The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-10-06

firmly in his chair and started. The
dialogue follows:
Cooke-On Sunday, September 26,
were there any orders on the brewery
sold by yous
LAMBERT sold good many orders
on Saturday which may have been
presented on Sunday.
Cooke-1s that a regular practise?
Al have some times placed orders
on Saturday and have gotten beer for
myself on Sunday.
Q-Do you remember how many or
ders you sold on this occasiong
Aft | remember rightly there were
twenty-five kegs.
Q.-There were no bottlesa
A.-No, sir.
Q.-Who advised you to sell these
orders?
A-Nobody advised me. I sold them
of my own accord; but | had no idea
that 1 was breaking the law.
Lambert was then excused and Joe
Silva of the Pantheon saloon was call
ed He was asked to tell his story.
"When the feet first came the chief
petty officers gave banquet SAID
he "When the ships returned from
Hilo the same men again gave feast
and got their food from the Palm l
believe They wanted six kegs of beer
and I sold them orders, which l believe
were presented at the brewery on Sun
day morning.
Cooke-Do you know whether or not
this selling of orders for Sunday deliv
cry has been common practises
Silva never gave any such orders
before.
Mike Patton of the Encore Saloon
was then called up. Patton did not
show quite as much trepidation as the
others, though he did not appear any
too comfortable. He denied having
sold any orders for beer on the occa-
sion in question, though he said that,
beer intended for Sunday baseball
games.
He did not know that he was violat-
ing the law when he furnished the or
ders and he said that his instructions
had always been to observe the exact
letter of the law.
After Patton had finished his testi-
mony. the saloon men were all exclud-
ed while the commissioners discussed
the sentence which should be melted
out to the order sellers During the
thirty minutes which the commission
ers spent in celebrating, the saloon
men wandered around the corridors of
the Capitol with misery written all
over their features.
Then Inspector Fennell threw open
halo bo x-ic+
With voice that fairly rumbled with
solemnity, the chairman proceeded to
tell the four that the commissioners
had found them guilty of violating the
license regulations. Four faces as
sumed looks of absolute detection.
Then the chairman continued his re-
marks by saying that the frankness with
which the culprits had confessed their
wrongdoing, and the fact that they
! had evidently offended unwittingly,
| made the board loath to take stringent
! action With them. Therefore, for this
| occasion, they would be forgiven. The
next Offense would mean either a sus-
| pension or revocation of licenses,
| however
There was sound of deep, and re
ieNeu breathing, 1OuI SdiooH hioh
twisted their hats in their hands,
| scraped around with a thank yon
teacher movement, said "Much
obliged and filed out of the room.
They were nightly glad to file.
The brewery has taken the position
| that it's license is not subject to the
| jurisdiction of the Board of License
! Commissioners. In answer to a formal
citation from the board to appear be-
fore it yesterday afternoon, the attor-
neys of the company, Messrs. Kinney,
Ballou, Prosser & Anderson, and E.
| c. Peters, sent the following communi-
cation:
1.-The Honolulu Brewing and Malt
/ ing Company, Limited, has referred to
us your letter of September 80. citing
the company to appear before the board
to show under what authority it is op-
Grating, or under what license it is
selling, dispensing, furnishing and de,
| iivering liquors to divers persons on
Sunday.
"In reply thereto we beg to state