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Four Escape
Death Chair
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ing heartily when the warden's hand
came through the bars.
"Tnis is great, Warden" he said. "If
you'd give us little music now we
would all dance, we feel so good"
Cassidy-"Bull' Cassidy they called
him in the prize ring-who had been
picked to go last because of his stolid-
ity and physique, could only squeeze
the warden's hand.
Plea Made for New Trial
1t was $3.50 when the telephone in
the wardens Office tlnkled its tardy
summons. Governor Smith was on the
wire, speaking from the capital Su-
preme Court Justice MITCHELL before
whom the four men had been convicted
in Bronx County, had just informed
him, the Governor said, that he wanted
time to consider again an application
for new trial for Usefof which had
been made to him earlier in the day.
AS soon as he had received the mes
sage, Governor Smith continued, he had
called the prison on the long distance
wire. He wanted all four men reprieved
tor at least two weeks. 1t was with q
lighter and quicker step than ever he
had made the brief journey before that
Warden LaWes set out for the death
house. Like the prisoners, he had lost
all hope.
When Vincent Leidell, Usefof's at
torney had made his application to
Justice Mitchell, saying that his client
was friend of the taxicab driver who
had taken the quartet to the lntervale
Avenue subway station and had stayed
In the street to help the driver make
some repairs on the car, Justice
Mitchell denied it out of hand and
likewise refused to grant Leidel's re-
quest that the application be laid be-
fore another justice.
Leidell started for Albany at once to
make final appeal to Governor Smith.
Others had been before him, urging
every reason they could summon to de-
lay the execution. Governor Smith had
listened to every appeal with sympa-
thetic ears. but could find no ground
for clemency. He could find none in
the latest effort
Earlier in the day Warden Lawes had
telcphoned to him the confession made
by Milano. Milano had told the story
to the warden in the hope that it might
strengthen Usefof's application for a
new trial and perhaps relieve all his
companions of the main burden of guilt.
Mclaughlin Called Dope
"Cassidy was drunk that night" he
said. "Charlie (McLaughlin) is a dope
and was led along. l could do any
thing + wanted with him.
"When we started out to do the lob
we met Usefof at the foot of the sub
way stairs. We asked him to wait, and
he did He didn't know what we were
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up to. After the shooting we started
to run and Usefof had to follow.
~ got the money. The agent tried to
get it back. That's how he got shot.
fired the shots"
"Bull' Cassidy, too, thought that he
might be able to influence Governor
Smith it the Executive knew that he
had not really had an opportunity to
plead guilty of second degre murder,
as was ntimated at his trial. So he got
his lawyer, James ]. Barry, to send
this message to Governor Smith:
"On the threshold of eternity and
before the everything God, before whose
presence | am soon to be summoned,
| swear that | had no opportunity to
accept plea of second degree murder
and supposed when l made my confess
sion to the District Attorney that
would escape the death penalty"
Nothing availed to move the Governor,
however, until Justice Mitchells mes
sage arrived and the four prisoners Sc
lected their supper with sinking hearts.
They had roast chicken, lemon pie and
ice cream. They were far from consum-
They ate in silence, except for the r-
repressible Mclaughlin, who evnced
vast capacity for food and jests.
"Wowh WOW! feel good Warden"
said Mclaughlin, after the meal. Have
the band play or turn on the phono-
graph! let's have some music"
During the day new attempt was
made to obtain a new trail for "R ckey"
Harrison, another death house inmate,
who already has received several re-
prieves. Supreme Court Justice Weeks
took the motion under advisement. May
10 has been set for Harrsons death
His attorney said that if Justice Weeks
denied his motion he would attempt
to bring the case before the Supreme
Court of the United tSates
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MARRIAGES

