Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-28

packages for him and bowed very
nicely and then the trouble began
again, caused by that japanese bow.
Oh, yes, the Americans all got the
bow even if it did bust a suspender
button or two Well. the man tried
to return the bow and away went the
packages once more. III! stop here,
you can finish the picture yourself.
Imagine 1t to the limit for YOU can
nver do it. 1t was the vaudeville
stunt of dropping and picking IN
things done over again with the po-
lice to the rescue and a bobbing bow
accompaniment
Just one more incident before we
leave the iinrikisha men. In the first
place IL WAS known that If trouble
ever began between the sailors ana
the Japanese it would likely start
with the riki men, for ordinarily they
have a tendency when they get
strange foreigner to rob him. there
fore the police had posted the riki
fares to and from all parts of the
cities i'll English. Now the fares
to an American were Very small and
as money was plentiful during the
few hours the men We're on land they
would usually pay the rilli men double
ana sometimes three times the reg
ul;lr fare. This of course caused a
genial feeling and instead of there
being any trouble between these peo-
pie they were the best of friends,
Naturally there We're cases of trou-
BILE here and there but they were
few and far between and not worth
mentioning.
FREE BEER: NO DRINKS.
Now that we have the sailors and
the riliisha men good friends can
proceed with my incident. but pei
haps there is a little more preface
after all. 1t consists in tho description
of the free beer halls. The govern
ment and the cities of Tokyo and
Yokohama decided that all the en-
atertainmcnts should be of the dry
order and when the official entertain
ment programs were first announced
it looked as if the whole public en-
tertainment would be Il la W. c. 7. Y,
on account of this the prospects for
an .orderly' visit We're very bright
for in Yokohama and Tokyo there
are very few saloons or beer halls
which to foreigners are findabe and
the chances were that the Americans
would not like the Japanese sake.
But as is the case with most good
things the Joyous anticipation was
not realized The different beer con-
panies took it upon themselves to
furnish the wet entertainment and
they built at each of the stations. in
the parks. ana other places tcmpar-
AIRY beer halls where the liquid and
ali you want of it too was distributed.
riding passed these places I couldn't
help but decide that the drinking
element in the fleet would all be
drunk one half hour after landing.
But this was not the case
at all One of the officers
who commanded the patrol ut the
dock told me that there was more
,l,;,, he "a Mace
where the fleet had been and at the
same time fewer drunks. This of
course speaks fine for the men and
the natural explanation would be that
as the stuff was free and had to be
drank in the open the men naturally
steered clear of it as few people en-
joy getting drunk while a crowd IS
watching, especially at a time when
the men We're put upon their honor.
But the real cause Of the fcw DRINKS
aside from the one Of honor,
was because of the good work of the
Japanese student Y. NJ. c. A. and
sailors guides. The Japanese ship
sent men with the different Americas
sight seeing squads and this helped
to keep the men moving. But the
star work was done by the student
Y. NJ. c. A. men. Right at the special
landing which was built for the con-
yenience of the feet the Y. NJ. c. A.
y
ing tent This was used as n sort
OF headquarters for all the men. At
this place ostals were given away
and tea served in American style with
milk and sugar, elements unknown in
Japanese teal Here also was the
headquarters for 80 or 100 English
speaking Japanese students who work
ed under the direction of the Y. NJ.
C. A. These boys took the Americans
off in punches. showed them tho
sights, helped them in shopping and !
acted az Interpreters. The Americans
took to these boys furiously, and the
boys reciprocated in this respect as |
they had at last reached the height !
OF their ambition because they had
at last found someone on whom they
could practise their English.
JAP BOYS BIG HIT
The boys were a very circus with
their little prepared speeches, and I'll