And one Sunday afternoon a man who wanted to catch a train crushed his
hat in a taxicab. He could find no place to buy another. The disappointed
traveler handed his battered headgear to the check boy and within a short
time the hat was made to look like new. "If a commuter suddenly receives
a last-minute invitation to a formal social affair," said one manager today,
"and cannot find time to make the trip home and back in time, he need not
worry we can fix him up. Wa do it every day." In fact, anything and
everything is somewhere within the walls of the modern hotel.
Antics of Gale Reveal Popular Spring Tints
W YORK.What is the windiest spot in New York? This question is
asked in a spirit of levity. Recently a wind expert made extensive
and careful researches with a brand-new wind measurer. His conclusion
was that all sections of the city are
pretty windy, but some are more so.
N. B.They are wearing a lot of
pink ones this year.
The Park place and Broadway cor
ner was visited first. The wind that
whistles about it has a peculiar, lift
ing action that whirls hats and papers
hundreds of feet straight upon into
the sky.
Until the other day the altitude
record was held by a panama hat
owned by a Newark barber. It reached
the twenty-fourth floor of the large building there one windy day last June.
This day, however, a large straw hat was blown from a girl's head to the
twenty-sixth story, and almost to the twenty-seventh.
At the Whitehall building where the United States weather bureau counts
the raindrops and reads the wind meter, the gale was 76 miles an hour.
N. B.Pale yellow ones are also being worn extensively.
