The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-06
49, 4 TEMPERANCE SALOON. :.

tional exchange, seats ana lapieS, Col Vs. |,
bright lights, periodicals, various oo.
nestle conveniences, something 10 ga
and drink Men whose homes are lone
some or squalid and who cannot or 90
not care to move in good society go y
the saloons to take their ease ana Hiees
their friends. They can go IN any
clothes they have; they are not aSAe
to show credentials; they may stay an
enjoy themselves so long as lhes
have and while the saloon KEEPS ope
The place gives them what sumo -
eet in fashionable clubs or IN tneir
homes or in visiting the MONIES u
neon,e without such resorts or saas
faotorv substitutes for them. these men
would become almost desperate III LILY.
LONELINESS and discomfort.
Now if it were possible to apoilsn Tue
.,,oons If would be the bounden duty
,f tamnerauce reformers to set up poor
1n,an,s clubs to meet the demand Whicn
| +ha social side of the saloon suppne9.
| n would never do to put out all |
Iebt and cheer in the rum shops anu
beer halls and provide no otner -.isn.
and cheer for the men VINO hau - |
/ turned into the street. From tiie oios,q
! door of the saloon a customer liluse
. HE to turn to the open ooor VI So
Eresort which lacks none OF the eieiiie
/ :. 49,, eo,t saue the one attraction OF al
]eohols TO which he has been accus
/ otharvise he will sooner or later re
/ establish the saloon or go to WORSE
place. The
ansvar we hear is that temperance sa-
lloons or holly tree inns nave peen
i enened time and again and cioseo ~,
lack of support and this even IN SINAI
places where it has been pessipie ~
/ shut I'D the saloons. The remedy We
4 are told, has been tried ana iouiia
. wanting But, we rejoin, mas II oeeh
tried in the right way? Has there ever
ibeen an attempt to reproduce the saiooii
lin all it's details except the SAFE u
|coholic drinks? If there has oeen we
do not know of the circumstance
Some years ago in a central we"
8 York town the churches established a
: bo11v tree inn to which they hoped to
, attract men from the drink taverns.
So much money was subscribed that
, tbey were able to fit the place up
beautifully and sell food and soothing
: drinks at cost. oysters were fifteen
2 cents a large plate and coffee was three
oents a cup. Two f1agons of birch peer
wore sold for a nickel. A few rummy
3 but penitent men came and looked IN
at the windows and went hopeiessiS
: and expeditiously away and those VINO
s entered the place at all were good SOUS
n from the churches who wanted 10 he,p
j. 1.-The inn along What the saloon ire
y auenter saw to displease him was 9
y dining hall with snowy cloths and
It plated ware on the tables, pretty car
n pet, a canary bird in cage, girl al
n the pay desk and committee OF ladles
/ to welcome him as a brand snatchee
from the burning. man accustomed
4 to the free and easy saloon would a:
If soon have entered such place as III
a would church sociable.
stj In time the philanthropists reconsid
Ia cred. They took out the napery ant
a. silyerware removed the carpet. eyict
er led the canary and told the women t
at quit In a vague way they made tn
s. place look. like an unfurnished ba
st room. One practical man proposed [
o. lput in a cigar stand and regular bal
ny the latter for the sale of soft drinks
&c of course. but the good women denounc
ed the inlpious act and crushed 1T un
der their French heels. Tobacco. the
IF said, induces the craving for drink;
~ bar might be ''misconstrued." Tb
&C a card room but he hell his peace an
Quietly got billiard table instead. Tn
- place was put in charge of a nice youn
man from the Y M. C. A, who al
nd ranged it just as he thought temper
-. ance saloon ought to look. The bottle
- pop innocent of ice, was put on tab
=, in the corner: young and yealy boy
. were encouraged to come in and use tn
-. billiard table: back veranda was 81
apart for men who wanted to smoke
the saloon took the books of a travelin
library and it's center table was coyere
- with the most unimpeachable liter;
o :. ture; a Good Night Papa" engravir
was hung on one wall and Mabel
la' Prayer in the other. To the astonisl
no ment of some of the philanthropists, II
aS class of people they wanted to reae
iea would not set foot in the place even III
ice der the stimulus of hot free lunc
~. One staggering drunkard entered
-he mistake; but the nice young man to
At him that he had come to the wror
up shop and said, very plainly, that
the ought to be ashamed of himself. Al
ere so "Finis" came to be written over II
ue. door of the Temperance Saloon.
yer Now what ought the philanthropis
Jay to have done? They should ha-
ok ho,rh+ or+ !. ,.ag,,lar oorner saloon w;
lty all its fixtures. They should have r
'hs moved nothing except the liquor. wi
ian and malt; a sensible caterer shou
have been made superintendent; al
an expert barkeeper should have be
put behind a bar that shone with be
ties, mirrors and table glasswal
ND Every known soft drink, including &C
Tx fee, tea, chocolate and clam juit
an should have been on hand ready to
ues served in the best style at a low prio
one and the barkeeper should know t
ing. hest mixtures of temperance ic
'ers drinks. There should have been a go
JooN free lunch and no restrictions put
'ur- tobacco sensational literature shot
en- not have been excluded; card-playi
ocai should have been permitted; if m
heir wanted to sing or even swear the
zee should have been no one but the pol
'sed to interfere; women and the male ph
ocal anthropists should have, kept aw:
lulu There would have been the poor ma
o 1t club, with intemperance ruled out
hey would not have been an ideal place
om- the moral training of the young. D