Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-11-08
N GAy NEW YORK.
Scenes and Incidents Of Everyday
Life 10 the Paris Of America. -

Life 10 the Paris Of America. -
Victor Herbert. composer and orches-
a leader. has been awarded $4,000
,amages because a New York musical
magazine branded him as a plagiarist
Mr.. Herbert sued for $4,000.
Mrs. Douglas Robinson. sister of
resident Roosevelt, who has just ar
vi ed from Europe, was seriously ill dur
az the entire voyage and is still Il very
sick woman. She is under the care of a
physician.
One of two Yorkshire terriers Mt the
dog show has his hind feet done up in
blue ribbon stockings. The attendant
who was brushing and combing the dog
coiffure said that that was so he
shouldn't tear his hair with his back
t0enails."
An arrangement has been made by
which the Cornelius Vanderbilt heirs will
pay $4,000 in the aggregate on the es-
state. This is prorated ON the personal
property inheri+ar &c of Alfred, Reginald.
Gladys and AEce, each of whom in
herited 100000.
Thomas Embley Osmun, better known
nnnder his pen name of Alfred Ayres,
died, following an apOplectic shock. sus-
tanned September %. Mr. Osmun was
in his seventy-seventh year. His best
known works were "The Verbalst,"
The Orthoepist," and "Some Ill Used
Words" He was also writer on elocu-
ton and acting.
to visit relatives in Hot Springs. She
was told by her physician, DR.. John f.
Stillwell, that the sooner she could get
out of New York the better, and she de-
tcrmined at once that she was well
enough to undertake the trip. She be-
gan preparations Immediately and was
soon on her way.
The demand for oil stoves is increasing
with amazing rapidity in New York. OF
course, the coal strike did it. Every
calamity, from the Pelee eruption to the
forest fires i'll Pennsylvania has been
charged to Mr.. Baer and Mr.. Mitchell.
In the meantime the city rests under
cloud of smoke, and it hardly seems like
" that it will fold up the black tent
before Christmas.
A new form of thief has made his APP
pearance in New York. In some way OBJ
tanning a cap like that of an eXpreSSman
with metal plate and number upon it,
he stops at any store before which thevo
Is sign asking an express company to
call for goods He then enters the store.
receives the goods, receipts for them ana
carries them off, and that is the last the
merchant hears Of them.
Fire was discovered in the upper part
of the Mills building. in the Wall street
annex, and in the central part of the
financial district. When the fremcn ar
rived flames We're bursting from the
i md tfy,+ lf,,,
ury is across the street, and j. +. Nor
CAMS office is only two doors away.
Hard work prevented the spread of the
flames. The loss is estimated at $4,000.
After lying buried for over a century.
the famous English prison ship Jersey,
in which several hundred Americans
were martyred while the British held
New York in the days of the revolution.
has been accidentally discovered at the
Brooklyn navy yard by the workmen
VINO are putting up the launching stays
for. the battleship Connecticut. His
tOrical societies have been searching for
the Jersey for fifty years. The half
burned hull of the ship is lying under
twelve or fourteen fee of dirt and wa
ter, and is IN perfect condition.
The city of New York owns a farm
on Staten Island and employs an official
farmer who runs it. Among other things.
he has raised this year twenty THOUSAND
c2bhages, one of which has Deen sent to
the office of the charities commissioner
as an evidence of what Staten Island
soil can do. The head weighs twenty
pounds and one ounce. The products of
the farm are used in the city's charitable
institutions.
Preparations for the construction of
the highest building in New York,
planned for the southwest corner of
Broadway and Thirty-third street, have
been resumed, and it was announced
that the site will be cleared after the
expiration of existing leases on May l..
The new structure will be known as
La Grande. 1t will he 4 30-Story office
building, the full height of which from
the level of the street will be 400 feet.
Il is estimated by professed expert
that should all the Inhabitants of the
great buildings on Wall street, near
broadway, chance to leave their offices
ut the same moment, there would only
he standing room for about one-tourth
81 them. In other words. the population
n Wall street between Broadway and
Broad street would be sufficient to tiIl
lhe street four times over. The crowd
ing Of the black hole in Calcutta seems
'ntiinS by comparison.
'teFl trust row Is TO De enFlcneu TN
I5ur new architectural gems. William
:" Leeds, the tinplate KING. is to build
q million dollar mansion within a stones
llrow Of Mr.. Carnegie's house. and three
GJher houses, which approximate a mil
non IN value, are to so up just around
we corner in Eighty-ninth street. Prop
et'y around this spot is at present quoted
~ fabulous figures. An offer of less
ulan $4,000 per foot for sites anywhere
at 1t is regarded as a joke by real
estate men.
= All speculation concerning the date Of
tae wedding Of Reginald G. Vanderbilt
qua Miss Cathleen Nelson has been
SFpqght to an end by member of one
~ me families. who said that it had been
gfclded that the ceremony would take
page in January at the home of the
gIla q, mother. Mrs. Frederick Nelson.
1 I ruth avenue. Together with Mr.. and
BITS Alfred g. Vanderbilt Reginald c.