BUCKNALL- POWERS ON Thursday
april %; 1920. at St. Bartholomew $
Chapel. by the Rev. Dr.; Malcolm J.
est son of MIR. and Mrs. Henry w. j.
Bucknall. OF Glen Cove. l.. Ii to Mar
Garet Van Worst Powers, younger daugh-
ter of Mr.. William Van Worst Powers. of
Cornwall on Hudson, N. y.
MAY - M'ILROY - Mrs. Laurence I1ill
Grahame announces the marriage of her
daughter. Mrs. Elsa Mcllroy to SIR.
Clarence Ruddy May. of Clevela nd. OHIO,
at All Souls Church, New York City, on
Tuesday, April 27.
PAICE-HCOVER- Henry Fdllmer Of
Buffalo, N. Y. announces the marriage of
her daughter Katherine B. f. Hoover. on
April 28. at the Fourth Presbyterian
Church, New York, to Nathaniel L. Paige,
of this city.
PULLING - BROUN - At Ma plewood,
NJ j.. April 20. by DR.. Charles /. Wal
worth. Marian Elizabeth, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles w. BrounJ to Mr..
Hardenbergh Pulling, of Summit, IN. j.
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similar to that which followed the
Civil War and although the problems
facing the United States to-day are far
more serious, the people will surmount
them successfully.
Speaking of the financial problems
arising out Of the panic of 1873 and
the general problems arising out of
the Civil War, he said:
"The panic of 1873 and the recollec-
tons of it start an interesting train
of thought. We ere reproducing in a
way much the same situation as pre-
coded the catastrophe. We came out
of the Civil War with our national debt
raised from less than hundred mill
ions to over three billions. Many were
in doubt and few were optimistic as to
our ability to stand the burden in tax
alton or ever to pay it. We success
fully did both. We have come out Of
the present war with our national
debt of thousand millions increased
to twenty-five billions.
care we that much richer, have we
that much greater command of re-
sources and ability 70 bear taxation
than we had from the close of the Civil
War to make possible the practical ex-
tinguishment of our national debt? If
SO, and l think so, then the experience
peated in our future. But we did more
then than pay this debt. We rehabili-
tated a large section Of the country
which had been devastated by the war.
We did more. We turned a hostile
population into loyal and patriotic
citizens, equally as earnest for the
preservation and glory of the Union
as those who had fought to preserve it.
Imitation After Civil War
"Our Civil War was followed by an
era of unlimited speculation. the
launching of innumerable, both legiti~
mate and fraudulent, enterprises, and
the sudden accumulation of large for
tunes. 1t was also marked by tre-
mendous rise in prices and wages.
These results were due to an inflated
currency, a rotten credit system and no
control of banking privileges.
when the craze had reached its
peak cr highest point, then came the
crash. The panic of 1873 was one Of
the most disastrous in our whole his
tory. The failure of banks and bust
ness firms was unprecedented and in
dividual fortunes disappeared. 1t is
tribute to the optimism, the courage,
the faith and resourcefulness of the
American people that they recovered
so speedily from this disaster and put
their country in better condition
than ever before"
The hope of America lies in her
ideals and in her adherence to the
principles of Americanism, Mr.. Depew
concluded.
"Our %safety, our development, our
prosperity, our peace and our happi-
ness" he said, "are in America, with
American ideals and governed by
Americans. They are the protection, as
against socialism, Bolshcvism and
anarchy. of those precepts and prac
1lces OF American liberty and indi-
'idual opportunity which have made
the United States the admiration and
the hope of the world"
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DEATHS

