Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-07-12


OF the West Thrty-seventh street pre-
clnct call him the athletic cop" has
fallen heir to fortune of about $50. 900
through the death at Nashua. y. H..
OF William McCutcheon, a bachelor
uncle.
Liebler & Co, who will bring Flea
nora Duse to this country this fall for
a tour, have secured her consent to in
crease the number of performances from
hity, as first stipulated, to 100. The
Itinerary mas not been arranged, but the
hrst performance will be given in Bos-
ton.
The Roman Catholic diocese of New
York has given $4,000 this year to
Peters pence. At the time of the Pope's
Jubilee Archbishop Corrigan sent him a
check for $4,000 as New York's contri-
outlon TO Peters pence. The archbishop
expected that the generosity of the die
cese would approach this sum.
Plans have been filed at the bureau of
buildings, Manhattan, for an eighteen
story brick hotel to be erected at the
southwest corner of Fifth avenue and
tlIty-hfth street being 125 feet front by
1903 feet deep The Fifty-fifth street
company, 100 Broadway, is the owner.
Ihe estimated cost is placed at $2,2J0-
600
Ernest Hogan, the 'unhlcached Amer
lean, who introduced Go Way Back
and Sit Down." and many other songs.
VII! be real star in the autumn. lie
will be seen in new piece called MY
Friend from Georgia" which was writ
ten by Allen Dunn. Il newspaper man
now in Honolulu. Words to several of
the songs which will be sung by Hogan
u yNvpit tpr,
negro poet.
Maj. Ira A.. Shaler died at the Presby-
terrain Hospital in New York as Il result
Of injuries received in the Rapid Transit
subway June II, when large rock which
had been looSened by blast fell on
him and broke his back. Maj. Shaier
was a civil engineer and held suhcon-
tract for building a portion OF tine tunnel
lie was born in New Jersey in 1862. edu-
Gated at Cornell and became a major in
the First United States volunteer engi-
neers.
George II. Phillips of Chicago. who
has figured prominently in a number of
recent corn deals, and by some Of his
friends IS known as the corn king,
has opened an office at is Beaver street
New York, and will have a branch ut
the Hoffman house connected by direct
wire with his principal Office in Chicago.
X Is understood to be Mr.. Phillips in
tention to alternate between here and
Chicago, though most of mis- time win
be spent in the latter city.
Mrs. Howard Gould is planning to he
come a cave dweller. She Is laying out
at Sands Point, 4 short distance from
New York. Il very picturesque country
seat, to cost $4,000 Old grottoes and
rock gardens viii be scattered over the
place somewhat on the order of some
estates which Mrs. Gould saw while on
tour through Germany and France.
There will also be cave, ferns in a
picturesque ravine and vast cunscrva-
tory similar in shape to those at Lynd-
hurst, Miss Helen NJ. Gould's place at
lrvington.
Surrounded by houses which have
closed shutters and drawn curtains be-
cause their occupants are at their SUM
mer homes, the great house of Col. John
Jacob Aston. at $40 Fifth avenue. is still
open, and Mrs. AstOr is deferring her
visit to their home Mt Newport to a
later period than ever before. All this
is because the St0rk is lowering over the
Astor mansion and may alght with his
burden on one of the days in July. AZ
Tuxedo the only child of the AsTorS. VII
liam Vincent Astor. row 10 years old. is
spending the summer with the tutor.
goyerneSS and nurse and retinue OF
servants. with a full equipped stable.
Later he may 20 to Newport, where the
father and mother will be seen before
the close of the season