The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-07-27
IN. QUAD" AND FAT CONTRIBUTOR"
A Fishing Party That Parted Their
Friendship Up to Date


Friendship Up to Date
never knew just how mean man could
BE- until the "Fat Contributor" who used TO
be a very, very funny man on the Cincinnati
press, came along and asked me- to go up
north on a fishing excursion. / loved and
reyerenced that man for years before l saw
him. On the way up 70 Petoskey l was
willing to die for him. He was 80 modest
so bland-so open hearted and gentlel sat
and looked at him and wondered If heaven
had an angel TO compare with him, and
when I thought that Abraham Lincoln had
been e'ected president In place Of the Fat
Contributor, I wondered what the public
could have been thinking Of to permit such
q wrong.
The next morning after reaching PetOskey
was up betimes to inquire about the best
fishing spot. ] soon discovered that the Fat
Contributor had been an hour ahead Of me
He had rented the only dock from which fish
could be caught and fenced it in He had
engaged all the fish worms old Petoskey had
on his land and had bribed the only boy
owning minnow net not to catch bait for
any one else. I met him coming up to the
hotel through the sand, and 1 called him a
bully boy and explained under what obliga-
tions b, had placed me-
"How9 he asked.
"Why, wen have all the fishing to our
selves"
sWe"
@Of course"
There's no we about it, 1 have made
my arrangements and you can make yours. :"
"And am not to fish with your
"Not that 1 know Off
had to submit l sat on the bank and
saw him pull in bass and pickerel by the
dozen, and If moved down on him he uttered
the most awful threats that you ever heard.
On one occasion he drew his revolver and
menaced me by firing over my head The
bland, gentle, angelic Fat Contributor had
become hog. When remembered how
had reverenced his name and praised his
talents 1 kicked myself.
"You needn't look so ugly about it" he
said to me as he came up to the hotel with
fourteen fine bass. "When go fishing per-
init no one to interfere with me- You can
go over to Elk rapids or Traverse City and
hire dock for yourself, and you'd do it If
you weren't so selfish. You seem to want all
the fish in Lake Michigan It's a wonder
you didn't get up at midnight and hire the
whole lake 'front.'"
looked around for a way to get even
There was an Indian up there named "Man-
Who-Fell-In," and he had dog about foot
high and seven feet long. The owner would
tie this canine to a stake, and let any pers on
throw stones at him for n cent a throw, and
every time you hit the dog you got toy
basket full of maple sugar. 1 went over to
see the red an, and without stopping to in
quire how he fell in or how he got out, l
hired him and the dog for three weeks, with
the privilege of contracting for three years
We started in that evening, and it was the
proudest moment of my life when the Fat
Contributor wanted to pay for 100 throws,
and was blandly informed that it would
cost him 81. 900 throw. / let everybody in
Petoskey have a shy at the animal and the
press of St Louis, Louisville and Chicago
were presented season tickets. We took the
dog down on the shore, and the Fat Con
tributor had to give up his fishing. He'd
have given more for ten throws at that
lodging dog than to catch a whale, but it
was not for him
"See here" he said, as he came to me one
afternoon, "what have / ever done to you
that you should use me thus"
Nothing" I answered, "only, when l
charter dog permit no one to interfere
with me. You can go over to Chicago or
Milwaukee and hire a dog for yourself.
and you'd do it if you had any manhood
about you"
We never spoke after that. We tSok the
same train home, but did not sit in the same
car-M Quad in Detroit Free Press