The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-11-18
MAY EXTEND
THE LIMITS
Liquor Licenses
Issued This
Year.
WANTS TO MAKE
RUM FROM RICE
Revenue Office Collect, Tax From
Four Times as Many Places
as Territory.

Treasurer Wright is considering the
ACCESSIBILITY of extending the Honolulu
limits for the sale of liquor. The law
requires that ne fix the limits and he
said yesterday that within a short time
an extension would be made. At pres
ent the limits where the treasurer may
grant licenses without the consent OF
the Governor is confined within the
following streets: MauI akea to Pauah
to Nuuanu to Beretania to Fort (but
not including ForD to Bethel and in
Guiding Merchant street. What streets
viii be taken in by the Treasurer when
he readjusts these limits have not been
decided upon, though River street very
likely win be included.
Altogether Treasurer Wright has
granted in the neighborhood Of 120 IL
censes in the Territory. This number
includes all kinds, from light wine and
ale to the brewery license. This state
ment cannot be taken to mean however
that there are not more than that num-
Der of places in the Hawaiian Islands
where liquor is sold. In fact it can be
safely said that there are considerably
nearer 500 than 100 saloons" in the
Territory.
The United States Internal Revenue
Department is today collecting liquor
tax from between 400 and 500 places
within it's Jurisdiction, and even the col
iectors have probably missed one or
two joints, hidden among the hills.
The work of the revenue agents in the
Territory has been very thorough and
though the police in their efforts to
stop illegal liquor selling, seldom find
evidences of a territorial license, yet
the cheapest sort of a Japanese sake
shop or native swipe joint will have
q United States government license
proudly displayed in the front room,
though the keeper will obstinately deny
any intention of violating the Terri
torial law.
Treasurer Wright sees no present
solution of this difficulty. 1t has been
the policy of the government to limit
the issuance of liquor licenses to re-
sponsfble men who can be trusted to
keep strictly within the limits of the
law.
The majority of these Illicit dispen-
sers Of liquor are found in the country
stores, and there are very few indeed,
aside from those conducted by the plan
tations where wine or beer cannot be
purchased. 1t is impossible to secure
evidence sufficient to convict against
any OF these Joints" without the use
of police informers, and this evidence Is
rarely given much weight in the courts.
The rear-room OF nearly every one of
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supply OF intoxicants, but aside from
the payment to the keeper in the outer
room of a small fee, for some mys-
terious purpose. there is no indication
that liquor is for sale
Treasurer Wright favors more lib
eraI policy in the granting of liquor
permits, and believes that il licenses
were given to those who have applied,
as long as they agreed to obey the laws,
the permit should be granted when 1t
did not interfere with the rights of
others.
Just now the Treasurer has for con-
sideration the application of a Jap
anese, through Attorney Brooks, for a
license to manufacture liquor from
rice. He intends to establish his dis
tillery in Manoa Valley, il the desired
permission is granted.
W. dpBnEdNiOH has OtGn AtNNiftN - ~'A@
Frank Brown who it is reported is fig
uring upon the establishment of a dis
tillery for the manufacturer of rum
from molasses. Attorney General Dole
has not passed upon the matter, but is
understood to have given an informal
opinion that the customs regulations
introduced by the United States have
tessened the power of the Territory to
license the manufacturer of liquor. To a
considerable extent.
The following is a list of all the IL
censed liquor selling places in the Ter
ritory:
RETAIL SPIRIT.
HONOLULU.
Jan. 3, F. a Simpson. Pantheon" HO-
tel nr. Fort.
Afch. a. J. C. ROthweli. ''MOana Hotel"
WAIKIKI.
May "a. ]. G. RothweD, Pacific. King and |
Nuuanu.
July 10. w. NJ Cunningham, Favorite. |
Hotel and Bethel.
July 20, j. II. NcDonOugh. Mint. Nuu-
anu opp. Chap L.
and Nuuanu.
July a. !. ]. Sullivan. Fashion es Hotel
St
July 30. Henry c. Vida, California, 9Ss
Nuuanu St.
Aug. .. II. A Juen. Fountain, King and
Beretania
Sept. IS, G. F. Mccarthy. Criterion. Fort
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