The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-08-20
LICENSES AND
LIQUOR ON kauai


the account Of the present situation
there given in yesterdays Advertiser.
: According 10 Sheriff W. II. Rice, Jr,,
there were no liquor licenses, at least
not for years, until 1895. As the law
stood until it was changed by the legis-
lature OF 1905. the President OF the
Republic and the Governor Of the Ter
/ ritory had absolute power 20 grant a
license or TO refuse it, Acting presuu,
ably on the public sentiment OF the
island, or AT least on the \dominant
sentiment, no licenses were issued on
Kauai until sometime in 1895. The
\ legislature OF 1SeS passed what WAS
known as the light wine and beer IL
cenSe law, and this seems 10 have been
used as the entering wedge TO get the
licensed traffic into the Garden Island.
Previous 10 this, people who wanted
liquor sent to Honolulu for il and had
it shipped TO them. There was more
or less Illicit selling, most of the Chi
neSe and Japanese storekeepers kept
blind pigs. ". G. Smith. the License
Inspector of the Kauai license board.
/ is the authority for the statement, that,
even in those days, the wayfaring man,
unless fool, need not have gone
thirsty. Those who did not get it from
Honolulu, or buy it at the Chinese
store, might, on occasion, go up into
the mountains and distiu little okole-
hae, and indeed there is considerable
local pride in the quality of okolehao
which Kauai produced.
MAX SCHLEMMER, PIONEER.
In 1S9S, according 10 Sheriff Rice, a
light wine and beer license was issued
for place in Waimea. Curiously
enough, it was issued to liking" Max
Sehlemmer as TO the very existence of
whose kingdom, Laysan Island, there
was fer a time some doubt. Under this
license only light wines and beers could
be sold-not ardent spirits-and there
We're restrictions as to hours during
which business could be transacted.
The light wine and beer license seems
never to have been very popular any
where, and after the organization of
the Territory there seems to have been
a change OF policy as to the granting
of licenses on Kauai, and in 1900 a
jobber's license was issued TO c. W.
Spitz at Nawiliwili. A little later Max
Sehlemmer got another license at Wal
mea, and in 1902 place was opened at
koloa with Norris Rosenbledt as man
ager, and in 1908 or 1904 ]. 1. Silva
procured a license for Hanapepe.
| THE 1905 LAW.
Matters stood about thus when the
law of 1905 was passed. This produced
what some people call a saturnalia of
saloons on the island, and what the
most moderate eoneede was plethora.
In that year two wholesale licenses
were issued for Waimea, one TO Ozaki
and one TO the Waimea Wine Company.
There were three retail licenses, one
to ezaki, one to Odo and one to the
Waimea Wine Company; and there
were four ffth-elass licenses issued, one
to native, one to Jap, one to a
Portuguese and one to a Chinaman
The Americans, Porto Rieans and Kore-
ans seem to have been the only ma
tionalities left out of the ffth-class IL
eense crowd. In 1906, Odo dropped
out of the retail business and the Jap
out of the ffth-class business.
At Hanapepe in 1905 ]. 1. Silva had
wholesale license and a retail Ii
cense and there were two fifth-class IL
eensees, native and a Chinaman. The
latter quit the next year.
FIFTH-CLASS LICENSES.
! In Koloa, the Koloa Wine and Liquor
Company held wholesale and re-
tail license and Jardine Brothers held
retail license, and there was one fifth
class ieensee, japanese who dropped
out the next year.
At Nawiliwih C. W. Spitz conducted
both wholesale and retail establish
ment.
At Kappa J. Z. Gandall held re-
tail license, and there was in addition
one ffth-class license. This state of
affairs continued until July l. At Ka-
paa there was wholesale and a retail
license.
At Hanalei in 1905 there was fifth
class license place, and In 1906 a re-
tail place was started at Kalihiwai.
At Wainiha in 1866, while the build
ing of the Wainiha Electric system was
going on, there were FIVE, hundred dol
lar license saloons. In 1906 these were
reduced to two.
Thus it will be seen that the principal
reduction in the number of places. in
1906 over 1905 was not very material.
and was practically all in the reduc-
ton of ffth-class places.