DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

The Yokel son amity Travels.

By ELIAS, , BERmAN.

GREET INGS
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"I wish I could travel to and from ily. Vither had the brim of
lrooklyn by airplane," exploded my scones straw hat protruding from
upper of his left shoe, but that
!fiend, the playwright.
't interfere with his appettte ap-
"Longing for new experience ?s" I 6
stly. He was finishing. the re-
neried, sipping my coffee. I never P,
, as I
pastrami sandwch
flowed my friend's volcanic seizures in '', of a from
the trail. Each little
interfere with the even tenor of fated
ty way.
1:"Z.onAllwaosf ItetersPfa'firtitnitgy hot
"No," he strapped in answer to my
fafree:pui except poor Tzippah. She
o
UCS11011, "just for plain decency."
tfenielodwi :each the rest of them by
As a playwright he should have iollnihi :cross both feet of a stout
een calm in the face of any caper- w
gwealyn.lenn who disputed her
right
of
ood
deal
lice. Deep knowledge of human
curse
ion. lam afraid the poor
zings ought to make any man toter-
It. • • • But my friend was tolerant
p eeved by Tzippah
my in his plays and in his writings.
rice
terry d
kn.lia.:
," I mu
ealities made him nervous.
had corns
'
'r , had
l ohetyheods,
serve:sit
"Has your landlord raised the rent absently-m \d
it 'Tzippa
she ever
again?" I inquired naively.
r egulations
all the Ira.
"I'm the legitimate prey of land-
' that a straight
lords, that would't bother me,"
'She belie
l Ietogwilleol.
stance be
he thundered.
the shortest
g'sel,k'eitecnd dole-
ad
"Has a manager turned down your points," explaA 'd t 0 3%
But i y • t w tf rtiirecatniv.
? i ,
latest play?"
r i I:
mean
n n'
"That's the privilege of the breed," fully.
fully. "I think
he countered. "Ilesides"—this came You see I la'
with a great deal of gusto—"most Yokelsons tear th rough the line for
managers arc fools."
‘g•Yolu.
"Then what happened?"
a temporary."
only
temporary."
I leaned back and used my straw
"You mean—
'tat as a fan. We were sitting in the
"When the train ‘g e h :d ir i to
n ain
l‘Y
sa :I
:gi
gs;
garden part of a Second avenue cafe ed to get into one of
ci nediately
n the shadow of a few potted shrubs i front of father. Het th n im Something
et rgi eg
1,,
hat screened us partially from the took a fancy to
m
'
street but not at all front the heat.
about my personality'
wedge.
"Did you ever see a human gim- think I would make a I
coa t a s a
et ?" my friend asked earnestly. "I Ile used the back of my
inysett
net him and his whole family just steering device. I
four
along
, .
ow."
propelled with wonderful r.
tr , One
"A rival dramatist ?"'
the aisle of the crowded ,
gn the
"No, not that kind of bore—the feeble effort I made to res ,
• to its
calthing, an animated corkscrew, a glory of the entire achieverne ur laidlle n t l
tember of the Free and Independ- dynamic originator elicited fro,
me
nt Order of Sappers, a grutk worm only a growl. He held or'
sa t
ith an uncanny power or burrow- until he was through. Thrli'
released very suddenly. I fns;..
In wife of my acquaintance with self without a prop behindcri rt
my friend's extensile vocabulary, I backward into an indignant i.riz
was puzzled.
lap. I apologized with a T.
: ' ca
"You don't mean a Yiddish actor smile but lost my balance andral
trying to borrow a quarter?" I ask- ed to the floor.
ed half-heartedly.
'On rising, I noted that al '«
"No, I mean a Yiddish button-hole Yokelsons were seated and flint,
maker with a family of six young- air about them was thick wittrx,
sters and his wife Tzippah bringing words. But father, bless his ,n'
up the rear."
did not mind. There was a inn
"What did the offending husband of smile on Iris face as lie downeyl,
Tzippah and the father of the half last of his pastrami sandwich. II
dozen do?
unbuttoned his vest, threw the 1.2
"See this rib?" pointed the play- hat brim that still clung to his ^o
wright. He almost dislocated it, I out of the open window, and bee,
was at the Flushing avenue station ed. Whenever I think of that fr
of the Broadway line when I saw ily; I wish I had an airplane."
that aggregation come up. Sher- ,,, "That's a marvelous troupe," I
man's march to the sea had nothing firmed. "I wish I could see th
on them. The station was a bit in action."
crowded because the trainwaslate.
My friend looked at me hard.
Button-hole YokeIson—let us call
'1 mean—at a distance," I hastei
him something definite and decorous ed to add.
—led the charge, followed by the
"Go to Brooklyn at any time in
six little Yokelsons and Tzippah, the Canarsie train," said my friend soon
wife.
what enigmatically. "You'll se
"In their wake was ruin and deso- them."
lation. A slot machine was knocked
Then as an afterthought, "You'
down and trampled on by the whole also feel them."

