The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-10-15
FINALLY SUSPEND
LIQUOR LICENSE
This Storekeeper's Hospitality
Was Unlimited and Now
He Suffers.

Although vast quantities of liquor.
ranging from lager beer to gin and
brandy, were freely dispensed on Sun.
days from the merchandise store of
Yamasaki, a prominent Japanese of
Waianae town and not a cent of nav
asked, according to Yamasaki himself
the board of license commissioners he.
lieved the statements of License Inspea.
tor Fennell and witnesses he produced
that Yamasaki did thriving business
in Sunday liquor for cold. hard cash.
and suspended the Japanese liquor Ii.
cense until January l, 1913.
Yamasaki keeps saloon and a mer-
| chandise store at Waianae, each estab.
lishment in different building. On
week days Yamasaki sells LIQUOR in his
| saloon; on Sundays, according TO his
! story, he gave it away in his store, and
his haole friends, particularly, could
drop in, sit in his diningroom as long
as they wished, and drink as much beer
and gin as they desired, and pay moth.
ing. 1t was just his open. handed hospi.
tality which impelled him to dispense
so much liquor to his friends.
Former Deputy Sheriff Chris Holt.
years ago, was brought before the board
yesterday as witness for Yamasaki,
to show that in all the visits he had
made to 1amasaki Is store, he was never
charged a cent for liquor on Sunday. On
many occasions he was in the establish
ment with several well-known Honolulu
businessmen and officials. and had all
the beer he wanted. He never paid n
Ign lAt,N ~
pay.
Questioned by members of the board,
MIR. Holt said, however, that while he
was deputy he was informed and was
led to believe that Yamasaki sold IL
quor on Sunday and he made two at
tempts to trap and arrest him without
Hail.
"There were so many of my friends
and Yamasaki IS friends who frequented
his place on Sundays, that cannot re.
member all, but they all drank there, 4"
said Holt. "They may have paid, but
l did not see any money. l never paid
anything"
Mr.. Holt also stated that on many oc-
casions he had been invited by lunas
of the plantation to go into the store
on Sundays to get drink. The lunas
Oruereu III ana ne drank.
SukimOra, a store employe of Yama-
saki, told of the transaction in August
when Fennell and a special officer en-
tered and placed him under arrest for
selling four bottles of beer to the spe-
cial officer. He said on that occasion
he had just recovered from illness and
according to japanese custom, such a
recovery was an occasion for a celebra-
tion. So he had bought half barrel of
bottled beer-four dozen bottles-and
placed dozen in the ice cbestE He ex-
pected to have lot of his friends come
in during the evening and drink his
beer. The four bottles were sold for
dollar, just as Yamasaki left the store
to go to church.
The dollar he said he gave to the
bookkeeper to keep for him, being an
other little trait he had, for he had no
place to keep money. The bottle of
brandy Mr.. Fennell had found on the
premises belonged to the bookkeeper,
who had also been slightly i'll, and he
drank from the bottle occasionally.
The clerk stated that the special Of
ficer who had bought the beer, also
bought a can of sardines. This was a
| signal to Fennell who was watching
from the outside and who then entered
and made the arrest. The story of the
purchase of sardines impressed Chair
man Cooke, who asked whether Yama-
saki was in the habit of selling mer-
chandise on Sunday. The clerk was
rather fidgety over this question, and
said that sales were sometimes made.
| Mr.. Mertons, local bartender, was
sent for in the afternoon to give testi-
mony for the license inspector. He
stated that he had frequently pur-
chased and drank beer in Yamasaki IS
store on Sundays.
At the close of the hearing, on mo-
tion of George Potter, Yamasaki's IL
cense was suspended until the first of
the year.