The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-07-21


merly secretary Of the church Of Eng
land Temperance Society in the No. ia
OF england. Speaking of the temper
ance eating house as a counteracti..g
force to the saloon, Mr.. Graham sad:
twenty-five years ago Mr.. d. L.
Moody went to England and Wis ted
Liverpool. He was invited to speak to
the dock laborers. A tremendous num-
Der OF thep went to listen, and the
crowd extended for books around him.
When the addresses were over they
scattered for breakfast, and there was
only one kind of place for them to 60
They had to go to the saloons or miss
their breakfast
7 Then Mr.. Moody said it would be
common sense thing to establish so ne
place where they could eat without
drinking. The direct result of this sug-
gestion was the British Workingmens
Public House Company. This company
mas grown 10 such proportions that
now there are eignCy-five coffee houses
in Liverpool, run in the same way as
saloons, except that there is no liquor
sold or given away In Brmin CHAM
they prospered in the same way and
with equal financial success.
In England these temp rance inr s
are established not only for the poorer
classes, but for every class None of
them has paid less than per cent on
the investment. In London the first
place of this kind was started by Lord
Rowton, who was formerly Disraeli's
! private secretary. He ca led it Rowton
( House, and it embraces the restaura ut
and the lodging house.
ON A PAYING BASIS.
This was our first idea for Squirrel
/ Inn, but the building department re-
4 FUSED 70 grant us a permit, as the
amount Of breathing space provided by
/ law could not be given In a converse
ton with Lord Rowton at dinner, Mr.
Mills got the idea for his Mills Hotel
No. 1. and, as you know both that and
the No. are great financial successes
i The idea is good meas and can sleep
ing rooms for the cheapest poss.b {
rate, with ample bathing accommoda-
lions.
This coffee house scheme is the same
thing on a small scale. aid when
came to this country in 1882 1 urged tbs
establishment of the Squirrel Inn I,
compete with the saloon. Our object i,
to give food of the best kind at a low
J price, and room to battle and smok,
and read, to play games and talk, 81
that the men who frequent the saloons
for the sake of the sociability and tn.
relief from squalid homes will come t
the Squirrel Inn instead
IT looked into the matter to find GU
If 1t could be made a financial success
| inquired about wages and rent am
restaurant charges and reported to tn
) society that it could not We belle ye
1t was no use to try the scheme unles
we did IL weii, and We're timid abou
[ starring.
Then came Mrs. W. H Bradford. wn
l owned the building in which the Squir
. rel Inn now stands. I rade a canvas
of the neighborhood and discovered tina
II was literally honeyconbea with Sd
I looms.
Mrs. Bradford decided that she di
[ not want to have a saloon in her build
7 ing, Pad later she dec-ued to give U
the building, rent and tax free, for fiv
Yeas, provided We could fix ii UP an
see 1t through for one year. / asked tn
society 10 raise $4,000 for this pIrpos,
and they raised $4,000, with Mrs c. s
, Bowdoin as chairman of the committe,
Now that we cannot put lodg n
rooms on the three upper floors l wi
c advocate a mems club a women's clu
and boys club for these floors. In
city where there is such an enormou
{ cosmopolitan population as we hay
mere that man does special service WI
b gets the men of a neighborhood t,
h gether and Americanizes tn m. The
; have antagonistic views and are CT
I zens of foreign country. These cilll
: would have an excellent effect in sc
=,
: and bringing about a good fusion.
They would soon be discussing Il
n question of the better housing Of Il
o poor, matters of citizenship and Of SOC
Il ology and political economy generaIt
Entertainments might be given Wit
/, instructive stereopticon lectures.
know their homes. / have visited Vel
20 one in the district. and 7 do not blau
n them for wanting to get away fro
them. They seek some outlet and Il
only one they can find is the Saloo
a Now il will be the Squirrel Inn. The
they will pay for alr they eat or urin
and will like 1t better for the paying.
p, IF this inn succeeds. as I believe
will, we will establish scores of the
in different parts of the city. anc
~ they spread you will see the numb
!, of saloons diminish. There is no rea !,
"A why there should not be one htindr
Squirrel Inns in New York City in &
at next ten years. What profits we ma
at we will devote to multiplying the nur
Der Of houses.
m THE name Squirrel Inn was TAX
4 simply because we wanted a nam, tn
"a would attract attention and draw Gu
n toners. Miss Huntington, a daught
n of the Rev. William r. Huntington,
" at present engaged in painting {
squirrel sigr board for the inn. 1t W
IA he swung out on an iror bar. old 81,
- fish fashion, when it is finished"