The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-23
SAILORS LEFT
MONEY IN TOWN
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business and unstinted praise for the
sailors. According TO the estimate of
the secretary of the Chamber of Com
merce, each day the sailors were ashore
they spent from twenty to twenty five
thousand dollars, a total of over one
hundred thousand domars IN good Amer
lean gold. This money was spent IN
igrudgingly and more than one sailor was
heard TO regret that the boys had not
1more money to leave here. where the
( people treated them as friends and not
as strangers to be fieeeed at every turn.
such as had been their experience In
some Of the ports visited so far on the
cruise.
/ In addition to the sailors who left
money in the city, there were out-of.
town folk from the other islands. the
number of such visitors having been
livery large. although their presence was
not noticed as much as would have been
/ the case had the city not had ten thou
Island 6ther guests to look after.
The hotels and restaurants were nat
urally the first to feel the sudden in
| crease of business brought about BIZ the
coming Of the ships At the Alexander
/ Young Hotel their record was broken.
I for, for the first time since the big
hosiery opened its doors to the public.
every room was filed for two nights
running. Had the sailors been allowed
ito spend their nights ashore the pres
sure on the Young would have been
| greater, but as it was. Manager
Hertsche reports magnificent bust
ness The same, on a smaller scale
! he reports from the Moana, which was
| well filed with naval and other guests.
while in the Alexander Young Cafe. the
| business of the week was the best ever
done there. The sailors SHE'D off to a
large extent from the glitter of this
place, preferring the palmer down town
restaurants, but the island visitors oe.
eupied every table.
The Seaside was another busy spot,
the crowds that filled its beautiful
grounds every day patronizing the
house literally. so literally in fact that
time after time the place was swamped
with business and the small force Of
walters could not attempt to handle it.
Further down the line the Waikiki Inn
entertained its hundreds of guests a
day, this place having established itself
as favorite resort at once with the
sailors, who went out there in droves.
The regular boarding houses did not
benefit greatly. the order taking the
men aboard each night at midnight
making the elaborate sleeping arrange
ments provided ashore unnecessary.
The restaurants did a roaring bust
ness At the Union Grill it is estimated
/ BIZ the manager that ten thousand meals
were served during the five days the
sailors had shore liberty and the great
majority of these meals were served to
the men in uniform EAnd all the
time the sailors were here, crowded and
damned as this place was all the time,
Lido not believe that we lost one TWEEN
give cent piece through any man not
coming to the counter with his ticket.
says the Grill manager, who cannot
praise the battleship men too highly
for their excellent conduct. There was
not one row in this place during the
feet s stay and not dispute over pay
ment.
The men bought very little intoxieat-
ing liquor, the Grill sales, for instance,
being surprisingly small, considering
the great crowds catered to. There
were no late hour drinking bouts, no
orgies.
The men went to the restaurants to
get something to eat, not to drink, as
they patronized the temperance Palm
restaurant quite as literally as they did
the licensed Grill or the licensed Palace.
We did Just as big a business as we
could conveniently handle, says Man,
ager Ludwigsep, of the Palm, : very
satisfactory business indeed. Not only
were we busy at all times in the restau-
rant. but we had orders from outside
that kept as hustling in the kitchen
We did the catering for the two lunch
cons served at the officers excursions
at Pearl Harbor, for the reception and
ball given Admiral Sperry and the OF
fieers at the Seaside and for the reeep-
ton given aboard the flagship On, We
were busy, all right.
And the same report comes from ali
the smaller cafes, the Palace Grill, the
California and the others. Wherever
there was good substantial food served,
the sailors were to be found and every
where they appeared to be satisfied.
"'This place is all right, one of the
gun pointers with Wisconsin cap
band. "'In Frisco they charged me six
bits for a tough steak; here / got one
could eat for four bits; here had
two bottles of beer at dinner, while IN
Frisco one bottle would have made me
drunk. - And this is a sample Of the
satisfaction the men expressed with
things as they found them.
Naturally there was much doing
about every saloon. but there were few
men drunk. There were enough sailors
with reasonable thirsts TO keep the va
rious beeE pumps going, but few Of them
INDUCED too deeply. making the work
Of the patrol very light.
About the only complaint. and that
is not really a complaint, heard yester-
day was at Nolte 5. This place seemed
to be too close to the waterfront. At
any rate the sailors with liberty
svreamed past the Beaver, making a
beeline for the corner Of King and
Fort before deciding what to do. 4 few
strangers of naval rank broke into the
naNhini circles, but they were never
more than<a dozen at time
There was a big business done at the
various photo supply houses about the
city. MANY Of the sailors being the