Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-03-10

| SHAVING ON SUNDAY.
The Boss BARRIERS at First Protest. but
| Finally Agree to the JOurneymen's
Demand.
Inc boss-barbers met last night to prepare
respectful protest against the order of the
Journeymen BARRIERS Assembly of the knights
OF Labor, that all barber shops close at eight
O'Clock every evening and not open at all on
sunday. About twenty-three bosses were
| present. All declared before the meeting was
organized that their purpose was not to an
tasonlze the Knights of Labor. They wanted
only TO compromise, SO as to allow the hotel
SHOPS TO keep open short time on Sunday
morning for the benefit of the guests who come
IN from a DISTANCE late Saturday night or Sun
Jay morning. They wanted also the privilege
Oh shaving man in his room on Sunday.
mr.. Stewart, the boss at Wizards, was elected
10 the chair. He made short address, stating
me necessities of the hotel BARRIERS. and saying
tnat II they did not accommodate the guests
the proprietors OF the hotels would turn them
OUT Oh the shops and get non-union BARRIERS to
90 the work. This startled all the hotel BARRIERS
present, and they declared they would have to
shaVe belated travellers on Sunday.
THE BARRIERS LOT.
Mr. Joseph Sauer said he would like not to
have TO work on Sunday; he would like not to
work at all. If he didn't have to. But mans
work was regulated by the sort of business he
was In; He thought it best for the BARRIERS to
serve the people when they wanted to be served
and take their rest while the public were busy.
He thought they might take a whole day OFF
occasionally during the week and open a while
on Sunday morning. This was the duty OF the
barber by the nature OF his business. They
were busy when other folks were free, and at
no other time. The car drivers and the cooks
have to work on Sunday. If the BARRIERS were
Of all day Sunday they would not like to
all the cars stopped that they would have to
walk To the steamboat landings to 90 on an ex-
curSion, and then to find the boat wouldn't go
because the engineer would not work. "Sup-
q Df.xaly q Ton
your breakfast Sunday morning and YOU had
to go without your dinner. l am opposed to
working on Sunday, but some folks have to-
PETITION To THE ASSEMBLY.
This speech stiffened the backs of the bosses
and they passed, by unanimous vote, a reso-
luton authorizing a committee to DIR w up a
petition to the BARRIERS assembly, asking them
to grant some compromise, allowing the bosses
things that they have to do. Messrs Harris,
Sauer, Wilson, Taylor, Curry, Shepherd and
Western were appointed on the committee
might be thought disrespectul to the labor
union. Somebody else thought the meeting
itself was against the law of the labor union.
Somebody else was sure it was. The boss of
the shop where the meeting was held mplored
the gentlemen not 10 talk SO loud, and
looked carefully around to if the blinds
were all carefully closed. One or two members
protested feebly that they thought they ought
serted that MI Bates, The head OF the BARRIERS
assembly, had atrend in the Commissioners
office and would have all the bosses crushed
out. This frightened the meeting. Some
wanted to adjourn.
NOT PARLIAMENTARY.
One man said he thought Mr. Harris was
"brutish to want to do all the talking"
The chair thought that the gentleman was
wrong to call another gentleman ''brutisn.n
British" was not parliamentary. 1t was not
right to call II man ''brutish.'
The offending member thus rebuked took his
hat and left the room with immense dignity.
a resolution was adopted by vote Of IL to
10 be the W of the bosses tnsi all
other days, and that they shave no one, dead
or alive, on Sunday.
Government Clerks and the Public
Schools.
To the Editor Of THE EVENING STAR
The recent controversy betw ,en the District
Commissioners and the trustees of the public
schools has ELECTED q variety of opinions from
the residents Of the city upon the subjects of
difference and some information upon general
questions relating to the schools. 1t has like
wise shown in what high estimation the schools
are held and how valuable they have been and
are now.
Most of the published opinions have come
from persons who are citizens of the District of
Columbia, men who have their legal residence
here and have Il local. fixed and permanent
business interest in the community. Additional
testimonials of the most positive character 10
the value of the schools could be obtained
from officers aud clerks connected with the
government service. There are thousands
of these who for longer or shorter periods Of
in their families the benefits of the public
schools of the District. BY most of them these
benefits are fully appreciated. Few persons,
however, living in the states know of the adj
vantages here enjoyed N connection with the
schools and the large benefits in the way OF
education derived by hundreds and thousands
OF the several grades OF employees of the gov
eminent without, comparatively, any expense
to them. 1t is believed that for every ten of
,lSy,nC yNn hoy oil
erty subject to taxation there are a hundred
who do not pay cent of tax toward the sup
and these latter receive all the school benefits
that are enjoyed by the heaviest taxpayers and
furnish their full proportion ofscholars The only
expense to them is for books for their own
children. 1t may be said that similar state
of facts exists in all OF the states; but in state
is there SO large proportion of the population
not paying tax in some form or amount and
when comparison is made between the
public tSse In the in the states
to their character or quality the con-
trast is at once apparent. Two years ago gov
now five at school, and not paying any tax, re-
marked: Why, sir, If were living at my home
in Illinois 1t would cost me at least 81 900
being educated here; in fact, could not have
them SO educated there, but would be COM
PEELED to send them away to boarding schools
The material aid given annually by Con-
gress from the national Treasury secures the
best officers, teachers and apparatus for the
SCuOOIS, duU tuTOuSh llcSc Tic DcSL poSSiDle iu-
struction, and 1t is not at all surprising that
the schools are appreciated.
The pressure from all parts Of the country for
government office is prompted by the good pay,
the short hours of labor, and the easy work and
life attached to the offices. But the experience
of the employe, who, with a family of children,
has moved in from the "rural districts has
demonstrated to him that these good things
are not all that has come to him with q hearty
welcome, but that the free higher education,
| which his children have received to tit them
| for positions OF usefulness in life, has been a
most valuable perquisite attached to his office
holding in Washington, almost equaling in i'm
portance the salary received from his office.
JILL.
The Work ON the County Roads.
GRIEVANCES OF THE LABoRERs.
To the Editor of THE EVENING STAR:
In behalf Of the laborers and teams employed
ON the county roads of the District, call atten-