The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-08-11
HON. HINKY DINK.
Chicago's Most influential Democrat
ic Alderman Leaves the Breezes of
Lake Michigan for the Condolences

Chicago's Most Influential Democrat
ic Alderman Leaves the Breezes of
Lake Michigan for the Condolences
at Saratoga.
CHICAGO. August 1O.-The Inter
Ocean to-day says:
Where is Hinky Dlnk? His friends in
Chicago say he has gone East, and will
not return until September. In Sara
toga. New York, Bathhouse John
coughlln is growing anxious over the
non-appearanca of his little compatrIot
from the First ward. His anxiety is
misplaced, and when H. DInk drops
into the summer house society center of
the Empire state Bathhouse is going to
take to the woods In sheer despair, for
Michael Kenna has his friend. to use
the expression, skinned seven ways
from the jack In the matter Of wearing
apparel.
While John dazzles Saratoga with a
green dress suit, and a blood-red vest.
Michael had a blue dress suit, hello :
trODe wnlstcoat, a shirt covered with
a roulette wheel design, and other suits
that will start an epidemic OF hydropho :
bla In the East.
Kenna has gone from Chicago. HIS
bartender said yesterday that he had
left the first OF the month for New
York, Saratoga, and the seashOre. II
might have been that the little alder
man would have taken with him n
wardrobe as modest as a church dea-
cons had 1t not been for Coughlin
terrible plunge in raiment.
Before taking his departure Hinky
DInk confided to a friend the intelli-
gence that he was going down East
among the society guys" with the IN
tention Of showing that the dress re-
form Instituted by Bathhouse John was
bearing fruit
..John left plans for Kinks clothes
and toys" the friend said. yesterday.
'.They are up-to-date and original, and
fixed up so a fellow can be told from
a waiter After Hink and John come
back from the East they are going TO
take In all the swell doings In ChicaSo,
and before long they expect that al
the swell folks will be after clothes hke
they wear. Both Of 'em are going TO
attend the receptions and balls given
TO the President during the fall festl-
val. Why. Dick Croker won't be with
In haIllng distance OF Hink. He took
big bank roll with him, and he's go
ing to play the races at Saratoga, ana
make bets that will scare the bookma-
kers into commissions. You'll hear from
both OF them before long"
At the time BathhOuse was having
his outfit carpentered Kenna got wind
OF 1t. Secretly the latter went to
CoughlIn's tailor and said
Look here. hear you are making
some pretty fancy rags for Bathhouse.
Well. l don't care what he's got. l
want you TO skin your own work, see.
I want to make him look ike deuce.
Money won't cut any carpet with this
deal Now YOU 20 to work and whit
tie me out an outfit that will make an
automobile shy and you'll get the check.
I'm goin' East"
1t took something like half day for
the alderman to so through the tailor
stock and list of samples and get what
he wanted. He had ordered two dozen
shirts someweeks before but as the kind
ne wanted were not made by any man.
ufacturer the order was somewhat de-
Iayed In its delivery. 1t Is said by u
man who was with the alderman when
he ordered the shirt that he wanted
one made with picture OF the ballet
scene from "Semlramlde" embroidered
on the bosom, but the salesman con-
WINGED him that 1t would take too long
10 mi the order Hinky therefore con-
fined himself to simple designs OF floral
wreaths, horse shoes. sunbursts and
moonlight -on- the-waves effects.
ON the tag Of each shirt Kenna or
dered crest and motto to be stamped.
The arms are two steins rampant, sur
mounted by n lead pipe. argent. Below
rs ballot. cOuchnnt and beneath all the
motto: "Absque Argento Omuia Vana-"
Just what Hinky DInk's eastern plans
are he did not dlyulge before he left.
II ls evident however. that he has gone
TO wrest from Coughlin the lnurels he
has won as Beau Brummel In sara
toga.
yes" said the alderman's tailor.
gpeaklnE OF Kenna'B outfit, "the clothes
he bought were original. As TO whether
they lay over those OF BathhOuse John
/ cannot say: that would be n matter
OF Individual taste. Kenna is small-
err man than Coughlln, and perhaps the
blue In the dress suit is better suited TO
his style OF architecture.
"Of course. there were three or -FOUR
fancy vests. One was n heliotropc,
with gilt buttons and yellow dots. An
other was n robln's-egg blue, with n
green vine delicately climbing toward
the lapels. Sennn suggested having
n couple OF robins, painted on the top
pockets. but dlssunded him. not
knowing what action the humane soci-
ETY. might take.
For the senshorc the alderman has q
suit OF tan, with n cream stripe and
orange fnclngs on the coat lapel. Then
there II Scotch plaid suit for general
wear that Is certainly warm one. |
think he is going TO try and make n
hit with some OF the swell Eastern golf
clubs"
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