ADIE-Anne Adie. Funeral at 1876 Edge
combe av. Saturday afternoon >
o'clock.
BIEREI-AIarearet. Funeral Friday. s
m at 2s8 Linden st, Brooklyn Inter
ment Lutheran Cemetery.
Bt,KcK:RDT-Henry A. Funeral from
hilen av, River Edge. n. j.. on Friday,
at 2:So o'clock. n
CHRIsMAN-Laura e. Mcconnell. serv-
ices at the Church of the Beloved Dis
ciple. S5th St, east Of Madison av.. on
Friday. at p. m. Interment woodiawn
c0LToN-Eiizabeth A, wife of Thomas j.
At $50 a. N. !
'GSyHHs9n wsss Ass ,ss s s' 4. at nss
Holley. beloved wife OF William II. Com
unsra Tsrss f"a aervess mSther Of ns Ma h cawpos
Presbyterian Church, 55th st. and 9TH
aV, Friday afternoon. at O'Clock
tOTTON-Elizab beti, A.. wife of Thomas
D. Cotton Funeral from $40 West ssth
St, on Friday. at $50 a. IN.
EAT0N-.In New Haven. Conn, April %,
and Ann Mason Young. Of Ne Ne WHY Ynrl
and widow of Professor D. Cady Eaton
Funeral services private Paris and Bal
t1morc papers please copy.
EDGELL-Isabela Corbin widow of the late
George S. Edgell. April "a. at Medfora
Ore. Services Saturday afternoon at .
o'clock at St. Bartholomew Chapel. PARK
FLoYD-on Wednesday, April 2s. 1920 at
her home at Mastic. Long Island Cor
neiia Dubois. widow of Nicol Tlovd and
daughter of the late Cornelius Dubois and
Mary A. Delafeld. in the S2d year of her
age Services at Mastic on Friday. Anvil
~, s.an;o on S: arrival Of train leaving Pennsyl
GAABRIEI-samuel. a Al, on Aptil 2s. Services
cAM M fbcl-!. FU NERAL CHURCH.. Broad9
way o0th St. Friday. 10 a. M
GEEmKwon Ehdms. Tuesday. April 81, 1920.
Brooklyn. Funeral service al thsl a.. "a :
man Chapel Is Clinton ST Ernoi. I,'n =,
rrIuay r'y evening at O'Clock Intermsn.
GINN-on April 90. 1920 at the ho.oa =,
Nei son. Charles b. Gum. at Har{sa.1oo
-. l.. SOPHIA. F., widow OF CharTa.
Suhh, In her S0th year. She leav4s As ~ -,
uaugnter. Katharine G. Sanford % uia
ne i1ulnl service Will be held at KEN eo,,.
on saturday. at noon. No.'i'
hAGE-Tuesday afternoon, Apr;l o. ,
deniy. Daniel S. Hage. Funeral ss-,';; SUD
ms late residence. Dongan Hijls YES Sts az az
Island. on Saturday. May l. AT > IN ,,''e'
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cation classes in the hotels for the
State Department of Education, and
Egbert S. Turner, assistant state super
visor.
Others Making Plans
Other hotel men who will assist in
the reception will be John Nee. Bow
man, L. B. Boomer, Fred Muschenhein
and Roy Carruthers. These men are
representative of virtually all the
larger hotels in Manhattan.
Reports from the state education
workers revealed that serious short
age in competent hotel executives has
been relieved as a result of the Amer
icanization work. Before the classes
were organized, managers were unable
to fill important positions because
oughly competent, could speak little or
no English. The Americanization in
struction, which includes course in
English, has remedied this condition
so that promotions from the ranks are
frequent and all employees are re-
doubling their effects.
Classrooms in Hotels
The hotels recognized the need for
the classes early last fall and it was
agreed that every opportunity should
De given tHe WOIkeTS 10 improve tHelr
condition so that they could be able to
procure citizenship more easily. The
hotels allowed the time to the workers
and set aside rooms to be used as class
rooms In many case they paid the
teachers substantial salaries.
1t was announced that the spirit
with which the employee entered into
the educational plan would be counted
in his efficiency and thus earn him
speedy promotion. Almost without ex-
ception the men and women workers
enrolled.
The reception on October will be
novel in many respects, the program
being confined exclusively to the new
citizens. Marcella Sembrich will be
asked to sing. Governor Smith and
Franklin K. Lane, former Secretary of
the Interior, will be asked to attend,
and music will be furnishd by an army
or navy band.
Some of the workers already have
ben naturalized and certificates will be
distributed to others at the reception
by justice of the Supreme Court
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Paralytic Boy Wins Army's
Silver CUP for Best Essay

