Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-12-28
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Mrs. John ID. Rockefeller will be at
home on Mondays throughout the winter.
Mrs. William p. Douglass has sent out
cards for ball at Sherry's on January
20 in honor of Miss Adelaide Randolph.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Clews, Jr., have
returned from Davenport. In a few
days they will sail for Europe. where
they will speld the winter.
David Il. Hill has filed with Districi
Attorney Philbin Il bill for $500 for le-
gal services as special counsel in the
Molineaux case. The bill has been sent
To the finance department approved, and
will be paid without delay.
The New York Times tells of an Irish
gentleman stopping at the gorgeous Wal
bort. Astoria, Who was asked why he
didn't put his boots outside his door at
night to he blackened. "Begorra," said
he. Il feared they'd gid EN-"
Barren de County. the young French
man who said he was of a noble family,
and so puf in at The Waldorf 4 storia
where he was unable TO pay a bill for
5000. was sentenced to six months in the
penitentiary by Presiding Justice Wyatt
IN special sessions.
Alfred g. Vanderbilt is making an adj
dition, expected TO cost $4,000, to Oak
land farm, in Portsmouth. The polo
ground, the cost Of preparing of which
is estimated at $4,000 is to be in use
next summer. Mr. and Mrs Wander
bile are expected TO spend next season
at Oakland.
Andrew Carnegie notified the New
York Press club that he intended pre-
senting it with library to the value of
5000 The selection and purchase of
the books are to be left to an especially
appointed committee of the club, which,
when the $4,000 limit has been reached, is
to refer the bill to Mr.. Carnegie.
Mrs. Patrick Campbell, the noted Eng
lish actress, was Il passenger OH the
steamship Campania. Mrs. Campbell
comes here with her own company, TO be
seen in the plays in which she has made
a success in London. She will open her
American starring tour ut the Grand
Opera house. Chicago, December %, in
Suderman's play "Magda."
\ novel entertainment known as an
English Penny Tea" was given at the
home of Mr.. and Miss Wakeman Each
guest was given a card of printed ques-
tons to which was tied an English
penny. The largest number of correct
answers won the first prize. The prizes
consisted of a silver cup, a silver flask,
candy boxes aud several comic consola-
don prizes. Refreshments followed the
closing Of the competition.
Someone had a great deal of fun with
the bankers and brokers in Wall street
recently. At least seventy-five of them
received word over their phone to call
mp "1G44 Broad that IA man named
Fish wanted to talk to them. As a
rule the persons thus addressed prompt
~ called '1644 Broad When they
asked for Mr.. Fish they were answered
by a roar of rage and profanity that
made the receiver jump. That number
is the aquarium.
Penrhyn Neville, who sailed for Eng
land with his Chicago bride, did not as
has been reported. take back the dia-
mond necklace he imported when Ia
came here to marry her He imported it
around his ankle, and when detected said
1t was wedding present which he would
take out of the country with his bride.
The secretary of the treasury decided
that this was obviously an attempt at
smuggling, and has directed the formal
seizure and sale of the jewelry.
Park Benjamin. president of the naval
arch commission. which has charge of
the proposed naval arch and water gate
at the battery in this city. announces
that the project has been temporarily Civ
en- up. The arch and gate We're to have
cost $1,300,000 and S250.000 had been
pledged. When the unfortunate Schley
controversy became acute the difficulty
of getting people interested in the arch
rapidly increased. With the decision of
the Schley court failing to settle the
controversy, the committee felt that it
would he, for the present at least, useless
10 continue its efforts.
An auction of the possessions of Gen
Adam Badcau, who was military secre-
tary to Gen. Grant, was held in the auc-
ton room the other night \ painting of
Edwin Booth by Walter NJ. Bracket
brought $1,000. Three volumes of
Booths personal copy of Shakespeare
sold for 1913. Other things sold were
two letters addressed to Booth by a
woman signing herself "E. f." asking
| for but one glance of your eye;" Il
letter signed John Raleigh 1850: II
want TO be an actor, How will | begin 2"
and one asking for the handkerchief with
which Booth wiped away his tears in
Richard ILL.,"
Real estate IS booming at Coney Isl
and. The boom noticeable in real estate
matters in the vicinity of Sea Gate is
caused by the announcement on the part
| of several large property owners that
| they intend making many inn rovements.
| What is considered as the most impor-
| tant news during the past eek is the
| reported move on the part { the Iron
| Steamboat company in acquiring site
on the Gravesend bay side of Coney Isl
and for Il new pier in order that patrons
OF the line may he landed with some de
gree of safety. As usual. during the gale
| of Saturday, Coney Island lost part of
| its identity. The heavy sea dug up and
carried away part of the beach
Landmarks in lower New York are
rapidly being replaced by skyscrapers.
/ Ii has heea announced that the block
on BATTERY place. facing the park am
| harbor. has been purchased by the Bat
/ terry Place Realty company. The COM
pauy will erect a SiNtcen-Story office