The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-05-24
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receding from the action taken with
regard to the boundaries for issuing
saloon licenses
Messrs. Lucas and Long, however,
refused to accept the motion or amend
ment. They claimed that they had
voted for the delimiting policy, with
the understanding expressed by them
at the time, that it was subject to re-
view with regard to individual appli-
cations on their merits as might be
apparent in their own discretion aided
by public opinion and the wishes of
adjacent property owners.
Mr. Ballentyne, while expressing
kindly sympathy for Mr.. Lambert, sid
ed with Mr.. Gilman in the proposition,
substantially, that the board would
stultify itself by adopting a policy one
day and shooting holes through it the
next. He also expressed himself en-
phatically against paying any further
heed to applications from the bunch of
Kakaako saloon keepers outside the
adopted limits.
Iwilei would come up later, the chair
man said, and there was apparent
unanimity of the board in decreeing
that the saloon up against the church
there must go.
AS to the argument of blind pigs"
by which saloons at Iwilei until now
have been justified, Mr.. Ballentyne said
it would be the boards duty to look
after ''blind pigs and he thought the
argument for saloons on that score was
a false alarm anyway.
PUNCHBOWL SALOONS.
NJ A Gonsalves, wholesale liquor
dealer, early in the session appeared
before the board and by invitation adj
dressed it with regard to the saloons
at Pauoa and on Punchbowl near Luzo
street, which are shut out from re-
newals of licenses by the boundary
policy. He argued that the saloons
We're a benefit to their neighborhoods
as, before they came into being under
the law of 1905, a man entertaining
friends of an evening would furnish
wine by the gallon, over which the
company would tarry to extremely
late hours, getting full and quarrelsome
to the disturbance of the neighborhood.
Now, the speaker claimed, the saloon
closing hours marked the end of alco-
holic conviviality for the night and
everyone was better and happier.
Mr.. Ballentyne put some pointed
questions to the advocate, to ascertain
if he really believed that the district
in question was benefited by saloons
His. replies went no further than the
familiar argument that saloons kept
out blind pigs and reduced the
amount of drinking in homes.
1t was evidently the sentiment of the
board that Punchbowl was strictly a
residence district and should have no
saloons. Some strong objections of
residents to their continuance were in
fact reported
OTHER BUSINESS
The application of the Eagles for a
third-class license for their annual
on May q was referred to
Inspector Fennell with directions to
require the presenting of the applica-
ton in proper form.
Applications for licenses from No. 43
to 63 inclusive, or nineteen in all, were
submitted and ordered to be advertfs-
ed. There were no less than two new
ones from Aiea, at which plantation
village Mr.. FenneIl said there were six
saloons altogether. japanese doomed
up numerously in this a 5 in the former
patches of applications.
FROM THE w. C. T. U.
The following communications were
received:
Chairman c. G. Bal1entyne of the Hon
orable Board of License Commits |
sioners.
Dear Sir: At meeting of the w. c. |
I. L. of Honolulu. on the afternoon of |
May 21st, 1907, the following resolu- |
ion was unanimously passed:
That the Commissioners be asked /
not to allow any licenses of saloons on /
streets Immediately surrounding the |
Fish Market"
LYDIA BINGHAM COAN,
Sec. pro TEN. and Treas. W. C. T. U. |
Honolulu, May % 1907.
chairman c. G. Ballentyne of the Hon /
orable Board Of License Commits |
sioners.
Dear Sir: At the meeting of the w. I
:. 7. L. of Honolulu it was unanimous /
Y voted that we appreciated the work |
# the License Commissioners.
LYDIA BINGHAM COAN.
Sec. pro TEN. and Treas. W. c. T. U.