The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-07-19
HONOLULU'S PARCHED THROAT
TAKES RIVERS OF SODA WATER
At Least Twenty-Five Thousand Bottles Day
Consumed Here---The Favorite Drinks
of Some of the Fiends.

soda are usually in demand among
them.
We have several regular Patrons
said he, who come in a number OF
times every day, and always take the
same thing. Papa Cunha is a fire.
quent daily visitor, and invariably
takes a root. beer cocktail. Marshall,
of the Volcano, is often at our tables,
and never INDUCES in anything here
other than a claret soda, to which he
claims he was introduced months ago
by Editor Smith. Mr.. Marshall usually
brings a friend with him, and while
he drinks his claret soda seeks dill
gently to extract from his friend liter
airy fuel for the Volcano.
The early morning trade tends to-
ward phosphates, bromo-seltzers, vichy
and sauerbrunnen Perhaps this is
traceable to the principle of cause and
effect.
I'm the afternoons we have mostly
ladies and school children, with
sprinkling Of gentlemen. The children
do a great deal towards emptying cur
fountain. Small boys come in num-
bers, try to get ice cream for cents,
and want half dozen straws TO half
as many glasses, or sometimes, to
even less glasses or more straws-and
they usually carry away all the time
cards in sight. The little girls proba-
bly, get more spankings at home, ana
are better behaved.
In the evenings the patrons are
mostly ladies and their escorts, and
there is plenty left in the glass; we
can always tell which side of the table
the lady sits on by the empty glass.
We have learned that the lady usually
comes in for the ice cream soda, ana
the gentleman for the opportunity.
Bert Peterson is a steady patron
but very tickle He drinks all over the
list, and when he has completed it he
begins at lemon phosphate again. Sew
eraI FOUNDERS stick to claret soda, and
Chester Doyle never takes anything
else. Lloyd Conkling drinks sauerbrun-
men lemonade, and the entire newspa-
per fraternity exclusive of the LADY,,
usually takes as near to a stiff drink
as they can get in drug store"
They are shy on statistics at the Ho-
bron store, but in a busy part of the
day they sell five glasses a minute.
Martin, the tailor, consumes one min
ute's worth. Fat people usually drink
more of everything than people Of
slighter physique, but even Paul Isen-
berg couldn't keep up with Martin. He
usually takes lemon phosphate every
time he gets a customer, and two of
them after the customer has been land
ed. His greatest grief is that he drank
five phosphates on the score of selling
a tuxedo to a man who skipped next
day without paying for it. Martin buys
his soda by the wholesale, having a
ticket which the dealer punches when
a drink is absorbed.
At the time of the Advertiser repre-
sentative's call, James Dougherty,
whose sympathetic tenor is often pleas
ingly heard in "a Rose in Heaven
occupied one of the tall stools before
tbe soda fountain and was refreshing
himself with a grenadine punch, which
is his favorite beverage. He is fire.
quently a patron, and seldom changes
his order. Another visitor at the Ho-
bron fountain, according to the Chinese
boy, is Ed Towse, who, 1t Is alleged,
scots himself on the stool from three
70 five times per day, divides his at
tention between bromo settler and root
beer phosphate, being rather partial to
the former. Sonny" Cunha inclines to