour was putting himself forwa I'd
too much and that he was being quoted
too much in the press as one of the
leaders of the company, it was thought
best to have him step out in order 10
conserve the interests of the company.
Says Others Are in Danger
THAT IS all there was to his leaving
the Dock and Terminal company and |
was very much surprised to read in
the papers of his financial difficulties
which apparently were precipltated by
his removal from our company.
Il have always been "A friend of his
and still regard him as a man of integ-
rity, although do not think his judg-
ment the best in the world. However,
there are a lot of other men in the
city doing business under similar condi-
tlons to those under which Mr.. Bar
bour has been working and deprcs-
sion in the market would send a lot
of them to the wall"
AS a matter OF fact Mr.. Barbour has
never had the handling of money In
connection with the exploitation of the
Los Angeles Dock & Terminal COM
pany and 1t was merely through his
own personality and manner of pushing
himself forward that he became so
prominent in the affairs of the COM
pany. All checks for land and all
money paid In to the company has
gone through the hands of the treas
urer, G.. G.. Ames of Redlands.
Business men who are we'll informed
say that the affairs of the company
have been run In Il conservative man
ner and have been backed by men OF
large capital.
Fell Short on Big Deal
According to Don Porter of Porter &
Sutton, at whose law office a creditors
meeting was held yesterday, Mr.. Bar
bour Is a strictly honest man who
becnme involved too deeply to pull out.
''Personally believe that Mr. Bar
bour has always been upright In his
dealings and honest In his intentions,
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