The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1920-01-24

1 p. m. When p. m. arrived the chief
,ssets in that house were a parrot
named "Harry," hired girl and a
few articles Of kitchen furniture. Tbe
.emainder of the furniture and fur.
nishings had been shipped to W. NJ.
Brayton, in Chicago.
The papers came out in big headlines
with a story to the effect that the
Kimballs had shipped away their stuff
to beat their creditors. That was de.
MED by Charley Kimball. Eventually,
the Kimban ticket brokerage office
was closed in Duluth and both the
dashing Charley and his massive mate
passed beyond the ken Of Duluthians,
leaving plenty of creditors and mourn
ers behind.
Charles r. Kimball was a dashing,
debonair gentleman of fortune of the
old school. He wore glossy silk hat,
we'll trained dark moustache, and
possessed the glad hand as well as the
artistic touch. He ever was immacu-
lately tubbed and groomed. Madam
was very large woman, carrying
heavy sail and volubly employing a
broad and unexpurgated vocabulary. In
their palmy days, when the Kimballs
came down the street or entered the
porterhouse places, it looked as if a
couple of walking jewelry stores were
abroad.
When Madam Kimball ducked out
for Chicago with all the family furni-
ture, there was a fine list of unsatis-
fled chattel mortgages, store bills and
judgments remaining behind.
Among the local shopmen were An
drew Jackson and J. H. Isham, local
jewelers. of great note in those days.
Holth Bros, Silberstein & Bondy, I.
Freimuth, Bloedel & Ebeling of Duluth
and Schuneman & Evans of st. Paul.
were prominent mourners.
There were eight pending judgments
and the mixup in chattel mortgages
was something beyond Philadelphia
lawyer to untangle. Only two of those
on the public records ever had been
satisfied. Space prevents an enumera-
tion of those entangled mortgages
May %, 1892, for example, Charles R.
Kimball gave to j. w. Trumble a mort
gage on a diamond shirt stud a moss
agate charm, a gold watch and chain,
crescent diamond pin and a diamond
ring. That mortgage was satisfied but,
month later, the same plumber, plus
diamond cuff buttons, was mortgage6
to J. G.. Ramsden.
Smith, Farwell & Steele, then furni-
ture dealers where Bayhas now are,
together with French & Rainey, had
mortgages on furniture, carpets and
draperies. A Diebold safe had beer
transferred, mortgaged and even equi-
ties in it hypothecated or sold until
wonderful legal puzzle had been ere
ated.
The Kimball fortunes had become SO
low and so desperate that even "Du-
dy," a pug dog, and "Harry," an &C
complished parrot, were included in the
list of mortgaged chattels.
/ If old records ian be credited, Char
ry," the parrot, then was one of the
finest birds of his breed in the entire
Northwest. He was costly souvenir
of bird store experience that Kimball
had had in Minneapolis, before he af-
filiated with the huge Matte S. Kim
ball and before he came to Duluth.
Charley Kimball became infatuated
with the wife of a bird dealer in the
Flour City. She did not reciprocate
his ardor, but that did not discourage
him. He bought out the bird store
and the former proprietor went west
for his health and in search of another
location.
The contract provided that the wife
of the former owner should remain for
a time for the purpose of teaching
Kimball how to run bird store. Short
ly after the husband had departed,
Kimball declared his passion to the
wife, who not only repulsed her ad-
mirer, but absolutely refused to remain
longer in the bird store as his instruc-
tress.
Kimball then set up the claim that
the contract had been broken and re-
fused to pay the remainder of the
purchase price. He quickly got out
Of the bird store game but retained
"Harry" as a precious reminder that
it seemed better to have loved and
lost out, rather than never to have
loved at all.