The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-08-19
A BARRIERS OCTOPUS.
The Price Of Tonsorial Work to
Be Advanced.
ALL SHOPS WILL CLOSE SUNDAY


The master BARRIERS In the city, about
fifty in number, assembled in the Williams
barber shop. corner Of Front and Yesler
avenue, at $50 last evening. for the pur-
pose Of petitioning the city council to effect
an ordinance relative to the closing hours
Of shops. The meeting being intended
only for the bosses, all journeymen were
excluded. The BARRIERS in session worked
themselves into fever of enthusiasm, and
the gathering indulging in spirited discus
sion the hours sped by and it was nearly IL
o'clock before the meeting broke up.
After the BARRIERS once got warmed up
oil formalities vanished. The business
transacted in the early half of the meeting
was undone. for the present. and from the
closing hour ordinance the sbosses"
jumped to the question OF raising the rates,
and the conclusion that will probably be
arrived at, at the next meeting, to be held
next Monday night. viii no doubt cause
the public to open their eyes.
With the exception of one barber-shop-
upon the Sunday closing ordinance favor
ably, and to make up the money
thus lost they all wanted to raise the
price of hair-cutting from IS cents to
IS cents and pompadours to so cents.
An understanding was had. and at the
next meeting 1.-The BARRIERS, who have for
years been slaves to the public"-as Bar
Der Gould put it-"are going to effect
master BARRIERS union, and they are just
going to make Rome howl"
At $3.50 o'clock. when nearly all the mas
ter BARRIERS in the city had arrived. the
meeting was called to order by Mr.. F. s.
Davis, who, after stating the object of the
gathering. introduced Mr.. G. H. Pratt, a
young man, who had drawn up the pro-
posed petition and ordinance, and who,
Mr.. Davis said, would represent the mas
ter BARRIERS before the city council this
evening. Mr.. Pratt, after few prelim-
inaries read the following petition, which
is self-expIanatory:
To the Honorable Mayor and Common Council of
Seattle: We, the undersigned citizens and resi-
denis of the city OF Seattle. most respectfully Pc
tition your honorable body and snow a. fol-
lows:
That an ordinance prohibiting the plying of
the BARRIERS trade in the city Of Seattle on Sum
day be passed. That for the past two and one
half months the joarneymen BARRIERS of said
city have agitated among themselves the closing
of all barber shops on Sundays. That the cause
VI euch dSitatiou ~ owing 10 bne TACT mat SAID
Journeymen are compelled under the present
custom to be at their several posts of duty dur.
ing the week days from 7:30 .. m. to $50 p. M,
and On SUNDAYS during the entire forenoon.
That in canvas made By the master BARRIERS
it has been ascertaineo that : homogeneors
action can be- perfected by the passage of an
ordinance prohibiting tho plying of the barber
nsu. On osnua!, - .,ofsssu lnat u Is 70 the
..o 1.ass 1870. a".asu n gouIney men anu
g.. .rs.a,Se "a -. .1As TSe u.s IN sne weex
-. .leolea.'on NV ~. Anas lns msJorisy OF
nraclndad from even h.virr on d. :. hs,-s
w,sh thar rasracs,va fsmfl;s. s,d -.
and ra,t a. sfnrss.;d AZ 'seAse'AoAA
Wbsrafora vonr ,s,,,,or.-.
nance =, IN ssfsct :. sto,S.s,f - .as ~ o'ul-
Inc peutlon was signed oy the following
BARRIERS, who represent every portion of
the city:
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w No.. n.s.;s 4 49,, :, = 49, sAvrs, =
cn,rso Henrr q Az .,ds, ~ 49, !. u c.a.s
phe.aa. p..,A = nun
prsors,a;r .ihast 49,. ~, Dx vss enalios
pansor c,,,I;var n W. paah.ss. = Ae SrA
hsr psar. pans r p po..rr n w.,ss
H. Hemer, ]. w. Evans, W. s. Wallace. J. q.
Smith, J. A. Davis. F. A. Kane & F. jain, J. NJ.
Williams, Sloan Clark, l. A. Bonter. Strong &
no.s, Daner q Lasen, ueofse Dreseper' Louis
ns.sr = M,,as p Dss. Ed. D,o;. ", =.
Ns1
A.er some preliminary remarks ana ex-
nausise eApianauons tne ,ohowing pro-
posed ordnance was read, which the
young man stated ne "ouid present 70 the
CITY couacii inheula'eiy ior aoopuon:
Ordinance No. =. For the prevention Of ply
ing .ne oaroer 'Isoe on sunday IN the city OF
sea ue lug cay "a oea''ie ooes hefeDy oroaln
So, ua
ony \. rher shon =, othar ra-son a.a... :.
carry on the business of barberinr snavin., ~
hair-cutting within the city of Seattle on sun.
day.
Sec. 2. Any person violating the provisions
OF TINS ordinance, shall upon the first conviction
.or sa,u onense NC nne' e., ~ any sum not less
conxcsor for ala of.rss sh.,, t ~ s secoaa
sum not less than SOS. nor more than sss ana ana
upon a third conviction for said ofrsnse shall be
fined in any sum not less than ss5 nor more
than $50
sec .. Ins oiulnsuce snaH take enect ana
ana nnhlics,ion. p''''s0' @pp'o'A'
$50 an;.n 20. % ;s. :. sue nSeung VINO
nau ~ p eu themselves
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noun s s una. .ney mele N lasor Oh the pro-
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