Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 276, 27 September 1913 — Page 40

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. I THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. SATURDAY, SEPT. 27, 1913

PUBLIC PAID FOR THE BARBER STRIKE iesult of Recent New York Trouble Summarized hv Boss.

DEARTH OF CUSTOMERS

V.-:i.:i-; Say Men Will Sere at Sunday Closing.

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NKW VOii! cent barbers' for the death remarked the

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stlike was responsible of some ol.i customs,"

Juouiiciouh boss barber in the chair, as be was

stropping his razor, "in many sections of the city it is impossible to get shavod in a shop on Sunday, and I understand that it wiii only be a matter of time before almost all of the shops will lock the door on Sunday. "Can yon imagine such a state of affairs? Things have come to a pretty pass when a man can't get shaved on Sunday unless it be in his own home. A great many men are going to be inconvenienced by this decision. "Formerly nearly all the barber shops were crowded to capacity on Sunday, every chair going and many customers waiting in line. To accommodate the rush the boss hired extra help, not a very easy matter. The help looked on Sunday as ihe day when they would replenish their pockets, for It was the day when customers were mosl generous. Even the bootblack greeted Sunday with enthusiasm for he, too, fared pretty well on tips. Death Knell. "The death knell of all these favorable conditions has been sounded now because the boss barbers are going to close on Sunday, and for the first time in years the barbers will have the day to themselves, to dispose of it as they see fit. It's going to seem mighty strange to Home of us to have the entire day off, as we have worked every Sunday for years up to 1 p. m., the time set by law for closing. "Sunday closing is not confined to a particular locality, it is general all over the city. One of the first sections to have the Sunday closing was the

lower east side. Men living in that section who have made it a custom for years of getting shaved on Sunday did not favor the closing. As a matter of fact some of them protested vigorously. But the boss bargers had signed the agreement and they had to abide by their decision. "Then the Bronx followed suit and while the Sunday closing was not so general in that borough a large number of boss barbers inserted the closing notice in their windows and then locked the door. The Greenwich village section was closed tight as a drum. The barbers of Washington Heights soon looked upon Sunday closing with favor and last Sunday all of them from 145th to lG2d streets closed up. A nd I understand that efforts, will he- made to close all shops as far north as Fort George. Before I forget it I want to say that Hartem was not slow in closing the shops on Sunday. Are Satisfied "How do the boss bargers feel about the matter? Well, they are satisfied to close, provided all shop. close, but I think it. will be impossible to bring about this confidence until a law enacted at Albany will make it compulsory to close on Sunday. When only an agreement to close exists many bar hers will take advantage of their corn- . petitors and open. 1 do not mean that they will open wide the door and invite patronage. Oh. no, they will do it underhandedly. Some shops are better situated to indulge in this underhanded work than others as they are located in buildings with a door leading off the main hall to the shop. Customers will enter the hall and pass through the door into the shop. The shades in the front window will obscure the interior and no one will he the wiser until a competitor hears of the scheme and Stops It if possible. "Not all barbers acceded to the demand for Sunday closing and those who did not were visited by delegations of barbers, not bows barbers, who made it mighty unpleasant, for them. One down town barber was so harrassed by such demands that he placed this sign in the window: '"Barbers' tmiou ,is composed of and is the result of violence, fear, pretense, and self-interest. " 'It is against tho public and the barbers and in farvor of safety razors only. " 'The member asa mostly noncitizens of the United States of America and we aimply can not and will not associate with "neb. a union. " 'With the aid of God and the law I shall try to run this shop aafe nonunionist: Conditions Improved. "Not only will the bnrber be benefitted by Sunday closing, but other conditions have been improved so that it will soon be an easy life compared to what it was formerly. "Barbers wfil not have to work all day on holidays any more for the boss barbers have agr?ed to the half-holiday plan on holidays. Then the workers will be allowed an hour for lunch on the regular week days, something which many employes of business do not get. Furthermore, the hours of week days have been reduced and are less than those that existed before the strike. "Where does the public come in on . this? Of course there is a joker in it, u-r improvements like these are not made any more unless the public pays the fiddle. Public iV3. "The public's part in it will be to , pay the increase In the prices for shaves and hair cuts. The standard prices for the two necessities were 10 and 15 cents, but now these prices

have been increased to 15 and 20 cents respectively. Some shops are : eStsifrirajr 25 cents for hair cuts. "And I feel snre that in a short time i Che price will bo increased for singeing shampoos, hair tonics anil massages. The better part of a dollar will he needed soon to pay for a shave, face massage, hair cut and shampoo, f not emitting: the tip for the barber, fur shorter hours la not expected to cat any figure in the tipping line. Th Increase in prices was cVrect caused by the recent strike. Ton see,

many boss barbers were forced to labor unassisted, aa their helpers quit them and lft them tn the lurch. With

