Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-09-20

i member
Of Tammany hall, is dead. lie was a.
years old.
The transfer of seat on the New
| York stack exchange at record price
| IS reported. The amount paid was SSl.
GOO the highest previous price having
been $4,000. Within the last two weeks
| there has been a steady rise in the cost
of the seats.
! Henry hraus was chef at an uptown
restaurant until he got so fat he lost his
job. He weighed almost $50 pounds
lie Went to room in the Hotel Vim
cent, turned out the gas and drank car
bone acid. 1t took ten men to carry the
body downstairs.
Fire Chief Croker is to be put On trial
for INSTRUMENTATION. Commissioner St1r-
gis had long conference with tine
mayor about the Croker case and as.
sured Mr. Low that there was ample
ground for this course. and the mayor
acquiesced in the attitude taken by his
commissioner.
Eugene M. Ashley, as CONSERVATION OF
the estate of Ida NJ. Flagler, the fern
er wlfe, now mentally incompetent, OF
Henry NJ. Flagler, fled a report in the
supreme court sowing the ccondi.
ton OF the estate June s last, his ac.
count covering the prior year. The es-
tate is valued at $2,209613.
The electric cigar lighter is seen quite
frequently in the clubs and restaurants
now. You insert the end of the cigar in
a small hole, touch button and electri-
city does the rest 1t is always ready.
does not cost much and is especially con
yenlent IN places where n gas flame is
liable to be extinguished by draft.
Brooklyn is moving over to Manhat-
tan. Inadequate facilities and crush at
the bridge is said to be responsible for
the exodus. Low rents out Harlemwar I'd
is tributary cause Until the new East
river bridge is completed this will prob
ably continue, but Brooklyn real estate
men say that the ebb will be bigger than
the flow a year hence.
The death of William Allen Butler. the
author of Flora McFlimsy," furnishes
a parallel to those "single-speech HamiI-
tons of literature-Dr. Thomas Dunn
English. with his Ben Bolt" and Bailey,
Of "Festus" fame. both of whom have
recently joined the great majority. 1t
was f0rty-hyc years ago that the poem
made its appearance, and it is still pop
ul3r.
Head Stewardess Coombs of the Meth
eriands American steamship Pretoria
now at Hoboken, has Just completed her
hundredth voyage across the Atlantic
The company will give her a suitable
present. She has quite a record as life
saver, and when the Veendam was lost
some Years 20 siGEs4as most energetic
in saving the lives of several of the pas
sengerS.
Plans for the new residence to be
erected for Payne Whitney as wedding
gift from his uncle, Col Oliver II.
Payne. were filed recently at the build
ing department. The house will be six
stories in height, with a front of marble
and granite, and will cost $195, 600
With the cost of the land included, Col
Payne'S gift to his nephew will represent
an investment of about 100000.
Fritz Williams is not now in the cast
of "Twirly- Whiry" at Weber & Fields
music hall. Too many comedians in the
company is the reason. The part he
was TO play has been transferred to Bon
ME Maginn. 1t was too insignificant for
an actor of his ability. While he will
remain member of the company and
draw his weekly salary, nevertheless Mr..
Williams will be missed from the stage
IL all the reports that have reached
the police within the past few days are
true diamond stealing by servants has
reached the proportion of Il mania in
New York. Three young women en-
ployed in as many fashionable homes in
the uptown section are now under ar
rest on this charge. One is accused Of
the theft of $1,000 worth of jewelry.
mostly diamonds. Besides this Il hotel
waiter is locked up charged with st"al
ing Il diamond pin from a guest.
Dance. but don't drink or smoke. =
This is the advice Henry Clay Barnabee
offers actors and singers. This is the
motto he's been following during the
sixty-nine years he has managed to keeI
his balance on this shifty sphere. The!
are the two things that keep many a
promising career off three-sheet," says
the popular singer. They'll ruin the
best voice that ever peeped and Kill the
best man that ever lived. Whenever
anybody approaches me with one or the
other | shake my head and say, Not for
your Uncle Henry"
The smoking women is by no means Il
rarity in New York. She has cunning
little tricks to conceal the vice. but she
cannot hide it from the shop keeper. An
uptown tobacConlSt remarked tnat gOod
part of his trade in Turkish cigarettes
and other fairy brands is made up OF
smart society women, He says most of
them pick up the idea while abroad,
where the practice is common and in
duiged in the open. Many professional
women are also given to the vice. while
the drug stores in the red light district
do land office business in the dainty
weeds
"Isles of Safety" in the middle of con
gested streets are now an assured thing.
Pedestrians will no longer he Obliged 10
depend on the sheltcring arm Of a police
man to protect them from the reckless
cab drivers and the swift automobile.
Slightly elevated platforms that will lie
low in the street like the hull OF a monitor
are to be built at points where the mael-
strom of traffic centers. The idea is
borrowed from cities like Paris. Venice
and Budapest. and owes its beginning
here to the Municipal Arts Society. 1t
is designed TO make them ornate, thus
giving artistic as well as utilitarian quail
tiles.
Samuel I'ntermeyer. a prominent Tam