1674-2 John LaGorce JOHN OLIVER LAGORCE
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
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November 18, 1920.
Mr. Carl G. Fisher,
Miami Beach, Florida. 1
Dear Carl:
I am in receipt of your letter of November 12th, and am sorry to hear that
you, are having internal, not to say intestinal, trouble at the well known Fisher )
boarding-house through unsatisfactory servants.
I should like to notify you right now that if you don't have this trouble
fixed up in short order, I'll give up my room in your establishment and move my
things to Tank Number Twelve, The Aquarium, and bunk with the Angel Fish:
Well, old thing, as usual you give me a laugh every time I hear from you,
for who in the name of God ever heard of the Japanese Consul at Tokio, Japan: . Do
you know the American consul at Indianapolis, or the Florida consul at Miami: If
not, don't start to hunt for them because you could spend a life-time and at the end
come as near finding them as you would the Japanese consul at Tokio.
Be it known by these presents that Japanese consuls and American consuls
are located outside of their own countries. However, take the pot, you educated
son-of-a-gun;
I sent your namesake, Frank Fisher, over to the Passport Division of the
State Department and they looked through vainly for any passport issued to K.
Nakimura, but they did have a record of five passports during the last several
years issued to five different Nakmura' s, butin no instance was the first letter
"K." So what I want you to do is to see if you can' t get his full name and the
correct spelling; also, let me know just about when he sailed and if from San Fran-
cisco. I have a dim recollection that Mayor Bill Smith at your request wrote him a
letter certifying to his character, etcetera; and if I have that correct data I
can send up to the Japanese Embassy and see if they have any record of him here.
If that fails and I have his exact name the only other thing I can do is
try to get track of him by writing to Edward C. Wynn, Third Secretary of the American
Embassy at Tokio, to see if he can interest the Tokio police or post office in try-
ing to find him. You know I always thought this Jap was an Irishman, because Gil-
bert called him "MacNAma,ra." If he doesn't come back I would like to offer myself
for this job as a candidate, and I fancy after a little training I can buttle up to
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$2500 a year; that is, if you let me carry the key of the wine cellar where you keep
that last bottle of Perfection, and always advise me at least twenty minutes before
dinner is on the table about the guests you have asked and forgotten to speak about;
and further if you promise not to leave in the middle of the dinner saying that you
are just going upstairs to gat a cigar and then go to sleep and forget to come back
and finish your beef stew.
Haven' t you got a snapshot or some sort of a picture of this Jap that I
can send over with the letter, for you know as well as I do that it is like looking
for a�_njgger porter by the name of George who used to work for the Pullman Palace
Car C many somewhere to try to find a Jap in Tokio when you haven't even got his
name right and don't even know that he lives in Tokio.
Cheer up, old thing, maybe you oan gat a little closer focus on this particular
Eighth Wonder of the ;':orld and you bet I'll be glad to help you pin both his shoulders
to the mat.
It has been as cold as the gleam in your eyes when somebody asks you for
money these days, in this neck of the woods for the last week, and I have longed for
the flesh-pots of Miamiland many a time. I am running a story on the Aquarium in the
January number with a series of colored fish pictures, and have given you all the free
advertising I think the freight will stand.
Glad you had a line from Weary and I'll probably lose my well earned home
down there when this fellow cuts loose a line of soiled harmonies at your head; but
anyhow Mr. Fart of the Miami Herald likes me and that's something.
Come on through with whatever dope you can give me on the Jap, and I'll do
the best I can as usual. j
Si c: i. ours,
L/B
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