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- . 1895 Nov 27 - A Suit for Support. Ida T Tarbox has sued hers husband, B L Tarbox, for separate maintenance & support. Hey were married March 7, 188 & Tarbox is said to have deserted his wife of Sep 30th last. It is represented in the complaint that Tarbox has an income of about $90 month. The wife asks that out off this amount she be allowed $60 a month.She also demands an allowance for counsel fees & costs pending the trial her her suit.
Ref: San Francisco Chronicle newspaper.
. 1896 Jan 25 - A Chance for Reconciliation. Benjamin Tarbox of the Reception Saloon has been given opportunity to effect a reconciliation with his wife, Ida, form who he has been living part for some months. Recently Mrs. Tarbox brought a suit for separate support & the action reached a trail in Judge Hun's your yesterday. Tarbox declared that he left his wife in consequence of difficulty with her folks. He had since regretted his action & wrote a letter to his wife asking her t live with him. Mrs. Tarox testified that she had loss all affection for her husband & had no desire to continue his wife. Judge Hunt thought, however, there was a chance for a recon illation & for that reason he dismissed the wife's suit.
Ref: San Francisco Chronicle.
. 1896 Jan 25 -TARBOX TROUBLES.
The Affairs of the family Are Laid Aside by Judge Hunt in Hopes of Peace.
Judge Hunt played the part of a peace maker yesterday between the various members of the Tarbox family. Mrs. Ida E. Tarbox, wife of Ben C. Tarbox, wanted her husband to support her & as he did not do so she sued for maintenance. The Tarboxes have been living apart for some time. They used to live in a flat at 909 Oak street & at 911 Oak, the flat above theirs, lived the father & mother of Mrs. Tarbox. The husband says the parents were always interfering In his domestic relations & finally one day when he had a little quarrel with his wife they came in & fanned the flames to such an extent that be left the home & refused to come back.
Soon after he sent a note to his wife saying that he bad provided a home for her & for himself away from her parents & asking that she come to it, but she refused. She said she had lost all affection for him & did not want to live with him.
This letter was submitted in evidence. Judge Hunt decided not to award the wife any allowance, as the husband was willing & anxious to take her back & he thought a reconciliation possible.
. 1896 Mar 7 - Deaths, Main, in this city, Mar 5, Wm. Washington, dearly beloved husband of Medora Thaolin Main, father of Mrs JC Fitzgerald, Mrs Ida T Tarbox, Mrs Owen H Wayne, Miss Alice L & Stanford W Main, a native of Boson, Mass, Aged 67y & 22d. Friends & acquaintances are respectfully invited to attend the funeral tomorrow, Sunday from his late residence, 911 Oak St.,
Ref: SF Chronicle
. 1896 Oct 22 - Default of defendant was entered by Judge Slack yesterday in the divorce suit of Ben Tarbox against Ida Tarbox. The action is on the ground of desertion.
. 1896 Oct 25 - Divorce Record Complains filed: Benjamin L Tarbox against Ida F Tarbox; by Judge Slack. Ben Tarbox yesterday secured a divorce form his wife, Ida.
Ref: San Francisco Morning Call Newspaper.
. 1897 Dec 15, Wed. - Member of the Bay City Wheelmen & Olympic cyclers gave an interesting session, Bass solo, The Scapegrace, by Ben L Tarbox.
Ref: San Francisco Chronicle Newspaper.
. 1899 Dec 14 - The Lobster quintet consisting of A J Kennedy, Ben L Tarbox, Edgar Sagar, Frank Thompson & Frank Coffin exited applause in the valley as far up as St. Helena & as low down as Napa Junction. The quintet sang for 36 hours & never shed a feather or treated an encore with distain. Their votes were as fresh as the finish as at the beginning. The pure night air of the valley preserves the vocal organs.
. 1901 Jan 10 - Tarbox-Atkins Wedding. ALAMEDA. Miss Clara Louise Atkins, a prominent soprano singer & Benjamin L. Tarbox were married, today at noon at the home of the bride's parents on Buena Vista Ave. The ceremony, was performed by Rev. F. S. Brush; pastor of 1st Presbyterian Church in the presence of relatives & intimate, friends. The couple will resided in San Fran.
Ref: San Francisco Call Newspaper.
. 1903 Jan. 21. Oakland. With reverentia hands aft that remained earthly, of the Rev. Father William; Gleason, the late pastor of St. Anthony's Church, was laid to rest this morning … A special quartet rendered the requiem & the offertory. The singers were Mrs. Benjamin Tarbox, soprano; Mrs. de Sacia Thomson, contralto: J. A. Boronda. tenor; J. C. Hughes, bass. Miss Elizabeth McNally. organist.
