The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-10-30

of Lincoln, Neb., When He Goes in to
Have Suspender Button Fastened On
War Department VIII Be Asked to
Remove the Officer from the Military
Instructorship.
Lincoln, Neb., October go. Capt John
f. Guilfoyle, U. S. A., polite society in
Lincoln, and army etiquette are in a
tangle, and the War Department. will be
drawn into it at the first opportunity.
The Pleasant Home club, a social institu.
| tion OF repute is about to demand Capt.
| G Guilfoyle's recall from his detail here as
military instructor at the University Of
of Nebraska. 1t all came about through
a suspender button.
About three weeks ago Capt. Guilfoyle
received his orders from Washington. He
promptly packed his trunk and left Fort
Robinson, where he had been stationed as
Captain i'll the Ninth Cavalry.
Lincoln society rose to greet him. His
bronzed face soldiery bearing, brass
buttons, and the yellow stripes down bis
uniform all endeared him to the fashion
able set. He was lion, able to shake his
name and growl so all could hear. And
then he lost that suspender button.
| Among the organizations which had
| treated the soldier most scourteously
was the Pleasant Home club. And among
| it's members none had been more forward
| in greeting the recent military arrivals
than it's president, Mattson Baldwin, a
| man of wealth, the proprietor OF the lead
| ing tailor shop of the city.
| What more natural when that Suspender
| button came off and Mrs. Guilfoyle was
| far away than for the gallant Captain to
walk into the fashionable tailoring
! establishment of the city to have it sewed
on while he waited. Naturally, too, he
was greeted by the hospitable proprietor,
whom Captain Guilfoyle had last seen in
all the glory of an evening suit made to
order in his own shop under his personal
supervision, wheeling in the mazy
measures of the winsome waltz.
| If Captain Guilfoyl had stopped at
that all might have been we'll But meet
| ing brilliant young woman of fashion
| the other evening he conf1ded his troubles
to her. He was so embarrassed he said,
at going in to have humble office per-
| formed to meet in the guise OF an accom-
modating tailor person who pretended
! to social acquaintance with him. he was
sure, he added, that when Mrs Gullfoyle
| arrived III IIuCOlu sll0 WOulu UocOAl iiAA
his place. Mrs. Guilfoyle he concluded,
was not in the habit of meeting trades
| people.
When that remark had been duly re-
peated and ventilated and flung out to
the breezes of heaven it would have been
better for Captain Guilfoylc il he had
sewed that suspender button OH himself
in the privacy Of his apartment. The
Pleasant Home club men and women rose
as one person to resent the insult to its
president 1t decided to withdraw its in
yitations to the warrior. Then somebody
said the soldier did not intend to accept
them anyway, it was decided not to.
Mattson Baldwin, the president-tailor,
met Captain Guilfoyle, q. S. A., and
asked him to apologize. Captain Bald
win said he was sorry he had hurt his
feelings, but declined to go further in the
matter whether he had his suspender
buttons sewed on in the best place in
town or not
So as a last resort the Pleasant Home
club met this evening and decided to
write long letter to the Honorable the
Secretary of War; and have Captain Gull
foyle exiled to some spot where he could
properly appreciate men who handle more
s1spender buttons every day Of his life
| than the GaDtain ever saw