The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-23

-tdOmeSlck hans, the Blue-eyed Ddne.
And that Will be the route of Carl John
Bengtzen Of 5l5 SOmerby avenue, il his
glittering dreams come true. Carl John,
who was Carl John in the south
ern Denmark province Of Saroe,
is Charlie. ] in the Salt Lake directory,
and in Ely, New, where he now is en-
gagged in developing the more material
portion of his prospects. That the others
may be ''of the stuff that dreams are
made Of his family and friends admit,
and a leading banker of Salt Lake as
sunes, perhaps from previous hard eX-
perience. Charles John Bengtzen has a
missing father. There is a Charles John
BengtZen in CoOlgardie, Australia. who is
well equipped with all the requisites of
modern millionaire, plenty Of credit
and acquaintance at the local banks and
shadOwy past.
Whether Charles John of Coolgardie,
etc, viii prove to be the lOag-lOSt father
and kindly complete this romance of three
continents in Harry X. Blaney style by
wiring Charles John, jr., of Salt Lake,
etc, to take the Pacific Mail get off at
Honolulu and take the first turn to the
left, and have some fatted calf appro-
pTiately and mOdernly stuffed with bonds
of the Bank of England, remains to be
seen. w. S. Mccormick, a banker who
has not sat in the peanut gallery for
thirty or so years, refuses to furnish
the necessary railroad and steamship mo-
bility just at present He is the kind
of angel who wants to be shown.
Toward whatever conclusion the later
acts may compel the action of the drama,
Mr.. Mccormick has already fine scenario
to develop for a very limited sum of mon
ey, and his sporting and dramatic in
stinct may finally conquer certain care
full reserve. Mr.. Mccormick can be put
on record, however, as being willing to
contribute to the trip TO the Australian
prospect If the Ely prospects turn out
to be worth the steamer fare from San
Francisco to Australia.
An Unusual Proposition.
In his interview with The Herald last
night Mr.. Mccormick was unable to re-
call much of his talk with Bengtzen, be-
garish color of Bengtzens touch to dr.
ferentiate it from the 5,6S7 others he re-
ceived that day. He has, however, in
| his mind the fact that it is not every
day that an eX-car conductor walks into
his office to pledge prospects in Ely for
the price OF an investigating trip to or
toward a supposed father in Australia
He at Onre started to investigate both
prospects The result is not yet announced
beyond the fact that an individual of
the right name seems really to be in
COolgardie and favorably known to the
local banks there. Mr.. BengtZen of Salt
Lake is now in Ely trying to pry some
sufficiently convincing samples out of his
more tangible prospects. On his return
he viii try to convince Mr.. Mccormick
to loosen for the necessary railroad and
steamship fare
The Bengtzens live on Somerby ave-
nue. To get to Somerby avenue cross
the Rio Grande tracks, walk toward the
River Jordan and turn TO the left Don't
ask anybody on the way, or you will
never get there. As good a way as an
other would be to go UP in q balloon TO
a point some few thousand feet above the
city and drop out. You would be as apt
to light in Somerby avenue as anywhere
else. and that's better chance than you
would have by starting from the CEN
ter Of the city and asking car conductors
or paSserS-by.
AS to Somerby Avenue.
Somerby avenue is a trail of dust eight
squares for anywhere either way. The
nearest object of interest are the car
shops of the D. & r. G.. They are in
the middle distance. There are a dozen
Teady-mad e-looking brick houses in dense
groves of dusty sunflowers- On one side
of the street there is about fifty feet
milton Of the street department seems
to stop. The cement walk has hoof-
/ prints, human and dog. embroidered I'm
| it in the early making, common to the
/ efforts in the outskirts of Salt Lake. 1t
/ is a most unsafe bas relief.
| There were a couple of kids in blue
denim overalls making pictures in the
/ thick dust of the road There was smoke
1 from the shops, and Mrs. Bengtzen sit
/ ting on her front porch weaving over it
/ all the magic spell of maybe" and shap-
/ ing it into a shady hillside by the Cat
/ tegat looking down from the Burgess
+ home on the hill, bought with Australian
/ gold. She was mentally removing the
/ little boys overalls and reclothing them
/ from the best that could be bought in
/ the ChristiansbOrg strasse, when brought
I painfully back to Salt Lake City by an
| interrupting reporter.
Carl and l did not want to get the
news printed N the paper yet, as we are
not sure of the exact amount of our in
/ heritance or that the elder Mr.. Bengt-
/ zen will admit the justice of the case
We are thoroughly assured, however. that
/ there is a large amount of money in
VOlved, although not certain of the
amount. We have papers from Denmark
| fully proving, we think. every point in
/ our case. Mr.. Mccormick has seen them.
l am sure that if he wishes he will be
/ able to make the necessary arrangements
| for us to get in touch with Mr. Bengtzen
and to get the money. If we do get IT, 1t
| is possible that we may go back to Den
/ mark
Il am not myself Danish woman. My
husband was a Dane, but is now a natu-
| rallied citizen Of the United States. I