The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-09-08
BARRIERS ADD To
THE COST Of LIVING
Haircuts-Any StyIe-Jump from
Two Bits to Thirty-five-
Tonic Extra.

If your hair needs cutting or YOU
feel that your face requires a mas
sage treatment, and you have only
quarter in your pocket, You had better
hustle to your favOrite barber shop at
cnce for the price of hair cuts and
two-bits each 10 thirtv-fve cents, and
with the raise Honolulu enters the me-
tropolitan class of cities
The iourneymen BARRIERS held a meet
ing last night and the decision was
arrived at to raise the prices. This
action has not been taken without a
careful study of the situation, and all
things considered the razor and scis-
sors-welders believe that the action IS
a proper one Shaves will remain at
the same figure.
Several years ago when shaves and
hair cuts were twenty-five cents and
face massage was not a part of the
local barber shop curriculum. most of
the BARRIERS were Island born, had their
homes here and the wages of SIS a
week We're considered ample. Homo,
IN has grown. put on metropolitan airs,
added manicure parlors, ladies boot
black stands, moving picture theaters,
rapid transit cars. autos at public hire
for $50 a day, all things tending to
a display of more wealth than ever
before. but in all this time the price
of hair trimming. shaving, a little
shampoo today and the rest have re-
manned the same. The shops are bet
ter furnished. modern chairs installed.
and all modern lotions on tap, while
the BARRIERS are imported from the
Coast. the boss BARRIERS paving the
fares of the lourneymen to Honolulu,
and guaranteeing them half-fare back
within six months. Living has increas
ed rents are higher, beefsteaks are
trife higher than before. and the boss
BARRIERS have raised the wages to $2l
week.
\ week with barber means a real
week. for he starts at seven o clock
in the morning and works until seven
AT night. and on Saturday nights works
considerably later. Then on Sunday
morning the barber works part of
the morning while others prepare for
church, and he prepares many church
goers to hear the sermon. SO his week
is almost seven full days of scraping
and cutting his way to sol.
The iourneymen BARRIERS find that
$21 a week does not 90 far when he
has to appear at the shop in good
clothes; when rent for a good house
takes the best part of $21 for the
month: when board and room for him
self and wife. and family maybe, are
/ costly The boss BARRIERS can not pay
| higher wages at the present rates. for
whether a iourneyman brings in s. a
week or $50 week, he gets $21 a
week Just the same, and the boss bar
| Der pays all expenses, lights, water,
| lotions, soap, laundry, rent and a dozen
/ other items which gives him a large
F.; total at each month 8 end.
If a journeyman brings in dollar
| over $34. he and the boss barber share
| alike. That is he gets fifty cents of
| il and the boss the remainder. If he
| brings in $40 a week, then he gets
, half of the six dollars over the $34
| But he does lot of scraping and cut
| ting to make this extra amount. and
| even then he rarely makes enough eX-
| ira to give him an income of 500 a
month The additional ten cents for
| hair cutting and messages viii tend
to give the journeyman a little extra
money each week
The new scale goes into effect or
| Monday morning. At the meeting last
! night tho BARRIERS decided t. ask the
board of supervisors and also the legis
lature, TO pass an ordinance and law
| respectively. to close all barber shops
| on Sundays. There is disposition
| among some BARRIERS merely to use q
hrole shop rule to close the haoe shops
| leaving the Japanese to 10 as they wish
The haole BARRIERS say that if any pa
irons 90 to Japanese barber shops, they
do NOT wish +b.ir fro do