Show f COUNT T LEAVES CITY SUDDENLY I 1 De Bressac No N J Longer Favors I Salt Lake With His Ele Elegant Elegant Elegant gant Presence I i II i I BIG SPLURGE FOR MOMENT I HAD HABIT OF BEING SHORT OF FUNDS Whisper it softly Salt Lake has had a areal areal real count in its midst for the last six weeks but the bird has flown Yes he has decamped beat it and disappeared dis disappeared disappeared appeared for parts unknown with a adery very er peculiar record behind him Mm Ii The count was a count because he ho said gald he was because he had credentials and plenty plent of red tape documents to prove It and because he could make a noise like a count all of or which ought to hell heir ome some His official title titIe was Count De D Bressac of Paris France Like many man other exalted personages of alleged nobility the count traveled in incognito InI incognito cognito He posed poSEd here as Robert De p I Bressac It H was wua considered SQ so deucedly de 1 edl vulah In France arid and England for any an member Cl of the aristocracy tb work yolk ex explained explained explained I the count comit that he preferred to keep his hla title shady shad v I However the title end enil of the count was not part about him that was wasI I shady He H did the vanishing act just at nt I the time that a number of well known i 1 Salt Lake citizens were about to close cloe In inon j I on him and demanded explanations The count hit the trail when vh 1 he saw that i I Salt Lake was was getting rather ratter warm for forI I him and his whereabouts wh now oV constitute i I a mystery that many arc are anxious to solve Makes Big Splurge II I The count made u it big bis splurge while here He lIe was suaye and nd debon debonair debonI debonair I air He H could shrug his shoulders and j 1 wave waie ae his arms like a Parisian Just off the i Champs des He dressed like a model just out of a tailor shop and could I wrestle with six languages with fluency The big noise that the vomit count c made malle during his sojourn in Zion was his glor ious promises in regard to the great things he was going to do for Salt Lake and He e was the accredited rep senta i tive ti of a party part of or French capitalists so j he bE said and was in Salt Lake for the purpose purpose pur purpose pose of buying big tracts of asphalt de deposits posits In the southern part of the state The count went up in the air with en every fery time lie he told about the big bl project Evidently he had rehearsed his part well for his stories to the prominent men around town that he tried to get Into the Hie scheme all aU listened alike The facts that he told In his tale were these there The Tile Trinidad Asphalt company compan which was as backed and owned by b a syndicate of French millionaires had for years rears been taking aking t Asphalt out of of the crater of a dead dt ad T ln ln the Island of or Trinidad in the f Caribbean sea The concern however got gut into some diplomatic tangle with the Trin Trinidad TrinI idad government abandoned Its plant and I operations there andr and moved Its headquarters I to Venezuela South America The concern established Itself in Ven zuela as the Ash U lt corn com company pany pang and secured the rights to some rich asphalt beds there on the agreement that I it should pay pa a royalty to the n government j early yearly for the asphalt mined and shipped out of the country President Pr Castro or of according to the they count countr broke his bib promises and kept on raising the amount of the royalty ro each year rear in spite of the protests of or the In Infuriated Infuriated Frenchmen Appeal to Government The French government was appealed to for or protection for tor its capitalists and 1 their business but President Castro ig ignored i nored the requests of France Final Finally the lire refused refu ed to i I asphalt people come across an any longer with the alleged exorbitant royalty demanded by b Castro and he confiscated I Ithe the business and put it out of commission I Diplomatic relations between France and assumed a very verv t grave grae as aspect aspeel peel peet after Castros lastro s final move muE said the I count and International trouble loomed up in the tilt horizon The French Freuh promoters 1 realizing that It would be he useless s to op operate 0 operate erate in that country In the future no matter what kind of a settlement was as rf of I turned their eyes ees toward Hence the count tame came here I He claimed to have hae options on asphalt I beds in southern that were milts chiles la ia I 1 extent and that negotiations for the sole sale of them then to the French promoters were un derway lie HP promised all kinds or of things in the development of the asphalt buss busi business ness of the state and in bringing millions of capital here for or investment the count said salt that tit ne n was as not a to the idea of having Utah capital Inter ested E ted in the project and he therefore tried to get to some of the big bih men here h rp He wanted to break brt ak in right after his arrival here j so o he made his teals official bow to the the h local oral public In the Y V M 1 C c A He went ent there and exploded ll his project He Ile shy sll about abolt telling tilling about his cis dig d self sett and past history He HI com om t that he be was lonesome lone ome and ard nd wanted to gain the entree Into the best b t social c ir I ulna in I f nir ir n n i Taught at atY Y M C A AA AA A brilliant It inspiration possessed the count during one ono of oC his visits to the T Y M 1 C A He H heard that the t tion was conducting condu a class cluss in foreign languages in connection with its Us evening and he be magnanimously offered his services as teacher of the t e languages The Tilt offer was wa made to 40 Gustav White hite Honal director of the Y ii M 1 c A and as Ls s he lit tendered his talent free It was ac He taught the thc evening school for tin tire nights a week for or a period of about one month and und according to Mr r White bite did dirt good work He was Va really well educated V v and a master in foreign languages J as se St sev I j eral citizens who were ere versed in foreign I languages S talked with him and testified to his efficiency I Anyway