The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-10-08
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power of the Board of License Commits.
sioners and fatty refused to respond
to the citation issued by that body.
The Board of License Commissioners
has placed the matter in the hands Of
the attorney general and the brewery
will be brought to time if 1t shall prove
to be within the power of the author
| tiles to do so.
The four saloonkeepers where sales
of orders for the Sunday delivery of
beer brought about the trouble, were
brought up before the board yester-
day and severely reprimanded.
Four badly frightened little saloon
men faced the License Commission
yesterday AFTERNOON and promised to
be good boys hcnceforth and forever.
more, We're their shortcomings in re.
gard TO the Saturday -orders-forS Sun.
day.delivery business overlooked. Amy
bravado which may have characterized
them on former occasions, they had
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
We're 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
not 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 Klcmme, 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,
chief master at arms, dropped in at
his place on Saturday night and said
that he wanted a five-galon 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 IS friend
called at the saloon in hack and ask
ed that the beer be sent for. Klemme
sent 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 hin, though it was 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 a 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
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 and
| demanded another keg. Klemme ex.
citedly denied that such had been the
case.
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 n help
less, miserable sort of look, and wait.
,ed for the thunder TO start, Chairman
Cooke settled himself little more
firmly in his chair and started. The
dialogue follows;
Cooke-on sunday September 20,
were there any orders on the brewery
sold By youf
Lambcrt-l sold good many orders
on Saturday which may have been
presented on Sunday,
tooke-ls that regular practise I
Al have some times placed orders
on Saturday and have gotten beer for
myself ON Sunday
Q-Do you remember how many OF,
uer You sold ON this 0cradoni
A-lf ! remember rightly there were
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