Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-04-27

one afternoon recently and concluded 10
hours later. \ Pittsb1rg man whose
the player and he lost $4,000 to the
bank. The game was played in what
is a known as a club on West Forty
second street. Play began about l
o clock in the afternoon. Under ordl-
nary circumstances the limit in the house
is 5000 To what is known az double
cards" and 500 to ceases. No attempt
was made at first TO raise this limit. At
q O'Clock the house was winner to the
amount of 5000, and special arrange
ment was made for an increased limit.
Five thousand dollars worth of chips
We're purchased, and at a. IN. the loser
turned over cash 10 me amount of sew
eral thousand dollars and drew his check
for $4,000, which was cashed next day.
Roland Il. MolineuX. under sentence of
death at Sing Sing for, the murder Of
Mrs. Kate Adams, spends his time now
in composition. Page after page Of man
usc1lpt is turned cut daily. but on what
subject no one outside his family knows
Each Monday his devoted mother, who
has again taken up her residence near the
grim old prison. visits him, ana when She
bids him goodby she takes away the man
uScript that has accumulated during the
week. Most of the forenoon is devoted
by the prisoner to his writing, while the
afternoon as a rule finds him browsing in
Shakespeare. in which he has been an
eager student. or thumbing the leaves Of
some popular novel. Prison life is telling
on MolineuX. He is less careful Of his
appearance than formerly, talks but little
with fellow prisone~s and is not 50 cheer
full. His weight has dropped from $40 to
137 pounds. His young wife visits him
every two or three weeks and he receives
a letter every day from his father, Gen
M0lineuX.
The dapper little English waiter. Ed
ward Lederer by name. who is suing
Sherry, the caterer, for $1,000 worth Of
tips AT the rate of 500 a week. is very
angry because the secret of his tip-get-
ting had got into print 1T is awful,
said he. mournfully. 1T will Just rnin
the business. People will think that |,
who have been twenty-five years in il.
must own block of houses by this time
The minister will say to me, 'Lederer, /
always thought You were an honest man,
but what bluff you must have made to
tell such stories Then Lederer's pro
fcSSlOnal pride conquered. and he ad-
mltted that for seven months in the
year-from September to April-a smart
waiter could make 500 a week in tips
al the Waldorf-Astoria, Sherrys. or any
hrst-class places. The regular wages
basis are: Waldorf, $32 a month: Sher-
rvs, $50; Savarin, SOS: Delmonico's.
80. Sometimes the walters make $40 a
day extra.
julia Marlowe's crusade against rag
tlme music, which was not made for
advertising purposes, threatens 10 extend
10 other theaterS besides the Criterion.
Miss Marlowe's censorship over the entr'-
acte orchestral numbers at the latter
mousse Is established beyond peradventure.
Her hrSt protest against the class of
music played evoked a passing smile from
the leader, and, incidentally. -tlle' house
When she fiourished cable
gram from Charles Frohman, however.
she pleased, Miss MarlOwe did all the
smiling. The actress declares that
rag-time' * unsteady indecent" She
stood medley of prevailing melodies"
as long as she could and finally sat down
III her dressing room and made out a list
of standard compositions and handed it
10 the leader as an ultimatum. For the
sake Of musical decency." she wrote on
the list, the entire entr'acte selection
must be revised Now the orchestra
plays fragments from Wagner. Beethoven
and List, and Miss Marlowe is salts
fed
\ big man with a list to Starboard and
n jag framed in Il long raglan overcoat
planted himself in East Thirty-fourth
street near Fifth avenue, the other
afternoon and scattered money on the
cobbleStoncS, II" had won pot Of
money in the Aqueduct races. and after
spending Il few dollars for drinks felt
inclined 10 throw the rest away. After
distributing small change to 100 or moro
newSboyS, much as farmer would
throw corn Ia his chickens, the big man
lah0riouSly mcarthed huge roll Of
Eieenbacks from the raglan, and pccline
them off one by one threw a dozen of
them into the air. Men now took chances
on getting part Gf the distribution. One
ragged fellow swuoped down on treas
ury note and started for the nearest sal
Icon on dead run. Several people said
they saw a policeman pick M bill and
make of without interfering with the
donor. At last a humane detective from
the Wnldorf-AStoria happened along and
kindly kidnapped the liberal stranger. whc
still had few bills loft. much 10 the
disgust Of The crowd,
Anchored = the North river is a grim
white hullcd vessel with n single fat fun
mel painted gray ana two rows of square
men-of-war She is the French cruiser
Dusuay- Trouin, with seventy-eight naval
cadets from the National academy mt
breSt, and for the next eight days there
will hc little work done in the local
French colony. The Duguay- Trouin is
enc of the most interesting warshipS
calling here in recent years. aud being
of a style of marine architecture made
unta>htonahle hX the Carnegie armOr-
plate works will be throngcd with sight
SecrS, Her cadets are completing
year : cruise. which Will cuUtlc them To