Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1882 — A New Union Club Sensation. [ARTICLE]

A New Union Club Sensation.

Having diamond monograms put on the clasp! of garters is done to identify them in case they are lost anywhere. Then by theii description they can in that way be distinguished from all others. A, young lady who resides on Lexington avenue purchased a line pair of these from us about two weeks ago through having lost one, which was afterward restored to her, and has got a party of well-knewn members of one of the clubs not far from Madison square christened the “Knights qf the darter.” The way it happened was this: The young lady, who is rather pretty, was getting in a Fifth avenue stage in front of the club. A crowd of members, like ‘Lorillards old hens of the Union Club,’ who were sitting at one of the windows, saw her, and noticed as she entered the omnibus something like a blue ribbon fall from beneath her dress. When the was away on its journey one of the members remarked that tne blue object that the lady dropped had something valuable attached to it, for he saw it shine. After all had passed their opioion as to what the thing might be, one member said it looked more like a lady’s garter to him, and he was going to get it to make sure of it. He started to go for the object, but at that moment three or four ocher members jumped up and pulled him back so as they could get out and secure the trophy before him. Then a regular scrimmage took place to see who oould get the garter first. They bolted out the door helter-skelter, but a more quick-witted member leaped out of a front window, and, scaling the low railing that extends arouna the grass plot, secured the garter before any of the rest. The young lady came to me /or another garter, but we advised her to advertise for the one she lost. An advertisement was put in calling for the lost 'blue band,' and a few days after the gentleman who got it came here and Inquired for the owner. He at first refused to give up the garter until he was introduced to or told who the owner was; so that he might see and present it tq her himself. We gave him her name, and he handed over the “blue band,” not caring after that to see or hear any more in relation to it, for it'turned out the lady was none less than the wife of a prominent banker and one of’Ae most honored members of the same club in front of which the garter was at first dropped. These gentlemen have since that little affair been called nothing in the club but the “Knights of the Garter,” and there is one particular member who wants to know “how that English-sounding title came to be placed on members of a New York club.—Louisville Courier-Journal. The London Standard says of Frelinghuysen’s paper on the ClaytonBulwer treaty: “The answer to all this rhetoric is, the treaty has been made and ought to be kept.”