1911: To make city safer, Syracuse considers taking on a public menace: ‘bristling hat pins’
Updated Jan 28, 2021;
Posted Jan 28, 2021
Hatpins dating from the 1890 s - 1920 s, ranging from $18 to $150 in price, were on sale at the 2002 Madison-Bouckville Antiques Show.
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With his colleagues snickering from their seats and his own cheeks blushing, Syracuse alderman George Fearon, the youngest member of the Common Council, pressed on.
It was Jan. 30, 1911 and Fearon was about to introduce a piece of legislation which he thought would help make the crowded streetcars, sidewalks, and elevators of Syracuse safer.
The time had come, he reasoned, to shorten the length of Syracuse women’s hatpins.