The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-05-20
NEW YORK DRY
ON MAY FIRST
More Than 200 Hotels and 500 Saloons
Are Placed In Unusual
Predicament
JEROME ADMITS THE SLUR
New Animals For the Zoo-Hetty
Green Never Uses the
Telephone.
sRoME ADMITS THE sLUR


were without licenses to permit them
to serve liquors to their guests. Near
| ly so saloons, also without licenses,
were forced to keep their doors closed.
! This unusual condition is almost en-
tirely due to the new liquor license
law, which requires inspection and re-
| port by the Department of Buildings
on every application for a license be-
fore a certificate is issued. 1t is likely
that nearly all the hotels and major
| ity of the saloons eventually will re-
ceive their certificates and will be per-
mitted to continue.
JEROME CHARGES BLACKMAIL.
District Attorney Jerome, at today's
session of the inquiry into the charges
brought against him by the King Com
mittee of Metropolitan Street Rail
way stockholders, came out with char
ges of Matchmaking. Mr.. Jerome cou-
pied the investigation into the charges
against him with the Well suit
through the connection of the King
Committee with each, and called the
undertaking fishing excursion"
adding, And | think l can prove, if
your Honor deems it necessary, that it
is more than a fishing eXcursion-that
it is Matchmaking excursion"
Mr.. Jerome said ne would prove, if
called upon, that the counsel in the
We'll suit went to the Metropolitan
Street Railway interests and tried to
| coll tbo etooIy ,onraeoptad I,,, Tho KiDg
Committee as a condition of calling
off the action. Eugene kremer, of 70
Wall street, is counsel in the We'll suit.
He could not be reached today after
Mr.. Jerome made his statement, but
other counsel for the King Committee
declared the charge absolutely false.
Mr.. Jerome pursued the subject further
| by adding criticism OF Municipal JUS
! tice William Young, who is hearing
/ the evidence in the we'll suit.
He has conceived the iGea,- said
Mr.. Jerome, that he is sitting in a
court of equity and everybody in the
city, great and small, in any way con-
nected with the financial world, should
attend before Mr.. Pierces confrere up
there and before the Judge before
whom Mr.. Pierce's confrere is conduct
ing this fishing expedition"
Municipal Justice Young has called
before him Thomas F. Ryan, Anthony
N. Brady and others of the traction
financiers, and the attorney for the
! defense has frequently expressed the
complaint repeated by Mr. Jerome to-
| day that he was exceeding his jurisdiC-
| ton.
Prior to questioning the good faith
| of the interests back of the We'll liti-
cation, Mr.. Jerome repeated the sub
stance of prior criticism upon the judi
| ciary of New York County while con-
! tending that his words on many former
| occasions, where he spoke in an official
| capacity, must not be counted against
him. Commissioner Richard h. Hand,
who is hearing the evidence, sustained
the District Attorney, so far as his
| criticisms were expressed at public
dinners and the like.
mo TIP" SHOP DID NOT PAY.
| That no tip barber shop VIII not
pay in New York has been proved by
the experience of a shop which after a
thorough trial of the plan has given it
up and gone back 20 the prevailing tip
| ping system. The pToprietors put $780,
600 into an establishment of the first
order, fixed a scale of prices calculated
to save money for the patron on the
no-tip basis and forbade the reception
of gratuities by their employees. They
ran it with more and more loss every
month for a little over a year. Now
the announcement has been made that
| customers may tip BARRIERS as much as
| they please and as many times as they
! please. Since then business has picked
| up amazingly The proprietors have
made up their minds that tips and
prosperity, if they do not inevitably
go together at least cannot be separat-
ed with pecuniary advantage to the
heads of the business.
NEW ANIMALS FOR PARK 100.
William Beebee, the curator of orni-
thology of the geological park in the
Bronx, and his wife have returned
! from a successful expedition along the
coast of Venezuela and the shores of
the Orinoco delta, wnere they went
for the purpose Of studying birds and
animals unknown in this country. Mr..
Beebee, while not making the trip to
collect specimens for the geological
park, did bring with him about so birds
and animals which are new to the
present collection of the park.
HETTY GREEN NEVER USES
TELEPHONE.
Although probably more actively en-
gagged in business than any other per-
son in the country, Mrs. Hetty Green
has never used a telephone. She said
so yesterday when in the Office of a
downtown trust company she asked an
attendant to transmit a message for
her, After the message was delivered