Show Hats That Pass in n the Night N A Tale of Wreck and Rescue I If Jr your hat your blows oft off while you ar an e riding Ming bid on ono of or the Saltair tr trains jus uia uld it a n smiling farewell and content conten yourself with th the knowledge uge that you yoi 1 ire I e helping to keep a brother rother alive all There are aie or jf r living a n. good man many queer mode modes s but hut a that of or Thomas Clinton a man lust just on the farther side I o of or mid the Ile Me age who lives lI about midway be bc- bo be Salt Lake and Saltair seems lo to the most unique yet ct encountered Eer livery Every morning morning- any n ol old time when he happens to wake ClInton up-ClInton walks In both directions from his c cabin on the thc desert looking for hats luau Ho Ile is not par par- what kind of or hat you lose be It straw Panama felt derby or anything else The They all look 1001 alike to this hat scavenger lIe Ho picks them up and when he gets time he lie brings them to Salt hand Lake Hero he takes them to secondS secondhand second second- S stores where he disposes of or them at at it second various prices Thc They cra a average e about f 23 C cents 11 S each cach to the thc nun In t fellow fellow- Somo Some QS Q'S ne no finds anus ten or fifteen hats along rJ tho the route which Indicates that he is making J. a n fat fairly a Iffy Ty good living JIvIng Did you ever eyer see sec a n hat g go o sailing e out through the coach Hn and then pass there there- the next day dav and find that hat gone gono And nd did dido you o wonder where It was L Well Clinton watches for or hats 1 is and he lie can best tell teB where the they went after aCter thc they struck the tho broun ground Sometimes the old fellow makes two trips over o the ground round In fn a a. i dB day ono one Ii i In Inthe n the morning mornin to get the hats that havo o fallen ore oft late In tho the afternoon an and a during durin the evening c and und In Jn tho the afternoon afternoon after after- noon to get et those which have left lef 1 heads head durin during the da tIa day Naturally lh his morning trip is tho the most productive as the men folks as a n rule lule do not g go EO goto o to the resort until In ht the afternoon o oat or r at night A 1 Source of ur JO Joy If IC you ou have traveled over 01 the thc road to and from the resort vcr very man many times tines you OU hare o doubtless seen at nt least ono one hat go sailing oft off through the tho air all while tho the train sped on You may havo have seen seena seclIn a n bunch bUllch of or young oun and middle-aged middle fellows fellows fel fel- el- el lows who arc feeling well and nd start a rough routh house and the first thing you ou know one of tin the crowd crowll grabs a hat belon belonging belonging- to someone else and out It goes g Into the air all And nd then as asa asa asa a general thing other hats follow as soon SOOIl as ns they can be snatched front from rom the tho 01 uI me uc victims Well those parties arc are the ones for or which Clinton yearns And er e every time lime he IP hears a bunch of ot men yelling and sinning singing as If thc they hare havo been loading up ip fair fairly I well on wet goods he be rolls roBs over oyer In his bed and figures on tho the number number num num- ber cr pf hits hints that will result Clinton has dono done this work for or four years cars lie Hc has 11 ll ed ell In his little cabin way half between Salt Lake and Salt dl Salty r for more than ten len years and owns a few tc sheep which are are- being tended U by hl his hll son aon on Clinton carne came to this region from frog the southern part dart of or the state wh when n hl h Ills wife died a about out 10 years a ago o and antI took tool up his homo home In a n little cabin cast east of or tin the c way halt switch Several times lines during his bis life liCe on th tho o desert donert out there he walked along th the railroad track The number of or hats hals some of or them new aid others giving 1 evidence of ot rough Tough usage o h by both sun and rain struck him as peculiar And then the tho hap happy thought struck him Idea lella ll Vork urk On Ihl ChIC Why h not collect those hats hat dally daily while his son was up lip in III the mountains mountain s tending ln sheep and nd bring bring- them to Salt Lake to sell It sounded good and tho the old man mall put ut tho the Idea into practice It was a paying I business from tram the tho start hind and two or three second hand stores In Salt Lake have been supplied b by him for years In his search for lost hats Clinton ton covers covers cov cov- ers a about out 16 or 18 13 miles daB dally daily He Ile doesn't Jot got all aU of the hats that are arc lost but he gets most of or them For throe months month In every ver year he walks up and down the tr track ne nearly every overy 11 day and reaps tho the harvest of or high life liCe or high nigh wilds When the wind blows Clinton smiles Tho The gale gall blowing through h tho alto open onen cars is certain to lii eat ct n n r. r four hn hero linto to that bat ore are not cal carefully guarded u rj i and t Clinton ton the h hat halt t conn connoisseur Is re- re l for his ills trouble |