The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-06-07
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G|NGER,GR0WB|
With Island DRY
High Alcoholic Confetti Suggests
Its Use To Heavy Drinkers
Left Without Booze
DRUGGISTS. NOTICE BIG ~.
INCREASES IN DEMANDS
Hutton Aa$Eound Bottles In Pos
session of Several Persons
l.. and Taken Them Away

H.. and Taken Them Away
Jamaica ginger is "hot stuff" 70
burning as a matter of fact that it
is almost the last thing one would con
slider satisfactory "jag producer. -
1t is an old time household and family
remedy for the ills that attend the
small hoy who has eaten unwisely Of
that unripe fruit which Is said to have
OccasiOned the loss of Eden, and for
similar ailments which grown ups suf-
fer when they indulge unwisely in
lobster Newburg. Then the medica.
ment is taken in limited quantities
only, as matter of menace, almost.
But there are others who use Jamaica
ginger for an entirely different pur-
pose. They like the burning sensation
no better than does he or she who
takes it as medicine, but they seek
the after effects of the alcoholic kick
and are willing to put up with the
liquid fire sensation to get it.
Mostly these persons are the habit
ual. heavy drinkers and to get the
"kickP they want they will even
Here in Honolulu there is grow
ing demand for Jamaica ginger and
for other indictments that have
high alcoholic content.
Sale Is Stopped
|, Benson, Smith has stopped the pro.
miscuous selling Of Jamaica ginger
and sells the preparation TO such
families only ms will use the purchase
for the purposes for which It Is in.
tended and not as "booze sub
stitute. - Wherever prohibition has
gone into effect there has ever ensued
growing demand for Jamaica ginger.
Not that prohibition engenders cramps
but because of the alcoholic basis Of
the preparation Honolulu is proving
to be no exception to the rule.
1.-THE Benson, Smith Drug Company
has issued orders to all Of it's em
plOyes not to sell Jamaica ginger"
said Mr.. Smith yesterday. owe did
this Immediately after the President
issued his proclamation creating Oahu
a dry zone, for wetknoW that the CON
coction is highly Intoxicating. Since
then we have had numerous calls for
not Hlf lsp1 RsStiss,ly
fused TO. isAtl | it Except in INSTANCES
where we know the purchaser and that
the ginger is being purchased really
las a Medicine and not ''f6f other. pur.
poses. - sd ,~& o.. 81.
Mr.. Smith gave this reply to the
query as to whether his company had
noticed an increased demand for the
preparation since the sale of booze was
forbidden.
Hutton Seizes Bottles
Liquor License Inspector Hutton has
recently taken bottles of Jamaica
ginger away from several persons, most
of whom were, as he describes them,
"old soaks."
In most of the larger drug stores
1t was learned that the increase in
sales had not been sufficient to at
tract the attention of proprietors but
in the stores in the Oriental sections
of the city the proprietors had noticed
that sales had doubled and in some
instances increased in a still greater
proportion. One of the druggists in
terviewed said he had so many calls
he had stopped the sale except in cases
where he knew or was given proof that
the purchase was for the purpose of
legitimate use.
Preparations of Jamaica ginger vari.
ously contain from fifty to ninety
three percent alcohol and to get the
alcoholic kick the hardened drinker
is willing to accept the burn and sting
Of the ginger
There are other common prescriptions
and paten1 medicines in which the al
rohohc content runs high and some of
these are reported to have a consider
able demand at present
In some states where there are strin-
gent prohibition laws the druggists
have, for thei. own protection, had
commission appointed to- determine
what drugs and patent medicines should
not he sold because of their alcoholic
content and are abiding by the recon
mendatiOns of the commission.
Burden on Dealer
In the driest states grOcers are pre-
vented from selling ginger and certain
favOring extracts and the druggists
use the utmost precautions in making
such sales. Grocers found the demand
for these things multiplied several
times over the ordinary aud far ahead
Of anything that could be considered
Legitimate requirements. Some precau-
tionary course will probably be taken
here when the federal prohibition law
goes into effect for the seller must pro.
tcct himself from the danger of arrest,
DrOserutiOn md fine