Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 134, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1914 — Strange Garb Startles San Francisco Dancers [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Strange Garb Startles San Francisco Dancers

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.—The last Monday night affair of the Impromptu club, an exclusive dancing organization, whose members comprise men prominent in tbe business and financial world, and their wives, was marked

by an incident which will live long in the memory, of those who attended. When the wooing of Terpsichore 'through the medium of the tango, was at its height the gay revelers were startled by the appearance of a figure, which, after some moments of investigation, developed into that of Rearden T. Lyons, clubman and star bililiardlst, and known in the realms of I business as the manager of the Frank 'Wood trust Lyons was attired in an •array of garments far removed from

• the conventional dress. Over bis glistening white shirt he wore a ragged Jumper, many sites too big for him, and the hat which be doffed, was a strange relic of a past dynasty. It appeared that earlier in the evening he told his wife over the phone 'that he would go to the club direct making up for the period which he would occupy in the overrush of work, with his six-cylinder. En route, in the vicinity of California and Montgomery streets, a tire went flat and the clubtman, removing his overcoat in which he had just invested $66, and one of 'those thoroughly up-to-the-minute green keltlee —and making the customary ‘remarks—was soon busily engaged in remedying the puncture. While this was going on a waif of the night slunk upon the scene and made himself the possessor of the o’ercoatlngs and the hat Rearden had to get to the club, at least in time to escort his wife home, and so in one of those lofty buildings down in “the street" he petitioned a friendly janitor to -help him out