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

burg prima donna, on the occasion of the
Tooth performance of dolly Warden, >
which will take place Monday evening,
May ). In the opera Miss CHASER makes
her entrance in Il sedan chair, and the
souvenir is a silver sedan chair about
inches high, an exact miniature of the
real article. ornamented and containing
a bottle of perfume.
Although the Roebling Company.
which has the contract for the cable
work on the new East river bridge, is,
putting in the wires at the rate of about
forty tons per day, it is pretty certain
that it will not be able to complete its
work on April 26. At this rate it will
er April % means a penalty for overtime
of $1,000 day if Commissi lner Linden
thai holds the Roeblings to the letter OF
their contract. For a contractor to pay
! a fine of $34,000 is by no means a pleas
ant feature of great work, said one of
the engineers.
East siders have been dragged into
the ping pong craze as well as tho more
aristocratic west siders, but they call it
pink ponk." And they play it with
| cards, too, and heavy pool balls. In one
place the game was played with n pink
pack of cards. Most of those who played
persisted in calling it pink stuss, or pink
| faro. In another place pink dice were
used. The announcement that District
| Attorney Jerome had put ping pong
table in his new Ghetto quarters caused
ping-pong wave to go all over the dis
trict. If Jerome stands for it then the
| game is all right" is the unanimous ver-
! dict of the east side.
Shad in the markets, red-gilled and sill
I WI Al CHI inn haf hAt xrsnTsa
caught this side of Hatteras, are begin
ming to be plentiful in the market, But
the supply is not what one would ex-
pect in April, and prices are at present
away above the poor mans purse.
Three weeks behindhand,' said an old
you come to weather demonstrating the
shad beats the grounding all hollow,
They say the grounding stood for an
early spring. but the willy fish knew bet
ter, and until he begins to tear holes in
Hudson river seincs you need not look
,, for any warm weather to speak Of"
The proudest passenger to walk down
the gang plank of the Deutschland when
she made her dock was Herbert Cum
mings, a young mulatto. who was sent
over on the same steamer by local
florist to decorate the cabin of Prince
Henry on his return voyage from this
GUILTY.. Inc ldu Was detained 10 at
tend to the floral decorations on board
Emperor Williams yacht Hohenzollern
while she was in port, and the prince
liked him so well that he asked that he
be sent to Bremen when he sailed on the
Deutschland. At the end of the voyage
Prince Henry presented him with a
handsome gold watch and chain, and
gave him an autograph letter of recon-
mendation.
James ID. Leary, the New York con-
tractor, died from heart disease at the
Hoffman house. He was IS years old.
he was born i'll Canada and went TO
New York city with his parents when
boy. His first big undertaking was the
drainage and filling of the Harlem fats.
The piles which were used in this work
were towed in a form of cigar-shaped
raft from Nova Scotia. The first raft.
containing 100000 feet of lumber, went
TO pieces in a storm. Mr.. Leary con-
strueted the speedway along the Harlem
river. lie erected a number of large
buildings and built many of the modern
piers of the North and East rivers for the
department of the docks. He also was
Identified with other improvements in the
harbor.
1t is surprising what one can find in
the way of conyeniences in the model
skyscraPer. In large Office building in
, lower Broadway there are, among other
things, news stand, tobacco counter,
cafe, restaurant with no music at lunch@.
drug shop, press bureau, physicians, stem
ographers. barber with his modern asso-
ciates. the chiropodist and the manicur-
ist, dentist, laundry agent. cable, tele-
graph. telephone, automobile. informa-
ton. thcater agent, obituary bureau and
notary public. You can take an elevator
to a man who will draw a will or one
who will arrange a funeral without going
from under your own roof; you may Nqui-
date corporation or buy a locomotive.
There are ten elevators in bewildering
row which announce their coming by
electric signals, some going thirteen floors
az jump. Having all this 50 near is
what spoils the New Yorker for any 9th
er city In the world--unIess he is trying
tn got awav from II