The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-02-02
M|QUE FISHER
REM|N|SCES
Finds That Buying Things in
the Orient Is Very Much
of an Art.

twenty pound man on the Islands fifty
yards, next Sunday at the BAH grounds
for bet in any money, pesos, Mex,
yen or American money That is
Mique Fisher challenge and here is a
chance for some of the fat men to take
him up.
Mique is very proud of his short dis
lance running. He tells of beating
rickshaw man in Yokohama and of
nearly winning similar race in Hong
kong only that a flea bit him on the
leg half way down the course and he
had to stop and scratch the place.
The genial baseball impresario is
trimming over with "reminiscences of his
Oriental trip. He sums the matter of
buying in the Orient very suecinctly:
eff they take your money, you re
stung,' he says. Apparently he spent
large part of his time in following
the other members of the party around
on their shopping expeditions, finding
out what they had bought and then
| duplicating the purchase for about a
tenth of what they had paid.
One Price Stores.
H. l.. Baggerly, the sporting editor
of the San Francisco Bulletin, who &C,
eompanied the players as official press
| correspondent, is accused by Mique
| of going into stores and inquiring il
| they were of the 'sone price" variety.
| On receiving an affirmative he would
pay any price asked. This method
caused Mique to be@very eontemptuous.
"Say,' he declared, "Baggerly paid
four dollars for an aluminium box made
in Pittsburg l went in and bought
the same thing for thirtyiv cents
Mex and then got stuck He also
says that Nick Williams bought ring
for $175 and that he went and got the
same kind for one copper cent. And
even at that I guess they handed it to
me- Mique sums up the situation
finally by stating that eff they ask
you seven dollars for an article and you
pay twentyfv cents you are bun
coed. -
Some Experiences.
mere are SOlIle tAPtfIcUcSS NhldoO
tells them himself. 'sFirst thing Bag
gerly and I did when we got fairly
landed in Yokohama was to 60 to a
tailor IS shop. We saw sign Dan
Long and thought that was good so
we blew in. We got measured for a
couple of suits each and an overcoat
and got through at twelve o clock. We
! asked when we should come to be fitted
and they told US half past one. You
may not believe it but we went theirs
after lunch and those suits and over
coats were all ready to be tried. They
! had seven men working on each. suit.
When we paid the bill the whole thing
was less than what you pay for decent
suit of clothes in the States.
ssNobody works in the Orient. 1t
you sit down to play game of bridge
YOU have a Jap boy alongside to shut
! le the cards and hold your hand for
you and you just tell him what to play.
! 1t s 'boy' here and boy there all the
| time and I forgot how to tie my own
| necktie
''You take it at one of the big
| cricket games there, not soul does any
| work but the bartender. When the UNI.
pire calls for a batter he generally wan
ders over to the pavilion to find him
and gets a gin sling. Oh, it's great
| life all right.
Taken for Soldiers.
ssYou talk about taking chance with
a baseball team, why say, there were
] places we went to where some OF the
! Cinnamon thought there was war on
when they saw us parading the streets
in baseball uniform. They thought the
BOYS were soldiers. Honest.
1--WE played one game of cricket IN
Hongkong and, while we got unmerci'
| fully beaten, the boys made a great hit
with their catching. Several of the
.ricketers told me that, if the base
ballers had a little practice so that
! they could learn the game, they would
! beat any team in the world.
"We had one great linguist in our
party and that was Devereaux. he
| learned so many languages that he has