{"id":182,"date":"2018-01-16T16:53:27","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T16:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/charles-chesnutt\/?post_type=chapter&p=182"},"modified":"2018-02-28T00:23:50","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T00:23:50","slug":"quarry-chapter-v","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/charles-chesnutt\/chapter\/quarry-chapter-v\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter V"},"content":{"raw":"
\u201cHe mentioned the proprietor, and was told that he was engaged, but would be at liberty in about five minutes\u2026The barbers, including the proprietor, were all colored, and on account of little Donald, he felt nearer to them than, as a white man, he had ever felt before to their people.\r\n\r\nWhen his shoes had been polished, the head barber was at liberty.\r\n\r\n\"Mistuh Davis<\/strong> kin take keer uh you now, Judge,\u2019 said the bootblack, applying to his customer a title adequate to the size of the tip\u201d (p.27).<\/strong><\/pre>\r\n
\r\n\r\nMr. Davis is based on George A. Myers<\/a>, owner of Cleveland\u2019s Hollenden Hotel<\/a>\u2019s barbershop, who is often described as a \u201cone-man clearinghouse\u201d between the African American citizens of Cleveland and the Republican Party.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\u201c`I shaved President McKinley<\/strong><\/a> when he was governor and since and Senator Hanna<\/strong><\/a> is<\/strong> my very good friend and corresponds with me about colored men who are seeking office. Do you see that card on the wall?\u00a0 That was given to me by the famous Elbert Hubbard<\/a> who always stops at this hotel and comes in here to be shaved.\u2019\r\n\r\n`Does he ever get a hair cut?\u2019 asked Seaton.\r\n\r\n`Not here, laughed the barber,\u2019 in appreciation of the joke. `I suppose he gets it cut once or twice a year, but he\u2019s never had it done here.\u2019\r\n\r\nSeaton glanced at the handsomely framed oblong of cardboard, painted in fancy letters in alternating red and black, and reading `The best barbershop in the United States\u2019, followed by the well-known signature of the genial Fra Elbertus<\/a>.\r\n\r\n`I\u2019ve got all his books, continued the barber. He sent me an autographed copy of The Message to Garcia,<\/em><\/strong> <\/a>\u00a0which is hanging in my library, along with signed photographs of President McKinley<\/a> and Senator Hanna<\/a>\u2019\u201d (p. 29)<\/strong><\/pre>\r\n
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Did you know Ohio has produced eight U.S. Presidents?<\/h3>\r\n
To learn more, try this fun activity:\u00a0Ohio Presidents Game<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>","rendered":"
\u201cHe mentioned the proprietor, and was told that he was engaged, but would be at liberty in about five minutes\u2026The barbers, including the proprietor, were all colored, and on account of little Donald, he felt nearer to them than, as a white man, he had ever felt before to their people.\r\n\r\nWhen his shoes had been polished, the head barber was at liberty.\r\n\r\n\"Mistuh Davis<\/strong> kin take keer uh you now, Judge,\u2019 said the bootblack, applying to his customer a title adequate to the size of the tip\u201d (p.27).<\/strong><\/pre>\n
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Mr. Davis is based on George A. Myers<\/a>, owner of Cleveland\u2019s Hollenden Hotel<\/a>\u2019s barbershop, who is often described as a \u201cone-man clearinghouse\u201d between the African American citizens of Cleveland and the Republican Party.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201c`I shaved President McKinley<\/strong><\/a> when he was governor and since and Senator Hanna<\/strong><\/a> is<\/strong> my very good friend and corresponds with me about colored men who are seeking office. Do you see that card on the wall?\u00a0 That was given to me by the famous Elbert Hubbard<\/a> who always stops at this hotel and comes in here to be shaved.\u2019\r\n\r\n`Does he ever get a hair cut?\u2019 asked Seaton.\r\n\r\n`Not here, laughed the barber,\u2019 in appreciation of the joke. `I suppose he gets it cut once or twice a year, but he\u2019s never had it done here.\u2019\r\n\r\nSeaton glanced at the handsomely framed oblong of cardboard, painted in fancy letters in alternating red and black, and reading `The best barbershop in the United States\u2019, followed by the well-known signature of the genial Fra Elbertus<\/a>.\r\n\r\n`I\u2019ve got all his books, continued the barber. He sent me an autographed copy of The Message to Garcia,<\/em><\/strong> <\/a>\u00a0which is hanging in my library, along with signed photographs of President McKinley<\/a> and Senator Hanna<\/a>\u2019\u201d (p. 29)<\/strong><\/pre>\n
\n
Did you know Ohio has produced eight U.S. Presidents?<\/h3>\n
To learn more, try this fun activity:\u00a0Ohio Presidents Game<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"menu_order":5,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-182","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":174,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/charles-chesnutt\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/charles-chesnutt\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/charles-chesnutt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/charles-chesnutt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/charles-chesnutt\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/charles-chesnutt\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/182\/revisions\/287"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/charles-chesnutt\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/174"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/charles-chesnutt\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/182\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/charles-chesnutt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/charles-chesnutt\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/charles-chesnutt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/charles-chesnutt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}