The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-11-30
HAEILA'S LIQUOR GRADE
Decrease of the Traffic Since the
american Occupation,
lumber of Licenses Decreased Dur
Ing the Past Fiscal Year Nearly
9wenty-five Per Cent-saIe of M
tive Wine to Soldiers Prohibited
Under Very severe Penalties

The Division Of Insular Affairs OF the
War Department has made public sum
mary OF that portion Of the annual report
Of the Department Of Licenses and Mu-
nicipal Revenues OF Manila, which relates
70 the liquor traffc in that city.
At the time Of the American oocupa-
ton the law in force required all persons,
firms. OF corporations doing business of
any nature within the municipal radius 70
have license. Lieut. Harry S. Bishop, in
charge OF that department, states that,
prior to January /. 1860. saloons. and in
fact ali licenses to sell liquor OF any class.
both wholesale ard retail came under the
class Of general business licenses. the fee
for which was only IS with a 81 stamp at
tachea.
Up 20 June 90. 1893. there had been IS
sued since the establishment OF the Office
on September ?. 1888. PA saloon licenses.
Il of which had been Cancelled. leaving
200 outstanding. In addition 70 the above
there were / brewery and j. so-cailed
disJIlIeries. From that time uD 10 Feb
ruary l, 1900, there we're issued q more
saloon licenses, Of which were Cancelled,
leaving q total outstanding Of PA at the
aforementioned date.
The officer in charge Of licenses made
certain recommendations IN November.
1899, relative 10 a change III the laE, which
were carefully considered and embodied
In General Orders No 2 Of the Military
Governor. dated January I, 1890 which
provided that the city should be divided
into TWO districts to be known as the
First License District tincluding the
business portion OF the city,, and the
Second License District Including the
residence part Of Manila and its immedi-
ate suburbsl.
The license fee for saloons selling
beer. whisky. aRd other iatCxicati ting liq-
uoTs was $500 tAieXican) in h First s
trict. and $3.50 IN the Second; for saloons
selling only beer ard light wine the fee
vas s1G0 in the First district and $50 in
the Second
These licenses were ali limited - a pc
Rod OF six months, and strictly forbade
the sale in the saloons 50 licensed Of the
native wine, commonly called Vino,
"Anisado and other intOxicants usually
known as native drinks
Additional and stringent police reguia-
tons were provided and special provision
Eiade Tor hotels.
All saloon licenses in Manila we're can
celed January 81 1850, between which
date and June so new licenses were is
sued, as follows. Licenses for vine. lq-
uor and beer saloons. 50; IL enses fer
wine and beer saloons, 81: total. I6I; re
yoked or surrendered. u; total outstand-
ing June 20 1909 155- This number in
cludes hotel and restaurant liquor Ii
Censes.
Lieutenant Bishou states that the eE-
feet Of this order was TO decrease the
number of saloons from Z24 to 100, TO
make the barrooms more orderly. and 10
make the saloonkeepers il every way
more careful in complying with he terms
OF their licenses. regarding sales TO
drunken persons and sales cut Of hours
The report shows that of the 100 sa-
% by Americans. rs by FilpiGoS and Mes
t1zos, 2 By negroes, by Chinese, 5 by
japanese. and q by persons OF unknown
nationality None Of the licenses is held
by soldiers discharged from the Army in
the Philippines.
With regard TO the native drinks. the
report says: The sale of native Wine
is not regulated ~ any set of regulations
referring to 1t alone. Licenses for its
sale come under the head of general bust
ness licenses. II must not be supposed
that a native wine shop IS anything Ike
3 saloon, or conducted as wine shop
alone: the sale of liquor is Invariably
connected with that OF other articles
usually native groceries or cooked food;
the stock IN hand will rarely exceed SIG
being usually a half dozen bottles OF the
various brands and an equal number OF
glasses of different sizes
The wine is known by various names
An'SadO, VINO, Beno, Tuba. etc. the PER
centage of wood alcohol is extremely
high. The natives drink il moderately
and it appears to have no deleteri9us eff
feet upon them. An American drinking
large qua ct;ties Of it a he would SO much
whisky. is speedily rendered temporarily
insane AID then passes into 2 state Of
coma until the effects have worn off The
regulations regarding lis sale 10 soldiers
are very stringent. involving fne.> in
prigonment and forfeiture OF license. Ii
censes for the sale of native wine are is
sued only to natives. mestizos. and Chi
nese.
The natives have drank this liquor for
generation and it has not been thought
best TO prohibit the use Of ii by them"