Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1913 — Hats Take Aerial Trip When Gale Hits Detroit [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Hats Take Aerial Trip When Gale Hits Detroit

Detroit, mich. —unusually high winds the other day were responsible for a reat deal of sidewalk acrobatics upon the part of pedestrians who defied the gale by wearing stiff hats. At one time three men ran a foot race across Michigan avenue at Griswold street in pursuit of elusive headgear. At times It seemed as if the only way to keep an overcoat fastened in front was to nail the edges together. One of the prize feats of the wind, however, was when a chilly zephyr went ripping down Lafayette boulevard at Griswold street, tearing a Denby hat from the head of a young man. carrying it In eccentric gyrations through the air, and depositing It on- . ceremoniously upon a ledgo In front of a window on the second story of the German American bank building. < . “There it goes," yelled a portly individual who had hold of his own bat with one hand while his other hand grasped the tails of his ( overcoat in an • effort to prevent

him from becoming a whirling dervish. “There it is.” said a rosy-cheeked young woman who had an Iron clutch on a white • plume and a bank of flowers which decorated t, broad-brimmed felt millinery creation. The young man who had lost the bowler stood mournfully on the edge of the walk. “How you going to get it down?asked a youth, who, in passing, noted the affair. "Walt for it to blow down, I guess,’ gloomily remarked the owner of ths hat And ho did.