The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-01-20
A PLEA FOR THE YOUNG
MEN OF HONOLULU.
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dodgers admitted at all hours.
Your boots and shoes you
place outside your door, where
YOU find them again early in the
morning, polished free of charge.
The night porter has the number
of those to be called in time for
early steamers and up-country
trains and will give you some good
hot coffee and a bite of something
before you start. You will not
want any iced whiskey cocktail
after that. Scrupulous cleanliness
pervades the whole place. The
mattresses and domestics are mostly
young women of irreproachable
character, all attired in plain black
gowns, with white aprons and caps.
The courteous manager, or his
clerk, are always to be found in
the office or its Immediate vicinity,
and pay special attention to coun-
try visitors and new arrivals, unac-
quainted with the city. A. framed
list of names displayed in a promi-
nent position gives the number OF
the room of the person you may
be looking for. Electric bells, of
course. The charges are very
moderate, being about on par
with those of q third class hotel.
Thousands of one shilling meals
are daily partaken of by casual
visitors, mostly residing in the sub
urbs, who find here more conven-
fences and better attendance than
can be had at the restaura nts, and
great many unmarried men make
it their constant headquarters
when in the city. Many a "new
chum" has here formed pleasant
acquaintance, leading to lifelong
friendship. During a number of
years in which [ lived in Mel
bourne. rarely q day passed on
which [ did not spend some of my
leisure time here, Notwithstanding
the fact that [ had q comfortable
home in the house of a private
English family. Any decently clad
and we'll behaved person is well
come, and may stay all day, if SO
disposed, whether he spends q
penny or not. But anyone found
under the influence of liquor
or introducing Intoxicating
beverages on the premises, using
improper language, or being guilty
of noisy and unbecoming conduct,
IS instantly expelled without cere-
mony. The routine on Sundays is
much the same as on week days;
the only difference beng that the
reading room is furnished with
supplementary literature of the
religious kind for the sake of those
who may desire it, that there is an
extra good menu for dinner and
that the dining hall and bar are
closed two hours earlier.
Such, patient reader, is the Vic
toria Coffee Palace, as it is termed.
1t is owned by a joint stock com
pany, many of the shareholders
being church people, who patronize
it assiduousIy. 1t has always been
self-supporting and pays now, l
believe a dividend to the humane
investors. Without disparagement
of the temperance reformers and
the powerful clergy of Melbourne
[ distinctly and advisedly assert,
that this and several similar estab-
lishments have kept more people
out of the public houses of that
great city than all the churches
put together.
And why not in Honolulu, may
[ ask? A community that can
boast of such philanthropic citizens
as the Hon. G. R. Bishop, Mr.. P.
G. Jones, Hon. II. P. Baldwin, and
q host of others, may surely look
hopefully forward to the day,
trust, when some one ADLER, worth
Ter and more influential than the
writer shall feel his sympathy
aroused and bestir himself to anne
liorate the present condition of q
considerable portion of the young
men in Honolulu. We are GER
tainly not behind hand on the
score of profession of religion. Give
US o little more of the undiIuted
milk of human kindness and, believe
me, none will be any the worse for
it. Yon don't know exactly what
kind of o home to start for the
sailors, gentlemen? Build a coffee
palace [ say, and if you can prevail
upon Mr. Thos. Krouse to take the
management, so much the better
for more competent man for the
position it will be difficult to find
You will then have accomplished
the feat of killing two birds with
one stone. The honest sailor
whether he belongs to the cabin
or the forecastle, who feels difident
about going to the Y.M.C.A. rooms,
yet would fain keep out of the sa.
looms, for one, Mr.. Editor, shall
be glad to meet as a friend and
q brother at the Honolulu COFFEE
PALACE. Who knows but that
having administered to our crea-
ture wants, having enjoyed ou1
fragrant cup of coffee, our smoke
and our chat, we may not knock
the ashes out of our pipes anu pro
nose an adiOurnmenti in each others