The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-01-21
is IN A NEW SHOP
Mr.. Pacheco Today Opens
the Union Barber Shop.
A Swell Down Town Establishment
furnishings HandSomest
in the Country.

The Union barber shop, under the
| management OF Frank Pacheco. will
open this morning This institution
is established to fill a sensible need
in the business community. For a
long time there has been the want of
strictly first class barber shop down
town. Merchants, clerks and profess
sfonal men have felt it.
Mr.. Pacheco has spent weeks of time
and. large amount of money TO sup
ply this requirement In his shop as
it now appears one sees that which
would be expected in San Francisco or
New York. In truth, the shop is ahead
of the time and the town; but Mr.
Pacheco is a man who believes in lead
ing-others following.
There are in the new Union shop
three chairs. They will be used today.
Over one Mr.. Pacheco will preside in
person. Mr. Pimental, one of the best
BARRIERS of San Francisco, and a man
who has established an enviable repu-
tation for himself here in his line,
VIII have the other. Joe Pacheco will
have the third. The fourth chair will
arrive in the Alameda.
Every particle of furniture and ma
terial in the shop is brand new. There
are not in the Islands clearer, better
mirrors, with handsomely ornamented
toilet and material cases between them.
The chairs are the finest to be found in
San Francisco.
In the shop the chairs sit facing the
Eva side. On the mauka end are two
| handsome cases for special cups In
rear are the water bowls. Chairs for
waiting customers line the wall on
Waikiki side. The windows have
pretty colored shades over them.
In the center, over the chairs, are two
chandeliers each carrying a cluster of
electric lights. There are also lights
on the mirrors and about the room.
Between the chandeliers mentioned Mr..
Pacheco will install an electric fan just
as soon as it arrives from the coast.
The floor of the shop is without
doubt the finest ever seen in Honolulu.
1t Is of inlaid wood, of many colors.
The general design is SO varied and yet
so compact and regular as to form a
sort of picture that one might look at
for an hour 1t is learned from the de- |
signers, who also put 1t down, that
they spent days and days perfecting |
this delicate work. After the floor is |
laid it had to be polished and repoliSh- |
ed again and again to meet the ideas |
of the proprietor, Mr.. Pacheco. and the
landlord, Mr.. Cunha. There is some |
thing out of the ordinary in the estab- |
lishment of this fine shop by Mr.. Pa |
checo Old residents, or people who |
were here four or five years ago, will |
remember the distinction between a, |
shop of those days and now. Then 1t |
was work to be shaved; now it is the |
best of past-time and a pleasure. Then
barber shop was any hole in the !
wall; now a barber shop is an attrac-
tive place to enter 1t is not too much
to say that Mr.. Pacheco has done more
than any one man to bring this state
of things about.
. Mr.. PachecoS first venture of this
kind was with the Criterion shop. Ev-
eryone knows that he there gave to
Honolulu her first up-to-date bar
Der establishment. He made money
there, it is true. The trade came. Next,
Mr.. Pacheco fitted up and started the
Silent barber shop on Hotel street. 1t
was his brains and his business acu-
men that figured out there a project
that marked a new advance
The Union shop is the third step.
It is certainly a more deliberately ar
ranged establishment than either OF
the others. 1t is gotten up 10 supply
the trade with better accommodations.
1t is gotten up with the same view of
leading that has distinguished Mr.. Pa
checo's ventures And as such it is
bound To C1lcpaai