The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-08-05
No CHAUFFEURs
WANTED At BAR
ONE KICKS BECAUSE MANAGER
OF THE YOUNG WITH
HELD COCKTAIL.

Inc puDIlc chauneurS who drive bic
>eyen-seated machines and hold in their
hands the lives Of thteir passengers
have been in the habit of going to the
/ Young Hotel buffet on the fifth floor TO
obtain the liquor which they are afraid
to drink at the public bar downstairs
for fear prospective passengers might
see them and refuse to employ boozing
chautfeurs. Such is the inference, at
least, that is TO be drawn from a letter
sent TO the board of license commissions
ers by Joseph X. Clark. chauffeur on
the Quinn automobile stand. who
complains bitterly because Manager
Hertsche, finding him and young Aleck
Refs, another chauffeur, standing at the
bar waiting for drink, refused to al,
low t to be served to them.
Clark complains that Hertsehe re-
fused TO allow drinks to be sold in the
buffet to chauffeurs. telling them that
they could 90 to the public bar down
stairs if they wanted a drink
The automobile man also makes
| pointed reference to "a gambling den -
! which he says exists in the room ad-
| Joining the Young Hotel buffet.
Hertsche Within Rights.
Clark : letter to the board which is
/ amusing in spots, was thrown aside
without any action being taken, after
| Chairman Watkins had quoted a see
| ton Of the Revised Laws which per,
mits a salO0nkeeper to refuse to sell
! liquor to any person to whom he does
not want to sell. The letters reads as
| follows:
Honolulu, August 3. 1910.
The Honorable The Board of License
Commissioners, Honolulu, T. H.
Gentlemen:-I beg to submit to your
! honorable board. a complaint in regards
to the Young Hotel buffet, which oc-
CURED on the fifth, floor of said hotel
wherein on the evening of July 80, Sat
urdav at about 1915 p. m. | entered
the said buffet in company with Aleck
Refs. and called for a cocktail and q
. richy, which the bartender in charge
/ prepared and was about to serve, II
fact. he had placed the glass of cock
tail before me when Mr. Hertsche en-
tered. remarking to the bartender thai
we are not the kind of people, meaning
Refs and I. that he wished TO be served
lat said buffet, though there were toul
others drinking at the bar, wher
Hertechp entered at his remark | i'm
mediatelv asked Mr. Hertsehe if mean
TO discriminate in the sale of drinks
at said buffet. and was informed tina
he did not want any chauffer s tTa lie
and if we wanted any, there was a ba
downstairs. that he would positivel!
refuse to sell US drinks at the fifth
floor buffet, though others who cam'
later wore being served in our presenc'
among whom We're Dick Davis. Will
Lucas and three others in one party
George Yamada, Robert King and tw'
Others in another party whose appear
ance were not superior to ours Wer
served. Our conduct during the even
ing were gentlemanly.
, Mr.. Hertsche still insisted that W
were not wanted there and would no
: ba served. and in return insisted tina
if the others are permitted there W
were entitled TO the same privilege, an
not 70 be Disseminated against. \
nv persistence he ordered the hight
turnad off and ordered the rest on
incIudinp~ who were just entering
They were Charles Reynolds, Joe Mile
and three others.
, This buffet has always been conduc'
, ed as an open bar. where drinks "er
served to all corners even men unde
5 the influence of liquor were not pare
. nor were those who would use the gan
? bling den adjoining the buffet wer
! / nTnr NEGLECT ed
. Now gentlemen may 7 be perm1tte
70 20 irouiTe as to whether this parncuia
T buffet is licensed as a public bar, or
# a private bar, not subject 10 I'll
10 regu}atfons Of your honorable board'
4 7 would further state that MI. Alee
; Raiy and I were absolutely SOBER. an
having had anything 10 drink ptlI 'i
this happened, ana we were respee'l l ul-
dressed. Therefore 7 come to'the coi
custom that Mr.. Hertsche ac.lo
seemed an unwarranted dlserlm'na3'lo.i
which hope the honorable boaro WI
deem If worthy of investigating
Thanking You in advance Tor you
> attention, | beg TO remain very Ies IS p
= fully JoStFli N '''->
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