The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-06-10
DANCE HALL HAS
NO FEAR OF LAW
Full Blast Saturday Night and
Into the Sabbath the
Music Played.
(From Monday Advcrtiscr.)

The Hawaiian Dance Hall enjoyed so
much patronage Saturday night that
the management did not douse the
lights in the hall until after the city
ordinance, governing the closing OF
public places of amusement, had been
exceeded and the small hours of the
Sabbath had come into being. At
twelve clock Saturday nightthe hall
was just beginning to empty its
habitues, and it was some time later
when the doors were closed and the
lights extinguished.
Cabs and automobiles, three deep,
crowded Kultui street before the pa
vilon in the drizZlc that held at mid
night. The young girls laughed and
| frightened their wraps about them and
boarded the vehicles which are sup
posed to have been furnished by the
men with whom they had made an ac-
auaintance in the course of the dances.
Nuuanu street, after twelve O'Clock
Sunday morning, liyencd TO the noise
of hoof beats, the exhaust of engines,
and the talk of voices MS the cabs and
machines with their merry human
freight Travelled to and fro along its
length into the late hours of the Sab
bath.
All this, on the face of it, is in di-
rect violation of the city ordinance
which controls the ways and means by
which public dance halls are operated.
To make sure that they would live up
to the ordinance, the management of
the hall should have begun its closing
process at thirty clock Satur'
day night at the latest. In view of
the fact that the eve of the public has
been directed by The Advertiser to
the things which are alleged to have
happened in the pavilion, sane reason
ing would cause the management to
live within the laws of the city that
granted them their license and allows
them to operate such place.
Exactly what the special officer
whom Sheriff William p. Jarrett stated
he has placed on duty in the hall, was
doing at the time the place was oper
after twelve o clock Sunday morning
was not ascertaned yesterday. The
fact remains, however, that there wa
leniency granted somewhere which nj
lowed the management to operate tn,
hall after the city ordinance penalizet
its closing.
Certain authorities have taken al
the matter of the Hawaiian Dance Hall
and to all appearances have made al
, extensive investigation of the place
Judge Whitney of the circuit court, nc
, cording to his statement, visited tn
place in company with John Marcallint
clerk of the court, last "Wednesday
I night, but was unable to detect any
! thing but the most orderly of conduct
The federal grand jury had the matte
under investigation for the past weel
= but has announced no findings in tn
: case.
Heretofore, according to the inform
tion furnished by those who regularl
attend the place, the Hawaiian Dane
Hall has been strict in closing the PIT
vilion at eleven o clock. No music fc
- dances was played after the elevent
= hour, and the place was entirely emf
{ tied by quarter of an hour later.
e From the look of things Saturla
d evening, it would appear as though I'll
4 ball, rather than being injured, is d
irving untold benefits from the amour
Of publicity and investigation which
received during last week. Soldic
and civilians and girls in larg,
lie quantity than ever before thronged II
10 floor. And its fragrant operation aft
v, midnight Sunday morning denotes,
~ seems to denote on the part of Il
1t management, an assurance that the
" have little fear of the law.