The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-18
SOCIETY OF BOGUS BIMBERGS
THE ONE IN JAIL SAYS HE'S ONLY
PRESIDENT,
And That the Object Of the Organization,
Namely TO Get Cash on the Bimberg
Credit. viii he Pursued Just the Same
STORY Of Farian's' Assisted Exile.

Gredit. Will he Pursued just the same
STORY Of Fsrian's' Assisted Exile.
A meeting OF the brothers Of Myer r.
Bimberg. the button man and theatre
builder. was held yesterday afternoon In
Bins Office in the contractors shanty In
front Of he new Stuyvesant Theatre In
West Forty-fourth street. The purpose
was to a k appropriate action on the re-
Gently renewed activities Of George Farian,
the young man with the highly cultivated
nerve and the rcd hair. who looks Ike all
the Blmbergs. and most like Everett, the
| youngest Of the family. In the absence OF
BIN, who is selling Elk buttons at the Phila-
delphia convention. B. X. Bmberg pre-
sided.
The meeting was opened with the presen-
tation Of several checks that arrived in the
afternoon mail. bearing the name OF Everett
Bimberg, which Everett said he had never
seen before It closed with vigorous reso-
lutions which express the hope that Farian
will get all that 10 coming to him when he is
arraigned in the West Side court tomorrow
morning, charged with scattering checks
! signed "Bimberg" all the way from Brownies
chop house to a garage at Forty-ninth street
and Broadway.
We've got the red headed son of a gun
this time, and hope we can have him put
away long enough TO have a little peace
said Chairman B. X. Blmberg.
News Of the decision OF the Bimberg
brothers was hastily conveyed to u Mr..
Farian In his apartments at the West Side
court prison. Farian pulled out a pocket
mirror. observed that he still looked like the
Bimberg family. and then laughed.
"0h. shucks." he observed. why. say,
friend. il / don't beat this. and Of course
l will, IL will be the ~sorriest day the Bim-
bergs ever saw. Do you know. when ! am
riding up and down Broadway In a gas
wagon it's kind of hard for me to think
up good stunt To work. but when I'm in
jail l can figure out more schemes for
getting money out OF the Bimbergs than
I would have time to work II I lived a thou
sand years.
But, say, old chap. you might just pass
the word along to the Bimbergs that I'm
not the only man that looks like them.
There are three OF us, and while I'm in
Jail thinking up the ways TO ~exoavst the
coin from the various Bimberg bank ac-
counts the other three fellows will be out
workin' EN-. Why, l never knew l looked
like the Rimbergs until | was walking down
Broadway one day and a. big redheaded
man stopped me.
Hello. Bimberg!' he says.
My name amt Bimberg,' I says.
1T amt? Come along with me, son,
and I'll tell you how you can live a life Of
ease and comfort on the strength of your
family resemblance to the Bimberg BROTH
ers.'
That's how l found out I looked like
the Bimbergs." said Farian. Since then
I've been looking for other chaps with
mugs like the Bimbergs. l found three
dead ringers and some more not 50 good.
and we've organized the Society Of Almost
Bimbergs. OF which | am president. You
don't think the other members of the 90
ciety will be idle while the president Is in
jail. do you? Nay. nay"
b. h. Bimberg said yesterday he had his
doubts about the big crowd Of imitation
Bimberes. When Fsrian was first arrested
his mother. Mrs. Fucker, Interested a
Tombs court lawyer and asked him IL he
coul int have young Farian sent out a the
country. The lawyer got in touch with
Assistant District Attorney Pinchot, 10
whom va rious complaints against Farian
had been made, and had Farian put in his
custody, with authority TO have him ar
rested on one OF the complaints If he got
unruly.
The lawyer made a tour of the State
street shipping offices and found that the
tramp steamer Susque hanna. which. was
about TO sail from Atlantic Basin for Africa.
needed an assistant cabin boy. He took
the Job for Farian. telling him il was an
assistant .purser- that the ~Susquehanna
wanted. When Farian had been properly |
persuaded that i was either jail or Africa
he decided on Africa.
The Susnuehanna was 10 sail on july q. |
! the night before the lawyer dropped around !
to the home Of FarianIs steIfather in Fast
Ninety-fourth street to wish the boy a
, pleasant voys &c. He found there a letter
from Farian thanking him for his kind
ness, but saying that he had changed his
! mind about going TO Africa. The lawyer
went to the East Eighty-eighth street sta
| ton and had a general alarm sent out for
Farian.
At 2 O'Clock that morning Farian's step
fathsr ~talephoned that the youth had sud
denly come home and was packing up his
things preparatory to moving away. The
lawyer hurried around, stopping at the
station house for a half dozen police men.
They descended on young Farian, who at
onoe said that he had decided 10 go TO
Africa after all.
The lawyer and a couple Of policemen
took him down to the Tombs court and ex-
planned the case to Magistrate Finn. who
sent his probation officer along with the
lawyer to see that Farian embarked on the
Suaquehann8. hen the youth had
boarded the steamer he was put to work
scrubbing decks. The next morning he
| found that his rising hour was S O'Clock
and that his first duty was TO make the
fire for the cooks. About two days as as
sistant cabin boy was enough for him and
he rebelled. Then the captain took him
in hand and he was laid up for a few days.
In due time the Snsquehanna got TO Africa,
and Farian went ashore with the intention of
giving the Susquehanna the slip. hut he
found that no one over there knew the
Bmbergs, and there being no way of raising
money he waited and went with the steamer
when she sailed for En- gland in December.
From December until February Farian
tried 20 devise means Of getting back here
| from London without working his way. but
| the Bimbergs didn't seem 10 be well known
In London either. so he finally came back
on a cattle steamer.
II was several weeks ago that he brought
! himself TO the attention Of the Bimbergs
again. Everett got a letter from a clothing
Arm telling him they would be pleased to
send the summer suits he had ordered, but
! had found he had no account in the bank
10 which he had referred them.
Hes at 1t again, said all the Bimbergs
in concert.
A jewelry firm sent Everett word that
thew had made the designs for the buttons
~ haJ ordanaI and Wara awaiting hia