Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-06-20

the ruthless hand of commerce. There
| are spots around Washington and Gram
mercy parks Yet untouched. but it will
not be for long. The march up town is
| bound TO continue.
They have a mechanical contraption at
Coney Island called ''the limit, and most
people who patrcnize it say il Is well
named. Yet. strange and wonderful as
| l. TINS device. 1t Is as nothing compared
70 scheme evolved by an Irishman in
New York. This man. whose name is
| Daley. actually has Il working plan to
do pawnbrokers. This man is a sharp
on diamonds and the like. and lie patron
lies auction sales of pledges. He knows
So much about values that he is enabled
| to buy pledges and pawn them again at
Il profit. They say that Scotchmen are
So shrewd that n Hebrew cant do busi-
ness IN Glasgow. but here is an Irish
man who makes web and wool for even
II more wonderful tale, He can actually
do II pawnbrOker.
Now that Miss Diamond Dome who
| plays the New Orleans girl in The Song
Of tie Cities at the Broadway theater
| has replied to numerous queries that the
! name she uses on the stage is her very
| own. other girls with curious cognomens
!
the public on this interesting question.
| Miss Stubby AimScoe of the Wizard
| of Or company was born that way. SO
| far as her second name goes and the
| front part of her identification mark a.
| printed on the official programmes was
! bestowed upon her by the orthodox proc
| eSS Of baptism. Ii Is not nickname,
having no reference to her stature or
anything else. Miss Nelleta Titin of the
same company is not masquerading UNI
der an assumed name.
| Just an English" as is worn by any
of the London boobies" is Il stamp
adopted by the police department to
| designate the rank OF acting r0Undsman.
| The men who are now wearing il for
the first time say the department tailor
got his idea from Deputy Commissioner
| Piper who returned from london some
| time ago. where he had made study
of English police methods. This Eng
| fish 'fawncy" is q strap of cloth. about
an inch wide, which buttons to and eX-
| tends half way around the left cuff
| The material is the same as that in the
uniform. There are six raised squares
Of bright blue cloth, edged with white
| felt on the strap. With this mark an act
| ing rOundSman can be reduced Ia the
| ranks SO far as the uniform is concerned,
| in about two seconds.
| Rushing in from the sea. Il waterSpont.
| travelling at great speed. struck train
| on the Brooklyn Elevated road bound
rltyward from Rockaway Beach The
| motorman saw the spout just as the
| train reached Il treStle over Broad cham
mel. Jamaica bay. He threw ON full
| power in an effort to get past, but the
flood of water struck between the third
| ana fourth cars. Tho platforms were
crowded with persons unable 10 get in
side the cars. These were almost swept
off into the bay, but managed to hold
| fast to the ratings The flood rushed
| down the aisleS. and caused a wild
scramble Hundreds of pleasure seekers
were drcnched to the skin. No one was
| seriously injured. however ana despite
the fact that tons of water struck the
cars they did not leave the rails.
Not all the actresses whose names are
familiar to the public are so fortunate
as the ones mentioned Time is not the
only agent which operates to make Il
woman of the stage paSse. Obesity is Il
much surer road to oblivion. Not less
than half a dozen favorites of the past
season find it almost impossible to secure
engagements unless they agree to scale
| in like prizefighters, mt certain
weight. The summer vacation of FAY
| Templeton, Lillian Russell, Virginia
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| period. not of rest and recreation, but
of hard work and mild torture. Each
one of these actresses must drop bc-
tween twenty and forty pounds to make
| the weight for next season. The sum
mtr life of IN actress who weighs over
143 pounds is Il long period Of fasting.
massage and violent exercise
The increasing height Of the New York
| skyscTaper presents some nice problems
in elevator accommodations The de-
mand on the elevators increases RAPIDLY
with the added height ana construction
of both elevators and buildings have 10
be modified accordingly. Some remark
able developments along this line occur
III the Park Row building, whose cie-
yators frequently carry 1900 people in
twelve hours. This building * the larg-
est and tailest office building in the world
1t is located in Park row. opposite the
poStoiiice. 1t measures 3S2 feet to the
| tops OF the two towers and 3U9 feet 10
the main roof. 1t has twenty-nipe stories
which contain 1925 Offices Six thousand
persons spend the day in the building.
Eighteen thousand letters are delivered
in it daily, their Distribution requiring the
services of three special carriers.
An investigation has been started b.,
the civil service board and Commissioner
made that the machine which has hpru
used at headquarters for measuring an
plicantS for the force is defective. n
the machine is as far wrong as alleged
there may be found to be many police
men on the force too short for their Jobs.
According to an official inspection of the
machine it appears that the apparatus
can be so manipulated that Il man being
measured can add half an inch To his
height. which necessarily must he ; feet
~ inches. 1t is asserted that schema
has been found possible whereby the
electric mechanism showing that the per
son being measured is standing SquarCly
on his heels can be manipulated by tlr
pressure of one heel. enabling the appli-
cant 20 raise himself trihe beyond bis
true height
Much mystery surrounds a theft OF
certificates representing stocks and bonds
aggregating at the present market prices
more than $4,000. The certificates be-
longed 10 the Amsterdam Holland com
mittee and represented 60 shares Of
Rock Island common and $50 common
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