Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-01-18

! tAhNA anu VII MT y II hbllrAtA y ~ II al Il
standstll. Electricity viii be the motive
/ power.
| II an the theateIs, hippodromes and ex-
| hibition arenas now planned are opened
| on time next fall sew York will have
more realty devoted to these purposes
! than any other city in the world. Three
| hipnodTOmcs are planned. More navel IN
many respects viii be the exhibitions 70
| b. given in Il great building 10 be erected
! in Central Park, west. The buyers of
| this property are a syndicate Of Havana
| spurtsmen and capitalists. Their purpose
! is to introduce to American audiences
/ the Spanish game, "Pei0ta, or 'Jaial-
| lei game that is familiar to the whole
| Spanish-speaking race, and takes the
| place of baseball and cricket for them.
| In Havana it attracts immense crowds
of spectators and gives occasion to very
] heavy betting. The game was much adj
mired by the American officers stationed
| in Cuba in recent years, and was favored
| by them as an athletic exercise for the
| American soldiers. ''Pelota" is a game
| combining many of the features OF hand
| ball and basketball
The strenuous life of New York gives
evidence Of its presence in startling ways.
! One of the most marked outward mani
| festations that the New orkcr gives OF
| the high nervous tension under which he
1 lives IS HIS udbLl VI ttiNA4is hipNA " HIM
self in the street. 1t is only form Of
| nervousness that is due not only TO the
! high pressure at which so many New
| Workers are kept but to the noise OF the
| street traffic. When the rush and rum
| BILE of the streets are so great that Il
man cannot hear himself think" he
speaks his thoughts aloud. 1t is only
| rarely that woman is observed doing
| this Sometimes the man who is talking
to himself if he is happy, will humble
only phrases and half sentences audlbiy.
| Ii he is angry or deeply concerned he
will speak steadily and sometimes make
| emphatic gestures. But nearly all OF
the men who talk aloud in the streets
have their business affairs uppermost in
their minds. and the word dollars" is
! the one that is oftenest heard.
1t is a stunning array of gowns that
| is presented at Days in "Froeks and
| Erills." and if a new name were desired
for the piece. "A Whirl of F'rocks'
would apty describe the almost piano.
ramic changes and display of feminine,
apparel that pass before the eye from the
| first act to the last. In the third act
which shows he interior of the establish
ment of Clothlde Miss Hilda Spong),
| fashionable societys most approved and
| favored modiste and "maKer OF gowns to
| royalty" is displayed the frock de resist
ance OF the play. This is a beautiful
! creation in white, originally made for
p. the Queen of Spain, the possession of
| which is ardently contended for by rival
social queens, enraptured with its raw
| ishing beauty, and which finally enables
| the victorious one to outshine her fair
rival in the chief social event of the sea
son. The unanimous opinion seems to
| be that more deliberate attempt to
| subordinate a play and players 20 n
| Wholesale display of toggery has never
| before been made.
Mr.. and Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt,
who are living this winter in the resi-
| denCe of Mrs. Vanderbilt's sister. Mrs.
| Ogden Goelet, Fifth avenue and Forty
ninth street, gave dinner Thursday
night. followed by a musicale There
were seventy covers and among the guests
We're Mrs; AstoT: Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. Ormc
| Wilson, r.. j Wilson, Jr., Mr.. and Mrs
| Clarence II. Mackay, Craig Wadsworth
| Mr.. and Mrs. William X. Vanderbilt
| The. dinner was served on small tables
in the dining room and conservatory,
where electric bulbs were placed in the
| foliage and arranged in hanging baskets.
Nine Sembrich. Jean Kubelik and Jean
| Gerardy were the artists who gave the
musical programme. Mrs. Vanderbilt
| wore pink velvet gown with steel trim
mings and lace. Her Jewels were dia-
monds. She received alone. After the
| dinner the guests entered the drawing
| room, where the musicale was enicyed
! New York is about to lose the beautiful
| and rich Countess Stavia who possesses
| collection of jewels said to be worth
| Sl.3oO.OO0 and gowns that a Queen might
! envy The countess has sold her house
1873 West Seventy-iirst street. VIII IRE she
reigned as the fascinating Mabel Tlton.
! Next week her household goods are to b
sold at auction. Then it is expected She
VIII take up her residence at her place on
me I'hames. opposite Cliyeden, William
| Waldorf Astor's seat The Countess STA
via married Charles Tilton in 1882. He
| died few years later and she went
| abroad. Paris and Monte Carlo vastly
! admired her beauty and her gems, Her
greatest admlrer was the son Of the rich
| est man in Greece. When at Monte Car
! 10 two years ago Count Stavia met her
and became infatuated with her. The
| rlch young Greek killed himself. She
! hurried tn this country. Count Stavi3
/ followed her, and after a brief and fer
/ vent courtship married eer in February,
| !SFJ- They went abroad, where the count
/ died in August, 1900. A captain in the
/ British navy is now said 10 be devoted 10
1 the countess, which may explain her in
] tentlon 70 live il England.
! The millionaire guests of the G0ulGS
/ ami the Manhattan Elevated railroad
! were assaulted with snow balls While on
their way to the new powerhouSe at Spv-
4 enty-hfth street and the East river the
/ other afternoon. They had gone uptowa
/ on the first electric train of the Manhat.
tan Elevated and when they took seats
! on The tops of Fifth avenue electric
/ stages At Eighty-hrSt street in order to
+ get good view they did not think they
! would invite assault. But the reckless
/ children in the upper east side Were
I having their fun and the miliOnaireF
Paid tribute As coach after coach rolled
through the streets east Of Second ave-
2ue they were pelted with snowhails,
I while fat policemen stood on corners aal
laughed. Snowbals ruined silk hats. ran
+ down millionaire neckS and filed the
7 Tops Of mllEonaires shoes. We will
y Know next time. and won't view tn
beauties OF that part of the country from
( the to2 Of anything" said one Of the vie
tins. Among those in the bnmbartl,-t
I vehicles We're Edwin Gould Howard
Geuld. John II. Rockefeller Jr.. L. 4.
Coffin. Clinton L. Rossiter, Josoph Hen
dirk. II. II. Nrecland and John Il. Nc