The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-08-02
Honolulu Is Rapidly
.Exhausting Booze
Supply Of Big Island
If List Of Local Purchasers Were
Made Public. There Would Be
Some Surprises, Is HiIo State
ment - Liquor Commission
Knows EN-

If the list of customers in Honolulu
to whom booze is beng shipped from
Hilo were made public there would
be som" surprises, according to a
statement in the Hilo Post Herald in
connection with the brisk inter-isIand
liquor business that il being done In
view OF approaching territorial prohibi-
ton
Since the fountains Of JOY In HonoIu
lulu dried up and there was balm in
the Big Island Gilcad, the inter. island
company's steamers have been doing n
land office business Not only have
hey been carrying Joy water from HiIo
20 Honolulu, but they have been haul.
ing from Honolulu to HiIo the brew
that made Kakaako famous, and then
hauling it right back again. For while
under the presidential prohibition the
brewery cannot sell beer direct to it's
Honolulu patrons, the latter can obtain
IT by having it sent to Hjlo and then
shipped back again. The only differ.
ence is in the freight, aud therein the
inter island company profits nightly.
Meantime, the growing thirst in Ho
nolulu : drinking circles Is rapidly max.
ing Hilo dry before the appointed time.
which draws the following from the
Hilo Post Herald of July 80.
Plant From Hilo
With strict prohibition in Honolulu
oficialy-Hilo is rapidly being depleted
of its stock of liquor. SO insistent has
been the call by people in Honolulu up
on the liquor dealers of Hilo recently
that brandy has gone up here to $3.50
bottle; Scotch whiskey is selling from
50 TO $40 bottle, while rye whiskey
is almost out of sight, As for, clarets
and Burgunday, it now costs $1.75 or
81 for a small bottle formerly held
at from fifty to seventy-6ve cents, and
better grades are now in the cham
payne class. ..'. .'1"' W.
: So heavy has been the shipment OF
liquor from Hilo to Honolulu that the
local liquor commission took cogniEanee
Of the traffic and recently forced the
dealers here to give the commission a
list of all customers in Honolulu to
whom liquor was shipped. It is stated
that If this list was made public there
would be some surprises.
Balk Blind Pigs
These lists have been promptly for
warded to Inspector Hutton, in Homo.
lulu, who has carefully followed up
every shipment which he thought might
lead to the den of blind pig. In the
mail received yesterday, says Secretary
Guard of the liquor commission, In
spector Hutton expressed his .appreeia.
tion of the work done here by the local
one-haIf hour Of grace has been de-
termined upon by the liquor commission
for the liquor dealers and saloons in
Hilo the night of August. 20, next.
1.-THE time for closing all the saloons
had been set for eleven thirty o'clock
the evening Of August 90" said Sec,
rotary Guard today. ave have de-
termined, however, to grant the dealers
a half hour of grace and will not en-
force closing time until midnight
Secretary Guard asserts that already
tho Hawaiians up in the back districts
arc, distilling okoIehao and making
Thinks Law Unjust
90 tell you that it will take a large
force of federal officers to prevent iii,
cit stills in this Territory next month, ;"
added the secretary of the liquor com
mission today. 81 believe that this law
as at present is a bad thing for the
Hawaiian people, also an injustice to
the Portuguese who were encouraged to
invest their all in grape and wine cul-
ture by low license fee of So a year.
~ hold no brief for Mr.. Serrao here,
as the lawyers say, as is known, but |
say it is an injustice to him that he
should be left with all the wine on his
hands that he has made from his own
grapes, without being allowed to export
1t or sell it or even give it away. Your
Republican rubber stamp delegate to
congress has done fine thing for his
people,, don think"