Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-12-20

became insane on a West Shore tro;.
and had to be dropped off at Newbur.,a q.
he cared for. He smashed windou-s ~
the car and threw 800 on the An ID
All the interpreters could get out of H.
was that he was a farmer and had a Srii
in New York.
An old New York merchant who soil,
TASKS of all kinds and has done 81 -
years, makes the following observatinY,.
1--WE do not sell one pocket flask wbar.,
we did 100, forty years ago. Men mas
be more temperate than they used ~
they may place more dependence an ~,
public bars than their fathers did M
there may be some other cause, but tho
fact remains that the pocket pistol has
largely gone ont of fashion. 1t is m,
D,.rs0nal opinion thar while Bprbal,s p,,.
drink no less than they did a generation
ago, there is much less solitary drinkiu.-
and drinking during business hours. tba3
there used to be. Men take wine ana
beer at their meals and in their oyr,
families instead of whisky in their oi
fees at all hours
On Monday, December %. Mrs. LAM
try and her company will begin an en-
gagement limited to three weeks nj tha
Garrick, during which time she will
present her two successful plays. Tho
opening bill will be The CroSswayS."
Her second play will be ''Mademoiselle
Mars"
COngreSsmau-elect Timothy =. Srlli.
van. following his custom. will be tha
host of dwellers in Bowery lodgin,r
houses on Christmas Gay, only il will he
on an even larger scale than in previoIs
years. The arrangement contemplate,
the feeding of no less than $500 persons
The menu will consist of turkey and
other fowl, salads, coffee. tea, beer and
the usual accOmpanimentS of desserts
and entree Besides the dinner thos"
who accept Mr.. Sullivan's hospitality will
be given pair of warm socks.
The steel wagon and automobile tracks
on Murray street, between Broadway and
Church street are completed They were
declared by the truckmen to be of i'm
mense advantage in relieving the haul
over the granite blocks. That these rails
are preferable to asphalt pavement is the
belief OF automobiiists The horses get =,
good footing on the blocks and the rails
offer little resistance to the wheels
j. pierpont Morgan knows how to han
PLY hit his friends in more places than
one. Often his Christmas gifts hit THEN.
pockets This year, he is aiming nj an
other target. He has purchased ten bar
relS of the finest American apples. and
tHcE are aHeduy upon the sea, consigned
for Christmas uses to the Paris branch
of ]. p Morgan Il Co. Those French
men will feel now as though they never
before knew how real apple tastes.
Within three years the largest trans
atlantic liners will be able to enter New
York through the Ambrose channel.
Secretary Root has directed Brig Gen.
Gillespie chief of engineers. to contract
for a new dredger. which will cost about
100000. The contract for the dredging
Of the channel is held by the Onderdonk
Company of New York II has been at
work on it for three years, and has NOT
done much more than to take out the
minimum requirement of 100000 cubic
500 feet %de apd ef fnTt for
deep, and when completed will make a
saving of at least seven miles for ocean
steamships which at present come in
past Sandy Hook.