Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-03-09
N GAY NEW YORK.
Scenes and Incidents Of Everyday
Life IN the Paris of America. -

Henry Rosenberg, brother-in-Iaw of
oscar Hammerstein. purchased the Met
ropalls theater building, One Hundred
and Forty-seeond street and Third ave
nue., for $2T5,0O0. from the New York
Realty company. The building is four
story stone structure. For three years
past Mr.. Rosenberg was lessee of the
premises of which he now becomes pur-
chaser. He has been in the theatrical
business since 1889. and had n long ey-
perlence with Mr.. Hammerstein in the
management of the Harlem Opera house.
The famous mansion which 4. T. Stew
art reared rs Il residence for himself
more than quarter of Il century ago. at
the corner of Fifth avenue and Thirty
fourth street, which later was the home
of the Manhattan club, is to be torn
down, and the work of demolition has al
ready begun. The mansion cost over ST.
UWUO and it was sold as it stood last
Wednesday for IT'S estimated value as a
pile of secondhand building material.
The material will be sold piece by piece
for what it is worth as marble, stone,
iron and wood.
At a reunion of the Grant Family as
ISOLATION il tranSpired that Gen. ULYSSES
). Grant was a descendant of Asiatic pi-
rates, who existed prior to GOO b. c. At
least six members of the association in
Guiding Mrs. Mary Grant Cramer of East
Orange, y. j., a sister of Gen. Grant
who attended the reunion. were so in
formed. The celebration was in honor of
the 30Oth anniversary of the birth of
Priscilla Grant, who came to this coun-
try with her husband, Matthew Grant, in
1880. 1t was announced that there are
now in this country 1900 descendants of
the couple.
A 2-cent-a-night lodging house is one
of the new enterprises that came into
existence this winter, says a New York
correspondent of the Pittsburg CONNER
cal Gazette. 1t is down in Cherry street,
a thoroughfare which. 100 years ago.
was Il fashionable place of homes, but
nowadays is in the heart of the east side
tenement district, close to the East river
One cannot expect to obtain luxurious
accommodations for cents, but such as
they are they are always in demand
among men whose finances are at a low
ebb. Having paid your cents to a pow
erful-lOoklng young man at the front
door, you go upstairs into a large room
that covers the whole floor space of the
building.
The room is bare of furniture. except
for ropes stretched along IN parallel lines
about SIX feet apart and about a foot
from the floor. You see that a number
of men who have got there before you
are reclining on the bare floor, with their
heads supported by the ropes. That is
a 2-cent lodging. The old stager can
sleep in that position almost as comforta-
bly, as an ordinary person in a bed, from
all appearances. There is something in
getting the trick of it, but when once
one has accustomed himself to letting
the rope fit into his neck he can dream
away as calmly as if he were in a swell
room in an uptown hotel. 1t is said that,
at certain time in the morning, an al
tendant lO0sens the ropes at one end,
ad thus awakens all the dodgers at one
time, but | cannot testify to the truth of
that part of the entertainment.
Charlie" Gates, son OF john w. Gates.
the steel magnate, who recently paid SOL :
900 for a Stock exchange seat, was ini-
tia ted to membership the other afternoon.
Mr.. Gates appeared upon the floor of the
exchange during the closing hour. When
the brokers got at him and found after
tearing off one collar that he still had an
other they attacked him with vigor, and
soon discovered that he still had two
more They didn't leave much of them
or his raiment.