1914-07-21aa

It seems that there was always something of interest noticed by city staff and the general citizen passing through Hamilton City Hall in 1914.

Sometimes the incidents were sad or troubling but on July 20, 1914 a noticeable occurrence was observed and commented upon by all who witnessed it, including a reporter with the Hamilton Times.

His article appeared under the headline, “She Stopped” ;

“There was a calamity this morning in the City Hall when an elderly lady, accompanied by a fair young damsel of about twenty-three summers, making her way towards the tax collector office, dropped her Chatelaine, and her younger companion stooped to pick it up.

“The young lady was dressed in a tight-fitting taffeta, and there was a sound of ripping when she attempted to recover the lost property, and evidently she considerably embarrassed, as they both made a hurried exit, the young lady wrapping around her the torn garment, even more tightly than was the intention of the fashionable dressmaker who had fitted her.

“Before leaving the hall, the older lady ‘phoned for a taxi, and the two were whirled away to their home where the disaster might be remedied”¹

¹ “She Stooped : And Had to Be Hustled Home in a Taxi”

Hamilton Times.  July 21, 1914