The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-07-01
YOUNG MEN APPROVE 1T.
THEY THINK THE SHIRT SLEEVES
BRIGADE A GOOD THING.

Many of Those to whom the Subject
Has Been Broached Have said
They VIII Fall in-The Heat of
the Day Gave Added Interest to the
Discussion of the Project-ft Was
Talked OF Everywhere-Membc
ship Lists Are Being Circulated.
One of the Facts That DiscOurages
Applications for Membership.
The idea of the Shirt Sleeves Brigade. %
mentioned in the Morning News yester-
day, excited much comment. Many young
men of Savannah are unable to see why
they should not be permitted to wear
shirts, without coats, as well as their sis
tiers should wear shirt waists.
The scheme was the talk in all the clubs.
The thermometer rose sufficiently high 20
make it interesting for all those who were
enthusiastic beforehand on the subject OF
shirts without coats, and the day detrace-
ed nothing from their determination. Short
OF actually appearing without coats the
enthusiasm that the members OF the
Shirt Sleeves Brigade" had manifested
suffered no diminution.
From every knot of young men who dis
cussed the question there came offers to
join the brigade. The day was just hot
enough 10 fire their enthusiasm and TO
make them eager 10 become members. The
habit of the young women Of the century
in wearing shirtwaists and the prohibition
that custom has placed upon men wearing
some similar garment formed the usual
guhjeet of COMPLAINT
There is no doubt about the fact that the
organization will have members a plenty
If the lists are circulated with sufficient
enthusiasm. There are enough young men
in the city who are anxious TO join the
organization TO make II large and influ-
entail" and whose habit OF appearing on
the street without their coats will serve
to destroy the uneasiness that some OF
the more timid would otherwise feel
These young men have protested their
willingness TO join the brigade and say
that they will do SO when the invitation is
presented.
The prospective members of the brigade
are rebelling already against the discom-
fort of the hot coats that they are forced
to wear, and are looking forward to the
comfort that will be theirs when they
are in position TO shed their coats and
appear in the streets In their shirt
sleeves. 1T seems to me that If can get
a shirt and a pair of trousers that fit me
and a belt that will serve the same good
purpose. that this is all that the feminine
portion of the community can legitimate
~ require.
There is one discomforting circun-
stance connected with the decision of the
young men. Latterly one of the circuit
courts OF Virginia has decided that a
railway company has the right to eject
from a hrst-class coach or passenger
steamer one who for any reason" the
company deems Objectionable. The court
has decided that a man who appears in
the saloon of a passenger steamer with
out a coat comes within the rule and
forced him ou1 upon the deck.
The passenger thus dealt with brought
suit against the company for damages, but
failed to recover. The decision OF the
court was based on the somewhat peculiar
consideration indicated above, that tie
company had right to exclude a person
for "any reason" II this be a proper and
correct construction of the law the Savsn-
nah seekers after comfort are In a rather
strained position. Fortunately they do
not believe that they can be hampered
legally by any such restrictions.
The organizers of the society reported
last night that they have received "a num-
Der of applications for membership since
they first afforded the general public an
opportunity to join They contend that
their organization will include a very
large number of members within the next
few days and that after the time deter
mined upon as the day of inaugural ton
the spectacle of man without a coat will
be so familiar as TO excite no comment.