Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-08-11
EMPRESS HAS CANCER.
Queen Vlctoria's Daughter Fred
erick Very I'll and Her Life
EeSpaired Of.


London. Aug. 4.-'The Kings F,;,.,
OF George IL. seemingly taints MI +h.
Hanover blood The death az III
Queens most accomplished son. tho
Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-for h..
could lead an orchestra, play the violin
catch salmon with Scotch exuert "a.
sail ship-has caused much solemn tall
at court about the maladies of the otbar
members Of the royal family. Nntwitb
standing the denial issuing from Berlin
1t Is quite certain that Empress FreI
erlck. the Queens eldest and most h,.-
loved daughter. is afflicted with cancer
and that great specialists consider heT.
lie matter Of months. She is too in
to leave the castle at Fripdrichsbnf nna.
Homburg, fer her customary summer Wis
It to England. Queen Victoria, knowing
her desire to possess an English home
gave her the White Lodge at Riehmnni
last year. But she will probably never
be able to occupy it.
Hunbert's Interest in Anarchists.
Scotland yard, in averring that Bresci
the assassin of King Humbert of Italy
was never in England, is understood TO
allege that the instigatOr of the crime i
probably a man who made no secref of
his intentions cGncernings high Italian
personages," while in London several
months ago He was so closely watched
while here that he departed for the
United States and he was last heard of
in Paterson, n. ]. King Humbert. dur
ing a private visit here in 1892 took eX-
trGordinary interest in the slums and in
the Anarchist haunts, where had been
planned Orsini's plot to kill Emperor
Napoleon III. with bomb and the
Cars assassination. While visiting
one Anarchist resort his majesty noticed
a H.. -. l.
prietor of the place, representing an An
archist hurting lawyers, churchmen.
statesmen and capitalists into Hades,
The proprietor gave the King a copy Of
this picture, not knowing who his visit
or was. The London editor of an Ital-
ian republican journal, who was stand
ing by, suggested to the Kings guide
what strong resemblance his friend
bore to the King of Italy. His majesty
also visited at night several of the most
wicked resorts in London. incognito and
accompanied by one companion.
Rapid Transit in London.
Londoners have been revealing this week
in their first experience with modern rap
id transit as furnished by the new Cen
trail London Electric Underground syS-
tem-"the 2-penny tube" as some of the
papers call it, Eighty thousand persons
have daily learned for the first time that
it is no longer necessary to waste two
hours on an omnibus in order to reside
FIVE or six miles from their place of huSi-
ness. England never seems to have
recovered from the primitive idea" said
an American electrical engineer. that Il
railroad train is not stage coach. Their
methods in regard to rOlling-stock con
struction have never. till within the pass
few months, departed one iota from those
in vogue when stages were the only
means of transportation. Pullman cars
~ Ill, ~
of the Pullman, on many roads; but
until last Monday an electric-lighted and
electric-propelled corridor train running
porcelain-lined stations was as great an
innovation to the London public as Alad-
din's lamp was to the Arabans."
Ought to be Popular.
Albert T. johnson of New York, who
has built electric railroads all over the
United States. said to a representative of
the Associated press, before leaving here
for America a few days ago: Il see no
reason why electric railways should not
be as popular in London as in New York
and Chicago. 1t is evident that many OF
them must be underground: but when
see blockades in the streets an hour after
the theaters have closed it seems
shame that these crowds should not be
relieved. The modern electric car can ga
anywhere in London that Il bus can.
will guarantee that American construct
ors could deliver these great crowds t.
their distant homes by electric railway
hours before they are able to reach them
now. Patrons of the London Central
discovered this week that omnibus
which week ago were packed to their
capacity, are running now empty. More
over, houserents at the termini of the
lines are increasing and the public are
riding in cars well lighted and we'll ven
tilated for the first time in history.
Americans in London.
w. X. Vanderbilt is understood to b.
i'll Europe for the purpose of establishing
an extensive racing stable. lie is going
to AK next week
A number of prominent Americans arr
still in London and country houses.
American yachts which had been cruis-
ing in Norway waters and elsewhere are
arriving at Cowes, among them being the
Norma, with Mrs. Goelet aboard Flu
gene Higgins Varkna and the Alfredo.
owned by Joseph e. Widener. will be nj
COwes next week. Sir Thomas Upton
is cruising on board the Erin therea bouts.