Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 4, 1909, Page 53

THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: APRIL Styles in Men’s Hats Not Much Change in Bhape but Groen Will Prevail in Color—Pearl Fedoras Still Correct for the Early 8pring Days—The New Trooper Style is Popular. NY old color, so long as it's green,” is the color which suits men best in the way of hats for the spring of 1908, but Omahans have not so far taken kindly to the green headgear as fantistie, dressy, conservative and the real sports have In other cities. This s the opinion of Omaha hatters, some of whom have traveled widely in search of hats, as thére ls a hat famine this year and the dealer who gets next to @ complete line of new hats has to hunt for them in out-of-the-way places and in factorfes which have been enabled to run and make a season's stock regardiess of complications arising between some east- ern manufacturers and the labor unions. The green hats are in all shades, but keep well to the three popular shapes, known as the “trooper,” the and the soft walking hat or fedora style, with & turned down brim, bound or raw edgcs. Shade of green vary from the real bright “grass green”’ to those which might bo sald to be “stone green” or ‘“olive green.” In Los Angeles-and in New Yor! in Kansas City, St. Louis and Minneapolis; in fact, from “Omaba to Idaho and from Buzzard's Bay to Broken Bow,” the green hats are selling well, just hats as came in last year, but the Omaha buyers are a little slower to buy green hats than elsewhere. Hatters ascribe this to the fact that spring is scarcely nere, but will be within & week, and when the lawns and trees are green; when the sprinklers are out and cherry blossoms appear, the men will buy green hats. Another thing is confronted by the hat- ters. Men's hats don't change in style and shape as radically as women's hats. “Change the shape of that man's' hat apd he will not buy a new one, but will have the old one cleaned up or wear it as it s, sald a hatter, pointing to a young man measuring the width of the brim on a new hat to see If it was wider or narrower than the brim of the old one. ‘“Phey want something 8o near like the hat they have been wearing that it is hard to Introduce changes or even new colors. The hatter who advertises that he made the hat your fathers wore seems to sell the most hats.” For this reason the trooper hats are so such popul They are a creation of the Spapish-American war. Theodore Roose- velt always had his picture taken in one of them when he was colonel of the Rough (Riders—brim turned up sharply on one side and turned down just as sharply on the other, the top crushed in, creased as It were. There's a “moose” colored hat which is popular In the three soft shapes. It's a work of the hat maker's art, because it is sort of a neutral or changeable color which blends with most any of the spring suits. Put it on with a green suit and the moose hat very promptly becomes brown. Wear it with a brown sult and the moose becomes a green. It's a useful hat, look- ing well even with a black or blue suit, but blending better with ,the faney and novelty suitings. Pearl hats are popular for spring s usual. . There fs no hat which looks more like a sign of changing seasons than pearl. It I8 just as sure to appear each spring as the feelings are to get contrary and as prevalent as wanderlust. The pearls are trimmed with black bands, or bands the color of the hats. A new one has a very dark shade of blue which blends well with the pearl, Almost all & with fancy wilk hats, A new combination appeared in Omaha inds of hats will be bands—except the derby worn and when the spring lines were opened. It's a “set” consisting of a fancy hat band, with belt and necktie to match. These come In six colors at least and as the season advances some other shades may be found. They will be worn when the straw hats appear—by the real airy dressers and those who go to the lakes and watering places. Panama hats are said to have seen their day, but will yet be worn by many when the straw hat season opens. They have undergone a radical change. They will not be broad-brimmed thie season, but smail, with creased crown and resembling the felt hat styles. Silk hats have a medium bell front and sides. The, correct thing In straw hats will be the broken brald, low crown and wide btim. Many of them will have fancy bands; the black band will always be in good form, but the tendency is to some- thing striped in the way of bands. Few changes are being made In derby hats. For several years they have been tending to become more sguare of crown. Omaha dealers have the coming style. It is a “sugar cone" shape, tapering more with medium full brim and sharp edges. One of the leading hat manufacturers has Substantial Value of style, fit and material depends on the workmanship—the basis {copyrignt, 199, clusive “by L. ADLER, { BROS. & CO. of our reputation. substantial of The most our tailoring lies beneath the surface. Our clothing is not ‘“‘the cheap- est” but it 1s the