The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-10-07
The New Liquor Law.
From Tuesdays Daley z. c. A.

From Tuesdays DAILr +. CA
The editor Of this paper visited, last night. all
the places III town which are licensed for the re-
taii sale OF hquor. We are obliged to withhold
a detailed report until tomorrow, but
may state the result of the Investigation
10 be that the Hawaiians, who Yesterday
entered On the same privilege as to
the purchase of liquor with the foreigner.
used that privilege freely, but with discretion
and decorum. At the houses thew freouentsd no
disturbance of any kind occurred, and it is the
universal testimony OF the saloon keepers that
such would not have been the case had an equal
number OF white men been served. There were
i've arrests for drunkenness ND to 10 30 m
four OF which, Hawiians or ~half-whites were the
offenders; a number far below the average of
Saturday nights and holidays un3er the old lew.
we car heartily congratulate the country on
the manner III which the natives have used their
emancipation from an invidious and CALLING dis
%tinction.
TIE boom in the trade of our liquor saloons,
which followed the change of law, appears to have
been quite e%phemeral, the business done ON Tuesday
being little more than the usual average. Certain
favored establishments did q large trade on Mon
day, every kanaka who is not a ~teetoller deeming il
his duty To himself to visit a liquor saloon. and
celebrate his emancipation from the class dis
Junction raised by the old law. Each saloon
favored by the natives was crowded as soon as its
doors were opened to them by the issue of license
under the new Act. Fer the most part, however,
1t was the places where there were other attrac-
lions besides drink that received the patronage of
the Hawaiians. The billiard and bagatelIe tables
were run after. The crowd was increased bv the
presence on shore of a large party of blus-jackets
on leave from II. b. NJ. $. Sappho. Everywhere
the greatest order seems to have prevailed, and
the emphatic evidence Of more than ons saloon
keeper was that had he b.en called on to serve an
equal number of whitemen, his experience would
have led him TO expect at least a dozen fsht..
IT was by no means all tbs saloons that were
made busy by the custom of HawaiianS on Monday
last. AT the Union. the Pantheon. and the Bee
lave matters ran pretty much in the usual groove.
and though there wero native customers none of
them hung about the saloons or drank moro than
once. The Keystone was largely frequented by
the English sailors. who were about. but was
closed against natives because of its new license
being delayed through a slight informally in the
application for it. At the Royal. the BAY Horse.
the Empire, and Continental a great trade was
done chiefly during tho daytime and early part Of
the evening. The billiard and bagatelle tables
seemed TO be even more attractive TO the Hawaiians
than the liquor. The Commercial, which has sx-
tensive attractions of this sort, from about noon
license) till towards nine O'Clock I'm. was crowded
with natives and others. At one time in this
place the following different natinnalities were
counted by the bar tender among his customers.
viZ.-Hawaiians, Chinese, South Sea I4la nde~s.
North American Indians. Southern negroes. Las
cars, Japanese, Americans, Englishman, IrisImcn.
Germans, Portuguese. Spaniards, and Swedes-in
all 10 nationalities. The orderly character of the
Hawaiians was in nothing more CONSPICUOUS than
in the early hour at which their custom was with
drawn. BY half-past nine the saloons were so
quiet that no one would have supposed that any
thing special had happened that day.