The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-30
WHERE DID YOU
GET THAT HIATT!
Some Salt Lake Men Who Are
Troubled With Big
CraniumS.
OF UNUSUAL SIZE
FEW MEN LIKELY TO MISTAKE
THESE HATS FOR THEIR OWN.

How many men are there In Salt
Lake who wear IA size hat? Perhaps
you have never thought Of 1t unless
you are a halter, but 1t is a fact that |
there are but few men in the city
whose heads are sufficiently large to
accommodate a hat of that size. Among |
the thousands of men who buy new
hats every year. there are probably not /
more than a half dozen who can de- |
mand ~ hat. knowing that 1t will fl |
them comfortably.
The average man with a hat of this |
size on his head would look like can |
die with the snuffer on, or like Swear
old child with his grandfather's shiny |
tile settled down over his ears.
William d. Rishel sporting editor OF |
The Herald, is one of the few men who |
can wear a hat of that size and look |
right under it. Other men wearing
this size pay cash for their head cover |
ings, and it is more difficult to learn |
who they are One is NJ. L. Callahan, a |
nurseryman. while another is an en-
ploye of the Salt Lake Route, whose !
name is not on record in the Office of |
the halter. j. T. Brady, q Pueblo, Colo, |
travelling man who frequently makes |
this territory. is another who wants a
~ when he buys new hat. When he
wins an election bet, he has an advan-
tage of about one full size over the or
binary man.
An Expensive Hat.
There is one Ogden man who requires
a az size hat, and he is seldom able
to get what he wants in the Junction
City. He came to Salt Lake last week
and bought hat. He made the trip
L fr,- hi L.
up the days expenses he found that
/ his hat had cost him between S12 and
SIS.
A travelling man from Chicago
dropped into local hatter's a few days
ago and asked to try on some of the
latest shapes, stating that if he could
get hat to At him he would buy it.
Several hats were tried on, each one
a little larger than the last. Ordinary
/ hats looked like minstrel show toy
/ gerry, but he finally got one that had
the right feel He walked out happy,
and said:
This is the only town west of Chi
| cago / ever struck where l could get
| a hat to fit me-" His size was IA.
There was only one hat OF this size in
the stock OF the store where he made
his purchase. Only one larger hat was
ever sold from this store. II was a
No. s. and had been included in the
shipment by mistake. Hats OF this
size and larger are not kept in stock,
! but are ordered specially from the fac
tories.
Fully 60 per cent of the men in Salt
Lake have what is termed regular
conformation" That is, their heads
deviate so little from the regular oval
shape that it is not necessary to have
the hats shaped" to fit all around
/ These men can walk into q store and
find a size that fits. and walk out
wearing the new hat and leaving the
old one to be delivered. Those whose
hats have to be "conformed," must
! forego the pleasure Of appearing in
their new toggery until the halter has
finished shaping the hat on the con-
forming machine.
The most popUIar-siZed hat sold I'm
Salt Lake is the rs, and it is necessary
| for the dealers to order greater num-
| bers of this size than any other, when
placing their regular orders for stock
The SIS and run close to the ia I'm
popularity. Fully 70 per cent of the
hats sold here are in these sizes.
Sheets Has Long Head.
Prominent Salt Lake men wear all
kinds and sizes Of hats. The most pop
ular hat is, of course, the stiff black
hat in the modish shapes. Former
Governor Heber NJ. Wells wears a ia
Sat. His hats are never shaped for
him. He picks out the hat he likes,
tries it on, and if it suits him walks
out with it. f. G. Schramm wears the
same size. Chief of Police George A
Sheets also wears this size. His hats
must be shaped to conform TO his head.
which is longer than the average from
front TO back.
d. II. Peery wears rs, and Battling
head covering, wears the same size as
the chief of police. Billy Nolan, who
bought a hat at the same time his lit
tie fighting machine got his, wears
67s.
! A large humber Of prominent Salt
Lakers wear ~. Among these is
Frank j. Wescott. He has a long head.
| r. M. Allison, Jr.. wears this size, as
does State Senator c. E. Loose of
! Provo. S. d. Evans wears a ~ and
has long head. Judge Ogden Hiles
wears ~. as does James Ivers. So do
| Frank Z. McGurrin and Mayor Ezra
| Thompson. The latter usually wears
soft hat, seldom purchasing q stiff one
| Bishop Seaman wears III, as does
Father Kelly. Father Ryan wears 49,
! Judge Samuel Merritt wears 7ss For
mer, Senator Joseph s. Rawins wears
/ the same size as Mayor Thompson w
also in the 71z class. o. ]. SALISBURY
chairman of the Republican state
committee. wears a IA, and his head
is of the regular" shape. Benner X
Smith. former district attorney. wears
this size. Among others who could
exchange hats with any of those men
toned without noticing any difference
are Judge H. P. Henderson. Judge c.
c.. Goodwin and David Keith.
kearns' Head Regular"
Former United States Senator
! Thomas kearns wears rs, and, ac-
cording TO the matters standard, his
head is well shaped. j. T.. Lynch, the
ice man." wears Z, and Frank Knox,
president OF the National Bank of the
Republic wears "a size larger. Both
are regular in shape.
County Attorney Farley P. Christen-
] sens size is ia. with regular cOnfor-
/ nation Judge w H, Dickson wears