The Washington herald., 1913-08-31
LOST PIN FOUND
AFTER 20 YEARS
Dropped by Freddie" Geb-
hard in a New York
Restaurant.
LOCATED UNDER FLOOR
Discovered by Workman Who Wa,
Preparing to Lay New TiIing
in Dining Room.

More than twenty years ago the late
Freddie Gebhard, who married Miss Lulu
Morris, of Baltimore, and whose eccen-
tricities furnished much of the gossip
for the Four Hundred, while dining at
Jacks restaurant, missed a valuable dia-
mond and pearl stickpin from his scarf
suspicion fell upon many persons at the
time. WOrkmen who are preparing to lay
a new tile floor in the central dining-room
of Jacks found the lost scarfpn under
three layers of linoleum, where II had
been all these years.
Jack Dunstan, the owner. was much
affected when he learned of the discovery.
Gebhard, with a party of friends, was
enjoying a stag party at . o'clock in the
morning in Jacks, which was then known
as the annex to the fashionable Rae
quet Club. of which Gebhard was mem
ber.
Pin Is Missed.
THE memory of that loss haunts me
yet" said Manager Dunstan. 1T was all
Of twenty years ago. Freddie Gebhard,
then one of the most popular men in New
York among a certain set. was having
supper with Eddie Kelly. Mr.. MARITIME
Fred Gould. and Charlie La Monten, all
noted men-about-town in their day, and
all dead now.
"Gebhard had the end seat at the Ia e.
close to the wall. l was on the floor at
the time, looking after the comfort OF my
patrons, when, just about the time when
the check was presented and they were
getting ready to go, one of the party said
to Freddie
What has become of your stickpin?
Mr.. Gebhard looked down at his scarf
and saw that his handsome stickpin,
large diamond surrounded by pearls. was
missing. He thought some one had
PLAYED a joke on him, and had removed
il surreptitiously, intending to restore
it later The pin was worth several
thousand dollars. No one restored it
"A little later he came to me. and still
thinking it was all Joke and that who
ever took it for fun would turn II over
to me to restore to him, said:
by the way, if any of the walters
find that pin give him $50 on my account
and send the pin to me-
He didn't seem to mind the loss at all.
Freddie Gebhard was true sportsman
Once after that he came back and said:
-" Did you find that pin?
II thought he was joking, and he
thought was in on the Joke.
Fusion was responsible for the find
ing of the pin after all these years. II
il hadn't been for the Fusion movement,
George McAneny would never have or
dered me to move the front of my place
back several feet. Well when tie con-
tractors tore down the old front and put
in a new one, I thought I might as well
have the interior remodeled. and ordered.
new floor put down in the old center
dining-room, so that the inside would
match the outside
The workmen who were to lay the
new tile floor had to take up three layers
Of p11 1irp1aTr, hat had haap HOyVn
in the last twenty years. Then they
came to the wooden floor underneath. and
one OF them found the pin. II had un-
dOubtedly fallen out of Freddie Geb-
hard's tie and slipped down between the
Dashboard and the wall working Itself
down through the layer of lnoleum on
the floor at the time. The waiter who
served Gebhard and his party at the
time died three years ago."