The sun., 1901-09-15
AT THE BARBER SCHOOL
A Special shsrt Cearse for Wallets View
Feature es an Odd institution.


The barber school has introduced
special short course for Wallets. Eight
weeks In tho time commonly required for
complete instruction In tho barbering art
including shaving and hair cutting. four
weeks covers the special short course.
which docs no, include hair cutting. but
h really q sort Of finishing course IN thoee
branches OF the work the valet 10 most
commonly called upon TO perform.
The presumption is that the valet knows
already something about shaving AT the
school he learns, under instruction. how
10 shave correctly. and he has plenty oi
actual practice on real subjects ior w"
school i practically great barber shop,
with customers constantly coming alu
going customers who get their work done
Tor nothing. TO he sure. but who are Gus
TONERS and subjects for practice all the
.v,rne. and the valet learns here how 10
shave TO shampoo and how 10 dress hslr
valet who can cut hair comulands
higher prico than one who cannot Inc
barber school established In this city IN
1898 the first school Of itz kind. u now one
OF a chain OF such institutions reaching
from here TO San Francisco, the schools at
intermediate points being Buffalo, chicago
Minneapolis. ~ Louis. and Omaha ~
the school In this city II was said that rin"ty
per cent of the pupis here are Americans
and about as large a proportion OF them
are from outside the city. from various
plaoes near and far Pupils come here
10 study barbering just as th"N Hhgh'
study any trade or profession De,
csu-e the opportunity "Nsts her. anu
A. thev become proficient uneE
find work a. extra hands Ia regular
barber shops on Saturdays and SUNDAYS
and on those days earn soncthing bdi
her shop apprentices sometimes s,tthd
tho school 10 learn such additional de-
A.. q fIfN there ACQUIRE
and for the sake of the certificate OF com
petence that IL given Ca the pupils OF the
school on graduation.
Ons reason for loc& ng the schools ia
great cities only. IA found Of course in N"
fact that only In such places can sum
cient supply u subjects 20 work upon
be found Before the estAblishfnent o'
such schools. the young man earning
the trade. got his practice, a. ctefND'uN
kno~s. more or less by chance lie shaved
himself. 20 begin With. and lac shaN"d ~"
boot black or ANYBODY else there mlsh'
he around who would permit him to A.
he got along. some good -natured. eAsN-
shaving customer would let tho coming
Young barber shave him. some day, very
likely, when the customer himself va"
IN a hurry In this earliest work the boss
of the shop would overlook the lph ana
give the young harbcr Instructions. and
some day when he was fairly advanced.
they'd let him take a fall out uf an un-u--
peCting stranger
But L might easily be. learning IN" trade
In this way. that the opportunities Tor
practice would be few and far between.
while a. the school there u never any lack
Of subjects 20 practice upon. A. The school
IN this ciiv they are able to handle from
| 800 to $50 men a dav. doing for them
such work as that number would ordinarily
require There have been DAYS when th"
school has te~n obliged 10 decline a. many
a. 2Oo men. that number having applied 10
have work done In excess of the number
that could be taken caro- 81
The men for whom work u thus done
include the unemployed men working
for small salaries. men from civ lodslng
houses. and ~ un. Any clean white per
son according to the cata,oK:". can get
shaved or clipped here. al the hands of an
apprentice, free of charge. The men thus
served understand perfectly that they are
sLbjer,S for practice, and they dn not
comp ain on the ether hand they are by 10
means - badly seryed by these learners
a. might be imagined AZ n ra after 81 fact
the pupils are careful aud afraid and they
don't ~ ahead TeCkle~sly Nor do they
by any in,ons take their work jokingly.
thev are here for instruction for which they
paw. and they 60 about whatever they lsAv"
10 do quite In earne~t