Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-09-21

Throughout his life he was a hard work
| er, although he did not spend so much
time at his business as his brother Phil
He placed the utmost confidence upon
his judgment of men," said Thomas A
Mcintyre of Mcintyre & Marshall. in
which firm Mr.. Armour was a special
partner, and Mr.. Mcintyre added: He
seemed to know by intuition whether a
man could be trusted. When Mr. Ar
mour believed in anyone he trusted that
person implicitly.
twenty-five years ago a man who han
died some Of the lighterage business of
| the Erie railroad found himself in debt
| to the amount of $4,000 because of the
sudden disappearance of his associate
Mr.. Armour said: Why don't you pay
your debtsT L can't do it now; / shall
when | can was the reply.
well, if you don't settle with your
creditors at once l shall,' Mr.. Armour
| sad, and he did.
THAT man died worth half million
dollars. Mr.. Armour knew he had the
elements of success in him.
The task of filing eleven teeth of
horse with gold and silver was finished
the other day. The horse was Anna. a
sorrel mare, owned by Jefferson Selig-
man, the banker. Anna is Mrs. Selig-
mans favorite saddle horse. Mr.. Seig-
man and his family are at Long Branch.
Anna is Il handsome animal. and has tax
en- first prize for saddle horses III the
! Madison Square garden horse show She
had not eaten for three weeks. The
| veterinary SURGEON who examined her
found that eleven of her teeth, five up-
per incisors and six lower ones, were I'M
! sound. He took a number of large
| drills, several other instruments, and sew
eral hammers, with a quantity of gold
and silver, to Long Branch, and began
the operation of cleaning out the cavi-
| ties and filling them. Cocaine was ad-
miniStered to her. Her legs were not
tied and she stood during the entire OPP
GRAFTON.
When Fraeulein Hedwig Lange, who
| was the reading woman at the Irving
| Place theater, where the members OF
| the cast are. all Germans, sailed away
here last June she was plain fraeuiein.
! When she came back the other day on
| the steamer Koenigen IuiSe she was
the Baroness Ernest CarOlrustov Wran-
| gle. While abroad she met the baron.
1t was case of love at first sight and
Il speedy marriage.
The steamship Perugia of the Anchor
| me 5 Mediterranean service reached this
| port on Tuesday on her maiden trip.
| One of the peculiar things about the
! Perugia is that special attention is paid
| 10 the culinary department and that all
| the dishes dear to the heart of the Ita-
| ian VIII he provided ON each voyage 1t
is only natural to suppose that good
supply of spaghetti and garlic will ac-
company each voyage.
! The North German Lloyd liner Werra
| arrived in port on her last trip. On
! her return to Genoa she will be turned
| over to Italian parties who have pur-
| chased her. No one seems to know just
what her future will be.
! The Lain of the North German Lloyd
line brings to New York for the one hun
| dred and seventy-seventh time Capt Carl
| fohle, the commander Of the vessel In
other words, the veteran captain has lust
completed the first half of his one hun
dred and seventy-seventh round trip
| When he gets back to Bremen he will
retire from the sea and try to spend
! the remainder of his days privately
! Capt. Pohle is the dean Of the seamen
having made almost double the number
| OF round trips across the Atlantic made
by any other man. In that time he has
Weathered the gales of the Atlantic over
course aggregating 1,612,S10 miles.
equal TO about siXty-five times around
! the earth. Capt. Pohle does not say any
| thing about his age, but he still looks a
young man.
/
| After having won many a fortune in
the prizering and lost it in the merry
| tuSsle with rum. that veteran pugilist
! John l.. Sullivan, has, for the 6S4th time
by actual count, decided to ''cut out" the
rum habit, as he explains it. His saloon
was Il failure, because John drank up the
stock as fast as it could he supplied. so
he has decided to father a new venture
| III the shape of a mineral water estab-
lshment. He IS going to open such
place on Broadway, he has announced.
and there will not be much danger Of his
| drinking up all the stock there. Sc in
asmuch as he has quit dealing in rum he
| has decided to quit drinking it. He de-
clares that he would mount the water
wagon" and never never, never touch
| liquor again. OF course, he had to tell
| all his friends about it and had to have
a farewell drink with each,
| The cost of city government of great
er New York takes long stride ahead
this year. The estimates of the heads of
various departments for 1902. just for
mulated. call for S12,000.000 more than
was required for 1901. The total budget
will be S110,000,000
Pierre Lorillard sat in the front row
| Of chairs which lined the FasigTipton
company's paddock al Sheepshead Bay
| the other day and, leaning down upon his
cane. watched with evident interest. and
| perhaps some regret, the sale of the Ran
cocas stock farms yearlngs. These were
| horses that had been bred and trained by
his father and were being sold under
the autioncer's hammer by Mrs Lillian
Baraes Allen, to whom Pierre Lorillard
hPqueathed the Rancocas farm. As each
horse was put up by the auctiOneer Mr.
Lorillard made this comment or that, rs
To the blood and breeding Of the colt.
He did not bid for any Of the horses,
hr,f * lt,lT al In
saton colts were bought for him under
another name. Among those who
watched the sale were "Pittsburg Phil
and many other Well-knoNn h0rsemen.
There is a brisk demand for stock ex-
change seats. 1t is reported that the
last transfer Of membership was at
SGD 900, but there has been subsequently,
bid of $4,000. Edward Bell. Sr.,
senior member of the firm of Bell & Co.
has sold his seat and will retire. as
his brother. Louis V Bell did last spring
The transfer will probably be made be-