Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-05-04
II GAY NEW YORK.
Scenes and Incidents of Everyday
Life IN the Paris of America. -

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Mrs Robert Goelet is at Constantine.
pie with her yacht, the MAMMA.
Fifteen employees of the exchange. the
reporters ON The floor, have received a
months extra pay for their arduous la
bors during the enormous stock specula-
| tons of the last month.
What is said TO be the largest tract Of
land ON Manhattan island was sold to-
day for S1.OO0,UOO. 1t contains twenty
five acres and is known as the Powers
| estate at Fort George. The building
boom has made it gilt-edge residence
property.
The f0ur-story brownstone house at
South Oxford street and De Kalb ave-
nue., Brooklyn, which has long been the
home of Rev. DIR. T. De Witt Talmage,
was sold at auction for $4,000. This
is a little over half what Dr.. Talmage
paid for 1t.
Richard Mansfield ordered two por-
traits from Il Boston artist at $500 each,
and refused to take them. y jury has
decided that the one representing him as
Richard Ill. was bad but that the other,
a Shyock. was sufficiently good to do
| manu- pay llitHt.
Col. and Mrs John Jacob Astor have
| gone to Ferncliff for the remainder of
the spring season They will give num-
Der of large house parties there. They
| 80 To Newport i'll July, and the Nour-
mahal is being put in commission. 1t
| is very doubtful whether they will go to
Europe this summer.
1t is reported that $4,000 had been
+ bid for seat on the New York Stock
exchange, which. if accepted, will make
| a new high-record price. Several brok
| ers stated that four seats had Been SOLD
| at $50, 900. and that many bids had been
made for others at that figure. GeorgN
| L. Bonner and c. II. Heustis are two
| of the sellers.
Charles Frohman contemplates trans
| ferring his present production of "Diplo-
| macy from the Empire theater to a
| prominent theater in London. He cabed
| his representative in this country that if
| he can succeed in cancelng all of the
| out-Of-toWn engagements he will take
| the entire organization to London for Il
| series of thirty performances.
Wall street is greatly interested in the
| latest ''Self-made" man, Frederic p
| Fish, who will draw 100000 for twelve
| months service as president of the Amer
| lean Bell Telephone and Telegraph com
| pany. He was counsel for the New
| York Arbrake company against the
| Westinghouse company after the reor-
| ganization of the General Electric com
pany.
While DR.. Mary Walker was calling at
| the Registers Office in Brooklyn she he
| came slightly i'll. She wa escorted
| downstairs t. the office OF County Clerk
! Huberty. where She loosenpd her collar
an - md lou
| half hour. Dr. Walker said her heart
| troubled her AT times. and that the smoke
! Iii the registers offre had made her feel
| faint.
! Builde, Hamilton VI. Weed mas filed
| plans for tw0 more mansions TO be built
| speculatively in the new steel trust row
| on upper Fifth avenue Another 1908
| 100 plat was bought by millionaire as
n mansion site. The identity of the new
| buyer was not revealed. The price was
| about 100000. Builder Weeds houses
| will cost 100000 and S150,000, respec-
| lively.
Plans have been filed with the building
| department for a theater which is to be
| built 10y Oscar Hammerstein on the plot
| extending through the block from Thirty
| fourth Ia Thirty-ifth street. 175 feet
west of Eighth avenue. The theater
which is 10 be called the Drury Lane
| after the old London playhouse. will be
| five stories high. The building will cost
| 100000
| An enterprising Statistician figures ont
that billion dollars worth of capital
was represented in private dining room
| ut the Union club Thursday night where
the executive committee Of the American
! Bankers association held a banquet In
capital the guests, without reckoning the
J. L, Morgan interests. We're worth
| SOL .000 600. and there We're less than
thirty Of them all told
| Theodore Mayors, one Of The sta:eroom
| stewards Of the North German LLOYD
Line steamship Kaiser Wilhelm der
| Crosse. was kept busy acknowledging IN
| congratulations of his friends after the
| steamship landed last week. Mayors
| found the gold bars which were stolen
| from th% kaiSer's strong noX AMI was
| paid the sum Of 10000 marks t23S0l by
| The steamship company as reward.
Al the opening performance Of the
| Forcg3ugh-SellS circus several clever
| clowns gave an amusing burlesQue en- the
| character Of Agulnaldc. The burleSque
| was funny enough. but several letters
| were received by the circus people from
! persons claiming To he friends of Gen.
| Funston. ohieCting u the act. and il was
| discontinued. The circus management
say that no di>re>pect Ia Gen. Funston
was intended.
When the Meadow Brook Hunt met
| the ether afternoon at Bulls Head To
| follow the hounds Mrs. Jimmy Kcr-
n0chan. SociGtys foremost woman rider.
wasn't there. Inquiry developed the fact
| that she has the measles. How She got
! il is Il mystery. for Hampstead hasn't any
| epidemic. Mrs. kernochan is progress
| ing nicely and no apprehension is felt for