The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-29
TO BE SEEN WHILE BEING SHAVED
BARRIERS Ceilings Will Display Pleas
ing Advertisements.
From the Nelo York Times.

From the Nel0 York Times.
The New York Ceiling Adver ising Com
pany owes its existence to the birth of
happy thought in the mind of a Brooklyn
man, Mapledoram by name. 1t is brand
new institution which has not yet come to
the attention of the general public, but its
managers confidently expect that the talk
of the town will run on 1t inside of month.
At any rate, every man in New York who
is shaved by barber will know of it very
soon, for the leading BARRIERS of the city,
almost without exception, have rented the
ceilings of their shops with the understand
ing that the new company shall cover them
with advertisements of an unobjectionable
nature, and the company, in its turn, has
taken a large number of orders for the adj
vertiSing space which it has at its command.
The arrangement which the company has
with the BARRIERS is that it shall pay at the
rate of 6 cents square foot per month for
whatever ceiling space it can utilize, and
many of the contracts have been made for
an entire year.
The BARRIERS have taken very kindly to the
new scheme, pleased not alone at the pros
pect of getting something of profit out of
their ceiling spaces, but also at the prospect
of introducing a novelty to their customers.
They seem also, it is said, to be gratified that
barber shop ceilings should be recognized as
fit places upon which to hang up words of
warning and good advice from disinterested
servants of the people.
The method Of applying the advertise
ments is such, it is said, that an ordinary
shop will be rather beautified than disfig-
ured when Its ceiling is covered. ST ips
of grooved wood are first nailed to the cell
ing, running across the room one way or
the other two feet apart. The advertise
ments will be printed, autographed,
painted or drawn upon cards, which will be
of proper length to slide along in the
grooves of the wooden strips. The company
guarantees that none but artistically made
signs shall be put up. and further agrees
that nothing of an offensive nature shall
| appear upon It's cards
| 1t will be no easy matter for the person
who shall be appointed censor to satisfy all
who may be concerned in these advertise
ments. The barber himself will not, it is
thought, be hard to suit, but
| BARRIERS customers are of many
| kinds and of many minds, and it is
| hardly probable that there will not get into
the consultations some things which will be
| Objectionable to some per,ons. But then
| one who is being shaved in barber's shop
has always the privilege of closing his
| eyes, and may exercise that privilege if his
| eyes rest upon something " hich offends his
moral senslbilities or makes him qualmish.
| 1t would seem that if the advertising
company should continue to hold the cell
| ing spaces at the price at whici it has
made its first contracts it will prove very
remunerative enterprise. Some advertis-
| ing space has been sold to toDacconists and
dealers in other things for men at prices
| equivalent to 81 square foot per month.
The company will, it is expected, begin
| placing the advertising in position within
week or ten days.