Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-08-09

Northern Securities Company. His gift
to his daughter upon her marriage will
| be a handsome residence on Riverside
drive. Mr.. Stebbins is n descendant of
| the late Justice Salmon T. Chase of
| Ohio.
| According to Town Topics. Peter Mar
tins bachelor dinner at Berger's two
nights before he welded Lilly Oelrichs
cost about $500 more than he bargained
for. 1t lasted until between 3 and 4
| o'clock in the morning, and for the next
twelve hours none of those present made
an appearance in their usual haunts The
affair closed wis a waltz The men
took tropical palms for partners, and
whirled them around the ball room until
the pots fell off. OF course the palms
were ruined, aad the pots were wrecked
beyond repair. Berger had borrowed
every palm he could secure from the for
lists, and many of them were prize win
ners. Some had been entered for the
horticultural Society's exhibit at the Ca
sine.
Harris, Gates & Co. will send back n
$50 bill which the firm received today
| from a woman in Missouri, instead of
obHging the woman by so investing it
that it will weld $500, the amount that
she wants in order to go to California.
She said in her letter that she had surrep-
| titiOusly removed the bill from the fam
lily Bible, between the leaves of which it
had been placed by her husband. who
had proposed to deposit it later in a saw
read of the millions that the firm is cred
tied with having made in the July corn
deal and the Louisville & Nashville and
other railroad deals. Hers is not the
only request of the sort that has been re-
ceived by Harris, Gates II Co. lately.
and they do not want to establish
precedent by paying 5000 for $50 bills.
According to an evening paper a hand
some young woman, an artists model.
paraded Fifth avenue the other day
dressed only in a bathing suit She first
attracted attention ct Fortyeighth street.
Men were delighted and women appallei
at the sight, and before long big thronG
was trailing after heY Finally she be
came sensitive and turned quickly. She
faced Der followers and said sharply:
We'll, what is it you all want: 1t is
inst like you vulgar New York people.
Can't You go about and mind your own
business ~
After giving vent to her feelings thus
she hailed a passing hanson and request
ed to be driven to the Alpine at Thirty
third street and Broadway At the Al
pine il was learned that she WIS an
artists model and that she was posing
for n painting for one of the artists liv
ing there.
Mrs Elizabeth Drew Rarstow Stod-
dard. wife of Richard Henry Stoddard.
the poet. died tine other afternoon at her
home. 800 East Fifteenth street. Mrs.
Stoddard had been suffering from infiu-
enza for several weeks past. The dis
ease was complicated by pneumonia and
pleurisy, and her death Rad been expect
ed for several days. Mrs Stoddard was
born at Mattapoisett Mass. on May 6.
1928 She was married TO Mr. Stoddari
in 1850 in this city. which has since
been their home She herself was well
known in the literary world as poet
and novelist During and shortly after
the Civil War Mrs. Stoddard wrote three
novels, 1.-THE Morgesons" 1S62}. "Two
Men" $3.50, and Temple House.,
1SG7 All are studies Of New Eng
land life and character. Mr. St0ddard.
who survives his wife, also is advanced
in age and inirm.
Peter Duke. Danish gardener. was
working around the house Of Mrs. Will
liam +. Murray at - West Nineteth
street when he brought MP with a spade
full of earth a diamond earring. He
took it with him to his home and after
ward sold it TO Jacob Meyer, jeweler,