The Hawaiian gazette., 1914-07-07
Corner Lifted on Some Of Inside
Deals Of Retail Liquor Business
Of Honolulu ct Meeting Of Ii
cense Commission = Kiley Re
lates His Troubles with scpIly
Lynch Will Be Allowed to
Transfer His Permit.
(FrOm saturday Advertiscr.)

Honolulu at the meeting of the board
Of license commissioners yesterday,
showing to what an extent the retail
business is controlled and manipulated
sby the wholesalers. Not great deal
was brought out, but sufficient 10 give
a general hint Of what is going on be-
meath the calm surface. One Of the
witnesses who gave up trile Of inside
information WAS Dick Sullivan Of the
Fashion, who appeared in the form Of
a victim OF Messrs. Bartlett and Water
man Of the Honolulu Brewery. In the
words of Mr.. Sullivan, they "stung"
hinr for four thousand dollars.
~ got stuDg, all right, by those
follows said Sullivan, ''Lut / know
more now than l did then. get my
own lawyer now" 8s
Kiley Relates His Troubles.
Another cdifying diversion was az
fGrdcd the license commissioners by the
rccounting of the details of a fight he.
tween Jack Scully, proprietor Of the
| Waikiki Inn, and Fred Kiley, q dis
charged Bartender. Kiley was in a
VERY happy frame of mind when he told
/
and had finally landed on the side Of
his head with flower vase. Ssully ex.
planned that Kiley had been doing what
he could of late to give tho Inn n lad
name, in the hope that he. Scully,
might lose his license and that he,
Kiley, might fall heir to it. M
| "He violated the rules and he dis
obeyed orders, and i had to fire him, ;"
said scully, 'fand now he thinks he can
! get even by coming TO the board. -
"Bring on your evidence, . rctorted
Kiley 81 would like to hear about
this. M
The beard brought down the FIRST
avalanche by taking no the applica-
tion of Charles ,. Lynch, who was re-
Gently granted n renewal of tho Pa.
cife saloon license, for permission To
transfer his license TO hui OF Chi,
nese. Leong Yau. Young Wah Chuck,
l.. Koon Chan, Choy On and c. Ming.
four of the five being American eiti.
zens. The application was protested
against by Emil Waterman. represented
by G. IT.. Olson, on the claim that he
YVES onc.third owner Of the license.
This Lynch, through Lorrin Andrews,
his attorney, denied, aud this brought
cut a tale Of mortgages, sales. agree.
ments, eopartnerships and liens that,
while not particularly illuminating in
themselves. gave hint that great
deal could be learned if the line of in.
vestigation opened up were followed.
Mr.. Lynch fled an affidavit in which
he told some astonishing things. Tie
says that Mr.. Bartlett came to him as
n friend and suggested that nc buy the
Pacific saloon from Sullivan, inasmucb
as there WIS Zig monev in the saloon
business. Rartlett further agreed, out
of friendship, to loan him Ucrsonally
$1,000 and to induce the Honolulu Brew.
cry to advance him another $1,000 ia
complete the $4,000 Sullivan was tC
receive. Tho loans and tho deal went
through and Lynch became pOssessOl
Of the Pacific. Then. stating that hC
had to protect the brewery, Bartlett
asked Lynch to sign an agreement, as
a matter of form. TO pay the brewery
two.thirds Of all his profits and ~ mncf
more as he could In order to wipe out
the mortgage as quickly as possible
, Lynch signed.
Lynch Makes Discovery.
Then, after having duly paid in tt
the brewery some $4,000. Lynch sug
Restcd to Bartlett that it was about
, time to check up and have the tive
$1,000 mortgages cancelled. Bartlett
professed surprise aud showed Lynch
r the paper he had signed, which stated
| that Bartlett was a twO-thirds Ownel
of the business. According b. Bartlett
the $4,000 Lynch had paid was simply
Bartlett = share Of the profits, and nou'
! OF it applied on the mortgages, tn
5 paper also stating that lynch YVES, h
. have y one-third interest in the SAILOR
when be had paid off the brewery mort
} gage. Lynch thus found himself in tht
position of having paid $l5,00O to Bart
| lett and having nothing whatever t.
| show for it, not even an interest in hi
a own saloon.
He repudiated the agreement, say
I the affidavit. and took the matter t,
, his lawyer, Lorrin Andrews. Andrew
: made lcnand for cancellation o
the brewery mortgage, which was OF
record, threatening TO take the mat
1 ter into court. The mortgagrd, can
+ teelled, was sent to him promptly. Th
Bartlett mortgage he also domande,
: cancelled, iuasniueh as he had paid il
l He knew nothing about any suppose,
, claim Of Waterman s rutil recently
! but he rcpudiatcd that also j.
! claims that he is tho sole owner of tn
! Pacific Saloon business and the sci
! owner of the license.
Mr.. Olson argaed against this IN,
the title Of Dick Sullivan TO his bust
d ness came Up, the claim being mad
/ that Sullivan owned no, more Of IN
h Pacifc he had sold than Waterman
@ claimed Lynch owned after nc -
@ bought it, sullivan was thcrcupol
}. called before the commission.
a Sullivan entered into an involve,
/ Foxrpnati"u OF bis business rotation
n with the brewery, Bartlett and W";er
! man, denying that he han NOT heer