Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-05-04

the outcome The hounds couldn't follow
the scent and the run was abandoned.
Negro walters are beginning TO be dis
placed by white servants at summer no.
tells, according to Albert X. Keen. who
conducts the Manhansett house at Shell
ter Island. He said that he had made
arrangements TO change his entire force
Of eighty men from black TO white for
the coming season. This he said was
departure from the service of the hotel
for the past ten years. but other hotels
were doing it and he felt that he must.
Henry Lewis Morris, descendant of
| Gouverneur Morris, one of the signers of
| the Declaration of Independence, has
| closed the contract TO buy the property
| at the southwest corner of One Hundred
| and Forty-ninth street and Third ave
nue., III the Bronx. agreeing to pay &c.,
600 for the land and two buildings there
| On. Lewis Morris. father of the prospective
| purchaser, sold the same plot of ground
| III 1852 10 John Nimphius. country gro
Ger, for $3.50. In the forty-nine years
| which have elapsed since then the prop
| erty has increased in value 500, S45.
| Through the Broadway crowd the other
| afternoon wandered a pale, stability
| dressed man, with board about two feet
/ SQUARE uuuS dFbuUu MS meek nv Il cora,
| On the board was a crudeiy painted sign
| with the legend: Il want work" Ev-
| cry few people spoke To him. and 10
many of them he told the same old story
IA starving wife and children and no
! employment since last fall. I've tried
| all other ways of getting work." he said
| TO one passerby, perhaps this may help
me" A hundred or more persons stopped
him, but no one offered TO help him 10 a
| pace.
With the passing of the old stock ex-
| change, stories are being retold by the
old brokers of famous panics and reverses
that brought scenes of excitement. Most
memorable was the panic of 1873. when
the stock exchange remained closed from
| September % to September so. Other
notable days included the Black Friday
Of September "A 1869; also the echo here
of an English BLACK Friday" in 1866:
the break in the market on news of Pres
ident Garfeld's assassination in 1881 the
| famouSly eventful week of October 9.
1871. following the Chicago fire. and the
Grant Il Ward failure in 1884.
The Life in the Desert" exhibit for
the Pan-American exposition at Buffalo.
consisting of twelve camels. twelve
Arabs and two sacred sheep. arrived on
the Mediterranean and New York
steamship POcahOntas ON Tuesday. The
Arabs were of the tribe of Aissa. expert
enced torture dancers who work off their
religious enthusiasm by whirling about
until exhausted The sheep were ordi-
nary in appearance, but sacred by decree
| Of the Arabs. The camels We're double
bumped. and when the party left the Po-
cahontas wore double-humped waterproof
macklntoshes to keep off the rain
Private prizefglrs may enter the list
of high-priced luxuries obtainable ONLY nv
| ipn ala
. Rourke, he of the highly illuminated
| broadway saloon and likewise of pucil-
iStic fame, says he has offered .Jeffries
and Rubin $4,000 to fight in private
He represents several wealthy men who
want priZetightS to order, without the dis
comforts Of a public ring exhibition
They are abundantly able to pay all ex-
penSeS. and plan to issue invitations for
the event to their friends The manly
art, so successfully exploited by John
L., seems to be getting into the vaudc-
vile class.
Leland Chubb, familiar figure in
Brooklyn notes.-the Clarendon, Argyle
and st. GeOrge-who spent 100000 in Il
few years upon host of those who
while 1t lasted posed as his friends was
sent to the penitentiary for one year by
4 .Jastice Hurd far the, thaft ct $500 Not
a friend appeared in court in Chubb'S be-
half. save his wife, She sat weeping
quietly at the rear of the courtroom. The
boon companions of Chubb's golden days
! had left him to his fate. Chubb pleaded
| guilty of taking rents he had collected for
a real estate owner, for whom he went
| to work at a salary of $50 week after
he had lost his share of the estate of his
father, Washington banker
The marriage of Francis J. Brugiere
to Miss Lila Converse, an actress. in
San Francisco, is of interest in New
York, where the Brugere family has
many relatives. Francis j. Brugiere is
the son of the late Emile \. Brugiere
who made his home in San Francisco
He was relative of Jules Brugicre of
this city. 1t was at the old Brugiere
mansion in the first half of the last cen
fury that famous fancy ball was given,
one of the first of its kind which had
ever taken place in New York. 1t is re-
ferred to in the late Ward McAllsters
book, Society as l Have Found It."
Miss Convere is said To come from a
good Southern family, and to be a very
charming young woman.
Numerous instances have come to light
of Stock exchange brokers who are
breaking down under the strain of the
protracted heavy market This is nota-
bly, true of the so-called specialists" who
handie enormous commission orders.
largely from fellow members. in the stock
Several Of these brokers have admitted
that they are now scarcely able to keep
track Of their orders and seem to fear Il
bodily collapse. Neither Of the two spe-
cialists in United States Steel stock was
On the floor Friday James Boyd. who
has been the specialist in Western Union
for over twenty years. gave up that work
at the beginning of the week. In several
instances specialists i'll other stocks have
broken down physically and have been
compelled to cease executing orders.
When the bunch of vauderviilians from
TuniS and Algeria. with the cames, were
unloaded from the steamer PocahontaS.
on their way 70 the Beautiful Orient"
az the Pan-American exposition, the Jug
gers and dancers gathered on the dock
| and viewed with open-uouthed wonder
the scenes about them. Sheik Hassim
has been a great traveller. He conVcrSeS
in French and German. but to all Of the
performers the English tongue is un-
| known. While the reporter was talking