The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-04-17
SALOONS TO Close
8EADlF BEGINNING
monday evening
Booze Board Following Public
Hearing Decides Upon
Shorter Hours
DECISION COMES AFTER
PUBLIC HEARING is HELD
INo Formal Protest Voiced Al
Meeting Against Cutting a
Down Drink Time

d. n I.
Early closing Of saloons and other
places where liquor is sold is to 20 into
effect beginning next Monday, April %.
The board Of liquor license commits
sioners, following q public hearing at
which we're present most Of the liquor
dealers Of the city as wen as large
number 81 anti-llquer people, decided
| IN executive session to put into effect
/ the shorter hours which had been sug-
eested BY the liquor dealers themselves
| The assembly room Of the board Of
supervisory, where the public hearing
was held, was crowded and even the cor.
ridor ives full. Practically every retail
and wholesale liquor house in the city
was represented.
Previous 70 the meeting there had
been some nihfferings Of saloon keepers
who we're mot inclined to agree 10 the
shorter hours proposed, but this diseon-
tent failed to be voiced at the hearingg.
chairman Riebarq Cooke explained the
proposition and asked if anybody pre-
sent had anything 70. say IN opposition
to f. There was no, objection raised.
The saloon, wholesale, hotel and res
Itnurant men were unanimously silent. A
few Of tho anti,liquor people took the
floor and expressed the view that early
closing would be good thing for the
city At the present time. IS
Iwiil Live up 10 Rules
r. w. Breckons came in late and was
asked II the people he represented had
aE objections 70 the proposed new
hours He replied that they had hone
At all, end be could promise that they
would rigidly live up to whatever rules
land restrictions the board might impose.
came from man who had no concern
with 1t whatever John J. Edwardson,
business agent Of the sailors union,
who makes II a point 10 attend all pub
lie hearing on all questions and talk
whether be knows what he's talking
labout Or not, had lust been shooed
a away from hearing BY iudi tiafy COM
mittee Of the house Of representatives
on the red light abatement bill. The
hearing was to give representatives of
the chamber of commerce a chance 10
express their views, but Edwardson
butteds in and insisted upon making
himself heard. He was squelched, 80
he rushed down 70 the city hall TO give
The liquor license commissioners the
benefit Of his wisdom. He came In late
and apparently didn't know what il
was all about. He asked Chairman
Cooke what was uhder eonsideration.
He was told, and remarked that he
didn't know anything about IL as he
had failed 70 reid nnything about Il
Ia the papers But Just the same. he
wanted TO make a few remarks.
Defends the Ho1ney handed
And he made Their. I'd lib and ad
nauseam. He few wildly TO the de.
Tense Of the horny handed sons of toll
lwbo be commended, were being out
ra1cd BY such illegal and unfair regu,
latiOns The very idea Of closing the
salp1ns before the time limit set BY
law. Furthefmore he th6aght II on
other outrage to let hotels and res
tunrants sell liquor to later houi
| than saloons. Why, y man could 60 "a
restaurant then and get drinks until
he was f'stewed 10 the gals. ~
But the poor laborer couldn't 90 "a
botels and fcstepTaRts 10 get his booze
And bow c0Vld be be expected to gel
! al he needed between hve-thirty and
seven o'clocki II couldnt be done.
II Aud, anyway, what business had ths
liquor board to close up the saloons
early, just because a few noisy peopk
insiated upon it1 what reason wal
there that the few should be aIloweC
TO dispose Of the rights of the many
I Anyway, he couldn 4 see that there wal
J any more reason for early closing nov
than there ever had been. The boarc
had 20 right TO tell US working men
: what they should do.
! And 50 %, until finally the boart
got tired Of the noise and sat upon Mr.
Edwafdaon, firmly and emphaticaIly
squelching him after he had emitted
one final yelp, 70 the effect that IN,
reason the poor working men were no
present in force 10 object TO this mon
strous injustice was that they didn
have the nerve to appear, Mr.. Edward
son, Y seemed, was supplying the nerv,
for the whole bunch.
UIfler the new regulations, o
adopted BY the beard yesterday. dur
ling the coptinuance Of the war Will
Germany saloons must close al sevel
o'clock IN the evening, Wholesalers a
FIVE o'clock cafes of the second elias
holding hotel licenses must not sci
LIQUOR later than seven clock excep
with bona fde meals, but with sueI
meals may serve liquor as late as tel
O'Clock; Restaurants must shut OF tn
booze at ten O. clock.
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