The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-06-28
PARTNERS ON SUNDAY.
Yet BARRIERS Prefer sc a Day for Six Days
with Tips which Make $3.50 More.

Tho BARRIERS who work in the uptown shops
which keep open all day Sundays get half OF
what they take in on that day AS tho prices
are. as q rule nearly double. 20 cents for
shave and so cents for hair cut. they take in
good deal. and have their tips in addition. Still
they are not happy. for tho work is obligatory
and they lose the half-hoday to which thoy
have been accustomed. They cannot take
weei; day of without FORGETTING about 50. to say
nothing Of tips. and they ignore tho fact that
half OF tho Sunday double rate more than
makes up for this. so they take no holiday at
all. Outside BARRIERS fight shy Of the Sunday
shops and refuse jobs in them
Tho BARRIERS who work in shops which keep
open half day Sunday get a full days pay.
This is ordinarily So. and tips mako 1t per-
haps half as much more. In n barber shop OF
the better class a journeyman barber receives
probably as much as $3.50 in tips in the
course OF a full day. That is. he averages
twenty shaves and five hair cuts. and gets q
dime from each customer. He may average
more shaves and moro hair cuts. but Is not
likely to get more TIPS. There is always fly
in the ointment, and there is plenty Of oint-
shops. who ignore the unwrItten law that the
Tor both. is dime at least. and is in each case
obligatory. That 9. the customer who doesn't
IT'D Will NOT enjoy MS EeNt SnaVe- VI course.
this doesn't apply to countryman who is not
likely to call again. Knowing this. BARRIERS
are not apt to treat countrymen with distin-
guished consideration. In neglecttng them.
they sometimes make mistake. for an ap-
parent hayseed is not infroluently q generous
giver. Still there is always a certain percent
age OF customers whether city men or coun-
trymen. who do not tin. The barber
is manifestly not to be pitied IL he gets s.. 90
in tips in addition to 81 in wages but this
happens only in high-priced ,shors In the
tips at nil. These are II" shops where the
barber learns his trade. He begins. of course.
ny practising on customers. and It Is only In
the cheap shops that he is allowed to acquire
skill mt the expense Of the suffering OF others.
Before q barber Is thus allowed to victimizs
customers he watches other operators cut
hair and shave. When he is supposed to have
acquired all the knowle edge possible by look
ing on. he is permitted to try his prentice
ing unfortunates who frequent the shop.
Good natured customers often submit volun-
tnrily to the infection in order to give the new
aspirant a lift.
The barber who gave the writer these de-
tails during the process of shave and hair
cut the other day said thnt after being an ap-
prentice for a year at 81 q week. he secured
employment at one Of the cheap shops ut So n
week on the strength Of his false dec aration
standing. When he lost the job ut the end Of
nine months he got SIS q week somewhere
eiss this time declaring himself a veteran Of
secured an SS a week job he WAS discharged
for incom petency. but In course OF time he
learned his trade. and ia now apparently max
Ing. perduisites included. about $50 week.