The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-21

FACTS.
Startling increase
Of Drunkenness
Here.

coming home from the Mardi Gras
when he met a policeman whom he
| mistook for one of the nasqueraders.
..Ah, there.' said he as he playfully
tipped the policeman's helmet over
his nose; you can't fool me, / know
you
The policeman was the real thing,
however, and ran the fresh guy in.
". ]. Johnson and Henry would have
shared the fate of their seventeen
brethren had they not declined the
issue.
Kaiiianu. charged with larceny in
the second degree, waived examina-
ton and was committed for trial.
John Kamiko, small boy, played
! hockey" and was called upon to ex-
plain. A plentiful stock of lichee
nuts at the house of his mothers pol
Pake was the Immediate cause OF his
i undoing Judge Wilcox said that Chi
| nese New Year only happens occa-
sionally, and let the kid go with a
4 reprimand
/ ]. Carr went round to Wal Pongs to
celebrate the glad New Year. He
drank China gin and then hit his host
/ with the bottle The damages were
| assuaged by payment of So and costs.
Cases against Kamahi Kane and All
Chew, charged with assault and bat
terry on T. P. Spencer and David Kau-
wahi, respectively will be heard this
morning.
All How, charged with riding with
out a light, was reprimanded and dis
charged Defendant said that his
family were using his lamp for New
| Year lantern and couldn't well spare
! it.
| I'm Tuesday evening a burglar broke
into the residence of ]. F. Emerson,
at the corner of Hackfeld and Spencer
streets, and got away with small
sum of money belonging to Japanese
servant The thief left his pipe,
small briar one, in the room, and the
police are said to be on the scent.
The police are hunting for a lady who
has left them. The damse1 in question
was being held for investigation, and
one day. firing of the monotony of
prison life, went into one of the mems
rooms, put on a pair of trousers and
other things and flew the coop. AS
far as the police are concerned she has
been flying ever since.
David KAPPA and a special officer
are chasing the trousers, while the
owner is lying in bed clad In a mos
quito net and awaiting the return of
his unmentionableS.
| Yesterday a Chinaman was arrested
for being under the influence of the
New Year. He was trying TO sell
ducks on King street and drove into a
! tramcar Previous to the time of his
gathering in he had evidently been
rushing the goose" He spent last
; night selling poultry in his sleep at
the police station.
Forty ducks were also locked up
with their owner, and the prison Off
Gals lamented loudly that green peas
don't grow in Hawaii. {.
81 The statistics of cases of drunken
ness since the commencement of the
year make interesting reading and, in
addition to being entertaining, are
Pstartling in the extreme.
4 The most glazing fact brought home
by perusal of the figures is that
drunkenness in Honolulu is increasing
alarmingly That this should be so is
| the more remarkable on account of the
I very vigorous anti-liquor crusade at
kpresent being waged by some of
Americas most Jealous reformers.
THE total number of cases since the
commencement of the year is 2S3. OF
these the month of January was re-
sponsible for AL The total for the
first twenty days of February IS 142,
or one more than that of the entire
preceding month, despite the New
Year festivities
The highest number of drunkards
, tried on any one day was 81 on Jan
, uary 21St January 18th and Febru-
airy goth came next with 10 each.
The record by weeks is as follows:
January 9Th. "a; 18th, q; goth, 81;
|, 9th. "A: February Sd, 80; 10th, So; 18th,
1t will be seen from the above fig
ures that the wave of drunkenness
set in at the commencement of the
month and is steadily increasing in
volume, promising to make the present
: month record breaker.
The total of so cases for the first
eclipses that of any entire week of the
year, and if the average be main
tanned until Saturday, will probably
constitute local record
The list of offenders is headed by
Johnson 4. Anderson 3. Carlson 5,
Jack 3.
The Irish contingent is ably repre-
sented by Kelly, O'Leary, Mcclure,
Conner, Donohue, Maloney. Mulgore
Boyle, Walsh, Doyle, Sweeny, Flynn
Carey. Ryan, Murphy and Heeny.
McKine McNab, McCullom, McKin-
sey, McNamee and Mcneil are among
those who have drunk not wisely but
too well to the Land o. Cakes.
The historical drunkards are an in
teresting class and consist or Tenny-
son, Nelson, Carlyle. Friday Robin
son, Yorrick and McGinty.
canada, Alameda, Paris, San Fran
cisco and Dee are what are known as
geographical drunkards
One class of inebriates affects arts
tocratic, Understanding names. TIC
! this division belong Whitaker, SyI-
} vester. Lawnsbury and Cumming
| camp.
Z Beer and Whisky were the appeIla-
tons of two intoxicationists whose
looks in no wise belied their names.
Brown, Smith, Green, Jones and
Robinson are scattered In PERCUSSION
over the various charge sheets.
Farthing, Curley,, Slick, PippIn and
Highland are probably names sug-
gested by the exigency of the occa
sion.
Gusque and Gespar evidently hal
from "furrin" parts and found Kakaa-
ko swipes stronger than their native
tipple.
Anderson, Olsen, Larsen, Carson
Benson, Erickson, Christensen, John
son. Nelson. Danielson, all said "Ay
tank So when the Judge propounded
the great question.