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Show SCARF PIN COLLECTION. Odd red of SUB. I'rnmlnent Mew Tnrk fforletf Men. Collectors of scarf pins or tie pins, lo he more correct are one of the fntl. of New York men. The recent rnlilirry of Paul llllliert Theliaiitl by his valet revealed that Mr. Thebaud n. one who cultivated this hobby. "tin of the largest collections of tha kind was left some years ago by "Jlin-mlc" "Jlin-mlc" Wood, an eccentric bachelor, well known In New York society, who lived at the old New York hotel. Mr. Wood left nearly 500 pins, whlrh were distributed dis-tributed to various frl.'nds. Ha was a bachelor and a native of llaltlniore. Ills hair and whiskers were fiery red, anil for a long time he dyed them, making them almost supernatural and Mcphl.tophrlran lu their efTecL Bud-tlenly Bud-tlenly he gave up the deception, and afterward appeared with snow-white hair nutl slile appendants, lie waa always al-ways In love wllh the last society beauty, hut he would never propose, and be took dropout umbrage If any of them married. To one daughter of a socially prominent family, a famous beauty still, he had left a large sum In his will. On her marriage, however, ha managed to change the amount of ternea and tha punctuation point so that her dowry from him fell from thousands to hundreds not being Inclined In-clined to further express his dissatisfaction dissat-isfaction In a legal codicil. Wllllkm Cutting and Center Hitchcock Hitch-cock have collections of tha pins almost al-most as rstenslve as Is that of Mr. Thebaud. Many of these were given them at weddings at which they were ushers. |