Show A N W H 0 HAS SPENT was ly at I 1 YEARS WITH AND SHEA H eta t aley birley gramlich a veteran barber who has performed rial work for some of the noted men of his time still I 1 ora hatm W remains at his post of duty doing good work I 1 has no boast to make of old days nut bil adelph ia you take a barbor barber of 11 alv well never mind no use pick dick H needless quarrels dut but they bred n ibata ants la in the old first ward when ailcy 0 learned his trade A f arc barbs these days daya and leto iota it go r ta that ber rut but gramlich mile h with his roc ree aral IB d of fifty six years behind him a 8 ag be called the AdmIrable crich uka among barbers a him in his of c Jor aings you can find 84 gt alop at I 1 street wafting hafting the hey eriv thistledown oft off some borne young 3 aver w who ho has como come to consecrate his jhan fin to in manhood under the razor razor of 0 e gner ablo OX experience peri ence or paring the ig stubble of some patron who has haa do I 1 la Bended ended on him since the centennial to ai afternoon a it if ho he busy he may be bp in ills studio painting pictures that re ra frequently re sell tor for real money eve lings ings unless some special crop of a B ga glows aws in to claim his veteran ls belll aill instead of his assi assistants stauts ho he la Is 1 tl Kargul jar guing ng le with the other ex lt it if certa for he be la Is ack acknowledged now ledged to be tho the ch ambion player of the first t ebward ward and novices como to sit bit at his er e i fet and learn wisdom 1 K last lasi may brought around the annl anal f ver sary of the day when charley we the boy of fourteen w was as given his first job in hertzogg Hert Hertz shop on wharton street above fifth ills his wages KS ji gp apprentice prentice was 75 cents a week and board with his boss family charley imagined lie he was fixed tor for lifo life but only eight months passed before hertzog he artz shut up his shop and the boy apprentice ar had to find another job ills his new liew boss took him aln on as an a half baked journeyman at paid him one dollar a week plus board by industry du stry patience frugality diligence and the rest of the virtues which were urged on the totting toiling masses in that generation charley rose in his calling aunill in 1859 1850 lie ha was receiving the im posing wage of three a week board in in ith the outbreak of the war in 61 charley claimed the dignity and wages of and gus goebel that very same goebel by whose official it cense so many of us have been permit ted to marry and pay the happy gas bills took himon at 15 a week and I 1 i 7 0 A fit ciol d b fc harlea Grami gramlich lefi veteran of razor and shears hears 0 teed feed himself in the old goebel barber shop on Moya mensing avenue below washington avenue charley worked tor for goebel until 1861 and then negotiations opened for his admission to that distinguished station in barbering a job at the continental tin hotel lie he went thero there in the of is 1865 65 after that no higher glory was waa attainable tai the job paid only 15 a week but a man in that shop was liable to have the president of the united eted states more at his mercy than h had ad been llos possible sible for the confederate armies arid add what the Contine continental nial barbers valued more he got a commission of 15 per cent on the cups brushes french oil and lavender vinegar that went to complete a real gent lemans shave that amounted to four or five dollars a neek v eek extra Gran gramlich illch at the height of ills profession never shaved lincoln hut but he did shave governor curtin and billy mcgrath and nd toni tom archer and john E idear edgar thomson who was president of tho the pennsylvania railroad and most 01 f tile the other local notables in ili finance and politics A couple of years of such prosperity and nd tile tho continental expert reached the conclusion that one height remained for him lie must be lila 1119 9 own boss lie forsook the grand eurs of chestnut street and for two id a halt years ho he had his shop opposite tho allf old navy yard at front and federal deral streets for 37 years lie ho was located at ai 1432 south fifth street and it was as only seven years ago that he moved to F fifteenth and wharton in that at time bitne lie ha has shaved every one of prominence in the ward and bus baa played pere jehle with most of them 0 o has old timo patrons who make rinia gea to him from far homes for 0 old I 1 d times sake bake and the luxury of his familiar mallar touch among them thomas taylor of lieven teu th and diamond streets who after 60 years comes to him once a month for a hair cut and a shave when the late thomas thom as 0 tasker one of the founders of the firm of morris clorria tasker tanker co whose home homa was on fifth street below tasker got to tobo be eighty three years old and doubted the sureness sur enesa of his own hand on his bis firm old chin lie he arranged with gram franr ilch to come to his house and shave him regularly at 50 cents centa a trip and the service continued until mr air tasker died at the age of ninety three to shop now come co me such faithful patrons as dr charles charlea gessler irv he Is at work still of the art club whom gramlich has shaved for 44 years samuel campbell the cashier of the Trades mens and manufacturers bank whom he shaved for 40 years and dan cobb of broad and Alif flin streets who appears three thre or four times a week after a loyalty that has lasted as long as doctor gess lers the veteran has no boasts to make ma e of the old days when I 1 learned tho the business barbers did cupping and leeching beeching lee ching but they were out for the cash ahead of an easy shave it was a lick and promise for the customer then and man many Y a face was sore after the barber got through with it tile the regular price then was a tip five or six cents for a shave and a levy ten or twelve cents cent s for a hair cut when you got into a good high class shop tips were the rul rule ejust just as they are now the tip at the continental was from 10 to 25 cents and that money counted by the time your week was up billy mcgrath who was the president of the union street car line gave nie me a tip of five dollars every six bix weeks the prices then in the shop were 20 cents for a shave and 40 cents for ar a haircut dut but we aimed to give shaves and haircuts that were the finest in the city and a man had bad to be one of the best in the business to hold up tip his end in handling the people who came to us it was a fins fine shop but I 1 wanted to be in business so I 1 started jor for myself as soon as I 1 thought I 1 could lake good in the old ola first ward when will I 1 quit oh I 1 dont know im feeling as well as ever and I 1 like ilka to have something to do people keep right on coming to me and I 1 may as well go on shaving them some time maybe ill take a little place out in the country say do you know any suburb where there are some right good pe 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