The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-04-23
Prosperity Is Seen !.
and Disorder -.
Takes Its Departure
One Week Under Presidential
DRY Oahu Proclamation Re.
duCes Work Of Police and In
creases That Of Smaller Mer.
chants

But one drunk was registered on the
police blotter last night which makes
the fourth arrest for drunkenness in
Honolulu during it's first "bone dry"
week. For the week ending March 90
there we're nineteen arrests for drunk.
enness and disorderly conduct, which
does not include those locked up for
safe keeping and then allowed to 90
when they had recovered from their
rotations and sent on their way With
rcprimand and warning to offend
no more. During the week ending APP
Ri 90 1917, there were twenty-four
arrests for drunkenness, just eight
times as many arrests for this offense
as there we're for. the corresponding
week Of this year.
The presidential order for a "dry
Oahu has made a material difference
in affairs around the police station.
The riOtOus and drunken Tiffraff that
filed the cells on Saturday nights are
no more Women with blackened eyes
and with hungry children trailing at
their skirts, no longer line up before
the receiving sergeant, tell tales Of
.rupltv and abuse and ask that n BIZ
cycle policeman escort them home aud
try and straighten out their family of.
fairs. II was no uncommon thing in
the past for labOring men to be brought
to the police station, reeling with
liquor; their weeks wages all gone and
holding under their arms, packages of
meat and fish for the weeks family
L., 20 ha lace IN hn nnltan tat
to rot, while the drunken head of the
family languished in a cell until Mon
lay morning.
ALI Ofenses Decrease
While there has been material fall
ing off in drunkenness cases, there has
also been a material falling off in as
sault and battery cases. Yesterday g
police blotter up to midnight last night
showed less than half dozen cases
Of all kinds and the majority Of these
were for violations of the traffic ordi-
nance.
The small merchants, soda water
vendors and the lower priced restaur-
ants all did a Furnishing business yes.
terday. On lower Hotel Street, River
Street, and in the section Of the city
near the Nuuanu Stream, where the
.nboring class generally congregate;
there was an air of prosperity that was
Strikingly noticeable last night. New
RATS on both men and women were as
common as on an Easter parade in
other parts of the country. Laborers,
with new suits of clothes, loaded down
With bundles and with their whole
families in tow were in evidence every.
where.
Crowds are Larger
The various moving picture houses
asst night did land Office business
and the usual crowd that throngs the
Young Hotel rool garden every Satur.
lay night showed evidence of its being
larger than it usually has been. Dances,
10Th private and public, held in vari.
Gus halls about the city were well
patronized and the usual presence Of
John Barleycorn was not missed, if the
iollity and merriment of the dancers
any criterion.
Apparently the only ones who have
'elt any bad effects from the new order
things under a "dry' regime are
he might hawking' automobile driv-
rs, who made the nights hideous in
he past with their loads of drunken
'oysterers who disturbed the wee
ma hours of the morning with maud.
in singing.
Honolulu first "dry' week has
been success from every standpoint.