Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-03-28
IN GAY NEH YORK.
Scenes and Incidents Of Everyday
Life In the Paris of America. -

Cornelius Vanderbilt has resigned as a
member Of the civil service commission
because of III health and the demands
of his private affairs.
Mrs Agnes Booth Schoeffel. who de-
serted the stage several seasons ago and
has since been society leader in Boston.
has consented 10 appear in "OId Love
Letters ri the Clara Morris benefit.
James H. Connolly well known as a
newspaper man and writer on theosOph-
zeal subjects, died of apopleSy at his
home. He was born i'll 1910 in Pitts
burg. Tie served on newspapers in n!
the large cities of the country.
John G. Fisher. manager of the Silver
Slipper Company, suspects that the per-
son VINO sent him the bottle of poisoned
champagne on January % is woman
formerly employed in his companies as a
singer. Ii Is possible that the woman
may be arrested. The Chicago police
have her under surveillance.
The care taken by Nat Herreshoff,
the designer. in preventing pictures be-
ing taken of the new cup defender. was
shown the other day when newspaper
photographer succeeded III taking a
snapshot of part OF the yacht Here
EAiHAAs G'F4AAS A-AAis save AAsi9H- p Ia sui
ceeded in smashing the Place ami cam
era.
Melissa Phelps Dodge, widow of Will
liam Earle Dodge, metal manufacturer
and philanthropist. died at her home in
her ninety-tifth year For more than if
ty years she had lived in the same house.
and many notable religious andcharatible
gatherings have been held there. Her
husband died just twenty years ago. For
several years Mrs. Dodge has been in
feeble health.
Gen Schuyler Hamilton. 4 classmate
of Gen. Grant at West Point and a dis
tinguished veteran of the Mexican and
Civil wars, died at his home here in his
eighty-third year. Gen. Hamilton was
the father of Robert Raw Hamilton. who
was mysteriOusly killed some years ago
in the Snake river country in the North
west. Another son, Schuyler Hamilton.
Jr., survives him.
One of the most elaborate funerals
which Coney Island ever witnessed was
that of Robert Sutherland. friend of the
late John \. Mckane and brother of JUS
tlcc Kenneth Sutherland. who went 10
prison with the redOubtable politician of
Gravesend. The floral decorations which
filled the house of the Sutherlands. in
Surf avenue, were valued at $4,000.
teen feet high.
Many children and many other children
of Il larger growth are visiting the largo
lake in Central park to obtain a view of
the SIX black-necked swans that have
been brought from Europe to sport on
American waters. They are the first OF
this variety to make public appearance
in New York. At first they We're shy of
the thirty odd American swans on the
lake, but after day or 50 cordial friend
snip has been established.
James Armstrong, the New York the
atrical manager, has obtained a twenty
one year lease Of the new $4,000 thea
ter which the knights of Columbus are
building in New Rochelle. The new
playhouse will seat 1900 people. The
stage is exceeded in size by only three
theaters ia New York city, and for this
1t to use IN trying out new plays previous
to their first night in the metropolis
Intense excitement over the climax of
Resurrection. which he was rewrit-
ing for Miss Blanche Wa sh. is thought
to have caused the death of Gator Hev-
erin, the playwright, wno died in his
apartments III the Normandie here re-
Gently. DIR. Walsh, the house physician,
announced that he had died from heart
disease. He had written several plays,
the most successful being "Nell Gwynn."
Mrs. Addie Heverin, his mother, is a
woman of wealth at Dover, Del.
The engagement is announced of Mar
shall o. Roberts. formerly of New York
but now subaltern of the Scots Guards
in the English army, to Miss Irene
Helen Murray, daughter of Sir George
Herbert Murray. Marshal 0. Roberts is
the son of Mrs. Ralph Vivian, widow Ut
the late Marshal O. Roberts of New
York, who married Col. Ralph Vivian
Of the Scots Guards, in 1892. Her son
by her first and American husband was
brought up in England, has become a
British subject and is now an officer Of
the English army.
At the continuation Of the sale Of the
art collections of the late Clarence King,
William II. Fuller. Theodore q. Well
and II. Victor Newcomb large prices
We're paid for many pictures, $lOS,O9l
being realized. which being added to the
amount Of the previous sale, S3O,20J,
brings the total up to S13S.3oo. The
highest price of the sale. $1,000 was
realized on a landscape by NarcisSe Yer
gle Siaz. Representatives Of senator
Clark and J. PieYpont Morgan are said
to have secured several of the offerings.
Mrs Ann Augusta Thomas, widow of
Gen. Samuel Thomas and her children,
Edward II. Thomas and Mrs. Il. LiYingS-
ton Beeckman. have given $4,000 to the
Manhattan Eye Ear aud Throat Hospi-
tai to endow ward Of ten beds. TO be
known as the samuel Thomas Memorial
Ward" in the proposed lew hospital
building for that institution. Mr.. Thorn
as and Mrs Beerkman have made Q gen.
erous settlement On their brother. Harold
3. Thomas, who was practically dlsln-
her.ted by the provisions Of his father
will
Mayor low drove the first spike
for the t,acks of the subway in
Manhattan. The spike was pulled up
immediately afterwards and was present
cd 20 his hoior as a souvenir Of the occa-
sion, The CEREMONY took place in the
presence Of distinguished party of the
municipal go-ernmeut at SiXtieth street
and Broadwa! The underground Sta-jou
III that point is nearly completed and thu
tunnel, or thai section Of the subway, j,
quite complete' the rails lay for a hun