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IgARNETT ISAAC BARNATO, in the Transvaal, compelled him to tar
generally known as Barney Bar• turn to South Africa to adjust matted
nato, whose rise to fabulous Wealth but the strain was more than he cool
was the marvel of a generation ago, stand. He hoped to regain his healt
was reputed to be worth eighty-five by a sea voyage to England. He wz
million dollars at one time, and at the in the care of his wife and two nurse
time of his death in 1897 his fortune He succeeded in eluding his awn(
was estimated to be over thirty-five ants and in a state of frenzy jumpy
million dollars. Mr. Barnato, who overboard and was drowned on Jun
was known as the English diamond 14, 1897. His body was recovered an
king, promoter and speculator, was he was buried in the NVeilesden cone
born in London July 5, 1852. His tery, London. When gold was di,
father, Isaac Isaacs, was a general covered in Kimberly in 1886 he si
dealer, having a prosperous business cured possession of the larger part c ,
in London. Barnett and his only the region. Mr. Barnato was an un
brother, Henry, were educated in the failing attraction as an amateur act°•
Jewish Free School. Spitalfields, of especially as Matthias in "The Bells
which Moses Angel was the headmas- a part which he frequently took der
ter. Mr. Barnato was first an actor, ing his early days in Kimberly. NI
then a diamond dealer. In 1871 his Barnato left a vast fortune, when I •
brother, Henry, went to try his for- died, to his wife and two sons, 1,v1
tune in the diamond fields of Kimber- survived him.
ly, South Africa. Having very sten ,
One of his sons, Captain Isaac ;a
der means, he raised the necessary Barnato, of the Royal Air Force,
money for his scheme by being a con- don, died at the age of twenty-fl
jurer and entertainer vnder the name years, leaving his widow, Dorot"
of H. I. Barnato. lie became a die- Barnato, nineteen years old, the iv
mond dealer later and advised his sensor of many millions. Mrs, Ba;
brother to join him. Barnett sailed nato is the daughter of Joe Lewis, th
for Capetown in 1873 with £50 in his former right-hand bower of Barrie.
possession. Finding that his brother Barnatn, and Fanny Ward, the actress.
was known as Harry !tamale, he de-1 a Broadway chorus girl. who married
cided to adopt the name of Barney Joe Lewis, the diamond broker, will'
Barnato.
a million dollar annual income, who
Barney and his brother began busij c be one the idol of a Broadw ay ,e
nes, as diamond dealers in 1874 under which kicked the lights out of clan
the name of Barnato Bros. and in 187t,' deliers and lit them again with five do'
Barney, who was worth about fiftee n lar bills. She had two town mansion
dollars, purchased four' a palare near Buckingham, and jewe
thousand
claims in a Kimberly diamond trine, that were the envy of duchesses. 01
which yielded him nine thousand dol- of her fads was an ermine walki ,
lars a week. Hr visited London in suit and a tailor-made sealskin, SI'
ugh t her pearl retie by the yard a
1880 and established the firm of Bar-
nato Bros., financiers and diamond in the sensational divorce by N ,
dealers. When he returned to Kim- Lewis. which took place the lath
berly lie established his first company, had settled two hundred and fifi
the Ramat° Diamond Mining Com- thousand dollars on Dorothy at the
pany, with a capital of five hundred time of her birth and the same mom
and seventy-five thousand dollars, at the time of the &voter.
Caotain Isaac Jack Barnato was in 1
which ;mid an annual dividend of 36
per cent. He enjoyed the confidence the Royal Air Force that bombarded
of the public to such- an extent that Adrianople and Constantinnele
five and a half million dollars were came home on Inflow'' ,
ee , dee orate st
subscribed in one day to one of his en- peen
terprises. In the siinie •• ■ •ar the late Service ,
Cecil John Rhodes floated the first Dr '^ n-
Beers Diamond Mining Company.).
coming a rival of Ilarnato je
amalgamation of that corm
the Kimberly Central
cooling a partner
Rhodes. Mr. B.
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