Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-07-05

| bles in New York. Now there are only
| 65.0S6 horses and 1926 stables, de-
| crease of $3.50 in horses and l323 III
! stables OF course, part Of this decrease
| is due 70 the constantly growing Use OF
| automobiles, but the main cause Is the
substitution Of electricity for horses on
the street cars.
George C. Tyler of Liebler & Co. ca
/ hled the home office from Italy that ne
| had just made arrangements with fleifo
| Msscagni TO write the music for Inc
| Eternal City" in which Viola Allen ap-
| pea"s here next year, Beerbohm Tree
| producing the Hall Game play at the
| same time in London. MIR. Tyler met
| Mr. Mascagu by appointment ID + lor-
| ence Before leaving Mr.. Tree tod Mf.
| Tyler that he thought it was Impossible
| 10 get Mascagni to undertake TINS WORK
| but the composer of "Cavaierla kuS-
| ticana" submitted to the Establishments
| Of the energetic young American man
ager. who closed the contract with an
| advance payment of $1,000, cabled by
! Tyler's New York bank TO Florence.
Edward S. Dix, a wel-knOwn yachts
| man Of this city and for six years man
ager Of the trade paper advertising agen-
cy has been committed to the Tombs
on charges of enlightenment brought by
Julian q. Buckley the president Of the
agency. The amount involred IS said by
| Mr.. Buckley to be between $4,000 and
| $15, 900. Dix is a member of the New
York Athletic Club. He formerly
| owned the cutter Portia About two
months ago he sold the POrtia and pur-
| chased from w. II. Langley the schoon-
er yacht Comet, a 52-ton boat. Mr.:
| Buckley alleges the money to buy and
| fit out the Comet was stolen from him,
| and he will begin an action to attach
| the boat Dix declined to say anything
when arrested save that he was inno-
cent.
! Killed at the age of 173 years, one
| buttonwoOd tree, 80 feet tall. y lahorer
on the subway demanded its trunk and
used his AK on it to make room for
new pillar 1t has stood for generations
east of City hall. breasting the tempests
and storms that have swept ., over Man
! haitian island. In all probability 1t was
growing when Hendricll Hudson sailed
mp the river which was to bear his
name. Under its luXuriant shades Tam
many smoked the pipe Of peace with
| Peter Stuyycsant, while within a few
! yards Of it Nathan Hale died. Septem-
| Der -, 1916, the first martyr to the
| American cause 1t has seen admins
| trat0ns come and 60, and has stood as
unrufIled as the graceful Justice that
| surmounts the City hall, which is COM
| paratively modern.
Detectives from the tenderloin police
| station raded a pool room on Sixth ave
nue. at / O'Clock the other afternoon,
whore they found "A crowd of elderly
women. some of whom are said to be
the wives of Sixth avenue shopkeeperS.
Six who had been seen to place bets
were arrested Rushing up the stairs.
they broke into the pool room through
the back hall door, and cried: ladies,
You are all under arrest" Had it been
the announcement of a death sentence
there could not have been more coufu-
sion 20. don't tell my husband"' ina
pl0rpl one shrill voice. 80, please, let
us go," came the chorus. while one stout
woman raised the window with the idea
of jumping out The distance to the
yard was TOO great, and her desperation
turned 10 futile tears.
The Kroonland the longest steamship
ever built in the United States. is now
! lying tied up TO the dock Of the Red
Star line, where she arrived from Phila-
delphia. She will run between this port
and Antwerp. The Kroonland is $50 feet
long. which is % feet longer than the
! St Louis and the st. Paul, and has
4 register of 1900 tons. or 400 tons
more than the st. Louis and the st,
Paul. She possesses every approved de-
vice for the safety and comfort of pas
sengers. and carries the latest improved
appliances for the protection Of life.
| EXccp1 in one point of speed the kroon-
land is the equal of the finest steamships
atOat and viii enable persons of mod
| crate means to enjoy all the luXuries of
the fastest ocean grayhoundS. There are
bcrthS for BIB tirSt-casS passengers, 1S4
secoud-cas, and about 1000 third-cl&Ss.
4 summer home for the salesgirlS en-
Iploycd by the firm has been opened by
| one of the large department stores. Ii
| is in a Fashionable locality. too. on the
| Aeuch at Long Branch. About sixty
! young women went down on n steamboat
one afternoon, accompanied by members
IF the firm ANA the heads of several de-
| partmcuts. During previous years the
| cottages used We're rented For this
| year the company purchased Tne cottage
which is to be used hereafter for recgea-
ton. The home is ON the site of an old
| homestead. surrounded by a tract OF
wooded land. 1t is about three minutes
! walk from the ocean and has hig porch
| extending across the front. On Satur-
/ day next another contingent win 20 to
] Long Branch. those who went down the
/ previous Saturday returning home. the
! period OF stay n The cottage being one
week.
| The uuuna! roee aud strawberry show
! IF the Newport Horticultural Society at
! NeWpou Is o, special interest To the sum
/ uvr residents because the exhibits are
/ principally from tha greenhouses of the
/ Newport estates. and because of the
| rivalry between the gardeners To win
/ for. iheic employers the special prizes
I..t d,