The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-01-06
COST oE COWBOY QUIET.

When the city man gets his bills
for his new fall suit his fussy top
coat with the. latest style stock collar.
his velvet hat, spats aud gloves, he is
apt to think with some complacency
that he had done all that money can
do to clothe the outer man. His
tailor is the most expensive he can
find, his fabrics are all imported, and
he contemplates his fancy waistcoat
with all the awe that comes with a
realization that the buttons alone cost
81 each
The same man would be consider
ably surprised if any one told him
that there was an establishment in
the West Bottoms that deals exclu-
sively with stockmen and cowboys
where a hat costs anywhere from $12
to $40 and a pair of trousers from $15
up to almost any figure A cowboy
with roll and a proper sense of the
fitness of things can safely match
tailors' bills with the most fastidious
city dresser.
Several skilled workmen will spend
weeks making a saddle, hand carving
it with artistic designs and mounting
it with as much silver and other pre-
cious metals as the purchaser desires
to pay for. And when a stockman or
cowboy wants a saddle he wants it
right. 1t not infrequently happens
that his saddle costs more than the
horse under sit. Regular stock sad
dies, not made to order, cost as high
SIS, and if the purchaser wants to go
in for something fancy they take the
lid clear off,
/ Take spurs, for instance A good,
everyday, knockabout pair of spurs
can be had for SIS, but of course it
| is not contended that they are any
thing more than a rough and ready
article for heavy roadwork A silver
spur such as would set off a stamped
patent leather boot, with a monogram
on will come higher, OF course. In
making an estimate on a complete
outfit it would be well to play safe
and put spurs down at $40
Chaps" is something every cow
boy has to have. CHAPS" is the trade
name for those wide affairs that 20
on like pair of overalls which are
seen in all faithful portrayals of lie
in the wild, horsey West. Sometimes
they are Of leather with long fringe,
or if the rider wants to look particu-
larry devilish they are of goat skin
with the hair unbarbered. Chaps"
cost anywhere from SIS to S25.
But the two articles that the cow
? boy who wants to shine really turns
: himself loose on are hats and sad
2 dies. A hat can be made a wondrous
= thing when price is not a discourag-
ing consideration. OF handstamped
t leather with silver filigree and buckle
t it can be made to weigh several
> POUNDS ana cost seNeIdl uOldIb u
n pound 1t seems that no cowboy
s. would consider himself dressed up
d without at least Eve pounds of hat
S AS to what a cowboy thinks O a sad
J. die can be figured this way: When
! he starts in to buy an outfit he buys
the saddle first and gets just whai
p he vents, and then If he has an!
!, money left he buys the other things
" he needs.
= There are fifty pounds of leather
: in a real cowboy saddle, fifty pounds
;. of leather wonderfully carved
stamped and befringed. 1t is as biz
~ as hammock with a pommel like IN
o. ornamental sternpost Of a ship an
n back like a rocking chair Their
,f are more rings, straps. thongs an
r. holsters depending from it than
layman could count without trying I
IN learn their various uses. This saC
M die is a fve-room fiat full of furnituT
at to the cowboy; he eats, works, Loaf
he and sleeps i'm it.-Kansas City Star.