most econom- ical to buy. The seal Dame Fashion places on men’s and young men'’s clothes is a copy of our trade mark. Many a jew- eler can build W best watches, a watch—but the like the best of clothes, are made by the great Our makers. clothes are the “Totally Different” and are ex- coat from us. to $15. in style and goods. So buy your Easter suit or over- Prices $40 down Our popular sellers are / $18, $20, $22.50 and $25. VOLLMER’S Expert Clothes Fitters 107 South Sixteenth Street put this style on the market this ye though the hatters say it is just one y In advance, as the change is a | radical and the square worn for many months. There are hats, hats which givo men ty t more than a few s.illinge for & ha men's hats, besides the silk hats, ¢ £ to $15. They the “western hats,” or the light beaver hats known a fev Ago as “cowboy hats,” and somowhat sembling a sombrero, but with silk bands These hats have been getting better quality, but remain unchanged as regar the shape and style. re just the shape which manufacturers made for the fathers of the present generation of hat buyers. The ordinary ‘“eastern hat" is a § creation. Omaha dealers have hats of the same style made by a standard maker for ) and $12. One hatter who sells these hats extensively has a hat especially for his trade, which is th quality “‘western hat" made. It $16. The $15 hats are worn out in t try towns of Nebraska, out the state where there is nothing but clean dust soil them; and few of the western hats s to the Omaha trade cost as they are soon ruined smoke of a city. RARE HISTORICAL DOCUMENT Original Articles in Burgoyne’s Sur- render to Gates to Be Sold. crowns will yet very ordinary-looking re years in made fine in mor by than § the dust and An historlcal document of extraordinary Interest and value is to be sold shortly in New York. It s, 50 it Is said, the genuine articles of surrender of the British genera), John Burgoyne, to General Horatio Gates at Saratoga, October 17, 1777, The document is a follo sheet, both sides of which are covered by the thirteen di visions, comprising the articles of sur- render. It is signed by "J. Burgoyne,” but all the rest of the document seems to be In the handwriting of General Gates, 1t is endorsed “'Articles of Convention," to soften the humillation which Burgoyne suffered In having to surrender to the American for There is also an auto- graph statement of the number of the sol- diers who surrendered, viz: 2,442 British, 2,108 foreign and 1,200 Tories.” The statement is made by some writers that Burgoyne started from Three Rivers on his ill-fated expedition with 8,00 men, but H. M. Stephens, an English authority, who had access to all the matter relating to Burgoyne's march, defeat and surrender, states that the . British general left Three Rivers with only 6,400 soldiers and 64 In- dians, which force was reduced to 5,000 men when the Battle of Saratoga was fought. The endorsement on the document gives also the number of British and allies killed, wounded and deserted. The articles read that Burgoyne's troops are to march out of their camps with the honors of war; that the artillery and arms are to be left, the latter to be plled by word of command from thelr own efficers; that a free pas- sage to Great Britain is to be granted to Burgoyne's army upon condition of the men not serving again In America. during the war, The document ends as follows: ““These articles are to be mutually signed and exchanged tomorrow morning at 9 o'clk, (sie) and the troops under Lt. G. B, are to march out of their entrenchments at 8 o'clk. p. m. The signature Burgoyne” is slightly blotted, the document is somewhat time stained, its edges have been strengthened and a few words are missing. It 1s as if the most important his- torieal document ought to be in the United States government library. but gets it will undoubtedly have to pay a very big price, as very seldom indeed is such a chance offered to the autograph collectors of this country to secure so valuable an autograph.—New York Times. whoever 4, Fashions in Furnishings \ Shirts Will Have Glad Colord for Those Who Like and Ties Are to Match the Stockings in Shade for the Fastidious Dressers Among Mankind this Season. N THE pringtime tures in the blithe and gladsome certaln male lower animal world don u gay and varfegated plum- the effect of which is over- whelming on the females of the In the highest order of creation mankind has not been addicted to very billllant colors in apparel, at least in Anglo-Saxon replon-. This is for age, a time, however, at least something of a past chapter, for never before have men had an opportunity to select hats from 80 many colors. And the same s true of other portions of his attire. Neck- tles, shirts, underwear and suits—there are other than the old conventional som- ber shades in all. The green hat, first scoffed at and se- cretly admired by the same persons, has held its own and will be seen again this spring. Likewise the brown soft hat and derby is In order and the gray. The fashion for matching