CHICAGO, April 29.-Jimmie O'Mal-
Icy, civ oan years old, able to move
only w. .ingers and his head because
OF p, a sis, to-day received the War
Departments silver cup for writing the
best essay on "What the Army Has to
Offer Young Man."
The cup, with another from a local
bank, gold watch from the Fort Sher-
idan "Recall" and 500 from the
knights of Columbus, was presented
by Colonel Jackson, a member of Maj jor
General Leonard Woods staff. The
presentation took place in the Spauld-
ing School, where Jimmie and 400 other
crippled persons are being educated.
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H. L. Berdan, Publisher and
Banker in Paterson. Dies

Henry l.. Berdan, sixty-one years old,
retired publisher and banker, died
Wednesday night Of pleurisy at his
home, 62S Broadway, Paterson, N. j.
Mr.. Berdan was born in Preakness,
near Paterson. He prospered, and be-
came publisher of "The Paterson Guar
dian" president Of the Silk City Safe
Deposit and Trust Company, a member
of the Paterson Board of Finance
Commissioners, president of the Pas
sale County Publishers, Association
and vice-presi'dcnt of the New Jersey
Editorial Association.
Mr.. Berdan retired five years ago.
He was member of the Masonic or
der, Elks, Mecca Club and several
other organizations. He is survived
by his wife, son and two daughters.
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Fat Women's Glass Loses
3.9Lbs. Average in Week
Chicago Fair Sex Ruslles to En-
ter Reducing Contests Started
bv Health Official

CHICAGO, April 29.-Dr John Dill
Rotcrtson's class fer fat women LOST
an average of 80 pounds in the first
week of their sixty-day experiment in
reducing. The average weight of the
class of twenty-four women had
dropped from POI 66 to 1916 when
Health Commissioner Robertson
weighed them in to-day.
Mrs. Nellie Leonard, who last week
tipped the scales at 323 pounds, led
with loss of an even eight pounds.
A second group of sixteen entered the
contest this morning. Nearly 200 Chi
cago fat people are now entered in re-
duciEg contests.
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$50 Passengers Killed
In Train Wreck i'm India
Many Women and Children
Burned to Death in Crash
Near Delhi

BOMBAY. April 29.-One hundred
and fifty passengers were either killed
outright or burned to death when two
trains collided on the Oudh & Rohilk-
hand Railway, east of Delhi, Saturday
Only a few Of the large number Of
women and children on the trains es-
three survivors of three Hindu mar
riage parties
AS a result Of the collision the gas
installation caught ire and the flames
spread rapidly. Many uninjured Ind
ians fled terror-stricken to the Jungle
Those remaining watched helplessly
while screaming victims burned to death.
Several English subjects aboard es-
capped injury. After the accident pools
of molten silver were found in the vi
cin;v. resulting from the melting of the
boards of rupees many Indians carry
81. m
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Whisky on Hip, He's Held

Charged with carrying a pint Of whis-
ky on his hip and annovinp unssers.bv
as he swayed on the corner of Lexinp.
ton Avenue and Ninctv-seventh Street.
man who said he was John Enright'
an engineer, thirty-three. of 1878 Third
Avenue, was arrested yesterday. United
States Commissioner Samuel NJ. Hitch
cock ordered that he be held for viola
ton Of the Volstead act
He will be arraiened before the COM
missioner to-day and will also be ar
ralgned in the Washington Heights
court on charge of intoxication.
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ENGAGEMENTS

