The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-06-27
HAWAII AND MAUI
ALSO CONFRONTED
!. BFcSALOONEV|lS
License Commissioners Of Both
Counties Deal With Protests
and Violations
BOOZE ADULTERATI0N -
s CAUSES INVESTIGATION
Chemist Tells What He Knows
About Holland Process In
Manufacture Of Gin ,.l.

Like the liquor license commission.
ers of Oahu, the commissioners Of the
island OF Hawaii at their meeting last
week, granted renewals of all the
licenses applied for, but had some dis
Gussion over a couple OF cases in which
it appeared that there had been viola
tions Of regulations. The same action
as to "type" goods was taken as in
Honolulu,
The managers Of the Matano Hotel
and the Union saloon were on the
carpet. In the former case the license
with Sunday privileges was renewed,
after strong warning by John T. NOR,
chairman of the board. The hotel was
ordered to cease all sales of liquor in
its rear rooms, where, it was charged,
"wine buns" were in the habit Of con-
gregating, and at first the same order
was made to apply to the dining rooms
upstairs. The trustee for the place,
NJ. de Spinola, appealed against this
ruling, and was allowed to serve liquor
upstairs on Sunday, to dinner parties.
Adulteration OF Booze
The Union saloon 3 case involved
charges that liquor sold over the bar
from bottles was adnlterated or weak
ened. Samples from bottle bearing
a certain label of Scotch whiskey, and
another of gin, were shown to be not
what the labels indicated the contents
of the bottle to be. AS it appeared that
the bartender under whose manage
ment the adulteration had taken place
had been promptly discharged, the
J. G. Sarrao, owner of the place, stated
that he had never given any orders for
adulteration of any brands.
Chairman MOir spoke very plainly
about the evidence given before the
commissioners by the former bartender
of the Union saloon. The chairman
said that it was evident to him that
the bartender had been "seen' by
somebody and that he had switched
his evidence to suit the case. The bar
tender had told Commissioners Eas-
ton and Guard and Inspector Over
end very different story some days
ago. He had then declared that
the whiskey was placed in the bottles
upon orders received from Serrao.
The matter of the Wholesale license
of Serrao and the manufacture of gin
.'Holland Process" was then taken up
and the stand was taken that as the gin
was not made from grain alcohol, but
from molasses alcohol, the term "Hol-
land Process" was not correct.
Holland Process Explained
Serrao's chemist told all he knew
about gin making and admitted that
if the "HOlland Process" meant that
alcohol from grain had to be used,
then the Hawaii article was an imita-
tiOn. The matter of how gin was ma
nufactured was discussed and the
chemist showed that he knew all about
the real juniper and the "Oil" from
the berry which is generally used in
making gin in the United States. He
told of the manner in which the juniper
berry is used and also spoke on the
Question of alcohol as produced from
molasscs and from grhin.
Labels that bore the title "HOlland
Process" were shown and there was
considerable discussion as to whether
the labels should bear the word lin,
itatiOn," so as to protect the real
Holland stuff. The .Serrao chemist
said that it might be as well to mark
the gin " Hawaii Gin" and let it 60 at
that. However, the commissioners de-
cided that they should wait until a
report is obtained from the pure food
chemist in Honolulu who will be asked
to decide what the "Holland Process
really means. This opinion is expected
to reach Hilo within week or two, and
then something definite will be done
regarding the Holland Process" cir
manufacture.
The full board of license commits
sioners attended the meeting and thos,
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H. r. Guard, Thomas White, j. d. Eas
ton and y. p. Woods.
Maui Refuses One
In Maui the meeting of the commits
sioners resulted in u decrease of one il
the number of licenses, making tn,
total sixteen instead of seventeen.
There will be no retail saloon
in the Hama district, All Ping no
having applied for a license at Kipa
hulu, and l.. Y. AiOna 5 application TO
renewal of his Hama saloon licens
being refused. The thirst of the dis
trict, however, will be assuaged thro
one Wholesale liquor establishment,
license for which was granted to j. A
Medeiros.
In the town of Waikiki an addition
al license was granted, this being
the Grand Hotel Company, which
shortly to build at Main and Churc
streets. An application for fra
class saloon license by Antoine Garci
was refused. In all other district
licenses were granted as they exist 8
present.
Strong petitions of protest came b.
fore the board from Hama and the X
inha- Haiku.Pauwela districts again
the issuing of licenses. The chief o
position in Hama was TO the presel
retail saloon. A petition signed
some so names protested against al
form of license, as did letter fro
John Chalmers, manager of the Kael