Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-04-20
IN GAY NEW YORK.

The engagement is announced of Miss
Katrina B. Ely. daughter of Mr. and
Mrs Theodore n Ely of Bryn Mawr,
Pa, to Charles L. Tiffany, second son of
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. c. Tiffany of New York
city.
Sadie Martinez is negotiating for con
troll of the Broadway theater next sea-
son. The yearning to be a manager as
we'll as star possesses several actresses,
as a result of Amelia Bingham's success
with the Bijou.
Steel trust alley" is the new nickname
given to upper Fifth avenue, where
Carnegie and other manufacturers have
purchased property. PARADISE alley"
one impecunious clerk has dubbed it.
Hotel proprietors have at last invaded
the sacred precincts of Riverside drive
Directly opposite Grants tomb Il history
apartment building, with roof garden and
restaurant. will be erected this summer
The Catholic University sold the ground
to-day.
The record price OF $4,000 for a Stock
Exchange seat was made on Thursday
when Emerson Chamberlain. a veteran
broker, sold his membership to Gustave
Eckstein. Jr. Afterward bids of S60.0 900
and SCI 900 for seats were reported with
out confirmation.
Fortune smiled ON Lee Tong, a penni-
less laundryman the other night. He
invested 81 in policy. and the one chance
out of possible thousand was his-he
won $1,000 in real money. Lee started
with his roll for San Francisco,
and all Chinatown is bucking thu tiger.
The Park Row Construction company
transferred to the Park Row Realty
company the Park Row building for an
expressed consideration of S4100.OO0
These two corporations are almost identi-
cal in their makeup, so that the convey
ance really involves no change i'll owner
ship.
The first thing Charles Frohman did
on reaching London was to cable for the
American manuscript of the farce Are
You a Mason?' This piece has made
hit at Walack's theater, and ii is Mr..
Frohman's intention to present it in Lon
don as soon as he can secure the neces-
sary company and time for its production
at one of the London theaterS
Workmen are tearing out the thousands
of seats and the ring iR the big building
on Coney Island, where the COney Is
land Sporting club held prizefghts up to
the time the Horton law went out of ex-
istencc In this building many of the
champions, including Fitzsimmons. JEFF
fries, Corbett. have engaged in battle 1t
is said thar company has secured a
lease of the place, and will open 1t this
summer as a concert hail.
BY his will. Fernando Yznaga left all
his property, valued at S2.035 900, to his
Manchester He left nothing 10 his
mother, ellen NJ. Yanaga, or TO his other
sisters. Emily IZnaga and Lady Lester
Kaye. The executors are Henry r. Hol-
Inns and w. X. Vanderbilt. The will
was executed ON December 1. 1895. Both
the dowager duchess and Lady Lester
Kaye are now in this country, having
come here Immediately after their brotn-
er's death.
The first stock certificates of the
United States Steel corporation were is
sued on Thursday by the trust compa-
MES in exchange for the stocks of the
minor companies under the plan prepared
by Mr.. Morgan. The certificates are the
handsomest that have been seen in Wall
street in years. The engraving is as fine
as that on United States bonds. The
ground work of the certificates is in
brown ink. and the scroll work in the
frame is in yellow. In She center of the
certificates is a vignette representing a
scene in a steel mill. a gang of steel
workers are shown carrying a heavy
beam to the forge Beside the forge is IA
large vat of water.
Rev. W. r. Huntington. rector Of
Grace church. has Just made public the
fact that nearly 100000 was collected
in The church on Easter Sunday. the
largest single collection in the history Of
the church The collection was not the
result of any especial pleading nor Of q
''gving service" but was the spontane-
Gus giving by the members of the congrc-
CATION. who knew that DR. Huntington
desired n large sum Of money for a pro
rOSca extension of church work and an
enlargement Of the church building in
Fourth avenue. The collection was nos
considered larger than usual. but when
William r. Stewart. treasurer II the
church counted the offerings il became
known that among the gold and silver
an the plate were bills Of large denomina-