The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-10-06
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left behind their bars along with the
bungstarter and white apron, and it
was about the meekest bunch imagin-
able that trod the carpet under the
austere official eye of the commission.
There was no bandying of words
with the commissioners and no talk of
legal rights; the four little booze dis
pensers were scared stiff lest they
should lose their licenses, and they
were nightly careful that no word
should escape them which might be
calculated to bring down upon their
luckless heads the wrath of the mighty
men who could, by nod of the head,
put them out of business.
Oh yes, they sold the orders for Sun
day beer delivery all right. They did
rot deny it for a minute. They sold
them, but please, they did not intend
to do wrong. Honest they didn T.
Just give them another chance and
they would walk the straight and mar
row path religiously.
And it was probably their frankness
which saved their licenses for them
Chairman Cooke OF the commission was
very evidently affected by the woebe-
gone appearance of the quartet, for
after the first five minutes of the ex-
animation he began to take pity on the
four miserable chaps and he became
considerably less severe in his manner
Harry Klemme, of the Aloha saloon,
was the first unfortunate called onto
the carpet. Yes, ne sold an order on
the brewery on the night of September
oath, and that order almost got key
of beer ON Sunday.
Klemme said that friend of his. a
chief master at arms, dropped in at
his place on Saturday night and said
that he wanted a fve-gallon keg of
beer. Klemme gave him an order, and
then went over and paid for the beer,
it happening that a representative of
the brewery was in the saloon at the
time.
The next morning Klemme s friend
called at the saloon in a hack and ask
| ed that the beer be sent for. Klemme
sent a man down in the hack, but the
| man soon returned and reported that
| the brewery would not come through.
Then Klemme. coatless, jumped into
| the vehicle and went to the brewery.
| He did not have the order with him,
| but he demanded the beer which had
| been set aside for his friend. He was
| told that there was no order on file,
but finally, after pledging his word of
| honor that he had given the order the
night before, he got the beer. He was
under the impression that it was Bart
lett who authorized the delivery of the
| beer to him, though it was a native
| boy who actually got it out of the ice
| house.
No, sir, he did not go down as in his
| official capacity as proprietor of a
! saloon, but simply as private citizen
acting as the agent of his friend, the
| chief petty officer. No, sir, he did not
| get any more beer that day. though
| he learned later that two other kegs
had been gotten in his name He had
nothing to do with that and he himself
had started out to run to earth the
miscreant who had used his name not
| in vain
No, gentlemen, he did not know that
he was breaking the law. Honest In
jun, he had no intention of doing such
a thing. Really, the slip from the path
Of righteousness should be overlooked
this time, for there was absolutely no
intention of wrongdoing on his part
Craig said that he had heard that
another order had been issued Sunday
morning and that on that afternoon
| Klemme had gone to the brewery at1
demanded another key. Klemme ex'
eitedly denied that such had been the
ease.
Then Charlie Lambert of the Or
pheum saloon was called before the
| tribunal He stood up and twisted his
hat around in his hands with a help
less, miserable sort of q look, and wait
ed for the thunder to start. Chairman
Cooke settled himself a little more