Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-10-20
REFUSE To pay
TWO LICENSES
Are Royal and Royal
Annex One or Two
Saloons?
TEST COURT PROCEEDINGS
UNLESS $1,000 IS PAID
ANDREWS SAYS PEACOCK & CO.
LTD, MUST HAVE A LICENSE
FOR EACH BAR-HoTEl
PRECEDENT.

Unless one thousand dollars are
forthcoming for the license of the
Royal saloon on the corner of Nuuanu
and Merchant streets, for the current
year, the proprietor of that establish
ment will be proceeded against for
selling liquor without license. Thus
far, although demanded. payment to
the Treasury Department of the $1,000
retail liquor dealers license for this
resort has been refused.
w. G. Peacock & Co., Ltd, are con-
trolers of two saloons on Merchant
street the Royal, on the corner as be-
fore described, and the Royal Annex
Immediately adjoining the Royal and
separated only by partition. The
two are not connected with each other
Ny any doorway; access from one to
the other can only be oUtained by way
of the street.
On the 9th instant the licenses for
these two saloons expired and Peacock
& Co. Immediately renewed the license
for the Royal Annex, paying the re-
quired $1,000.
The license for the Royal was not
renewed. the proprietors claiming that
no separate license was required for
this corner dispensary, contending that
the two places were practically one
and that therefore the license for the
NOyal Annex Saloon covered the
Royal; maintaining that one continu-
Gus bar. and only one bar, exists be-
tween the two and that the continuous
bar makes the two one.
Job Bachelor license inspector, re-
ported to the Attorney Generals de-
partment that the Royal saloon had
not renewed its license and that the
responsible parties had refused to take
out new license for that house. al
though two separate licenses had been
this month.
II Is said that the prOprietors con-
tended that they had as much right 10
,Berve liquors at two bars under the one
license as the Alexander Young Hotel
has to serve drinks at bar in the
bho' lll'iA' anu ct Ddl VII NllN
dfth floor. under the same license.
Attorney General Andrews was seen
this morning in regard to the matter.
Mr.. Andrews stated that 1t had been
brought to his attention that the Royal
saloon people had refused to renew
their license for that place. The mat
ter, he said. was now being talked over
between High Sheriff Brown and Man
ager J. G. ROthwell of w. c. Peacock
d Co., Ltd. II final refusal to COM
ply with the law was given, proceed
ings would he instituted at once and Il
test case would be made of the propo-
stton. II would be legally settled
Whether the Royal and the Royal An
mex are one or two institutions, calling
tor one or two licenses.
Meanwhile, although, If the partition
were removed, the bar would be a con-
tinuOus one. stretching across the
IoyaI and the Royal Annex the sal
Don. or saloons, as the case may be.
bears two names plainly visible on the
outside-thc Royal and the Royal An
mex.
Two separate crews handle the bev-
cIag",; Two separate mnch counters
lorC adorned with fresh greens, cheese
and crackers at appropriate times or
at all times and for the most part. two
acVuratc and distinct sets of patrons
caL Tor refreshments. The Royal II
generously parronized by sailors, steve
dOr"- IOug-shoremCn, truck drivers
.Uni other honest men of strenuous
It"iI The Royal Annex ertertains men
/ Of affairs, legal lights, business men,
capitalists and the like.
: liusl"G's directory for 1903 gives the
/ distinct names Of the two saloons sep
|araroly.
| ". G. Peacock x Co, Ltd. say there
/ II but one saloon on the corner of Nut
Ianu and Merchant streets. Attorney
General Lorrin Andrews holds there
|urc Two and that each should have u
| license at $1,000 per head.