| Show CANDIDATE HOSARTS DIRTY SHIRT Left in a St Louis Hotel and Torn to Pieces For Mementos When Garret A Hobart the Republican Repub-lican nominee for vicepresident left the Planters hotel he also left his shirt behind him and thereby hangs a tale Mr Hobart will probably not miss the shirt that he failed to keep on daring the excitement of political turmoil but if he should ever seek 5to recover it or ask where it is echo will answer Where If the New Jersey plutocrat was assured the electoral vote of every state in which a portion of his protective shirt reposes he would have a clinch on the vicepresi dency for the garment has been scattered scat-tered from Maine to California and from Alaska to the gulf and even into bloomin British Canada On the night of June 18 just after he had been nominated as the tail of the Republican kite Mr Hobart hurried to the Planters hotel He barred the door shaded the windows looked under un-der the bed and then far from the madding crowd he took off his shirt He threw the shirt In the closet The next morning like a plutocrat he put 011 a clean shirt and later started for New Jersey A few days afterward the chambermaid found the shirt in the closet She gave it to the head porter and sent it to the laundry In due time the bundle came back It lay uncalled for in the office until a few days ago when Chief Clerk Charles G Field had it opened He didnt try on the shirt but he nearly had d fit just the same On the collar ban in indelible letters were the words G A Hobart A comparison com-parison with the register showed that the inscription was in the handwriting of the vicepresidential candidate The news that Charley Field had Ho barts shirt spread like wildfire and every traveling man in the house made a raid on the office and secured apiece a-piece of the garment The last piece was given away last night and all that now remains is the little section of col lar band containing1 name Charlie Field wouldnt take money for it As sistant Clerk John Farris Smith sent another marked portion of the shirt to a friend In Toronto Canada Yester day the friend wrote him saying that the fragment had been framed and hung in the parlor of the Wanderers club the swellest bicycle club in Tor onto |