. 1905 Aug 11 - Clara L. Tarbox. formerly Miss Clara L. Atkins of Alameda, brought suit yesterday for absolute divorce from Benjamin L. Tarbox, for many years associated with E. E. Parker in conducting the Reception Cafe at 206 Sutter street. The charges in the complaint range from in temperance to cruelty & recite many particular instances of each. The plaintiff also seeks to have the Donohoe Kelly Banking Company & E. E. Parker of the firm restrained from disposing of $600 that the firm has on deposit until the conclusion of the suit. Mrs. Tarbox alleges that on many occasions Tarbox would humiliate her in public by appearing in an intoxicated condition & particularly while the couple were staying at the Hotel Berteling. She claims her husband appeared in the dining-room there several times in that condition.
Another time, while the couple were living at 1710 Page street, she alleges that he returned home intoxicated, abused her & tore her garments, at the same time choking her. Another instance is recited, when it is alleged that Tarbox lay prostrate on a public street of Alameda & was conveyed by a policeman to his mother-in-law's home, where he roundly abused her.
> B L Tarbox appear in numerous newspapers for singing or musical instrument recitals around San Fran.
. 1905 Jan 26 - OAKLAND - The members of St. Andrew's Society & Clan Macdonald No. 79, Order of Scottish Clans, held joint commemorative exercises last night in honor of the anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns at Hamilton Hall. Dr. J. K. Crawford acted as chairman & Judge Henry A. Melvin delivered an oration on Burns! An excellent musical programme was rendered, those taking part being Miss Ella V. McClosky, Mrs. Ben Tarbox.
LEIN ON BUSINESS:
. 1905 Aug 11 - Asks Divorce from the Owner of Cafe, Clara L. Tarbox Charges Husband With Intemperance & Cruelty.
Clara L. Tarbox. formerly Miss Clara L. Atkins of Alameda, brought suit yesterday for absolute divorce from Benjamin L. Tarbox, for many years associated with E. E. Parker in conducting the Reception Cafe at 206 Sutter street. The charges in the complaint range from intemperance to cruelty & recite many particular instances of each. The plaintiff also seeks to have the Donohoe Kelly Banking Company & E. E. Parker of the firm restrained from disposing of $600 that the firm has on deposing until the conclusion of the suit. Mrs. Tarbox alleges that on many occasions Tarbox would humiliate her in public by appearing in an intoxicated condition & particularly while the couple were staying at the Hotel Berteling. She claims her. husband appeared in the dining-room there several times in that condition. Another time, while the couple were living at 1710 Page street, she alleges that he returned home intoxicated, abused her & tore her garments, at the same time choking her. Another instance is recited, when it is alleged that Tarbox lay prostrate on a public street of Alameda & was conveyed by a policeman to his mother-in-law's home, where he roundly abused her.
Ref: San Francisco Call Newspaper, all of the above.
OBITUARY:
. 1928 Nov 7, Wed. Died, TARBOX, In this city, Benjamin Tarbox a native of San Francisco, aged 62 years.
Funeral services at 3 pm The. Nov 8, at the parlors of Martin & Born, 1515 Scott St, Bet. Geary & Post.
. 1928 Nov 8, B T TARBOX EXPIRES, Death Revives Cocktail Route Memories, Held Sway at Reception:
Ben Tarbox is dead. His passing will kindle memories among many carefree spirits who knew the SF of another er - of the debonair city which had a cocktail route as well defined as any other lane of traffic.
Men whose hair is beginning is whiten about the temples, was well as a multitude of old gray bears, venerated BD in the days of his sway. A virtuoso among artists in ambrosial beverages. Ben mixed drinks with the care of an apothecary & exultation of a mystic engage in a solemn right.
formally years before the fire in 1906 he was the proprietors of the Reception bar on Sutter st., one of the haunts of political stalwarts, merchants & professional men. food & drink here were not mere material things. They bordered close to adventures of the emotions. After the fire Tarobx & John E Tobin were partners in a cafe at Van Ness avenue & Geary its. When prohibitions ushered in aridity Tarbox was floor manager for Tobin at a famous dropping place in Maiden lane.
To know Ben. L Tarbox was a tonic. He was a born philosopher, a tireless reader of sound literature & devotee of music, spending many of his evenings at concerts & recitals. 30 years ago he sang baritone in the quartettes of the olympic Club & Corinthian Yacht Club.
He was born in SF 62 years ago, his father being a pioneer who took an active interest in municipal politics.
Tarbox died in St. Francis Hospital Monday night after a month's attack of influenza. Funeral services will be held this afternoon in a mortuary at 1515 Scott St. The body will be cremated.
Ref: San Francisco Chronicle & small photo, man in hat, white shirt & tie. - . -
- Page Two: Robber Hold Out Beneath Tarbox's Saloon:
. 1909 Jan 28 - TRAPPED AFTER HIDING A WEEK BENEATH STORE
. Edward J. Rand Commits 2 Mysterious Thefts & Is Finally Caught
. Author of Daring Raids on Mose Gunst's Cigar Stand Is a College Graduate
. Makes Secret Passageway & Conceals Himself Until Taken by the Police
Hiding for 7 days in a tunnel beneath the scene of two daring burglaries. Edward J. Rand was trapped by Policemen T. A. Kerrigan and E. T. Timbs yesterday. Rand, a graduate of the Kentucky state university, twice raided the cigar store of Mose Gunst at Geary street and Van Ness avenue, and was finally captured after a week's siege.
