The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-07-04
No BELL BOYS
MAY SERVE
DRINKS
Another Kink Develops
in the New Liquor
Ordinance.

Bell boys who are minors cannot
serve drinks. Hotels will have to en-
ploy bell boys old enough to vote or
limit the serving of drinks to those
who are.
The principal feature of last nights
meeting of the Board of License Com
missioners was the incidental discovery
of this application of two sections of
the new law. The board did not go
into the subject-the matter was only
incidentally before it. But the appli-
cation of the law to a saloon where
a minor was employed as bookkeeper
and collector, but in another room Of
the licensed premises than that where
the liquor is dispensed, was before the
board. 1t unanimously decided that it
had no power whatever to modify or
suspend the operation of the law in
this respect in any way. incidentally
the application of the law to hotels and
the employment of bell boys to serve
drinks to guests in their rooms or in
any other part Of the hotel was sug-
gested.
The portion of the law in point is
found in Section 80 of the new license
act. Subdivision of this section is
as follows:
That no holder of a license for
saloon business shall employ any minor
in or about the room or place where
Intoxicating liquors are furnished or
sold"
In case, however, that the objection
that a hotel license is not a saloon
license is made, subdivision bobs up,
as follows:
'That no minor or female shall be
permitted to be or remain in or about
any saloon premises, and that no gam
bling shall be permitted on such prem
ises; nor shall any such person be
permitted 10 be or remain in or about
any part of any hotel or restaurant
premises where intoxicating liquors
are sold and dispensed over a bar or
in any manner or effect as though un-
der a saloon license"
1t is one of the duties of the inspector
under the new law TO see that these
provisions as well as others are not
violated. 1t was an apparent violation
of this provision as relating to sa-
loon. reported by Inspector Fennell'
that brought the matter up.
Hotels may find it expedient TO en-
ploy only bellboys with whiskers mere
after, the whiskers being prima taeie
evidence that the bellboy is not
minor.
The board made a clean sweep IN
turning down applications for rehear-
ings last night. There were severaI |
before it. There were the five saloons
represented by A. V. Gear, in Whlch'
after licenses had been refused py the
board, the proprietors undertook 10
surrender their old licenses and claim
new ones under Section 90 OF the law
These were all refused. These apph- /
cants included three white men and
two Japanese, one of the latter In Ho-
nolulu and the other in Aiea.
The application of Chung Iong
-hong for a rehearing of his appllca-
ion for a license for a saloon on
Maunakea street was also refused.
Quite an elaborate brief in support OF
his application was filed by 4. A.
in which he contended
hat the law recognized that compe-
.ition and the amount of the license
zee would have an effect in reducing
he number of saloons, and that the
1oard had no right to refuse licenses
merely because of the number of appll-
ations for a particular locality.
F. NJ. Kiley's application for re-
tearing for a license for the Favorite
frotto, and for the issuance of res !
auant license without the special
sunday and after hours pr1yteges, was
lso turned down. 1t looks as though
he Favorite Grotto would have to re- {
main dark" to use theatrical eX- S
,ression.
The application of White for IL
.ense at Pearl City was continued
Until July s. t
Inc board then adjourned to go over d
o the Palace Restaurant and decide =
ne details of changes required to be
nade there in the arrangement of the
lace. C