Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-05-16

against the peddlers OF frankfurter,
They say that on warm evenings thr,.
can secure no sleep until after midnigh+
because of the cries of these yenders
who waylay the late citizens with proffor
of their wares. A committee has caIIed
upon the chief of police with a demand
for relief.
Reginald c. Vanderbilt is to have
road built for him by the cooperation -
the town of Portsmouth, where his
Sandy Point farm is situated. The town
authorities are to pay for half of tb,
construction and he for the other baif
1t was Mr.. Eanderbilt'S own propoSition
as he desired to have Sandy poin; ave,
nue., which runs from The main road ;.
mis- farm, a good highway. 1t is mile
long and viii cost $4,000.
Thrcngs in Park row the other after
noon Witnessed an incident typical al Tho
subway disgers' reign. \ wagon ladru
with six tons of coal and drawn hy a
heavy delivery team suddenly dgobpej
out of sight before the eyes OF Tia
crowds. The subway temporary roof
had caved in ct Il pOHlrv a'firesre hundreds
Of heavy electric cars pass daily. 1t wasH
t0SS-up of chance that coal wagon aud
not car loaded with Messengers to,l-
.he 30-foot drop. No on,s was hurt
Saratoga is to have the most modern
and most elegantly appointed hotel and
Santarium in the world. 1t is to hn
erected ON the site of the present Clarcn-
don hotel, which shortly will lie ra2ri
1t will he known as Salus court and cost
about S3000,000. 1t will be twelve
stories in height, with pavilion and wings
and be constructed OF steel. granite, brick
and terra Gotta, with a complete set If
baths in the basement SaiuS court aims
to be to the United States what Carlsbad
has been TO the world.
That big Bill Devery still has in
fluence III the police department. no one
can doubt if he visits ''the pump. When
Devery was chief this corner was his
headquarters at night. Policemen high
in the department. and others who no
longer have influence. can still he found
with him at "the pump" any night.
These Devery adherents are of all
grades from patrolman to inspector.
Captains and sergeants are nightly visit
ors and all seem to be nightly interested
in Big Bits" affairs.
A. Kimura, native of Okayama
Japan, says he has been engaged to build
a summer cottage in the Adirondacks for
the NanderhiltS. The residence is to be
entirely of Japanese architecture. on the
teahouse plan. The immediate surround
ngs. lawn. garden, etc. viii be typical
of the Flowery Kingdom. Nimura is a
carpenter and has planned and construct
ed several tea gardens in this country
He is also an expert cabinetmaker. and
much of his output has found 4 resting
place i'll the homes Of milionaireS lie
expects to leave for the Adir0ndackS in
two weeks.
News has come from Ita,} Of the
Il in, Of
the oldest and best known of American
artists in that city. He was born in
Norwich, y. V, in 1881, out in early life
removed to Coldwater. Mich. Among
his paintings are those of the ''Tombs OF
Keats + and Shelley" Sunset i'll the
Wanamaker Rock Gateway OF Lake
Pepin, Mimi, and "t;iornata Iii Iris
tezza" c'A Gloomy Day., now on cX-
hibition in the Roman Arts palace. This
last picture has been purchased by the
King of Italy.
The combination formed by the retail
meat dealers of New York for the pur-
pose of fighting the beef trust is reason
ably successful in its preliminary opera
tions. Permission has been secured by
legislation to locate an abattoir on the
Fast river within the city limits and the
work of construction will be Immediately
begun. The managers hope to make the
concern effective in the public service
The president of the company says about
T2S.000.000 pounds Of meat are CON
sumed in New York city yearly and that
a decrease of | cent a pound would mean
a saving to the public of $I,2S0,000 a
year.
Two specimens of the bilIpoSter's art at
its best or worst, according to ones point
of view, can be seen on Broadway. The
old Sturtevant house. which will be torn
down to make way for an office building.
is one specimen, and four buildings oppo-
site the Hotel Imperial make the other.
The buildings We're vacated on May !.
Early on that day the alert billposterS
appeared. They came in droves with
gallons of paste. They used ladders and
scaffolds and in little time had complete
ly changed the look of the buildings and
of the entire neighborhood. The build
ings are so completely papered that
droveS of people stop to look at them.
The paper will stay till the structures are
torn down.
y lot of newspaper boys sunk their
rel ort0rial siphons into big Bill
Deyery the other day and tried to draw
out some news about his daughters
elopement. The ex-cllief refused to part
with any information. ''Nothin' dom,
sports he said. That's the young peo-
pies affair. and | amt talkin' You can't
get a word from me. Annie and Ed lei
me in on the secret, and it wouldn't be
light for me to put everybody wise. On
the weddin, sports, I'm as quiet today
as the cook on a canal boat when the
captain is on n spree" Devery helped
his daughter and her husband to escape
from large crowd of their friends who
wanted 10 make their departure for their
Wedding trip more ceremoniOuS y! giving
them SercIade
Mr.. and Mrs. John w Gates sailed On
the Oceanic for vacation in Europe. Ii
is the intention of Mr.. Gates 10 remain
abroad until the fall He carried WltH
him Il chauffeur who has been in b.>
employ and a big racing machine suit
able for touring is ready for him at the
other side. In it Mr.. and Mrs GateS
will tour France and Germany. Nlt"I
this Mr.. Gates will go either to Carlsbad
or kissingen. He has not yet decided
and it will depend largely upon his t@lF
as to his decision on this respect. NJ
Gates said. II don't know what j. the