The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-09-03
SUNDAY LAWS VIOLATED
VERY STRICT RULES IN THE
STATUTES.
High Sheriff Brown Will Issue Twenty
or More Penal Summons Closed
Town Provided For.

Sunday ought to be a very quiet day
in Honolulu if all the laws are enforced
and High Sheriff Brown says that he is
going to enforce them. Twenty 0r more
penal summons will be issued today or
tomorrow for people who have been do
ing Sunday work that IS not allowed by
the penal statutes of Hawaii.
According to the law not much can
be done in Honolulu on Sunday, and the
sheriff will not have to go far to find
many violations of the statute. If the
law is bad, the best way is to have it
repealed is what the high sheriff seems
to think, for he has not a very high
opinion of some of the provisions of the
penal CODE
The rights of citizens to Sabbath
quiet and repOse' are 80 well pro-
tected by Hawaiian law that even les
taurants are not allowed to do business
after seven o'clock in the evening.
There are complete rules FOR bart ers
and other people, so that The latter may
do enough business to accommodate cit
izens who need them if the citizens will
get up early enough, but the general
rule that "all labor on Sunday Is for
bidden" is on the books IN plain lam
guage, and any restaurant man who is
serving meals after seven in the even
ing or any ordinary store-kcepe' who
keeps open at all on Sunday, is liahle
to fine
mo keeper of a victualing house res
taurant or coffee shop shall keep his
house. restaurant or coffee shop open
after o'clock on Sabbath afternoon"
says the penal code. The penalty for
violation of this law is fine Of not less
than s20 and not more than 500.
Certain local restaurant men who are
supplying the wants of their patrons at
later Sabbath hours Than seven are
likely to appear before Judge Wilcox on
penal summonses next week, TO show
cause, If they can, why they should not
enrich the treasury by payment of
fine for interfering with the rights of
citizens to Sunday "quiet AMI rep0se,' .
by working cooks and walters after
Sunday evening church hours.
Until nine o'clock on Sunday morning
BARRIERS may shave and dealers N fresh
meats and fish may serve their cLs-
toners, but if they keep on after nine,
the code provides that they may be sent
to jail for 80 days. or fined $50. Cows
milk may be served until nine in the
morning and after three in the evening,
but there must be no milkman in the
business between those hours, or else
Judge Wilcox may put him on the reef.
The law goes into many details as to
what may and may not be done on Sun
day. There is no objection to the car
rying of baggage from arriving vessels,
anu puDllC HdCkS anu street cars are eN-
pressly given the right to carry passen-
gers.
Whatever work is done "shall be con
Quoted as far as possible so as not to
interfere with the right of the commu-
nifty and of each individual to quiet and
repose."
All these provisions are in the book of
laws and the police and Judge Wilcox
are supposed to enforce them IN in
teresting time is expected when the
high sheriff brings into court some Of
the people who have failed to observe
the Sabbath as religiousy as the law
commands.