BANGS-CLEMENT-M Richard s. Con-
engagement of her sister Miss Gath ratherine .,ne
". Clement. to Mr.. Francis n. Bangs of
New York City. No date has been set
for the wedding.
COMSTOCK-SMILEY- and Mrs. Ed
ward A. Smiley. of Lake Minneawaska
n. Y. have announced the engag cement
OF their daughter. Helen G.. to MIR. Theo-
dore T.. Comstock, OF this city. Mr..
Comstock is a member of the class of '13
of Wesleyan Untversity
LEVY - MtRKOWITZ - Mrs. r. Marko-
witz. OF Sol West 10th s.. announces the
engagement Of her daughter. Carolyn. to
Jerome c. Levy, son of Herman L. Levy,
New York City.
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Obituary Notes


HARRIET T. PARRY, widow OF the
late Fev. Samuel Parry. died yesterday
after long illness at hor home, 204 East
Main Street Somcrville. n. j.. whence her
funeral services Will be held tomorrow
afternoon at $50 o'clock
JOHN FORTENBACHER, seventy seven.
a veteran of the Civil War. formerly a
restaurateur in the Eastern District of
Brooklyn. died Wednesday at his home
1919 Sterling Place. Brooklyn. He is sur
vived by his wife, Mrs. Katharine Forten-
bacher.
DAVID L. MILLS, sevcnty-fve. n build
ing contractor. died yesterday at his home
In North Plainteld. N. j. He is survived
by two sons, two daughters and Il brother.
FREDERICK j. SEELlG Democratic
County Committeeman OF the Fourth AS
sembly District In Brooklyn and prominent
in chartabc circles in that borough. died
Tuesday the icnoX Mn Hospital In this
city at the ago of sixty-four. He was a
retired wholesale milk dealer and lived at
l47 Hooper Street, Brooklyn. He is sur
vived by his wife, five and two
daughters
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SAMUEL GABRIEL.

Samuel Gabriel, head of the publish
ing house OF Samuel Gabriel G. Sons, 76
Fifth Avenue, died suddenly of heart
disease Wednesday night in the New
Rochelle Hospital. MY Gabriel was
we'll known in the publishing business.
and only recently moved to the
suburbs, after long having been resi-
dent OF this city. He was born here
sixtythrce years ago.
Funeral services will be held at 10
o'clock this morning from the Funeral
Church, Broadway and Sixty-sixth
Street, and burial will be in Cypress
Hills Cemetery. Mr.. Gabriel is sur
vived by his wife, Mrs. Annie Louise
Gabriel, and three sons-Arthur, Bar
tram and Gilbert
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WILLIAM ADLEN SMITH JR.

GRAND RAPIDS. Mich, April %
William Alden Smith jr., general man
agcr of The Grand Rapids Herald" and
only son OF foymer United States Sen
ator William Alden Smith, died last
night following an operation several
days ago. Mr.. Smith was in the avia-
tion service during the war.
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JOHN r. LENAHAN

John Tower Lenahan, one of the
leading lawyers in northeastern Penn
sylvania, died Wednesday at Wilkes
Barre, Pa, at the age Of sixty-eight.
For forty years he had been the Dem
ocratic leader in Luzerne County, and
was elected to Congress in 1906, but
declined denomination.
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MRS. CORA NELSON

FINDLAY, Ohio, April 29.-Mrs.
Cora Nelson, seventy three years old,
FOR many years d popular actress on
the American stage, died at the Han
Geek County Home here to-day. She
was the leading woman in "Rip Van
Winkle' y The French Spy" "Ingomar'
and many other nlavs
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g. Obituary
MICHAEL e. TRACY

NEW HAVEN, Conn, April 90
Michael f. Tracy, seventy, one of the
eight men who founded the national
order of the knights of Columbus in
this city in 1882, died last night at his
home in Orange. He is survived by
his wife, three daughters and son.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-30
MRS. HELEN c. BOSTWICK

