The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-07-16
CRUSADE AGAINST
CITY'S DANCE HALLS
Humane Society Win Submit
Draft Of Law to the Super
visors Today.
From Saturdays Advertiser.l


A determined crusade against the
vicious dance halls in the tenement dis
tricts of the city will be inaugurated
by the Humane Society in an effort to
give protection to young girls, partic-
ullarly those of Hawaiian birth, who are
lured into them. The Humane Society
has quietly considered ways and means
with which to combat these halls AMI
at recent meeting decided to formu-
late an ordinance for presentation to
the board of supervisors.
The mayor yesterday received COM
munication from Mrs. Anna c. Dole,
wife of Federal Judge Dole, one of the
heads of the society enclosing the draft
of an ordinance which will be lall be-
fore the supervisors at their meeting
at noon today.
The ordinance provides that ali
dance houses or halls shall be licensed
and commission of three members, to
be appointed by the mayor, will have
power to grant, refuse, suspend and re-
woke licenses. The annual fee has
been placed at 800. No intoxicating
liquors are to be served in these halls.
The full text of the proposed ordinance
follows:
Section /. A public dance house is
house. room, or enclosure in use for
public dances for participation in which
by individuals fees are collected.
Section. No person shall keep pub
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&c dance house except as licensed to do
so under the provisions of this act.
Section 8. There shall be a commits
sion of three members who shall be APP
pointed annually by the mayor of the
City and County of Honolulu, with the
advice and consent of the supervisors.
Such commissioners shall serve without
remuneration.
Section 4. Such commissioners shall
have the sole power and discretion to
grant, refuse, suspend and revoke IL
censes for public dance houses in the
City and County of Honolulu, and the
exercise of such power and discretion
shall not be renewable by any court
or tribunal. They may at any time in
spect any licensed dance house and en-
ter the same at any time without be-
ing required to pay such fees as may
be the practise of the proprietor there
of to collect from patrons.
Section o. The annual fee for Ii
cense to keep a dance house shall be
one hundred ($100.00) dollars, and no
license shall be issued until such feet
is paid in full in advance.
Section 6. Such license shall at all
times be displayed in a conspicuous
place in the premises described therein.
Section Z. No intoxicating liquors
of any kind shall be sold or furnished
at such dance houses to anyone, and
such sale or furnishing shall forfeit the
license thereof.
Section 8. 1t shall be unlawful for
any proprietor of public dance house
to permit children under the age of
fifteen (15) years to visit or remain in
a public dance house during its use for
public dancing. The violation of this
section shall forfeit the license of such
proprietor to keep public dance house.
Section Q. In case of the revocation
of license to keep a public dance
house, for the violation of sections Z
and of this ordinance, no new license
shall be issued to the proprietor whose
license has been revoked, or for the
house, room OF enclosure, where public
dancing was authorized to be carried
on by such revoked license, within five
years after the time of such revocation.
Section 10. Any person who shall
keep public dance house without Ii
cense as herein set forth, shall be glil-
ty of misdemeanor and shall, on con
viction thereof, be punished by fine
of not more than one hundred t$l00.00)
dollars nor less than fifty ($5o.0O) dol
lars, OF by imprisonment not more than
three (3) months, or by both such fine
and Imprisonment.
Section IL. Provided, however, that
the commissioners may in their discre-
ton, grant licenses without charge, for
dances where admission is by ticket,
the sale of tickets therefore being
solely for covering the expenses of the
dance, or for raising money for educa-
tional or charitable purposes. Such Ii
censes shall cover privilege for one
occasion only.