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Show TALK OP HATS, HERE THEY ARE Specialist in Headgear Says This Year's Derby Will Plainly Plain-ly Mark the Man Who Has Bought Newest. Frank E.. O'Brien, knight of the grip, who has been representing Freeman Free-man Bros, of New York in the inter-mountain inter-mountain region for several years, dropped into Salt Lake yesterday, and while entertaining his friends in the Knutsford rotunda with the latest fiction fic-tion stories, also took occasion to say that there will be many new designs in hats and gloves this fall. These are Freeman . Bros. specialties, so Mr. O'Brien was equipped to speak of them from personal knowledge. He said: "This has been one of the bet seasons sea-sons I have ever had on the road. Merchants are buying carefully, taking nothing except what they believe they will be safe In ordering, but the country coun-try is growing, so is the trade of many of the merchants, and they need more goods to carry them through. "Why, if there was not any Immigration, Immi-gration, the West would double In population every twenty-five years, and should no new men go into the merchandising mer-chandising business at all, the old-established' old-established' stores would- double their volume cf trade. "But what I was going to say was this: In hats derby hats, for instance in-stance the nfw blocks have a little longer, or higher, crowns than a year ago, and the rims are narrower A radical contrast Is thus secured with the last year's blocks, so that the man who has a new derby hat on his head this fall will be at once recognized as having purchased the latest. "The man who purchases a soft hat does not have to be so careful about selections, as the telescope crown shape is going to be popular for another year. The new fall nnd winter goods are made in this shape, and also there are a dozen other swell styles from which men may select with the positive posi-tive assurance that all are correct in form." |