Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-01-03

Scheder, in charge of the Kaiser's Venc
ed. Later he went as medical officer
aboard Lady Randolph Churchilfs hos
pltal ship, the Maine.
After forty-seven years the Union Club
left its Old home at Fifth avenue and
Twenty-first street The clubs hand
some new home on the northeast corner
of Fifth avenue and Fifty-frst street will
probably be ready some time in Janu-
airy, though no date has vet been set
Tor the opening. Furniture and appur-
tenances of the old house were sold at
auction on the premises.
Michael Madigan. fifty years ago the
Beau Brummel of the Bowery. is dead
MadiSaIi, who in the early days was
known as the Count" set the style for
the sporting fraternity, making two trips
TO Paris and London each year to repleu-
ish his wardrobe. Reverses came, and Il
year ago he was found destitute by Il
friend. He was sent to Bellevue Hos
pital, where he died. He was 81 years
old.
Robert c. Ogden, the partner of John
Wanamaker, announces that it is intend
ell as soon as practicable to begin the
erection of large new store on the block
bounded by Broadway, Fourth avenue,
Eighth and Ninth streets. Mr.. Wanna
maker has been acquiring this property
for some years. A ten or twelve-story
building will be erected and will be Occu-
pied entirely by the Wanamaker bust
ness.
The new building of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art was formally opened on
Monday. Bishop Satterlee of Washing
ton offered prayer and Park Commits
sloncr Wilcox than delivered the build
ing over to the trustees OF the museum,
remarking in his address that it was the
fourth dedicat0ry service held since 1850,
when the museum began its history Pres
ident Rhinelander accepted the building
for the trustees and Mayor Low declared
it open to the public.
Russell Sage is becoming dreadfully
prodigal. He came downtown the other
day in an automobile. At noon he went
in the auto" to the Western Union
building, where he has been in the habit
of taking his lunches. This is the first
time Mr.. Sage has ever come downtown
in an auto" it is said. 1t has been
rarely, if ever, that he has used even a
carriage in coming from his home. 1t
is his custom to use the 81" road, of
W iAb(H ne Is one Ol Inc OWupES.
The steamship La Sovoie, after one Of
the most tempestuous voyages across the
Atlantic ever experienced by anyone on
board. reached port with its lifebOats
stove i'll by the gale and seas and several
casualties on the surgeons list. For
three days the propellers were out of the
water half Of the time. Capt. p0irCt said.
Some of the passengers were made near
~ insane by the strain and one seaman
was saved from death ny his fellows
forming a living rope and rescuing him
from the constantly deluged deck.
The heirs of the late Hugh O'Nein
have sold the dry goods store known as
ONeins. between Twentieth and Tween
ty-hrst streets en- Sixth avenue, to Will
liam c. Strange. manager of the bust
ness, and lie in turn has sold it for 49,
$50, 900 to the United States Realty and
Construction Company. The heirs take
back a mortgage for S1,T00,0G0 at 4 per
cent. The store is to be leased for TWEEN
ty years ut S100O0O a year to Il corpora
ton that takes the stock of dry goods
and general merchandise for 100000.
Col. John Jacob Astor and his cousin,
William Waldorf Astor. have arranged
to sell for 100000 eighty east side
building lots, which were just 100 years
ago a minor portion of Il farm. for
which the founder of the house of Astor
paid $4,000. 1t is estimated that the
farm land of a century ago is now worth
S5,O00,000. The property comprises two
city blocks, lying between Avenue 4 and
First avenue and Fourteenth and Six
teenth streets. 1t is occupied by tene-
ment buildings put up by tenants, who
are to have the first chance TO buy.
Under the incognito of Mrs Paul
Kobe, the virtual queen Of a group Of
South Sea islands and one of the half
dozen wealthiest women in the world
with her husband and grandson, is a
New York visitor. Her wealth is in the
neighborhood of S20,000,000 and she is
the lawmaker for nearly 100000 island
2rs who only a score Of years ago We're
among the fiercest cannibals in the
world. This remarkable woman is En-
ma, known among her dependents in the
Bismarck Archipelago as their queen and
herself princess of royal blood Of
Samoa She is on her way home from
Germany. where she has been negotiat-
ing for the sale TO a syndicate for So
OO0 600 Of about one-c;Ehth Of her pos
sessions It is her hope that within the
next FIVE years she may be able to dis
pose of all her interests in the archipc-
ago and spend the remainder of her life
travelling. with a residence Oh the Ha-
waiian islands.
Marie Louise Wimsatt. better known
as Marie Wilson Of the original 'Floro-
dora" sextet. who is said to have won a
fortune of $4,000 in Wall street Oh
aimed decree Of divorce from her hus-
band. r. Henry Wimsatt. Wimsatt was
a government clerk in Washington when
he first met Marie Gamble, who became
his wife They eloped and the bride soon
went upon the stage, taking the name
Of Marie Wilson Her first success was
in tThe Belle OF New York" Then. as
end girl in the "Florodora" sextet, she
danced into n fortune She retired from
the stage to buy a $4,000 diamond neck
lace and a villa on the banks of the
Potomac.
Considerable comment was occasjoned
bv the report that Herbert Gresham has
replaced Ben Teal - stage manager Of
Mr. Blue Beard" the new musical OK
t-avaganza soon to be produced by klaw
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