Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-04-25
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Scenes and incidents OF Everyday
Life IN the Paris Of America. -

II Scenes and Incidents OF Everyday
Life IN the Paris Of America. -
De Witt Stearns, a mining promoter
who has been living for the last six
months at the Aston House, died there
suddenly from heart disease. Mr.
| Stearns came here from Iowa, ana was
on his way to South America.
A $4,000 gife by Andrew Carnegie
to the Mechanics and Tradesmen's InSt;-
tute was announced at the closing excr-
ciSes of the Institutes school depart
ment.
The trustees of the General Theologi-
! cal Seminary recently elected DIR. Viii
| ford l.. Robbins. dean OF the cathedral at
Albany, to be dean of the General Thee
! logical Seminary, 20 succeed the late
| Dean Hoffman, who died last summer.
| lhere were seven candidates.
The engagement of Miss Caroline NJ.
| Phelps Stokes to Robert Hunter head
worker OF the University settlement. has
! Just been announced. The wedding is 10
| take place ia June. Miss Stokes is the
/ third daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Arson
| Phelps Stokes. Miss Stokes fortune of
| 81, 100000 is inherited from her mater
mai grandfather, the late Isaac y.
!
ess to much more.
Preliminary steps have been taken for
/ the foundation of Il Morgan bank, which
! will probably he as large. if not larger,
than the National City Bank the recog-
mzed depository of the Standard OIL mil
! lions. President McCurdy of the Mutual
Life; James II. Hyde, vice president of
the Equitable. and Thomas +. Ryan Of
the Morton Trust Company have had
charge of the negotiations which have in
view the union of the National Bank of
! Commerce and the Western National
Bank of the United States. whose com
The Western National Bank of the Unit
| Ell States has a capital of $4,000, 000
and a surplus of S2,500,000. The Ma
| tlonal Bank of Commerce, which is con-
trolled by Mr.. Morgan, has 4 capital of
Slo.o0J00G, a surplus of S4.0O0,O0O and
| undivided profits of over $3.000,O 600.
]. Overton Paine and Arthur Il. Paine.
formerly carrying on business under the
name of j. Overton Paine x Co.. bank
erS and brokers of New York and Chi
cago, assigned for the benefit of cred
itors. The total liabilities of all kinds
will be about 100000 and assets $685.
sos. The cause of failure IS inability to
collect amounts due The firm claims
that it will be able to pay every just
| claim in full.
Antonio and Luigi Porgio, brothers,
hrst-claSs passengers on the steamer
Palatia. which arrived from Naples. were
| arrested as they were leaving the steam
en-, and jewclry valued at $4,000 which
they had i'll their possession was seized.
| The customs officers said each man had
! around his waist a canvas belt in which
were ninety-siX watches. In their peck
cts was other jewelry, including Il da-
| mond ring valued at $1,000, other
brothers were taken before United States,
Commissioner Huff and held in $1,000 bail
each for appearance on Monday.
The Vanderbilt wedding presents have
been deposited in the vaults of the Aquid-
| neck Bank at Newport. Only the small
and costly packages We're taken to New
port, the others being sent to the Nelson
| home in New York The articles nlaced
in the vaults filled twelve barrels. ten
boxes and two crates. There was one
package exclusively of diamonds.
Those two apostles of the new reform.
Rev. DIR, Charles II. Parkhurst and VIII
| liam ). Devery, formerly a deputy police
| commissioners, are apparently getting
closer together. The chest chief New
York ever had says he likes the doctor.
DIR. Parkhurst is drawing back q little
now the matter has been brought up.
but says he was mistaken in thinking
| Devery a fool.
My opinion of Devery has changed. y
he said. Il used to consider him fool.
| lie is by no means a fool | once re-
| garded him as simply a big beastiy,
chesty rascal. find that | was too GER
tain, and in a degree mistaken. Devery
! has since developed keenness. insight
/ Of al 10. - I
| believe him capable of. His opinion of
Hill, which was expressed last year,
! showed considerable political sagacty.
Now, | don't say" resumed the clergy
man, that Devery is a saint. He is a
smarter man than | thought, but | can
not say my opinion of him has changed
in any other respect. SO far as / see he
has shown no signs of a change of
| heart"
! a commission to serve without pay is to
he appointed in New York to determine
| upon comprehensive plan for the beauti-
! iication of Greater New York. II will be
made up of art experts and will be APP
! pointed by the mayor.
In memory of his boyhood days as a
wOrshiper ut st. Paul's Episcopal Church
| in Boston, j. Pierpont Morgan has pre-
| scented to the church a priceless Book Of
! Common PRAYER. The book Of PRAYER
| was presented to the parish on Easter
| Sunday, 1894, but the gift was kept
| secret until recently when ii was
| used for the first time During nine
years it had lain in safe deposit vault
| The book is large folio Of $50 PAGES,
/ beautifully printed on heavy handmade
| paper and hound in yelIum, with gold
! clasps. On the cover is a rich design in
| gold. The pages are decorated with
/ ON nj l,,- -. l.
| from designs, specially executed.
/ Senator Depew. In a speech in the
! Seventh Regiment aTuory. said the So
! called inactivity of that regiment in the
! Spanish American war was not charge