Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-24
FAMOUS HAIRDRESSER.
Passing of n Noted Leader of Fashion
i'm San FranciscO.


in San Francisco.
One of San Francisco's unique characters
passed away last week-a man, who, like
Delmonico's Chef was known to every de-
votee of fashion in the city, yet was not
within their charmed circle; one who knew
intimately every fine lady in town, yet
never danced with one of them, nor met
cue on a plane Of equality, The man was
Stanislas Strozyneki, who was without a
peeruins his line, manipulation of curling
tongs, an inventor of coiffures-a man to
whose deft digits and artistic taste half
the beauty OF many a stunning woman
was due.
And when he died, reports the San Fran
cisco Chronicle, it was discovered that
Strozynski was more than a maeterly hair
dresser 1t was found that he was a man
with tender heart and with a strong sense
of justice, for he did what few employers
in this city have ever done, left a legacy to
every person in his employ. To his working
girls he left $500 apiece to the woman who,
for fifteen years had been in charge of his
store, he left half of his business Even
his Chinese cook was not forgotten. The
will was without an ambiguous clause 1t
provided for every contingency and is said
to leave not the slightest chance for con-
test. Eccentric in life. Strozynskrs man
ner of dying was quite as peculiar.
Strozynski's fame came, primarily,
through his skill as a hairdresser. He
loved to call himself the "only ladies' fash
iouable French hairdresser," as he used to
style himself in the days when French
was a luxury to be indulged
in only by the few, with good, fat bank
accounts. Since then no name has been
better known among the society women OF
San Francisco. There is not one of them
whose head at some time or other has not
come under the manipulation of his skillful
fingers.
Forty nine years ago, in the little Polish
town OF Posen, Stanislas Strozynski came
into the world. His father was a banker
and for fifteen years he gave his little son
all that he could of happiness and educa-
tion. Then he died and the little fellow with |
a fist full of money, started out to see the |
world He went to Berlin, to Dresden and |
to Leipsic and finally to Wiesbaden, where |
he made his first start in business
When mere youth he showed taste and |
liking for dressing heads, and never engaged |
in any other occupation. He stayed but a |
few years in Wiesbaden. The spirit of un-
rest seemed to possess him and from there |
he wandered to Frankfort on the Main and |
all the important cities of Germany. At last
be reached Paris. Here he became student |
under the masters of the science of hair
dressing and laid the foundation of that
kno owledge and skill which made him famous.
From Paris he went to Brussels where. In
1871, he established himself In business He
had been there but short time when he
met San Francisco woman, a Mrs. Worm
SER
This was the turning point in his career,
Tor she suggested his coming to California,
that there he would find a renum-
erative field for his talents. He came the
year and opened a little shop on
Post street.
Another California woman whose hair he
lad dressed in Paris became one of his reg
liar patrons. She decided one day to return
10 Paris, and so anxious was she to have
Strozynski accompany her as her guide and
iisbursing agent that she bought out his
business in order to enable him to do So
After years absence he returned with a
ot OF Partisan novelties, such as San Fran
,isco had never SEEN He went into business
With man named Dougherty, and was with
aim until 1874. when one day one of the
ocal papers announced that:
"stanlslas Strozynski, the champian Pa
'isian ladies' hairdresser. who made those
chignons exhibited in the late
air, has left the place OF John Dougherty
Ind is now doing business for himself" ="
And then his business doomed He be-
anne the fashion. Immediately before any
arge social affair there would be seen out
de his establishment a long string of car
ages OF those anxious TO secure his serv-
ces. There were not enough artists in that
inc In dress the hair I'm one day of half the
women who attended swell receptions, so
he work had to be begun the day before.
'he head was then tied up in a veil and
he victim slept in a chair for that one
light.
There was not fine house in the city