{"id":1523,"date":"2024-01-21T20:18:07","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T01:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/?p=1523"},"modified":"2024-01-21T20:18:10","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T01:18:10","slug":"huggins-the-barber-poet-of-new-york-published-aug-20-1882","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/huggins-the-barber-poet-of-new-york-published-aug-20-1882\/","title":{"rendered":"Huggins, the Barber Poet of New York [published Aug. 20, 1882]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"367\" height=\"467\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/barber.png?resize=367%2C467&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1524\" style=\"width:123px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/barber.png?w=367&amp;ssl=1 367w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/barber.png?resize=236%2C300&amp;ssl=1 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 367px) 100vw, 367px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The famous old-time New York barber, Huggins, was a remarkable character, and had a rather remarkable history. His full name was John Desborus Huggins, and he was a full-blooded Englishman, but took a tremendous fancy to America in general and New York in particular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And New York seemed to return the compliment, for it took a tremendous fancy to Huggins. For a good many years he was the boss barber of New York. And he was hairdresser for the ladies as well as barber and shaver for the gentleman. The ladies liked him immensely, too, not only for the tip-top way in which he did his special work, but for the glib tongue he had, and for the gossip which he retailed. He beat any \u201csociety paper\u201d in that line, and was equal to at least a \u201cfull hand\u201d of old maids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"438\" height=\"472\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/hairdresser.png?resize=438%2C472&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1525\" style=\"width:264px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/hairdresser.png?w=438&amp;ssl=1 438w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/hairdresser.png?resize=278%2C300&amp;ssl=1 278w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 438px) 100vw, 438px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Huggins\u2019s shop was a low wooden buildin\u2019 on Broadway, right opposite the old City Hotel, and here all the swells of the period came to get shaved, and get posted in all the scandals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Huggins was very fond of literary characters, and used to tell everybody about havin\u2019 cut Washington Irving&#8217;s hair, havin\u2019 once shaved Thomas Moore, and twice shaved Joel Barlow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Huggins had a theory that talent, like disease, could be transmitted through the hair. Acordin\u2019 to him the capillary tissue was a conductor of genius, and as Huggins was always handlin\u2019 the hair of smart people he gradually became smart himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; One day the idea occurred to him to write out an advertisement for his shop which should not be confined to hairdressin\u2019 matters merely, but should take in a wide range of social and political subjects. So in the evenin\u2019 he took pen in hand, and stayin\u2019 up all night concocted an extraordinary affair in the way of \u201ca business card\u201d&#8211;bringing in national politics, alluding to Giles, Randolph and other prominent public men of the time, and written in a tremendous style\u2013hifautin\u2019 and poetical in the extreme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The next day he took the \u201cbusiness card\u201d over to Coleman, who was editor of the <em>Evening Post<\/em> then. Coleman had often been shaved by Huggins, and had had many a talk with him about his theory of transmission of talent by the hair. Coleman read this card of Huggins, and remarked that accordin\u2019 to his own theory, Huggins must lately have been handlin\u2019 the hair of a good many authors, for one part of the business card reminded him of one author&#8217;s style, and another part of another author\u2019s, a third part of a third author&#8217;s, and so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"317\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/William_Coleman_1766-1829_New_York_Evening_Post_editor-1.jpg?resize=317%2C392&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1526\" style=\"width:197px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/William_Coleman_1766-1829_New_York_Evening_Post_editor-1.jpg?w=317&amp;ssl=1 317w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/William_Coleman_1766-1829_New_York_Evening_Post_editor-1.jpg?resize=243%2C300&amp;ssl=1 243w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 317px) 100vw, 317px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">William Coleman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Still, it was pretty clever on the whole, this card, and Coleman, havin\u2019 touched it up, and rewritten part of it, published it, as Huggins\u2019s advertisement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It took immensely. It was somethin\u2019 brand new of it sort, and anythin\u2019 brand new always takes in New York. Everybody talked about it, and Huggins\u2019s shop became the rage. People