n wa the count gained gamed the ac al fc 11 2 of several men connect 1 I with the Y M 1 C A got in ht with the Uni club sp spent Bunt nt several set ral spare spar hours P 1 there and met some of the Salt Lak Lake V bankers ban leers He was well WElI with j money mone at first and scattered it right and left with amazing t liberality but as in all other stories his funds ran short sort soon I and the count began to look around for tl some o loos Inn mn iA ho hn He He wanted i to D raise lse s 50 for ten tt n tickets ts for night in the new Colonial ti theatre but was sh shy He borrowed 12 I of ot the amount with which he was going to entertain friends at the theatre party from Educational Director White hite He lit I gave his check heck on the Commercial Na bank for i guarantee of the money Mr Ir White hite became beame anxious a and cali called il I at the Commercial bank with the check heck The cashier told him that tin the tI count did not have any an deposit dt there I and If IC he ever did have hae a cent ent the Corn Com om mercial National never saw it for It ha hac haya never heard of him bim before l I IThe The count met Mr Ir White just aft r I he had come c out of the bank and sus suspecting su suspecting that th White had bad investigated I passed the matter off as a joke Jok and re turned the loan of 12 1 him in the most beseeching language not to I 1 the incident as it would frae frac I ture his hits social standing and ruin the thc i chance of the big bl industry that he was going to establish in Utah I On another occasion he lie wanted to cable cabU i to his father in Russia for pounds in i 1 English money m e but did dill not have the then i 1 wherewithal to pay for the cable message f 1 The Postal Telegraph company like UI 1 11 the sound of the counts word i ord that he i p would make good the cost upon receipt r V of his money and refused refu ed to trust him i Ho He asked Mr 1 White hite to stand good for the fl message but Mr Ir White see it j I Father Worth Millions t The counts father he lw said was i I worth millions million and oWn d bi big woolen I 4 mills mill In Russia where over oer leoo 1000 hands i j i P were employed Mr Ir White secured an another V Vother other Y M 1 C A official to take a chance chance hance I and anti stand back of the cost of or the i iTam i Tam gant The count sent the message messa t but rut that was about all It amounted to 1 The count claimed to have hae 00 on deposit with the cashier cashler of f the University 1 sity sih club that he reach when b h j was w s trying to collect funds to pay nay for tor I his blowout on night The Uni duo people know nothing about that The count took great pride In show 6 Ing a letter enclosed In an ing Inh envelope from France It t was ad J dressed d to the Countess de Bressac his sister so he lie claimed who was waR staying at Point Loma Lorita Cal CAI at He elaborated on hH hi histories histories stories of h her lWI classic face beautiful gowns owns and many man accomplishments s The countess he h said had one ont great reat fail jug irig in that she he was as a spendthrift and kept him at his wits end to supply her with the thousands she squandered He said that he IK h would Induce her ler to come cometo o e eto i ito to Salt Lake Luke during the Christmas i to dazzle society I II I I The count among amonI other oiher things o claimed that he was a graduate of tho the famous Heidelberg university lt in Ger Germany fr many man and had hall a Ph D from there He also alo staid said that ne he had been bet n awarded ed a D I honorary medal m lal bv by b Lord Salisbury for his settlement vork ork in the London slums In I 1 behalf of the poor In fact at It would i take a volume to tell tU of the tIle big things thins I the count wd sad done Jone and md th honors w m min mIn I in his past life if you ou stopped long 1 enough to hear him spout The count It Is rumored made sev several several eral loans loam in Salt Lake on the strength of an allowance of 1 which he claimed I 4 Iwas was coming from London to him on No Nov I 15 He HP hired an automobile to drive drUe in m l I the country count every et r Sunday Sunda and tipped the chauffeur In fact h he was wass I lavish with with Iris his tips Ups wherever he went Interested In Time Tables f fHe He figured Ci in several other remarkable I transactions transaction with men about abot town but most of them smile and refuse to lend confirmation or discuss the di d taIls The Herald git gat busy bu and end investigated investigated gated the tales floating around about the count and the count to look lookup lookup lookup up the time tables He strolled into the Y M I C A last Saturday with rage rae sticking out all over oer him He complained to Mr 11 White bite that thata a Herald reporter was hounding houn him was investigating his past life He pleaded to have the tIle reporter thrown thron off the scent or oe his character would be black blackened blackened blackened ened He was 1081 piping hot bot when he came to tell me about his doings being gated said Mr White hite but I j assured him that he lie had bad nothing to fear If It his hi actions could bear investigation Anyway Anwa the count was among the missing on Sunday Sunda He Hl show sho up UI to teach his Y M L C A class on Monday evening and he did not send notification that he was going goinS to depart del att He lived at The Homestead Xo So tS South Third East Fast street during his stay In town and an anth the th i people there were rather rath r mystified at athis athis athis his sudden disappearance as he gave gae no intimation as to whither he was going or why he was going goins to leave lele The count made madean an awful hit with I several young society ladles ladies with whom he be became quite chummy chumm Ka HI Ii Frenchy air elegant clothes polished manners and and swagger of a man mall of the world fascinated the fair air sex Lex and his conquests were many manyU Meanwhile U the count has departed and his acquaintances are wondering how bow he got away with Jt and what he was angling for It Is believed by those who knew him that he was playing for tor a 8 big bl stake but that his plans pIau were nipped in inthe inthe the we bud bad t |