Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-08-02
N GAY NEW YORK.
Scenes and Incidents Of Everyday
Life IN the Paris Of America. u


10 meet general approval.
DR. Martin Deschere. one Of the best
known and most prominent homeopathic
specialists on children'S diseases in this
country. Is dead al bis home in New
York city from heart trouble.
George Won Lengerke Meyer United
STATES ambassador TO Italy. vino has
just arrived. said: Italy il IN u pros
porous condition. Her people are hap
py and the King is extremely popular
Al Mrs. Clarence II. Mackay'@ plan,
for he summer have been cancelled by
the death Of her father-in-law, TO whom
she was much attached and il is I'M
probable that she will be seen either ut
heWort o. 1T Sarato Il, as hao been
expected.
Charles NJ. Schwab president of the
Tnitel States Steel Corporation. has
leased rie ninth and tenth floors in the
new twenty story building. II Broadway,
for %J1,0u0 a year 1t is said that the
officials Of the United States Steel Cor
poration viii have their Offices in the
building.
That tender kisses delay fast trains is
now also the belief of the New York
=
tend TO issue orders prohibiting all kiss
ing in trainsheds or stations or on car
platform. 1t seems to be "a battle of
sentiment against schedules, with the
odds in favor of sentiment.
4 drinking fountain at Liberty street
and Maiden lane for horses, cats and
dogs, erected by John Milton Gitterman
TO the memory of his wifes father, the
late Simon Sterne. who was celebrated as
"A lawyer, philanthrOpiSt and lover of ami
mails, has been presented to the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
\. c. Goodwin. the actor. who is now
IN London. has cabled his agreement to
accent the part of Bottom in an elah-
crate revival of ~ Midsummer Night
Dream. All the latest inventions Of
stage mechanism will he utilized. and 4
large company will be engaged for the
J""roductiOn Of Shakespeares most
/. e and picturesque work.
che first shipment of apples for the
season was made on the Oceanic, which
sailed for Liverpool the other day The
shipment. consisting of eighteen barrels
of CoXsackle and seven barrels of Mai
denhlush, arrived here this morning on
the Catskill boat, and was the last ship
ment To he placed on board the Oceanic
before the vessel started on its voyage.
The French liner La Savoie. which
sailed for Havre. had ON board Secre-
tary of War Elihu Root, who will Join
his family at Carlsbad: United States
Ambassador to France Gen. Horace Por-
ter, who is returning to his official du-
ties in Paris; and Gen. Leonard Wood,
who goes to Southern France. where
Airs. Wood is quite ill.,
Backed by the millions of Senator
William \. Clark. the Montana copper
king, his daughter, Mrs. Everett NAL
Tory Culver. has just completed the pur-
chase of a large tract of ground in New
Jersey about six miles distant from
Boonton, where she proposes to erect
country seat that is to rival George
Nanderbilt's place, Biltmore, both in the
u latial character of the mansion and in
the beauty and extent of the grounds
and gardens.
In addition to the Hall Of Records.
which the Rapid Transit people want to
tear down to make room for subway
station, there ere about three other
buildings of a-RevolutiOnary origin
remaining i'll the borough Of Manhattan.
They are Fraunce's Tavern, at Broad
and Pearl streets. in which Washington
babe farewell to his troops on Deem
her 4. 1893: ST. Paul's Chapel. on Broad
way, which escaped the fire of l1IG, and
the Morris-Jumel house. on Washington
Heights, which was a colonial residence
before the Revolution.
\ parrot fish in the aquarium is re-
sponSibIe for Il good deal of gambling
among the small boys. 1t has strips of
blue and red and has yellow eyes. As
the fish turns in the water it looks red
OF hlua NJ NJ
a crowd is about the parrot fish tank
cries of Come, yOu blue! Come, you
red may be heard, WIN swapping Of
fingers such as players at crap games
are accustomed to. The big parrot fish
makes frequent 'tumoverS.' and when
it straightens out avain the announce
ment comes Red wins or Blue wins,
as the case may be. and the gaming
Youngsters settle their bets on the color
Of the fish on the turnover,
slippery Dick" has been laid away.
The ,lcre McAuley Mission looked after
the funeral because Dick had reformed
and was good. The minister at the grave
spoke of him as Brother slippery Dick.
And slippery Dick" he was to the
police too. for. according To AiiIer'S own
frank story, first told at the time of his
conversion TO Christianity in the mission
house about two years ago, he was for
nifty years Il criminal ana hdu spent more
than thirty years behind prison bars.
Since his conversion, however Miller
was. until his death IT the Presbyterian
hospital. honest and trustworthy, aud
held n position in a restaurant on the
Bowery aS a cashier and also did much
religious work among the fallen.
A little girl with big blue eyes. a mass
of golden curls. and a conspicuous tag
pinned To her coat. attracted much at
tention on the White Star Line pier
She was Hilda FieldhouSe, 10 year,
old. who is travelling all by hersclI
from Rawlins. Wyo.. TO Bradford, Eng
land. About two years ago her father
left England to come TO this country II
search Of Il fortune. Six months agJ
he sent for Hilda. and her mother packed
her off to America. She became :,
homesick that her father decided to sem
her back to England. so she started OF
| her long Journey. She has safely ac
compliShed half the distance. Hid.
| was not nj all tiustered nj the attention
She was causing, and answered all qnes
| tious put 10 her.
Bv n unanimous vote the rapid tranSi
commission accepted the $20O0.o0 bis