Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-04-19
IN GAY NEW YORK.

In GAY NEW YORK. I
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Eighty-one paintings of the Blakeslee
coilecton, sold at auction in New York
| city, brought $S3,720
William Marconi sailed for England oil
the Majestic. He said he was going
home for rest and that he would remain
IN England about two months.
Owing to vigorous opposition from va
rious quarters, plans of prominent the
atrlcal manager to produce a translation
of the Passion Play" i'll New York
city have been abandoned.
Mrs Marion Roosevelt, wife of Robert
Roosevelt and an aunt of President
Roosevelt, died suddenly at Atlantic City
of cerebral paralysis. Mrs. Roosevelt
gain consciousness.
The proprietor of a meat market at
Manhattan avenue and One Hundred
| and Second street has closed his shop and
put this sign in the window: This
market will be reopened when the price
of meat goes down."
Rev. DIR. W. A. Crawford Frost of
Baltimore, who made a disturbance at
the dinner to Andrew Carnegie by the
American Society of Authors, was dis
charged from Bellevue hospital in tho
care of Rev. Edward b. Niver of Balti-
more, who took him back to that city.
William G. Whitney gave an elaborate
luncheon at his residence, ST. Fifth ave
nue., for Lord and Lady Mimic The
floral decorations were on magnificent
scale, and quantities of crimson ramblers,
rhododendrums, wisteria and other
spring flowers We're placed about in pots.
Master Emerson Macmillan Stewart,
grandson of Emerson Macmillan, the mill
lionaire banker. made his debut at mu-
steal given by Edward Brigham at the
Macmillan residence, 800 Riverside
drive. He is only years old. He
played az a violin solo Hermann's Petit
Berceuse."
Prof Alexander Agassiz and his son.
Macmillan Agassix, who have been in
vestigating the coral reefs of the Nal
dive islands. in the Indian ocean, arrived
ON the Deutschland. Prof. Agassiz will
remain in America all summer, after
which he will resume his investigations
| in other parts of the world.
William c. Horn, head of the we'll
known fancy goods and stationery firm
of w. C. Horn, Brother & Co., died in
| his fifty-seventh year, after short i'll
| ness. Mr.. Horn was probably the best
known man in the business. having been
present firm for more than twenty-five
years.
A. Il. Erlanger of the theatrical mana
gerial firm of Klaw & Erlanger has re-
turned from England, where he went 10
superintend the production of Ben
| Hur" at Drr1ry Lane theater. He and
Mr.. Klaw will bring "Blue Beard" the
successor to 1.-THE Sleeping Beauty and
the Beast at Drury Lane, to America
next season.
Among the arrivals on the Deutschland
was Walter Cav, the American artist.
Mr.. Gay has maintained studio in Par
is for the last twenty-seven years. and
several Of his paintings adorn the walls
of the Luxembourg, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art and various other gal
leries. Mr.. Gay comes over to get some
suitable backgrounds for some pictures
he has in mind.
Oscar A. Schaeffer, secretary and
treasurer of the w. H. Baker Chocolate
and Cocoa Company, committed suicide
by shooting yesterday at the offices OF
the company on wall street. ScnaeHef
was % years old and married. He began
work for the company in 1900. Mr..
Baker declared he knew Of no reason for
the suicide. Schaeffer's father-in-law
also professed ignorance Of motive.
The annual banquet given on the ami
yersary of the birth of Gen. Y. S. Grant
by the Grant Monument Association viii
be held at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel Sat
urday evening, April 26. The speakers
win be Senator J. G. Burrows of Michi-
gan, Representative J. r. Watson OF In
diana. Representative Champ CLARK Of
Missouri and Gen. Thomas II. Hubbard
of New York. Gen. @. M. Dodge will
preside.
Twenty-eight Russian coach horses i'm
ported last week have been sold under
the hammer at the American Horse Ex-
change here for $4,000. an average
of S1243. Twenty of the lot were reg
istered 0rloff horses. raised in the neigh
borhood of Moscow, and all were of
that breed. 1t was the FIRST large i'm
portation OF Russian carriage horses ever
sold in New York and great interest was
manifested by both amateur and profess
sional horsemeD.
The management of the Herald Square
theater il having manufactured a UNIQUE
souvenir TO be presented to the feminine
friends Of Miss Lulu Chaser, the Pitts