Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-06-22
BARRIERS EXPERIENCES.
HOW NOTED MEN OF THE COUNTRY
ACT UNDER THE RAZOR.
Ex-President CleyeIand's Boston Shave
Sullivan, and Others.
From the Boston Globe.l


neglected; but even the unobserving barber
comes into the possession of many facts
concerning the traits of those whose hair
he cuts, or whose face he shaves.
"For twenty years" said an old-time
barber to the writer, 1 worked in hotel
barber shops in this city, and in my time
have done work for good many we'll
known men. have shaved Henry Viii
son, cut John B. Coughs hair, and run a
razor over Mark Twain's face. Those are
only few of the men | have handled in
my time
From the recolleetions of the above
wielder of the razor and from the state
ments of other well-known BARRIERS of this
city, are CLEANED few pen pictures taken
from life in BARRIERS shop.
Henry Wilson, when in Boston, shaved
at Young's and other places. There are
still in town many BARRIERS who remember
that bright face with the large, sparkling
eyes. As Wilson was in the Senate of the
nation genial, social, afiable and demo-
cratic, so he was when the humblest knight
of the razor daubed layers of lather on his
handsome face. \ man Of regular habits,
Wilson rose early, and when in Natick
would be ut the barber shop before the
barber. The BARRIERS used to say that they
believed he would arise at / A. NJ if he
could find ANYBODY to shave him at that
hour. And if there was man in the
world for whom a Natick or Boston barber
would get up at that sunseemly hour. that
man was Henry Wilson. From the mo-
ment he deposited himselfin the chair IN
til the last lock of hair
HAD BEEN BRUSHED BACK,
He chatted as Familiarity as though every
man was his friend Yet he INDUCED in
no questionable yarn, nor sought simply to
amuse. He always seemed anxious to
learn what people were Shrinking about
public affairs, trying to fathom the popu-
lar mind, seeking information or impart-
ing it with equal relish. This happy fac
ulty of the high-class politician Wilson
had down fine, so to speak. Simple in ali
his tastes, he never required any of The
fripperieS that some less IMPORTANT people
crave for. Hair oil he declined, but water
he demanded in large quantities. He re-
moved his collar when submitting to the
razor, and, as some of the marks of
Esau were apparent in the vicinity of his
throat his neck required careful scraping.
Charles Sumner was reticent in the
chair. He seemed to find the latter an
excellent place in which to de some of his
hardest thinking. One barber relates that
he saw Caleb Cushing, Charles Sumner and
Henry Wilson come into a barber-shop
one day. Each took a newspaper, got
shaved in turn, and departed together as
| they had come in. Not word was ex-
! changed between them while they were in
| the shop.
John D. Long dislikes to have anybody
shave him. Not that the genial Congress
man is ayerse to BARRIERS. but, like many
other men, he takes a keen delight in
scraping his own cheek Not infrequeutly
| he will enter a barber-shop, hang up his
coat and hat, wash his hands scrupulouslv,
borrow razor, and, having put covering
of lather on his face with the brush as
signed for his use, begin to now He has
a kind word for the BARRIERS, and when he
has departed his smile is said to linger be-
hind for hours.
A man who is watched considerably in
barber-shop is Mark Twain.
THOSE WHO KNOW HIM
Expect that he will make some drolI OBJ
| servation, while those who do not know
his name wonder who the fellow is that
says quaint things in such peculiar way
But when Mark is landed in a chair he re-
lapes into a state of semi-slumber, from
which it will take pretty dull razor to
arouse him. Once in while he will tell
one of his noted anecdotes about Partisan
hair-dressers, but usually he keeps quiet,
believing, as he says, that he is in the
hands of the Lord ana the barber.
When Bill Nye enters barber shop
everybody looks up. 1t does not matter
whether they know Bill or not, people
look at him, and many continue to take
him in, while ostensibly they are reading
newspapers. The word Next" actually
startles Bill, and now and then he makes
droll apology for presuming that his
turn had come. The popular humorist is
an easy man to handle, BARRIERS say, and,
conscious of that fact, Bill generally in
forms the barber that he does not want any
hair oil on the top of his head. He adds
that his crown does not need any varnish-
ing.
John B. Cough was very noiseless in a
barber shop. If he met man he knew, to
MIN he Oue Vi his characteristic
stories, but to the barber he was non-com-
initial.
Charles Levi Woodbury. gets his hair
trimmed at one Of the downtown shops.
He is quite chatty, wants no fripperies and
is welcome there as in the ranks of the
Democratic party. He is "Old Reliable"
even in the barber shop.
Colonel Morgan, once well-known as an
editor, was a peculiar character. When
he entered barber shop he surveyed the
interior and contents thoroughly. Imagin-
ing he was in a hurry, he murmured in
NO UNCERTAIN TONES
If he had to wait His shave concluded,
he forgot that he was in a hurry and
seemed quite at ease. He wore his hair
long, and had it cut in what BARRIERS call
Dutch fashion.
A more welcome guest never entered
barber shop than the late Michael Do
herty. He had jolly ,lemeanor and
gay word for all He was called the iol-
lest man that patronized Young's. His
funny stories kept BARRIERS and customers
in roar, and the generous "perq" he
bestowed upon the man who shaved him
served to strengthen his claims to favorit-
ism.
Grover Cleveland, ex-President of the
United States, has been shaved in Boston
at the Nendome. He was shaved in his
own apartments at the slime he was in
town on his way to the Harvard College
celebration. The barber who entered be-
held a massive man reclining in an arm
chair, and who said Good morning" cor
daily. The President had about one
nights growth of hair upon his face, but it
was tough hair, and the barber had to rub
, his razor several times before the opera
ton was finished. The President was very
partial to the towel drenched in hot water,
and had the process repeated before he
was satisfied. He declined chalk, powder
and niagnesia, and scowled as the barber