The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-08-07
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Drunkenness Here
Fast Falling
Off.
DECREASE OF OVER
700 TOWN ARRESTS
The High Sheriff Thinks Cheap
Beer is Driving Out Swipes
and OkoIehao.

Has the presence of Primo beer
saloons been the cause of a decrease in
drunkenness IL Honolulu? High Sher-
iff Brown, who has just completed the
compilation OF police department status
tics for the two years commencing
July 1, 1900. and ending June 80, 1902,
is authority for the statement that, as
far as usual statistics of arrests go, the
decrease has been very material one
and due to this cause.
The compilation of totals is as fol-
lows:
ARRESTS FOR DRUNKENNESS.
July I, 1900 to July /, 1901 .......... 1878
July 1, 1901 to July /. 1902 ........ 1850
A decrease for the past year Of. 72s
The division by sexes was as follows:
Males. Females.
First Year ............ 1914 "a
Second Year .....-.... 1924 rs
Total arrests for all causes:
July 1, 1900 to July I, 1901 1890. 51s4
July 1. 1901 to July /, 1902. 1861
A decrease for the past year of 32s
Arrests for gambling:
July 1. 1900 to July 1, 1901 1900. 95s
July 1, 1901 to July 1, 1902. 1855
An increase for the past year of 227
Arrests for selling spirituous liquor
without license:
July l. 1900 TO July l, 1901 ........... IS
July 1. 1901 to July 1. 1902 ............ 81
a decrease 10, the past year of. 1
II gather from these statistics" says
the High Sheriff, that the presence of
the Primo beer saloons has had the
effect of sIessenfng the number of ar
rests for drunkenness and therefore. I
believe there is less actual drunkenness
the two years comprising my report.
show a large decrease in the number
of arrests for all causes, and especially
so for drunkenness. There must a reason
for this, as the city is becoming larger
and larger each month, L might say
and that naturally increases the posi-
bilities for police activity. There have
actually been more police covering the
city the past year than before. and yet
the figures show fewer causes of ar
rest.
''The Primo beer licenses did not go
into effect until last year and since
then the decrease has been quite mark
ed in the number of arrests for drunk
a-Ix 20 I,n2 n
great deal about the drunkenness caus-
ed by the drinking of swipes and okole-
hao. but 1t is seldom heard OF now. I
can recall but rare instances in the past
year when the officers have discovered
Swipes in use or manufacture. The use
of swipes is materially decreasing, and
instead, people are drinking beer. 1 re-
fer, of course TO those who have been
in the habit of drinking either one or
the other. This much is true-that
when a person wants drink he is go
ing to get it. That being the case he
now drinks beer instead of swipes.
Then there is a wide difference in
the effects of beer and swipes drinking.
Beer in time makes a mans 1ogy' and
he generally goes home to sleep. Swipes,
however, has a different effect-it
makes him half crazed and usually
ends in his wanting to fight or do
something of that kind. Swipes also
has the effect of making the drinker
unable TO do any work for a day or
two
There has also been a decrease in
the number of arrests for all causes,
but the gambling arrests are on the in
crease. This comes from our raiding
Chinese gambling houses where from
fifty TO 100 are caught at time. The
arrests for liquor selling without
license run along about the same, the