Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 161, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1914 — MADE A PERSONAL APPEAL [ARTICLE]

MADE A PERSONAL APPEAL

Tailor’s Desperate Endeavor to Make Convention Listen to “His Best Customer."

Registrar O’Loughlin of Brooklyn will think twice before he undertakes to address another convention of tailors. His own tailor led him into it. O’Loughlin put on his openwork clothes and sat on the platform. Tailors, cutters, buyers, city salesmen, bushelmen, models, bosses, other Items of the tailoring industry buzzed loudly on the floor. Now and then some man would enter and be greeted with applause. “ThaV said O’Loughlin’s tailor and guide, “is Max Schleiner, he is the buyer for Clipperstein & Menx.” Hours O’Lougblin sat there.-At last he was Introduced as the next, speaker. No one paid the least attention to him. Conversation rose toward the heights of emotion. After three false starts O’Loughlin sat down. He was angry enough for arson. His tailor saw the black rage on his brow. “Ladies and gentlemen," he bellowed, whacking at the table with his gavel. ‘“You should listen to Mr. O’Loughlin. He is my best customer. —Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph.