Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-02-13
AMERICANS TO ENTER FIELD.
AthenianS Drove Out the EthiOpi-
ans and Now Comes the Un-
employed Home Talent.
Opening Gun of the Economic War on
Both Tonsorial and Boot Cleaning
Branches OF Endeavor.

is 10 cent shine and a SO cent hair
cut symbol of village life?
Would Il two-blt haircut and a five
cent shine, with dime shave make
Salt Lake more cosmopolitan
These two important questions are
to be made the basis for an economic
war on both the shaving and haircut
ting prices in salt Lake and the shoe
shining prices.
NJ. j. Dixon who today opened war
on the Greek bootblacks, declares that
there are fortunes in the game at 10
cents and five minutes of time and
a sixteenth OF cents worth of polish
is not a proper remuneration in service
for 10 cents in cash. A young Aneri-
can who might be mining engineer or
railroad surveyor, is today running
brushes and cloths over the boots OF
willing Salt Lakers at IS east Second
South street, at five cents the shine
Other five cent shops will be put in as
fast as Mr.. Dixon can find place to
put them.
The shoe shining business in Salt
Lake has undergone a marked trans
formation in the past two months.
WHERE is CoLoRED ARTIST.
Can you find a colored bootblack with
his CHEEKY Shine. sah," anywhere in
town? The veteran negro who formerly
had a stand in the Deseret News build
ing now drives an express wagon. AS
you so down Main street you are greet
ed by a shrill hissed or whistled
'Sheynne" from the the throat of a
Greek youngster, and once inside of the
shop you may enjoy group of pic
tured Autographs Of Greek scenery and
historic battles pending the arrival of
the moment when a tug ut your trouser
warns you 1t is time TO hand over .
dime and be brushed.
The Crooks have absolutely van
quished the negroes at the shine game,
and now in his turn the, Greek must
meet the American
DECLARATION OF WAR.
IIere is the declaration under which
the new scent shops are TO be opened.
IL Is printed on a large poster and vii.
be on display in q few days:
Look, shoes shined by Americans.
Up-to-date shining. cents. Why pay
10 cents.
when we are not ashamed TO do the
work, why pauonize foreigners who
work little boys in knee pants 10 hours
per day instead of sending them TO
school to learn 10 say something besides
'No-Savvy.' boarding up their money
and sending It back to the old country
TO bring more boys.
III Americans worked their children
this way they would be sent to jail.
Every city on the coast and in the
east has cent shoe shines, why not
Salt Lake?
"These foreigners advertise their
Efv,fn
lors' and when you ask them anything
all you get is No sayvy' Don't he
misled by that sign. This is the only
strictly American parlor in the city,
with work done by Americans. Give us
a trial. We guarantee satisfaction.
Then we will open more shoe shining
parlors."
AFTER THE BARRIERS.
The Dixon movement is in line with
| another contemplated to bring down
the price for halr-cutting and shaving.
In defense of this movement IL is claim
ed that Salt Lakes prices are hIAher
| than In any other large city, and THAI
| the time has come to make a change.
| In Los Angeles anybody can get hair
| cut at all but the hotel shops for 25
cents, and shave for is cents with a
| shine thrown In. There is no dead level
OF union prices ana 10 cent Shines are
common Is shops not fastidiously fur.
nished. or where It is desirable to at
tract trade at this price.
SITUATION HERE.
The situation among the Greek shol
sinners 10 that the Salt Lake shops
are part OF n national movement. and
the elimination OF tho negro sinner
here has been predicted by his elimin-
alton almost everywhere by the Greek
competitor Greek boys In every large
city arc put In charge OF the shops
while Greek promoters open then
whenever possible, A report on salt
Lake Industries made to the Greek
| government claimed more than dozer
of these shoe shine parlors for the 10
cal community There are three on
Main street. one on East First South
| and several on Second South. II New
| York Italians monopolZe the business
| and the profits In It recently became
| known when company offered Si24,0O,
for a l2-year lease on a corridor IN the
Fulton building and a corridor IN the
Equitable building was leased for 49,
600 per year.
That The Greeks IN Salt Lake pay
well for the places thoy occupy IL GER
| Hs, D