Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-01-17

Joseph Jefferson forwarded Daniel
Frohman a check for 5000 as his contri-
button to the Georgia Cayvan restimo-
NAL.
NJ. Tbeobald Chartran. the French
painter. arrived on La Lorraine
from Havre. He comes to paint a por-
trait OF President Roosevelt.
Brighten. Eli Long of Plainfield, \.
j.. is dead. He served in the Civil war
and was twice breveted for gallantry.
He was for a time colonel of the Fourth
Ohio Cavalry. Gen. Long was born in
Kentucky in 1887.
Clyde Fitch has removed his collection
of curious and works of art, valued at
$4,000, to his country home in Connect
cut. near the Fairfield County Golf Club
The collection is the result of several
years careful selection.
Gen. Ferdinand F. Earle died at his
home, the Jumel mansion. He had been
i'll for long time Gen. Earle was at
different times proprietor of several ho-
tells in New York, including the Norman
die and the Netherlands.
There is some talk of a benefit for
Clara Morris, who may have to part with
the house at Y0nkers she had chosen fer
her declining years There is a mortgage
of about $4,000 on it. which she as vet
has been unable to pay.
A cablegram received by Henry Clews
from his son, Henry, Jr.. who is now in
Paris with his wife, conveyed the tidings
that the, Broad street banker was
grandfather. The newcomer is boy.
and has been named Henry Clews III.
Thomas MACPHERSON, one of the Oldest
Shipbuilders in this country. who had a
hand in building the cup-winning yacht
America half q century ago, is dead at
his home in Williamsburg. Mr.. Mac
Pherson died of broken heart. his fam
lily say, caused by the death of his wife
ten days ago.
Weber q Fields celebrated the twenty
fifth year they have been together on the
stage the other night. They began as a
boy song-and-dance team in an east side
concert hail. doing twenty-three turns
Il day for So per week. a few years
afterward they headed a road company
of their own, and their success is a mat
ter Of theatrical history.
Passengers on La Lorraine had an I'M
usual experience in midocean. Early in
the morning a big sea came aboard,
smashed the windows of the smoking
room, flooding it and adjoining apart
mentS. When the passengers appeared
after breakfast the smoking room was Il
skating rink in which weird perform
ances were accomplished by such as ven
tured on the icy floor.
Mrs. Trella Evelyn White, successful
magazine writer. is dead. She was the
wife Of George Emmons White, son of
Rear Admiral Edwin White, u. s. N,
retired. Mrs. White was Miss Foltz be-
fore her marriage two years ago. She
was California girl, and came to New
York eight years ago TO engage in liter
airy pursuits, following her graduation
from st. Jose University.
Walter Haynes Brainard a member
of the produce exchange and the firm of
Brainard Bros. is dead at Minturn Hos
pital from pneumonia and diphtheria He
was born in Salem, o., forty-three years
ago and was q member of the class of
1876 al Andover. In 1877 he came to
New York and entered the employ of the
firm of which he later became a MEM
Der. He will be buried in Salem.
Miss Pansy Roosevelt, the 1S-year-old
daughter of John E. Roosevelt. a cousin
of the President, is under treatment for
nervous prostration in a private santa
rum. The young woman is great
friend of Miss Alice Roosevelt. Her
home is i'll Bayport, l.. l. She is an ac-
complished horse woman and golf play
err. Her affection has been kept a secret
from all but members of the family and
intimate friends.
1t is now nearly a month since Mabel
Gilman mashed an Oriental prince or
thrashed a stage-doOr Johnny, but then
she had a diamond set in her thumb
nail, and that helps the press agent
Q
her remarkable fad made known just
vet. 1t 'leaked out" though, because
she reported the loss of the diamonds to
the police-the police who report at al
most every place but at their stations.
In the homes of many wealthy New
Workers. there are organs with electric
attachments 50 that they can be played
from any part of the house. William {.
Whitney has an enormous organ which
was built especially for MIN and was set
in the wall while the house was being
built. The Vanderbilt home also has an
instrument with electrical attachment SO
that it can be played from any one OF
several rooms of the big mansion at
Fifth avenue and Fifty-seventh street.
Russell Sage has a valet to accom-
pany him to and from his Office and to
look after him in other ways, and also
walks with cane. That he has at
last succumbed to tastes of luxury IS Il
surprise to his friends, who think he
may buy an automobile and a box at the
opera and enter a bowling tournament.
In speaking of the matter recently Mr..
Sage said: Eyes, when | go out now the
man goes with me. He was with me
during my illness. and Mrs. Sage and
my friends insist that he accompany me
when | go out or down to business. |
am feeling as well as usual and really
am very hearty. l could get along by
myself all right, but of course whc? my
wife wants the attendant to 60 with me,
why l allow him to DO so. l am Il
pretty vigorous old man yet.
Talking aboHt graft" and "grafters,
the other day. Big Bill Dcvery re-
marked Say. the people as talk about
graft are the gingerbreads. If YOU HAD
the right scent sou could go off ON hop
loo after grafterS some night. and land
long ways from the Bowery. Some Of
the ablest grafters are in that high