The San Francisco call., 1906-10-15
TONSOR|AL ETHICS
GOVERN PRICES.
BARRIERS Agree on a Scale
After Holding Sympo-
SUM at Mass Meeting
DESIRE FELLOWSHIP

SUM at Mass s-Meeting
DESIRE FELLOWSHIP
| In the basement of a hall smelling
and glistening with new paint some
two hundred or more BARRIERS met yes
terday afternoon at the corner of Geary
and Steiner streets to decide whether
the ethics of their profession would
permit them to boost up the price Of a
shave to two bits on week days and to
have candid and comprehensive discus
sion on the moral and constitutional
right to exact thirty-five cents crack
for the toll Of shearing the male hair
of San Francisco. The issues at stake
were decided with an authoritative
fnaIity that left no room for doubt so
far as the layman of San Francisco may
be concerned.
The two-bit shave and the thirty-f1ye
cent haircut were not the only matters
that came UP for discussion. The deli
cacy of asking customers for an extra
nickel for a hot towel the shaving of
the neck or the curling of mustache
was all thoroughly gone into and de-
cided with the same care and regard for
technique that Andrew Lang would de-
vote in condemning the split infinite of
whistler in decryihg the barbarous i'm
paste affected by bungling impression
lists on sticky canvases
Gabrielle d'Anunzio never descanted
with more infinite appreciation on an
intaglio by Niccoli Nicollo than did one
barber at the meeting yesterday on the
propriety of demanding fifteen cents
shot for seafoam and the inefrable sat
isfaction that accompanies the con-
sciousness of being true to the dictates
of the artistic temperament by charg-
ing thirty-flve cents for an egg sham
poo
The meeting was called by the Bar
bers' Protective Union, which includes
both masters and journeymen of the
profession.
HARMONY PREVAILS.
Let harmony and good fellowship
nrevail" was the injunction to the
members OF the organization In the
printed call for the meeting sent out
by President Adolph unger. Joseph
Goodman, Charles Koch and n. Stein
acted as a reception committee and
shook hands with everybody that en-
tered the hall and showed him to
seat. L. Petrus, designated as sergeant
alarms. had a purely titular function
intrusted to him, as the meetlns was
characterized by the most pronounced
cordiality. There was plenty OF dlscus-
sion, but IL was
throughout.
what should be done to increase our
dailv receipts?" was one of the questions
asked I'm the printed symposium that
accompanied the call Tor the mee'ins-
This opened UP one of the most inter
esting debates of the day, which ended
In two sharply defined groups or sentl-
ment
Sentiment was the actual word used
IN describing the division by one OF
the BARRIERS, who regretted In most
classic metaphor that 1t should exist.
Tho whole layout, to be prosaic, hinged
about the question whether or not the
BARRIERS would be justified In trying
TO pry out of the pockets OF their GUS
toners 25 cents for shaVe on "eeh-
davs. That was the Sabbatarian Zee,
n was pointed out, and there was no
reason why 1t should not be exacted
every day of the week. The movement
to make the price uniform was gaining
more and more adherents when one
member of the organization arose ana
asked impressively for silence
1T is time that we should reaiize
the great responsibilities that rest with
nsu he declared The eyes of San
Francisco are now upon US, and II by
any untoward action we should create
the impression that we are striving 10
act as extortionators, we should In
hict an irredicable stain on the good
name Of our profession. ! say TO you
all. gentlemen, beware" The people
isn't fools They know their just rights
and they will have them. i repeat,
beware If we insist on charging two
bits for q common, ordinary, every
day shave we shall have half the men
of the city buying their own razors
and refusing to patronize US. We
should go cautious
SECONDS THE MOTION.
That's what I say" declared bar
Der who has a shop out near the Pre-
sidio Most of my customers are sol
diers, and l know they would never
consent to throw up two bits for a
shave We should all consider each
others interests.
1t was finally decided to appoint
committee of ten to arrange scale of
prices This committee went into ex-
ecutive session for ten minutes. and
then reported on having agreed to the
following charges: Shaving on week
days. Is cents; Sundays. % cents; sham
poo. 25 cents; egg shampoo, 35 cents;
singeing, 25. cents; face massage, 25
cents razor honing, so cents; neck
shaving, cents; mustache curling, 5
cents; extra hot towel, cents; beard
trimming, % cents.
The scale proved winner four ways
from the Jack after lengthy discus
sion in which nearly everybody at the
meeting took part. 1t was explained
that this scale corresponds with the
one already adopted by the Journeymen
BARRIERS who will formally ratify II at
their meeting this evening.