Rand confessed his guilt to the arresting policemen, but later at the central station made several denials & contradicted himself. lie told the police that 1 had a confederate, and although first unbelieved. This statement was given the color of truth by the mysterious visit of 2 strangers to the vicinity of the crime yesterday. One of the mysterious pair asked for "Ed," and he answered the description given by Rend of his confederate.
. PLANS THIRD ROBBERY
Hand had carefully planned a third robbery one week ago, but lost his nerve when a conversation in a saloon overhead, warned him that he was trapped like a rat in his tunnel. Policemen had been stationed in the basement of the saloon, blocking Rand's avenue of escape and resulting in his capture yesterday morning, when his presence was betrayed by a futile at tempt to cut his way to freedom. Kerrigan & Timbs tore the boards from the tunnel's entrance & Rand, weakened by 7 days' life in the foul, dark & almost suffocating tunnel, made no resistance or attempt to escape when he discovered 2 revolvers pointed at him.
The two robberies, which took place October 12 and October 28, puzzled the police. The burglar left no trace on the first occasion, and suspicion fell on several of the store's clerks. The second time It was found that a section of flooring had been cut out but still It was not suspected that there existed a tunnel, or a space, left by the builders between the ground and floor.
. WATCHES THROUGH HOLES
Rand was formerly night clerk at the Hotel Martinet. In his original confession Rand claimed to have gained access to the Hotel Martinet through a window and then through a door & down a flight of stairs to the basement. He was compelled to squirm through less than a foot of space between the top of a door & a passageway under the saloon. A hole about a foot square was cut into the wall of the passageway by Rand, who thus got into the excavation under the saloon floor. Wriggling like a snake be kept on under the saloon, scraping away the dirt where necesA brick wall separates the subsaloon excavation from the narrow space under the cigar store. Rand burrowed through the brick wall, and after getting under the cigar store bored a small hole through the floor and later another. He used a brace & '.bit. Through these holes he -watched the safe being opened by the manager & learned the combination. Then at night he .cut through -into the store & opened the safe. He carried with him an electric wire and bulb, which he attached to existing wires, getting light. More than $300 of this loot was recovered from its hiding place in the hotel basement.
. FEEDS IN SALOON KITCHEN
Rand also bored holes up through the floor of the saloon & thus learned the combination of the safe there. He had in his possession, when caught, a drawing of a key used to' open the money drawers of the saloon safe. Pinkerton detectives had been watch ing the cigar store, but last week the 2 policemen were placed in the saloon cellar to await developments. It happened that Rand had entered the tunnel that day for a third coup, but overheard the policemen & others speaking in the saloon. This warned him that he was trapped, and he stole from his tunnel to the saloon kitchen each morning after the policemen, who had watched all night, had left. Here he obtained food and drink, but escape. In the daylight was impossible. At night the policemen were present & Rand remained trapped until his capture.
. FEARED FOR THEIR LIVES
Mysterious disappearances of a revolver, liquor, cigars, canned fruits & food from the saloon resulted In the
police being placed on watch. Tarbox & Tobin, the saloon proprietors, lived in fear of their lives, for though they could see no one both said they felt that their movements were watched. Rand's parents, who are well to do country folk, live at Vanceburg, Ky. Rand worked on the Phelan building for a time, but was discharged. He went to work as night clerk at the Hotel Martinet. He had lived at the Martinet since the earthquake. About September 7, Rand disappeared and at the urgent request of anxious parents in Vanceburg, J. Mackie, proprietor of the Martinet, advertised for the missing man. No trace of Rand was found until his capture yesterday morning.
. Photograph & Diagram of Edward J. Rand; the thief captured in tunnel & diagram showing; the course which he took in reaching the safe of the Moset Gunst cigar store - The saloon of Tarbox & Tobin is just over the spot at which Rand was captured. The safe it directly overhead. Rand went down the hotel stairs to the basement, over the partition, through the passageway to the tunnel entrance under the saloon to a, brick wall, through the wall, which he partially demolished, under the cigar store, until the safe was directly overhead, and; then up through, the flooring.
Rand confessed having overheard much conversation in the saloon concerning himself 'while peeking through an opening.
Ref: The San Francisco call. (San Francisco [Calif.]), 28 Jan. 1909, page 16.
. 1909 May 17 - I have sold the saloon at 1101 Gery St, owned by Tarbox & Tobin.
. 1909 Nov 14 - sold to Tarbox & Tobin, 20 Ellis St. Saloon.
. 1910 Jun 14 - Temporary Injunction. The tearing down of the frame building at 20 Ellis St., which is the saloon to Tarbox & Tobin has been halted yesterday by Pasquale G Cirella, owner of the bootblack stand occupying part of the frontage. Tarbox & Tobin sold their saloon to Ryan & Dewitt who are preparing for the erection of a oder place by demolishing the frame building.
Research & transcriptions by PJ Ahlberg. Thank you. - - -
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