Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-05-10

i ehDezzied over SI300 in government
funds while acting as postmaster of
/ York police.
1 Stanton Guion, a son of one of the
founders of the defunct Guion Steamship
line, who attempted to commit suicide in
his apartments, 225 Fifth avenue on
i April =. sueeumbed to his self-inficted
| injuries in Bellevue Hospital
j The engagement of Robert Collier and
/ Miss Sarah Van Allen is announced
again, and this time it seems with au-
| tnorlty. Mr.. Collier is the son OF Peter
=. Collier and Miss Van Allen is the
Youngest daughter of j. j. Van Allen and
the granddaughter of Mrs. William AS
i tor.
/ Announcement has been made of the
| engagement of Miss ,Efiie Caesar. daugh-
Ter or Mrs. Herman ID. Caesar OF Staten
island, to Reginald E. Bonner. Miss
/ caesar is granddaughter of the late
/ Capt. Jacob Vanderbilt, brother of Com
modore Cornelius Vanderbilt. Mr.. Bon
/ ner was graduated from Princeton in the
| class of '94
! Santos-Dumont, the aeronaut, sailed
Tor France on the steamship Savoie. Be
/ fore sailing the inventor said Il have
not received an order for machines since
! l nave been here, but if anyone will give
| me million dollars to build a machine
| / will make an airship that will cross
1 the ocean IN two days and have ca
paeity of 100 passengers"
1.-THE entire sum of 1925. 900 needed to
| secure John ID. Roekefeller's conditional
! gift of S125,000 has been secured within
/ the three weeks set aside for inst G.r-
| pose was the announcement made by
! Lieut.. Gov. Timothy l.. Woodruff. as
| president Of the board OF trustees of
| Adeiphi College, as the meeting held in
the trustees room of the college.
| There is n guest ut the Waldorf Asto-
| ria who is known there as prince Hugo
| ohenohe of Berlin. His room is on
| the fourteenth floor. The number is
| l453l2. 1t is so small that the prince
| has 10 20 out in the hall to comb his
| luxuriant and feroeious whiskers When
| Prince Henry was here he had suite
on the second floor. But Prince Hohen-
| lohe is paying his own expenses.
In the Sleepy Hollow cemetery on the
graves Of her father and mother and not
| far from the tomb Of Washington Irving.
whom she had known IN her youth, and
| whose work had always fascinated her,
| Miss Maria Hoffman. 40 years old, has
ended her existence with morphine. Miss
Hoffman's mother belonged TO an old
Southern family. Her means had grad
ually dwindled away and she ended her
| life rather than seek aid from friends
These are exceedingly bleak DAYS in
the theatrical district, and half dozen
| managers are feeling exceptionally blue.
Several days ago someone on the sin
side" in Wall street gave out sure
thing on International Power. 1t was
related that the stock could be bought at
| a reasonable figure, but that within the
| fortnight ii would rise to heights never
| before anticipated by those in The
| know" The information was of the di-
rect order, and that half dozen fastened
to get in on the ground floor But as
International Powr, has fallen up to
date over 100 points it is probable that
plans which had been already mapped
out for summer outings by the haf
dozen will now have TO be Cancelled.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt has placed 4.
window in Trinity Church, NewIort, as
a memorial to her husband. 1t is on the
north side next to the window in mem
orr of Mrs. Mary Rhinelander Stewart,
| and about opposite the pew which Mi
Vanderbilt occupied for many years.
The, window represents a Christian
knight seated and holding III his right
hand a sword. the point of which rests
on the ground, and in his left shield.
upon which is n cross, resting on the left
knee. The inscription beneath the fgur"
reads:
...........,,....,.. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
To the glory of God and in loving
memory of Cornelius Vanderbilt
born, 1S43: died, 1899 Wherefore
take unto YOU the whole armour of
God.
%.....-...... .......... ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
There is nothing in the window to in.
dictate that it is the gift Of Mrs. Wander
bilt
Tests to snow that automobiles in the
city streets are not as dangerous as ye-
hicles drawn by horses were held in
Riverside drive before committee from
the board of aldermen and a crowd OF
officials and members of the AutoncbIis
Club of America The object OF the
tests was TO persuade the aldermen to
consider favorablv an ordinance raising
the automobile speed limit in the city.
Fifteen automobiles were used in the
tests, and run at a speed varying from
eight to twenty miles an hour A four
in-hanJi owned by Harry Payne Whitney
and driven by a professional whip was
sent for one-tenth of a mile at speed of
eighteen miles an hour. The driver
Stopned it in ninety-one feet. \ racing
machine running at nineteen miles an
hour was stopped in thirty-four feet. a
Victoria going ut the rate OF eight miles
an hour was stopped in eighteen feet.
and the racing auto moving AT the same
rate of speed was stopped in five feet.
sRing ont the old, ring in the new.
The trend of business allows nothing 70
stand in it's way Churches. famous
residences palatial IN their days
are being torn down and big business
houses are taking their places. The lat
est nush of trade has hit the well-enown
block on the west side of Lafayette
Mace, once called the ColonnaGe hotel
Jehn Jacob Aston built il fifty years ago.
n VAS in its day what the Waldorf As
foria is al the present time. 1t derived
lis name frem the fourteen huge Carin-
thiaa columns in its facade. No stone
win be left uncrushed. but these fourteen
monolhhs They are TO be purchased
rs private subscription and viii be util-
/ iyed in the decorative scheme being
planned for Bryant park. The purchase
win pominally be made by the Municipal
Art Society They will probably be SET
IN long row or peristyle along the west