Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1905 — HUNTING HATS BY RAIL. [ARTICLE]

HUNTING HATS BY RAIL.

Motormfin- oh suburban. Troiiqy -fitm |.. ~, #tewf ii prtflUfty; v , While a Chester toiler', car Bvms speeding along several .fnues oft off Diarb'y, l, a‘ tow evenlhgs AgoV the rotorman suddenly sladkened the Bar's speed with a Jolt several, time*.Kao time a piece of paper wa* ,'aloc£ tbs track. - t : f A “On my last trip out A jounl fellow -who was sitting ou the Kmnt ■eat Tost hiss Panama,” aaMT thmmo torman to a friend near his Mrow. “I thought that paper might ft (t Tea, he got off to lftok for il tat maybe he didn't find it. for he ft (fiat know where it. blew off. He pM th* hai -on the floor under, thfi sehtftsther than‘hold ft Hr his hand; mndftfiar he had gone about four miles ft noticed that it bad disappeared. Bbere was, no way of telling in whieflon* -of the four mites it had blown fir. so he Just got off the car the Aten tion of walking back thejentlift dl*tance, unless be wouliiflmpp softer.” “Maybe a 15-ce/ki Paftraa. anyhow,” seggesredimitoiftan's friend, when another white ftject on the road proved to be papeift “Well, sometimes we find a rmghty good hat" cbntinued: the / iWcftnati. “More than a few h]*w off evpryfteek It’s a poor summer it J r tfqqT Rift ten or twelve stFatv hats.' and'feofte of them are fine littes. " The. "bthefi motormen about aw well. Thftbest time to find th*em Is on v the fearly morning runs, aw the hats -are (mostly lost at night. jFrequentlj£ Rfcejwland in a datl placs, and canst Jbe irand until daylight, iOf eiiulsp [wel-keep them when we find’tnein. 'frow mould we do ptherwise, when we mever know to whom they belong?*The men always Jump off the carfiafter their hats blow off, and we A ever hear from them again.” n I ‘‘Why da more hats bfqw iff at night tbfin the f ajr'T I - “Mostly bwadfid "mbrfi youn#' me* ride on the cars at night.' Thefi take off their hats to enjoy the meeze. Sometimes the hat is -blown offithelr laps and sometimes it is blown oft their heads. Often the yofcfig loan's companion holds his hat hits, and sometimes It blows but ft her hands. The few hats tbrat/iare Alow* off during the-day are e«ai?y ftund " —Philadelphia Record, ,*"