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by Ed. Cooper s grocery. During the time in which these moves were made Mr. Duning had been adding new lines to his business, and bicycles and umbrellas were forming a great part of his sales. The last change of quarters occurred three years ago and since that lime Mr. Jluning has remained, on Eighth strTt. Pope motorcycels hate been added to his line of goods. He has been ably assisted in building up the business by his son. Raymond

One of Richmond's business etab-1 Duning. Mr. Duning also makes keys.

W. H. Duning: Celebrates Anniversary of Start in Locksmith Field.

SERVANT RILLS TWO Deprived of Afternoon Leave Is Enraged.

received injuries from which he died today, it is probable that Captain

use&KoiD also win ate irom nis ia-

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Countess Bo'.i.i as a )"' J member of a noble but poor i . r

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lishments that has just celebrated its

twenty-fifth anniversary, is that established by William H. Duning in 18S8. Five vears after he arrived in

repairs umbrellas and typewriters.

I VIKN'N A, Sept. 27. A terrible j tragetly, involving the death of three

j persons, took place in the Life Guards j ; Barracks, in the Mariahalferstrasse. j An officer's servant named Kaito i ! Jar.kubovitoh. w ho was enraged at be-i

aaaing macntnes ; ing deprived

of his afternoon leave.

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Richmond from Germany, Mr. Dun-J ing set up in business as a locksmith j and gunsmith. His original quarters,' which he shared with a shoe-maker, were on South Ninth street. As his .

business increased he moved from these small rooms to a portion of the building now occupied by Green's livery stable, and, as necessity again demanded, left these quarters for the

Desert Sands.

There i a popular idea that deserts like the Sahara are the bottoms

of ancient seas which have ben lifted ;

shot his master. Captain Wilhelm Kisenkolb, of the imperial Life

Guards, wounding him seriously. Jan-

kubovitch then turned his revolver on j the Countess Maria IVdza. who was i visiting Captain Kisenkolb. and shot her thrmish the heart, killing her in- I

above their original elevation by ?oo-1 tantlv. I logical forces. This notion is an er-1 The noise brought a number of sol-i

roneous one. Authorities contend tnat aiers to tne spot, ana sergeant i netthe sands f a'! the great deserts have' mer. who arrived first, was shot in the been formed on the spot by the disin-: ami.

ueiore ne couia re arresjeu. jankubovitch leaped from the third floor window into the barracks yard, and

tegration of the thev rest.

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Returned th Cpli''t. Shortly after the workmen had finished the landlord took especial pain to show to each tenant the bill for doing over his flat. The householder regarded that attention in different lights. aceorAng t the improvement they had fought for and got. Sne looked frightened, tMnkir.,; It ortended a raise iu rent, some apologetic, others dehant The third floor right man was noncommittal. Three days later he called at the landlord' office and showed him a tlip of pair. It was a bill for six shirts, some soek and tV. a bat and a blue serge suit ' "What's this got to do with me;" th landiorvt a-iked-"Oh. nothing." said the man. "Jut an interchange if eonrteMes. Nothing like being iieiirh'ovr1y. you know,"

Here is a type of some of the m iliions to whom Bishop Fallows, of Chicago, the noted educator, refers in his article opposing the movement now on foot that proposes complete independence for the 8,000.000 inhabitants of the Philippines.

