New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-02-04
THE HATS SOME MEN WEAR.
New-York letter in The Springfield Union.

New-York letter in The Springfield Union
81 Ben Butler delights in his Is soft hat SAID
variety of ways sometimes he will have it drawn
down over his eyes, and again 1t VIII ASSUME "a
pves the brm "a weldefned platical twist IN front
Ills hat is of the pattern worn ~ Tbau rniv seen
with any other. Walt Whitman Is also addicted 10 II,
and with him it is really knock about serIiIs %
bot fan and sometimes even as tableclOJh lie hds
been known to eat his dinner out Oh us CapdcUus
crown The soft hat Of the present day Is me eNUu
tion of the Old three-cOrneIed chapeau Whch Wa
really a very comfortable affair, though somewhat
awkward and ungainly in appearance; professor sC
soft hat Is. | think. The most expansive ca
Mum in either Brooklyn or New lork Is owned Dy
William Hill an attache OF the Post0hce, VINO wears
an SID lie is a manufacturing chemist ana amt
opera singer. Uncle Rufus hatch MoudG h 0T
brown felt knock-abOut, and senator Jones, u
Nevada, who buys all his hats mere wears an anTIe I
The military hat mas its favOrltes also among our
public men, most of them having Desun wearing oo
a military sOh hat AID a modern silk C0OneI Alfred
COnkling the broth, of the late Senator Conkilng IN
varably wears :nhtary hat with wide soft brlHi'
ward McAlIister too the leader of the -Four Hun
dred, wears when his social ensagehenls VIII pSI
nit although he rarely wears any other IMAM slh
hat in town. But the military hat, while II Is IN
questiOnably popular with certain Glass; Is h"ioN
a distinctive piece o. apparel. -,
al saw two men on broadway lately who were the
very antipOdes In this respect. one met on ioMeI
Broadway He was modesty dressed and his hat was
irrcproachabe. being "a SIX OF te ates. SUE we
The other collar That sto0d az ieasl IoI
inches above his coat and fairly met the VIDE roms
brim of 34 hat Of antique shape ana h1ge prSpIn
tons. The brm rolled like ship In gale ana the
curve on the body of the hat would nave Deeh te civ
of a professional baseball pitcher Yet IL %%s new,
but fashioned after some ancient model Inc men
Jay Gould and General spnola and the hats "eo
Many Of our well-knOwn men combine mo oIint
ness in their headgear with gooo aeal VI qSiv
tricity. Henry Clews wears hat of two seasons
ago with becoming gracefulness RecoT Tb an inch
the terror Of the gangs of New YORK. ADDS an inc d
Of brim TO the modlsh hat He can be recoghlLeu
from behind by his hat block OIL on rinCs Hay
feldt takes hat Of season before last ana hever
rms any risks Of losing IT; Judge Van Brunt pre-
brrsbed the wrong way which adds touch OF
ferocty TO his otherwise mild judicial aspect guuge
tJants voptb,s derby with An exceedingly narrow
brim' II gives him a youthful appearance, although
nD D the o" bench Billy Mooney. The fugitive ex-clerh
of the doodle Board Of Aldermen always wears a
Side and Id downward giving a eering aspect to the
face He was, as he looked, one Of the cuteSt men
THE variety of hats with traits Of character in
every line is almost inexhaustble. recall Two
brothers named Barrow who reside somewhere aiong
fine Hudson and who wear hats of peculiar pattern
with wide, straight brims lined VIVA steti 70 hoet
them stiff Their hats made TO special order o.
conrse and they are the only of the sort ever
saw There is aged Frenchman cOhheclen WIN uu
njahter AT the theatres He wears high silk hat
with brm straight and sharp a. Enie, %Iis
william and ]. H. beard. the well-known artists,
wear big. black sombreros summer and winter iho1
are all in strong contrast with the respendent mead
gear by Berry Wall, the ex king OF the auus'
whose Ia SILK hat has wide cloth band around H.
| this being the very latest fad among the swsis,
But John l.. sullivan is just much in the Iasnlo
as WALL for the champion pugilist dazzles ms iren1s
| with his 7 Is silk hat, which has twoinch brlm
and is. like everything else about him, In inc sts,
style. Robert Bonner wears hat almost identlcsi
with that by sullivan, only the millionaire pup
| Usher takes quarter Of an inch more latitude 10
| cover his capaciOus head. =,
But there is man down IN Macon Ga, VINO o., ois
commits everybody else In the matter OF hats lie i
The most original OF the cranks, and sends TO New
Work 10 have his hats specially made. He wears
silk hat In the form OF derby and yet ne Is allowed
! 10 1--we.