The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-01-27
BARON lie GAYS
RATING HAS ARRIVED
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our association the trade prices ii will
leave you sufficient margin and also
give you an inducemeht to do business
with us here, and at the same time be
relieved Of q considerable amount of
book debts, as we will be willing TO
pay you cash.
f'We therefore shall esteem IL
great favor if you will kindly reply
by return of post, so that we cab stop
our head Office from purchasing the
stock. OF course, you understand that
unless you can see your way clear to
recognize us on the herein named terms
we naturally have no other alternative
but to order our stock for the members.
Awaiting your reply, we. remain,
dear sirs, yours most sincerely, w So
WESTERN AUTO
as "SUPPLY co.
"CHAS. LIE GAY, Eastern Manager.
"E, II. LEWIS, Local Agent. ("
HIS Rating" Comes.
In the meanwhile the inquiries set
afoot by Mr.. o 'Keslin, through the reg
nlar channels of commercial informa-
ton, brought their returns. The Coast
agents of Dun and Bradstreet reported
chat they knew - Baron" lie Gay very
well. His interesting history, as told
in London, Paris, Cairo, Bombay, Cal
eutta, Colombo, Singapore, Shanghai,
Manila, Hongkong and Toxic, was all
on file. San Francisco had missed him,
and his former associates expressed
pleasure at hearing that he was SO close
at hand. The list of his " companies -
would reach around corner. Through
the correspondence school method he
had started associations galore, and
one similarity ran through them all.
annual dues were necessary to member
ship paid in advance. One of the
credit houses who Supplied some of the
commercial biography of the baron said
that these dues depended upon cireum.
stances - the 'baron'sD circumstances
and the gullibility of the suckers who
put their money up. The complete
biography of the baron, as supplied
from the mainland and now ON hand
deed. " s,.- -
Not Registered Yet.
In the meanwhile, it might be worth
noting, neither the association that is
70 reform trading in China nor the
" Western Auto Supply Company" has
gone through the fOrmality of register,
ing with the territorial treasurer, as
required by law. Whether either has
taken out license with the county
treasurer TO do business is not known.
Report has it that he has collected some
amounts from various Chinese firms for
shares ia his Trading Reform Associa.
ton and from innocent chauffeurs for
membership in his Western Auto Sup
ply Company, in which, he states he
expects TO have'Fabout 1000 members
within the next two month";, At ten
throw this would give the baron
sl0,00O--only fleabite.
Baron" lie Gay attained more than
the usual prominence last week by be.
ing one Of the leading guests and pro.
moters az the recent wedding of Mrs
Phypers TO Charles A. Stewart, which
wedding resulted in the murder and
suieide at the Seaside Hotel on Tues
day Of last week, II was his Young
son, after that tragedy, which filed an
afternoon newspaper man up with an
account of how he had stared the muir.
derer out of eountenanee and rescued
little Bubbles, which account is correct
except for the fact that Bubbles was
not rescued at all and that it was too
dark att the time to more than dmly
see what was going on, let alone do
any hypnotizing. .s