Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-02-07

cry and receive the emoluments thereof.
| Included IN the confession is an acknowI-
| edgEent by Reilly that he had stolen
many articles OF value from the bomo
OF Peter Whitney ut West Thjr.y.
| eighth street, where he had been EN-
pioyed also as second butler. Reilly
/ forged letters of recommendation in Alr
| mtneys name. which aided him in g.
curing employment with Mr.. Juillard
| ana Is held now to answer the charge of
forgery as We'll as that of grand larceny.
Police Commissioner Greena's ,ovr 81,
section, twelve hour patrol system has
gone INTO effect, and for the second time
III over thirty years the TWO platoon sys-
TEN mas been abolished. Under tho nav.
system one-half of the force will no off
uuty, one-slXth on reserve, and ona-tb;rJ
patfolling at all times. Police statis+i-
cans have figured out that there will
row be on duty at night 2l60 patro!men.
tSleI under the two platoon scheme
, Edward Ladterbach, president of the
- -tauIIce t'fau Opera Company, made a
statement OF what the exact situation in
regard to the future of opera at the Met
iopolltan Is. There will be no lanse of
a year IN the lease of the Netronolitan
opera House to the Maurice Gran ODero
company by the Metropolitan Opera and
Real Estate Company Mr.. Lanterhacb
Saio' and there will be a season of opera
next winter given in all probability by
me me haurlce Grau Opera Company
me retirement Of Mr.. Grau does not
hahe IT necessary for that comnany 10
80 ont of existence. He viii retain his
control Of the company, and the name Of
the organization will continue the same
Tor the next FIVE years"
For years the men who pick IN Uttered
paper IN the city parks went about bend
ing their hacks all day after the vngrant
scraps. Then a new man. on the second
uGI Oh ms engagement. came on the scene
WITH Il troomstick, in the end of which
he. had set a nail, with the sharpened
POINT downward. lie speared dozen
piece: OF paper while his comrades were
stopping for third as many, and never
bent rs back at all Now all the men
carry harpoons: and the worst of it was
mat the ingenious man never thought of
patent.
The SeventhDay Adventists are multi
by ing their vegetarian restaurants in
New York. All members of that sect
are nor vegetarians. but their religion
teaches the doctrine of vegetable diet
ana The strictly orthodox and conscien
tious follow the teaching The fact that
the proprletors Of two of these places
would not do business on Saturday has
h l., against the financial success of
tue restaurants, which are both i'm the
downtown shopping district. An uptown
pace recently opened is attracting large
patronage, and enthusiasts claim th0t
inns Is from the momentum gained by n
truth set rolling, bat in this they are pr0b-
ably too sangUine. The craze for noyelty
III New York is an important factor in
all new enterprises. Great success at-
tended the opening Of all kinds of foreign
tables De hote, but patronage has worn
away with the novelty. This is also true
OF Chinese restaurants. which no longer
nave the vogue they once had.
The Erie Railroad Company has ar
ranged for three handsome new ferry
boats to connect its station in Jersey
Clty with New York. Each is to be
double decked, 22l feet in length and GA
feet in width. There will be sealing
capacity of 300. the boats will be hand
S0mely finished and the cost will be
100000 each.
Vanderbilt Allen. who was recently re-
leased from a sanitarium, declares that
he is the victim of a great conspiracy
and that, during his incarceration. his
fortune has mysteriously disappeared
lie says his relatives refused to answer
any one of the hundred letters he Sent
them while in his sanitarium prison. Al
len Is the grandson Of Commodore Van
derbllt. He is recuperating his health as
boarder in the Egbert home at Bronx
vile. Accustomed to every luxury he
has, by his own admission. barely enough
to live on. Instead of the comforts of
country seat and a town house which he
has known, Mr.. Allen has a single small
room. To him this apartment is now bed
chamber, lounging room and studio.
The man who dramatized John Hays
poem, Jim Bludsoe.' and the astute
manager who invested couple of thou
sand in scenery are said to have sold out
the whole business to Sullivan, Harris Il
Woods for $4,000. The play has been
hit in New York ana goes to Boston
next week.
The young man who, according to the
box Office clerk at the Princess Thcater.
paid for two orchestra seats with a $1,000
bill the other night and did not come
back for the change, rs he said he would,
after the second act. nor even after the
show. has. according TO the same box
Office clerk. called at last for his
change. not. however, because he saw
the advertisement in a morning paper,
but just because he happened to rcmem-
Der that there was 1896 coming to him at
the theater. His name! Well, the box
office Gle X has forgotten that What
time did lie come for his change? Wen.
according to one empIoyc of the thegter.
in the morning; according to another. in
the afternoon: according to still another
in the evening. All passionate press
agents. whose passion is on the cbb are
advised to discover the particular brand
of pipe fodder used at the Princess
New York Sun.
Miss Julia Martin, chorus girl in
when Johnny Comes Marching Home. y
was bitten by pig on the right arm one
night and blood poisoning has since set
in. The pig was the property of the play,
and became savage because one Of the
supers tweaked his tail 10 make him
squeal. The wound forced Miss Martin
to stop playing and she finally consented
to try formallu as a cure. Tier physician
DIR. w. T. Bryne, made the injection Of
the germicide.
At n joint meeting of the American
chronological Society and the New York