The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-11-16

Every one in Honolulu who
lived or visited in Portland, Ore
gOn, five or six years ago remem-
bers an elegant restaurant at the
corner of First and Oak streets,
kept by Ben Fireman.. 1t was the
place the people went to after a
meal at a hotel in order to get
something TO eat, for Ben was the
restarateur OF the Pacific Coast and
his fame extended from Alexan-
dria, Egypt, where he was born,
all along the Suez canal and
through Europe and the United
States. But Portland was not a
good place for a man who had been
used to catering to the tastes of
crowned heads of Europe and the
Ward McAllisters' OF the effete East,
so he visited Honolulu and started
business up Nuuanu valley, with
in the rain belt, and ran a hotel
with a cuisine fit for kings. But
he was too near the Pail, and too
far from town, so he moved down
town and took a position at the
Hawaiian Hotel and worked for
the tailors. Worked for them in
the sense that he fed the guests so
well that they outgrew their clothes.
Then he retired from the hotel and,
like Micawber, waited for some
thing to turn up. And it did in
the form of the great and only, the
undiscovered Leonard - that is, |
his ways had not been dis
covered up to that time and |
it appeared to Freimann that he
was the very thing he had been
waiting for. To quote Mr.. Fret
mann hes my meat"
Leonard it will be remembered |
came here from Chicago and took
a cottage at the hotel and began
the business of telling people all
sorts of things about themselves
and their business and social rela-
tons. He was not here a week
until the town was Leonard crazy,
and the five spots dropped into his
till quicker than he could count
them. Mr. Freimann was not en-
gagged in business then and he was
a little anxious about his future.
Leonard's fee was So but that was
compared to the results of
a knowledge of his future would
bring so he dug up, so to speak,
and had a seance with the Chicago
wizard. Freimann speaks twelve
lead and alive language and when
he wrote as many questions in as
many languages as he had in his
pocket Leonard realized for the
first time in his necromantic career
hat he had struck a book-maker
hat he could not beat. Freimann
laughed at him for a moment and
that they double up and
20 through the Colonies-also the
people. They left here together
and Leonard was not satisfied
% let Freimann do a portion
# the work, he wanted him to do
I all, while he would have a real
lice time playing funny games
With cards. Fireman. didn't like
he work. because he started out to
10 a straight neutrality-suspicious.
without any cards thrown
n. But Leonard persisted until ,
hey reached Jay town, in Austria
Ia, where he beat an old gentleman
ut of five hundred dollars, and an
xcited populace beat Leonard out
f the city limits. Mr.. Fireman.
hen became Professor Fireman.,
nd, from recent advices, he is tell
ng more people what to do in order
o succeed in life than Leonard ever
bought of. He was recently inter
.iewed by a newspaper man in Z
townsville, Australia, and the ac-
cunts published by the man who I
'riemann treated show clearly that (
he professor can make dates with
S much proficiency as he used to
salad. There is not a trick or a
urn that Leonard did here but what
fireman duplicates with the great
st ease, and the young men who {
verdrew their bank accounts try :
ng to catch on TO the method may
ONE day have an opportunity to 7
~ it with Professor Fireman.
The newspaper man, after de- :
cribing his introduction to the
Professor tells the readers his ex-
as follows:
Now my magician seem plunged
q profound thought. His face wore
ne troubled expression OF q man who
: trying hard to understand some j
ming which his mind cannot quite
rasp. He stared at me intently, and
slight throat noise which escaped
Inn reminded me Of hypnotic expert
noes. InvoluntArily ] smiled, as the