Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-07-19
N GAY NEW YORK.
Scenes and Incidents Of Everyday
Life IN the Paris Of America. ~

Life in the Paris of America. -
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Coriune. who viii be starred next sea
son in Ny Antoinette,' will spend the
summer in canal house boat on the
Erie and Delaware canals.
Police Commissioner Partridge dis
missed from the police force Capt. John
ReardOn of the Manhattan and Green
port avenues station, Brooklyn, for neg
lect of duty and classifying his blotter
records.
A man committed suicide the other
afternoon by jumping from the Brooklyn
bridge. rope was thrown to him from
passing tug, but he refused to seize it
and soon sank from view. The body was
not recovered. In his hat, which bears
the mark South Norwalk, Conn.," he
left four 81 bills.
Mrs. b. T. Cheney, known OH the stage
as Julia Arthur, underwent surgical OPP
Grafton at the summer home Of the Che
neys, Brewster Island Boston harbor.
The operation was not a serious one and
was made as a precautionary measure
against appendicitis, with which the act
ress was threatened. The patient is re-
covering
Miss Kitty Ramp0ne has been engaged
by the park department to sing at the
Land concerts in Morningside park and in
Mount MOrris park. She has the dis
tinctiOn of being the only woman New
York city has employed to sing before
the public. She is the daughter of the
late Sig. Ramponc, who was the leader
of the Old Guard band
Through the generosity of Miss Annie
"a ~
made Countess Of the Holy Sea, and
of Mrs. Henry y. Plant widow of the
wealthy railroad and steamboat owner
the Fathers Of the Blessed Sacrament
who are in this city are soon to have
= church of their own-the first in the
United States ami the only one which |
Will be permitted by the rules Of the
o.da".
Columbia College students have found |
new means of livelihood at the sum |
mer hotels. Instead of serving as wait |
ers, which is a rather onerous task, they |
are hiring out as ping-pong attendants |
at the miniature courts in the country |
The young person" will also find that |
mamma will not object so much to a |
love affair with a ping pong attendant as
she will to an attachment to tray car
rier. The first is in the fashion, any
how.
Thomas Preston. seaman on thel
schooner Sirdar is afflicted with an ag
gravated case of moon blindness caused |
by sleeping on the deck in the full glare
of the tropical moon. Moon blindness as
rule is merely temporary. but return
ing with "A slight attack at full moon,
but in the case of Preston the facial
muscles have been affected and his whole
face Is drawn up and staring. 1t is not
thought he will recover his sight unless
an operation is performed.
Because they give the conductors an
opportunity for dishonesty, the 3 cent
''haif fares are to he abolished by the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company In
all lines of the company at present chill
dren between : and - years old are al
lowed 10 ride for ) cents. The old Mas
Sau electric company had no half fares.
Children under > yeats Old were allowed |
TO ride free and all others paid the rogu-
lar cent fare. This ia the system which |
the rapid transit company intends to
adopt
Capt. Swain Of the Liverpool \. S,
schooner Pot0noc has just arrived in
New York from Cayenne and the San
Bias coast country where glass OF
lemonade costs a dollar "ln Cartha-
gena and an through the Colombian
coHst" slld the captain, lit takes forty
five Colombian paper dollars To make one
American dollar. Lemonade Mt a dollar
glass is really cheap, its actual cost
beng htue more than cents The
captain and the crew are now drinking
New Yor6 beer At 5 cents'a glass
President Charles II. Schwab of the
steel trust returned 20 New York and |
confirmed the. report that he is going to
huild mansion In this city lie is en-
thuSiaStic over the home he will build. |
u viii cost him between S2OOnO0O and |
S2,5O0Ouo. The building OF the man |
sion and the laying ont OF the magnif- |
eent grounds on the OLD orphan asylum |
site IN Riverside drive, between Seventy |
thurd aud Seventy fourth streets. viii |
take nearly three years The mansion !
will combine the chief characteristics Of |
the Chateau On HoiS aud the little Tria- |
non, two of the most luxurious and grtis- |
tic houses in Paris. 1t is the intention |
to make the residence the finest in New |
York.
New York is threatened with an oni |
demic OF typhoid. Two physicians of
prominence declared the other day that
the cause was the recent heavy rains. |
Whlch washed into the streams large
quantities of decaying vegetables aud ami |
mal matter The month OF MAY was
dry and large quantity of material had
accumulated, which was carried down hv
the heavy storms. They thought that
too much care could not be exercised nj
this season with regard to drinking wa
ter. The water should be filtered II there
were Indications of impurities. At the
same time attention should be given to
the choice of food number Of deaths
from the fever have occurred within the
past two weeks
The "hatiron' officially the Cumhcr-
land-huiding, now going up on the tri-
angular lot at the intersection of Broad
way, Fifth avenue and Twenty-third
street, will soon be initiated by a similar
building to be erected on a Triangle in
Longacre square NJ Broadway. Seventh
avenue aud Firty-third street. The
building, like that at Twcnty-thlrd street.
will be put up by the George A. Fuller
Construction Company, and part of it.
when completed viii he leased to a
morning newspaper, which there is good
reason for believing is the New York
Times
The Pabst hotel. the only building
standing on the site now, has been abun-
doned for hotel purposes. because it's