Hitch Barns and Rest Rooms

By Frank Parker Stockridge, I don't know what town first thought of a public rest room for the benefit of people who came to town for a day's shopping, if fl did I would start a movement to present to that town some sort of a testimonial from the grateful farmers' wifes of the

whole United States, in appreciation

real interest in the comfort and pleasure of the stranger within its gates. The best that some towns do for the farmer who drives in to spend his money at the local stores is to put a row of hitching posts along Main street. If there is even a shed under which he can shelter his horses it is usually an adjunct to the tavern and

of the public spirit and self interest ; a strictly private institution. Somethat prompted the innovation. j times one or more of the churches in For hundreds of years farmers and small towns will provide sheds, but their wives have been driving to town - these are usually out of the business to do their trading, but it is only a j district and the farmer who happens matter of a doen years or so since it to be a Hardshell Baptist frequently began to be realized that there might j objects to hitching his Orthodox be a better place for the wives than j horses in a Unitarian shed, sitting in the buggy on Main street ! Barn Helpa Town, while the husbands were buying plow- One of the marks of a live town of shares and fertilizer. And when that ' today is the community hitching barn.

idea struck some bright mind, it was ; rapidly cryetalized into fact, and pretty soon the rest room, established by ' community effort, began to be one of the things you could find in almost ; every little town in the Middle West, j Established Rest Rooms. j There are as many ways of establiahing and conducting a rest room as '. there are of doing anything else. Once j in a blue moon some individual mer- i

Not long ago I visited a little Wiscon

sin town where the local business men were thoroughly organized for the common good, and saw the hitching barn they had built for the free use of farmers and everybody else who had occasion to drive into town. There was room for at least fifty teams in this big, tight-walled, well-roofed building substantiol enough to provide ample protection to the horses even in

caniJ far?ittd ? n "terP?wn? : feed for sale at the lowest prices for

those who did not bring their horses' fodder with them. The blacksmith had moved his shop next door, the wheelwright was just across the street and the agricultural implement and fertilizer warehouse next door on the other side. And right around the corner was Main street and the rest room for the women. "My trade has doubled in the two years since we established the hitch barn and the rest room," said the lead"ing general merchant to me as he was loading up one or two automobile delivery wagons for a trip out into the country. And all the other merchants

j on Main street told me substantially the same thing. I Hitch barns and rest rooms are on- ! Iy a beginning. The town of the fu

ture is going to extend ita community spirit until every one who lives within a radius of many miles regards himself as a part of the community, and is recognized by the people of the town as one of their kind. There is no other way in which Richmond can get such big returns for such a little expenditure of time and money and human kindness. If fyour commercial organization is not interesting itself in establishing rest rooms and hitching barns or what corresponds to them in the way of courtesies to strangers it ought to be. There isn't any doubt that a publicspirited organization like this one in your town would interest itself in

enough to set off part of his store, or

rent the adjoining store if he hasn't j room enough, and furnish it as a rest j

room for women and children who came to town from the farms. Where there is an interurban trolley line it is usually not particularly difficult, if the people of the town really insist upon it, to get it to establish a rest room at the trolley station. But the favorite style of rest room is the one that the whole community takes part ki establishing and maintaining like the one at Svea, Minn. Here the locat eU ic organization not only established a rest room, but the women of the town got together and arranged among themselves so that one of them would always be in attendance at the rest room to see that visitors -from the country were not annoyed by persons who had no business there, and to help make things comfortable generally. Then, they went a, little farther and made the rest room a station for the state traveling libraries and saw to it that there was always a supply of books, magazines and newspapers in both English and Scandinavian, which those who were waiting, could read, and under certain conditions, could take home with them. One result is that farmers living veryclose to the much larger town of Wilmar, nine miles away, drive to Svea to do their trading, because the women folks have such a good time whenever they go there. A pretty good way to judge the civic

spirit of fa small town is to notice i these things if every public-spirited whether as a community it shows any j individual like you were helping it.

difficult to take in enough to meet expenses at the prevailing rates, so the rates were increased to make it worth while for the boss to keep the shop open."

LAUNDRY WASHES 1.200 COLLARS DAILY

, The Monarch Laundry, which is the largest institution of its kind in the citj,L has been under a new and enterprising management for the last

two years, having formerly been j operated by the firm of Gwynn and S Mitchell for- 9 years, and before that

time being known as the Shaw laundry, 'i-, Ga -October l, 1911, KingaaAn, aol

McAfee, the present managers, took charge of the business. A second story has been added to the building, and many new machines have been installed. Great care is taken in the washing of the articles sent to the laundry. Each piece is passed through six or seven diferent waters and nothing in the way of harmful acids are used. The employes are experts. The laundry washes from 900 to 1,500 collars daily, from 250 to 400 shirts daily, and does between 150 and 200 family washings each week.

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