The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-06-27


Liquor will not be sold within two
miles of Pearl llarbor naval station
and Fort Kamehameha, if Rear Ad-
miral Moore, L. S. N, commandant at
the naval station, convinces the board
Of license commissioners this afternoon
that the application of James Il. Jaeger
Thomas Mclean and William Larsen
should be denied, because, he says, IT
twill menace the discipline and morals
of the sailors and soldiers stationed
there.
The admiral announced yesterday
that he will go before the board pre-
pared to make an elaborate exposition
of the views of the Navy with regard
to the grouping of saloons and dive,
near military and naval reservations
and the Pearl larbor station in par.
ticular.
Admiral Moore says he is positive
IN the belief that the establishment of
saloon at the Fuuloa station will be
one of the. most undesirable features
that may be added to the Puuloa site
and such action would prevent clerks,
labOrers and other employees of the
naval station from making Puuloa "a
place of residence.
The admiral states that Manager
Glib of the Honolulu plantation is not
in accord with the proposal to estab-
lish saloon at Puuloa, which is prac.
tically opposite the main gateway to
the naval reservation, and states that
the military authorities are equally
opposed to a saloon there, as it is also
on the only road leading to Fort Ka-
mehamcha
Opposed by Admiral Moore.
81 am bitterly opposed to any Tropo.
sition that will tend to create a dive
district out of Puuloa village said
Admiral Moore yesterday 81 have re.
ccivcd an invitation from the foard OF
license commissioners to appear at a
meeting to he held Thursday afternoon,
June 26, when the application for the
Puuloa license comes up for considera
ton
81 have a right to rely upon pro-
vision IN the law which prohibits the
establishment of a saloon within two
miles of q military or naval rescrva-
ton. However, ! will also rely upon
the moral grOund that a saloon located
there will be Il detrimcnt to the mp
building of decent village, and it will
also mar the splendid new drive from
Moanalua to Puuloa and the gates of
the naval station, recently completed
by the city government of Honolulu.
Just when, we are preparing to open
the greatest naval station under the
American flag, somebody wants to make
,Puuloa "A place to be damned.
would Iniure Purloa
al want to warn the public that
there are a number of clerks who will
undoubtedly wish to live at Puuloa with
their families, but who will not do so
if saloon district is created there
They want quiet, decent neighhOr
hood for the r wives and children. Pun
loa is srlall and its area limited One
saloon there will make the village alb
solutcly undesirable
'What will it lead tor 1t WI ONLY
be the opening for the establishment of
brothels, with scarlet women therein
recruited from the purlieus of the Coast
cities. Do we want our wives and
children to pass through n street or
streets lined with houses of question
able character. with vice Haunting itself
in their faces AS they 90 to and from
their honest These saloons and broth
els only serve to give black eye to
tho community and absolutely spoil the
approach to Pearl HarbOr station.
"The Fort Kamehamcha officials are
opposed to saloon at Puuloa or at
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