Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-10-18
N CRY NEW YORK.
Scenes and Incidents of Everyday
Life in the Paris Of America. =:

II Life in the Paris Of America. -
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The Allen. 'the pool king" wha is
suffering from mental trouble, was taken
TO SAM alfum.
Gen. Alexander Stewart Webb has re-
signed from the presidency of the Col
lege of the City of New York lie has
Deen president of the college since 1863.
\ new recreation pier is to be built
| on the East river. This will make The
eighth pier Of this type in New York
All are fitted with conveniences for the
public.
The Waldorf-Astoria uses 100 tons of
hard coal day, and the hotel has been
paying $50 ton, or $1,000 a day. for its
coal. 1t has 800 tons in it's bins, for
which it paid $50 ton.
Robert Livingston Beekman and Miss
Eleanor \. Thomas, daughter of Gen.
Samuel l.. Thomas, were married on
the other afternoon at the Towers. the
| Thomas country seat, at Ardsley-on-the-
Hudson, by Rev. Mr.. Ingham.
New Yorl; jewelers. say there issa boom
| on in precious stones. The appraised
s,alue OF stones imported since the begin
ming Of the year has reached SIG 230.t00,
and at the rate that they axe now coming
| IN before the year closes the figures will
approach close TO $30,000,000.
Here" says the humorist in "saly
in Our Alley lis the most valuable relic
in my shop. 1t was once called an
| thracite more commonly known as coal
| Ii will cost you $1,000" isn't that a
rather big price," asks the customer.
We'll I'll throw in a lump of gold"
answers the Shopkeeper. Then its to
laugh
/ The board of estimate has evolved a
new method of measuring the snow and
| ice. l'Ee depth of each fall is to be
measured on the ground, and the amount
carried off calculated by the area cleared.
| This is held to be more reliable than
| keeping account of the loads carried. and
a large number of tally clerks can be
dispensed with.
Surrogate Thomas has granted ancil-
| larry letters OF administration on the es-
| tate OF the late john w Mackay who
died in London on July 20, to Mr.. Mac
| kay $ son Clarence. The petition states
that the estate of Mr. Mackay in the
state OF New York amounts to $500 600
and there are no creditors, either in this
state or elsewhere.
"a When Mr. Carnegie returns from Scot
land he will have submitted to him a
| play entitled Robert Burns" by Fitz-
gerald Murphy, the New York play
| wright. Mr.. Murphy understands that
the laird is an enthusiast on all that per
| tains to ScOtland's sweetest bard. and he
! hopes to interest him in an adequate pro
duction of the play
Members of the New York sporting
| fraternity say that PittsburS Phil has
| won so much money in the past two
months that he will either be obliged to
! build a warehouse or make n demand
on the treasury department that it issue
notes of the $4,000 denomination, so
that he may be enabled to crowd his win
| nings into an ordinary safety deposit
| box.
| The Partisan habit of holding the skirt
! high above the shoetOps. which has not
! heretofore been considered dcCorous by
| American women, is beginning to obtain
| among the ultras' of fashion. In fact,
| it is said that modistes are now putting
| permanent tucks in petticoats, ostensibly
| to give freedom in walking. If this new
| fad had only isolated devotees it might
| be dismissed with the old saw. 'One
| swallow doesn't make a summer but
| then lots of them are to be seen in Fifth
avenue these days.
| Nearly twenty lawyers are engaged i'll
! the Big%arB Bennett case. and about =
! half dozen Of them have already fled
| claims for fees. two of them asking for
| $1,000 each. As the whole estate, free
! from debt, will amount to only half
/ million or less. it looks as though there
would he poor pickings even for the win
ner. 1t seems to be another case Of
| the two fellows who jointly found an
| oyster and. after quarrel over the