Entering the basement of the building is through a door with a slip-bar arrangement and a spring lock with a wire attachment, operated by wire from the rear room.
This rear room was entered through a door opening which, is doubly barred and guarded. The gambling room is decorated with a number of Chinese theatrical properties and a big dragon which figures in the full moon processions and other Chinese fete days. Three electric lights with white shades throw light down upon the gambling tables, where up to sixty gamblers could play. There is a concealed staircase with a little getaway door at the bottom.which is hidden by a false floor. The regular stairway is guarded by peepholes, bars, locks worked from above by wires and watched by a lookout through holes pierced in the floor of the lanai, it can not be approached except by battering down the door.
Next door to the joint, in the room gained by the little getaway runway at the rear, lies an opium smoking joint. In the same room with the eight or ten bunks were also a number of sides of bacon and sacks of flour stored, ready to be cooked up In the fifteen cent restaurant below.
Illustrations from the The Pacific Commercial Advertiser, Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands, 1906