came to New York from Philadelphia and Boston even to see Huggins. The country newspapers copied the advertisement; the political papers copied it with remarks for and against. Huggins was a made man, and his head was nearly turned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Then he tried his hand at another advertisement, and took it to Coleman, who once more touched and fixed it up. This second advertisement made almost as big a hit as the first. Coleman was tickled at the advertisement attractin\u2019 so much attention, and encouraged Huggins in the idea that he was a great man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But after a while Coleman, who had a good many other things to do besides touchin\u2019 up a barber\u2019s advertisements, wearied of his task, and then Huggins got acquainted with old Anthony Bleecker, and asked him to help him get up his advertisements. This Anthony Bleecker was an odd sort of a character; a rich, aristocratic gentleman, and yet very kind and courteous to all the impecunious; without any ambition, but full of ability, and always willin\u2019 to give the full benefit of his ability to anybody who asked him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"814\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Anthony_Bleecker.jpg?resize=640%2C814&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1527\" style=\"width:238px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Anthony_Bleecker.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Anthony_Bleecker.jpg?resize=236%2C300&amp;ssl=1 236w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Anthony_Bleecker.jpg?resize=768%2C976&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Anthony Bleecker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Well, Huggins asked him, not only to touch up his advertisements, but to write \u2018em himself for him; for Huggins by this time had completely played himself out in the writin\u2019 line, and was only too glad to get somebody else to write his business cards for him, especially when, as in the case of Anthony Bleecker, they wrote \u2018em for nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; People admired Bleecker\u2019s advertisements, and wondered how the deuce Huggins could keep up his steam so long, and all the time Huggins\u2019s barber patronage was increasin\u2019, and might have kept on increasin\u2019 had not Huggins really got so conceited on top of Coleman&#8217;s and Bleecker\u2019s kindness to him that he fancied himself a great author.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nothin\u2019 would do then but that the works of this great author must forthwith be published, and so Huggins collected all his advertisements together, and tried to get a publisher for \u2018em. He anticipated no difficulty, but somehow or other there was difficulty. The regular publishers fought shy of the book, and so at last Huggins was compelled to get out his own book at his own expense. Still, he solaced himself with the idea that there would be an enormous sale for the volume, which would give him a big profit over expenses. But there wasn&#8217;t a sale at all worth speaking of. Somehow or other people didn&#8217;t care for payin\u2019 to read Huggins\u2019s advertisements. Then the critics got hold of the work, and some of \u2018em made fun of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"646\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/huggiana.png?resize=640%2C646&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1528\" style=\"width:296px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/huggiana.png?w=666&amp;ssl=1 666w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/huggiana.png?resize=297%2C300&amp;ssl=1 297w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/huggiana.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Poor Huggins! From the day the critics laughed at him he never smiled. He took the ridicule to heart. He seemed to think that everybody was laughin\u2019 at him. He became nervous, which interfered with his shavin\u2019 his customers, and so his customers complained and gradually left him. Of course he fell behindhand in his business, and after a while got to be positively poor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Yet poverty didn&#8217;t kill him, but his poor luck as an author did. This drove the last nail into his coffin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He took to bed, and finally died of sheer vexation, furnishin\u2019 the only instance I ever heard of a barber dyin\u2019 of disappointed literary ambition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Editor&#8217;s notes: The above column was adapted, with few changes, from <em><a href=\"https:\/\/babel.hathitrust.org\/cgi\/pt?id=hvd.hxt96r&amp;seq=1\">The Centennial History of New York City, from the Discovery to the Present<\/a> Day<\/em> By William Leete Stone, 1876.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/about\/Hugginiana_Or_Huggins_Fantasy_Being_a_Co.html?id=Bm6wy7LyqZkC\">Huggins&#8217;s book is online: Hugginiana: Or, Huggins&#8217;Fantasy, Being a Collection of \u2026 Literary Productions<\/a><\/em>, by John Richard Desborus Huggins, 1808.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The famous old-time New York barber, Huggins, was a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eccentrics","category-writers-and-editors"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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