MRS. HELEN c. BOSTWICK
\ Mrs. Helen c. Ford Bostwick, widow
of J. A. Bostwick, one of the founders
Of the Standard Oil Company, died
Wednesday at her home, 800 Fifth Ave
nue.. She was the daughter of Smith
Ford, Of Yonkers, and was married in
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LucAings, Bender & Schultz, Inc.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. & Show Rooms
atl Amsterdam Ave. Tel. 3?3 Riverside
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CLAUS WREDEN

Claus Wreden, eighty-nine. former
treasurer of St. Paul's Lutheran
Church, South Fifth and Rodney
streets, Brooklyn, died on Wednesday
of acute bronchitis at his home, 1911
President Street, Brooklyn.
Mr.. Wreden was born in Wollingst
in the Kingdom of Hanover, and came
to this country seventy-three years
ago, settling in Brooklyn. He was
rmerly the head of the old firm of
Wreden, Ring e. Co., commission mer-
chants in Brooklyn. He had been a
member of st. Paul's Church more
than fifty years and was one of the
builders Of the present edifice. He
was one of the organizers and for
many years a trustee of the old Ger
man Savings Bank (now the Lincoln
Savings Bank) at Broadway and
Boerum Street, Brooklyn.
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GEORGE SCHLERETH

George Schlercth, fifty-nine, for
many years engaged in the upholster-
ing business in Plaintield, N. j., died
Wednesday in the Muhlenburg Hospi-
tai in that city. He is survived by
his wife and q hrnther
New-York tribune., 1920-04-30

HOBBIE-Mary Alice Hobbie. Funeral at
SIS Heller Parkway. Newark, on Satur-
day, at 80 p. III. Interment at Totem
vile. Staten island. =
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KELLEY-Austin Price Kelley. husband OF
Eliza beth Willard Kelley Funeral Fri
day at 10 o'clock, AT st. James's Church,
Madison aV ard list ST.
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KEN E.. widow of Leo.
pold Louis Kemlage. Services at $50
Clinton av.. Kingston, n. Y. on Friday
1t o'clock. lnterment in Rockand
Cemetery, Sparkhin. y. Y.
The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1920-07-01

will show. Three of them are made
on wire frames and one has light
straw braid foundation. The wire
frames are first covered with organdie
or net or other thin, sheer fabric, but
to fit the brim and crown, and 1t may
not. be necessary to cover the upper
brim with this foundation material.
Hemstitching is used where the top
and side crown pieces are Joined and
edges have picot finish or very mar
row silk or straw braids may be
stitched to them. Sashes of narrow
ribbon or of organdie or of the same
fabric as the hat, provide the trim
ming. One of the hats pictured Is
made of white taffeta and has brim
facing of navy blue braid. There is
a little altline embroidery on the
crown of this hat, done with navy blue
embroidery silk. Two hats of honey
comb batiste, have soft edges extend
ing beyond the edges of the frames,
one with collar and bow Of satin rib
bon and one with little silk en-
broidery on scarf end used for Its
decoration. y They are all white.
The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1920-07-01

a S THE gorgeous peacock feathers
L " and the royal purple iris have
dainty sisters that are pure white, so
the coiorful hats of early summer are
followed by replicas in white or in the
paleSt tints, when July and August
bring their burning skies. These with
other cool looking millinery, do not re-
place their predecessors, but are added
to midsummer headwear to be used
when anything that is cool, and looks
cool, is a refreshing sight. There Is
nothing like white, and especially pure,
sheer white fabrics, for accomplishing
this purpose. Next to white, combna-
tions of white and navy blue, white
and black, white and beige, or tan,
are depended upon for these crisp hats
that defy the hottest day that comes.
Most of these simple fabric hats are
made of organdie, flowered voile,
honey-cOmb batiste, taffeta and geOr-
gette in combination With very pill
able and light straw braids. They are
not beyond the ability of the average
needle woman who likes to undertake
hat making at home. as glance at
the group of four hats pictured above