The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-08-27
NO CARPET" BUT
HAGUE CONGRESS

trrom Saturdays Advertiser
'scotty" was called To the -es-.-.
by the Board of License ComrnissIopa-.
yesterday afternoon But :hs car
taher Of the Capitol had eonsidera.e,v
rolled the carpet back out OF tkz va
before the board met. and for this rea-
son or some other '-Scotty- was neva-
either literally or metaphoricsIiv a,
the carpet at all.
The board meets in the throne ron,
Of the Capitol The great carDe. rbs-
was on the floor during the monarrz.
but which in these democratic daxs 4.
Kept most of the time done up w.-b
moth balls in the basement. was mr.
down on the floor about three weeks
ago Tor the reception to Secretary ana
MIS- Straus and the Longworths. r.
mas been down ever since. But evi-
IDENTIFY yesterday the work OF rolling A.
up and putting it back in the base
iient was oegun- 1t was about hzlr
completed when the board met. Az
any rate it was rolled back so lar tba-
no one had chance to get on the car-
pet.
The Board quickly disposed OF ~.
applications which were IN Tor nub1t-
nearing Then it went into execuriv.
session 10 confer with Charles Nesfo,
widely known as '.Scotty." Mrs ~
ton wss present and also took narr n
the conference Knockers and o-ba--
critics. so it is said, had hrougb- A.
10 the ears OF the board or neuha-y
thereof that in their e5inion scor-,-
was getting the best Of il. and tss-
the board was allowing him to do vbs-
it was not allowing others to do A~
the board was not allowing hE== -,
do anything, that his license and the
regulations did not permit him 10 do
1T was thought best to have Scorrv
before the board and fird ont frs-
what he gas doing.
One of the complaints was thar tba
Waikiki portion of Scotty restaurant
was cut of by bamboo scree= on ths
EVA side, and a heavy screen win
mirror in 1t at the Merchant street en-
trance, so that it had the privacy os
saloon, and was in fact used as a
saloon except that there was no bar
Scotty said that he would take the
bamboo screen away. II it was desir-
ed, the screen that shut of this mart
Oh his place from the remainder. bu-
he asked that the board allow RE-.
screen at the Merchant street entrance
20 remain. without a screen at this
entrance. he said. the sun would pour
N at certain hours Of the day, making
u impossible for part OF the room
10 be utilized. In addition, owing -,
building operations close at hand
without screen, dirt would blow in
making the place intolerable. More
over, 1t was handsome piece OF fur-l-
lure and he did NOT want to remove II
unless required to do SO. As IN its
'lNlnS the place the appearance OF a
saloon, he did not see how anyone
'ould be deceived. They certain
y could get drinks inside II they haa
he price
The board will consider this nasfA-
urther. In other respects the board
lad no complaint to make regarding
he place.
The applications of John D. Holt for
license to run a saloon at King and
tlver streets, the premises formerly
'nown as the Asahi saloon. and OF
ang Zip Kee for a wholesale license
Fere heard. On behalf of the China
nan it was stated that he had Iour
cen a merchant Last year he -.
place with a ffth-class license az
Vaipahu. This year it was conceived
nat as the saloons were not allowed
denver goods except at the saloons.
need for places with wholesale Il
enses who could so deliver goods had
cen created, and it was this need that
ang wanted to attempt to hH.
The board turned down both the ap-
lications.
1t is said that number Of saloon
eepers have said to the board thai
view Of the business that Scottv il
ping they thought they would ask 70
allowed to surrender their saloon
censes and take out restaurant il
snses' the license fee being $3.50 a year
ss.