The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-06-17
IHE LIQUOR
LICE N ST
RULINGS
amor SAYS ReCtifylna Caused
HoffschIaeger Company's
Downfall.
rN EFFECT ON PLEBISCITE
soards Action Is for Year for
Which Law Cannot Be
Changed.

u The liquor license commissioners de-
1als of renewals of licenses, as given
III The Advertiser account yesterday of
he board s meeting Tuesday afternoon,
ms very general subject of discussion
III Yesterday, and made other licensees,
those applications for renewals are to
II anne up on June 81, decidedly anxious.
81 The action of the board most discussed
vas the denial of an application for a
rnewal of the wholesale license of
II he Hoffschlaeger Company.
u Though the license commissioners
q ave no reasons for their action in re-
.using the license to the wholesale firm,
HI is common gossip that the reasons
q we're that the company persisted in use
u # its rectifying license in a manner
Is very unsatisfactory to the board. In
het the mixing of liquors, under the
a .sieral rectifyihg license, in the Hotf-
8shlaeger Company cellar had been a
z natter of much talk for some time. An
q gher count was the alleged sale TO
eblind pigs"
q The board 5 action in this case means
Tat it Will hereafter use its almost I'M
+ nted power TO stop the sale, by
#E0esalers. TO blind pigs. The board
- Wv 90 further, it is said, and demand
ns the wholesalers cooperate with the
wsorities in exposing the blind pigs.
vAesale firms which the board con
ETs are supplying these joints may
q b simply put out of business by re
q hais to renew their licenses-if the
Il hard continues in existence. In this
II sanction it is pointed out that the
81 isderal government has complete con-
81 ro of the wholesalers in such a matter
seeause, by being able to examine the
Fhalesalers' books. It's agents can al
yays tell where the liquor goes. and
Asy always collect the special liquor
AK from any store that buys enough
Eluor to Justify suspicion that selling
J going on in such store.
It is reported that the Hoffschlaeger
ase will be the subject of a rehearing,
g. which event the matter may be fully
q discussed As it stands now, the firm
81 denied renewal of its license, after
II Ssng in business many years, and only
N pabhc rumor gives reasons why. The
81 sasons thus given are the cellar rectl-
ia wing and the alleged sales to blind pigs.
sS# he rectifying business led to connecting
NJ The firm rumor with considerable Of the
IA Eitation booze reported on sale, but as
"a he board made no charges and acted
n "a secret session there is no knowing
"a ahether public rumor is justified or not
giving this as a main cause OF It's
sstion.
The political effect of the board 5
ieti0n was a good deal discussed yes
'aday Aside from the Hoffschlaeger
ase the denials Of licenses were not I'M
0ftant, but they amount to consld-
liable reduction in the number OF re
all saloons in Honolulu. Some of them
Sere direct result of the announced
Nhey of restricting saloons to the fire
A laits district. The action taken, on
he whole, was regarded by many as
Sey to hurt the prohibition campaign.
would show, they said, that under
- he present law the license commission
y had power 70 handle the situation.
answer to this { was pointed out
II bat the board had to act under the
Resent law as best it could. because
aeh if prohibition should be sustained
July, in the natural legal course
! events t could hardly 90 into effect
less than a year.
81 IN other words. the year for which
Z license board is acting now. from
- ], 1910, to Julv /. 1911, VIII not
Affected by the prohibition campa On
ga matter which way It goes. Hence