Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-11-29
IN GAY NEW YORK.
Scenes and Incidents Of Everyday
Lie in the Paris Of A nerica. >:

Joseph Sterling of the firm of Groes-
! beck X Sterling, bankers and brokers,
del at his home in Mamaroneck. He
| had been member Of the stock exchange
since 1877.
Prof. Alfred G. Compton of the de-
partment of physics has been selected rs
| acting president of the College of the
City of New York, in place of Gen. Alex
ander S. Webb, who has resigned.
! A. Nj. Palmer, one of the best known
/ theatrical men in the country and until
recently manager for Richard Mansfield,
lls seriously i'll with Bright's disease and
lt is thought unlikely that he will ever
lain be fit for active duty.
Verestchagin's painting, "Come On,
Boys!" is on view at the Astor gallery,
and those who wish to see the charge up
San Juan Hill by the Rough Riders will
have very good idea of it by looking
at this spirited, if somewhat idealized,
canvas of the great battle painter.
Plans have been filed at the bureau of
buildings, Manhattan, for four-story
and basement brick clubhouse, to be
erected at 10 Cannon street for Mrs III
c.. Potter. the wife of Bishop Potter,
as memorial to her late son, Edward
Clark. The cost is placed at $4,000.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt's lease of
Mrs. Prescott Hall Buffers house in
Park avenue, extends only until Febru-
airy, when she goes abroad with her hus-
band to join his yacht, the North Star,
for n cruise in the Mediterranean. About
the same time Mrs. Butler will return
from Europe and resume possession of
her house.
The mutability of all things is illus
trated by the announcement that the ir
| reverent hand of commerce will sweep
from existence one of the best known
landmarks of the Bronx, for the Casa
nova mansion, the scene of ante-belum
festivities of cotton kings aud later the
rendezvous OF Cuban dlibusters and store
house of munitions of war. is to disap-
pear to make room for n plaster mill.
LaDame aux Camelas is the belle of the
horse show, but she is lacking in the dis
tinction of being alone, as was the lovely
heroine of Dumas play. White is the
prevailing color and the cameia is the
popular flower. Even Ia" men affect It,.
Mrs. o. II. u. Belmont is responsible for
the fad of wearing a ring on the gloved
hand. The ring was of pearls and dia-
monds and was worn over 4 white glove
on the left hand.
There is another sleeping beauty" in
! New York. Adelia Mulligan is lying in II
hospital here in a trance which has al
ready extended over a period of % days.
] As in the case of Nellie Corcoran the
doctors are unable to arouse her. The
girl has recently come from Ireland and
occasionally she means: Take me 10
America" She is being nourished mo-
ohanically. but the doctors say that the
mortal coil is running close to the core.
George ]. Gould. Henry C. Frick and
other capitalists of this city, Philadelphia
and Pittsburg are believed to con-
template the establishment of new and
: exclusive summer resort on Two Mile
/ Beach island. three miles north of Cape
| May City, on the New Jersey coast Ap-
/ plication will he made ut once to the
state riparian board of New Jersey for
/ rights on Tia miles of water front
/ Work will begin as soon as the necessary
rights can be secured.
One enterpriSing young woman in New
4 York makes a comfortable income taking
/ care of the pet dogs of rich society wom-
! en-. Not only must dog in this class
have q tailor and hospital for his especial
: benefit, but he is becoming more fas-
/ tidious than Mother lIuhhard's remark
! able pet. He must be waited upon by q
manicure The young woman who makes
| a business Of this travels from house 20
( house by appointment TO make the dogs
/ toilet in q most complete fashion.
/ The sale Of spurious paintings credited
/ 10 men around whom the halo of fame
| rests is one of the thriving industries of
J New York. Those who have read Al
! nhonse Daudet'S les Immortales" will
/ he ut once familiar with the method o.
procedure followed. but ii may be added
/ chat the New York fakir exceeds in Gun
ming and resource the cleverest devices
I Of the Paris charlatan II is a matter
I Of record that some OF these spurious
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