colors has helped out the hat maker. Men wearlng grecn, gray and brown suits will pick out hea gear to conform and those who do not wear the new sults of these lighter colors will in many cases buy hats of the newer hue and abandon the stiff, old olack bowler. The favor for the same color course, extended to neckties and four-in-hands, tucks and gray and green silk are to every harberdasher's window The four-in-hand holds its as for a long time. It Is wider ends this spring and has, of and bows Ascots of be seen in in Omaha. supremacy, with result made as a looks more attractive heretofore, though the difference the ends are covered by the vest important. The conformity of tie color of hose worn is now high Importance, although achleve such stmilariti with utter scorn by rugged men, It is the evolved unmade up than when 18 not to the regarded as of the effort to looked upon upstanding, 1s most shirtmaker who really Las some of the prettiest offerings of the spring, and some of the ugliest, t00. There are some genuinely pretty fabries In black and white and some sim- ply hideous. It depends largely upon the width of the black lines. The have feots. yellow been shirts which replaced by The ruffled shirt very newest firat appeared less startling ef- is positively the but it will have a stiff fight to make before it becomes well estab- Ushed. The shirtmakers are attacking somewhat cautiously, and at first the frill is being put on only the shirts for full evening dress. This ruffle is no mean affair. It is bullt double, one layer on top of another, the under one being about two inches wide and the other slightly nar- Tower, The under ruffle is side plaited and Ironed flat against the bosom of the shirt while the other is fluted. The bosom Is of regulation stiffness. A standing collar {s worn with this shirt slightly turned back at the front edges the full width of the collar. Japanese silk 1s one of the favorite stuffs for the more cxpensive shirts. It comes made up in pale yellows, pale pinks and in white. Stocks will be worn somewhat with these, the stocks made of madras and different kinds of cotton goods and of course in white. A vigorous fancy and a predilection for color has had its highest development this spring with regard to men's hose. There is almost nothing which has not been thought out in fancy silks and stripes. One make popular this spring is & two- tone affair for Instance black with a back- ground of yellow. To all intents and pur- poses it is a black sock as the ribbing only spreads out when once the sock Is on the foot disclosing the background tone of yellow or what ever color Is chosen The faddist is wearing & monogram on his hose as well as on his underwear. The white pocket handkerchlef canmot be displaced for evening wear and colored ones for daytime are having a battle to get a good footing. Most of the expensive ones have two colors woven ltito the borders which are wide and much varied Some handkerchiefs actually to be seen here have pink and green designs in del cate shades. Others are yellow and gold. Medalllon handkerchlefs occasionally seen last year show larger figures this year to make room for monograms. As to underwear one can buy almost anything from 80 cents a garment up and buy almost any desired quality or color. The union sult greatly as it is praised by those who have tried it does not gain the liking of the general. Underdrawers of knee length which mold wonderfully well last summer will do the same this. year, the advertising being efficacious and the comfort of the garment undeniabe. Low shoes are of course the thing as 800n as weather permits, Skill in making theso has been increasing and the new styles not very different as to toe will [ fit more snugly over the instep and round the top. The important thing for keeping shoes In shape i to tree them at night, but this is not done by one In a hundred men chiefly because the trees are not easily purchasable. The craze for green has Invaded the realm of shoes also and there are other novel shades, particularly of tans. The white shoe will be seen In the evenings a little. Electricity and Coal. There 1s a popular delusion that the em: ployment of electricity 18 reducing the dé~ mands made upon our coal measures, but Frederick Sauard, editor of the Coal Trade Journal and an authority on the subject, says that the trolley or electric street rall- road service' business Is only fifteen to twenty years old and is already consuming 12,000,000 tons of coal annually, and. the de- velopment of electric lighting in this cdun- try has created a demand for 10,000,000 tons a year. The olaims made for eclectricity as a waver of coal can b made good In Some Instanees, but investigation probably would develop the fact that the application of that source of energy to the usos of man has on the whole increased the demand.for mineral fuel. Easter Gloves Easter Shirts Easter Hats All Colors U Ul \| ji- To Furnish the Best Hat on Earth for $2.50 109 South 16th 8t., Omaha Neckweai P Easter Vests Easter Hats All Styles