Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-07-18

ison Square theater begin on October 4.
and this date was advertised. LIthO-
graphic work bearing the date was IN
process of completion. when some one IN
Mr.. Brady's Office discovered that DC
tobpr ! falls in Sunday. Printing was
stopped and men have been sent into the
country to paint over the signs executed
u fortnight ago.
Miss Gertrude May Hoffman is a tai
| Cuted Young woman who knows how to
manage stage, an unusual accomplish
/ ment in one of her sex. Miss Holman
stage-managed Oscar Hammersteins OPP
eretta of Punch. Judy and Company"
at the Paradise roof garden. She trained
! sixty young women of the chorus and
| arranged all the business for the en-
/ semble work and the various stage pie
lures that 90 towards making u pleasing
spectacle of the Operetta She plays one
of the principal roles in Punch. Judy
and Company. In private life She is
Mrs Max Hoffman. wife of the musical
director.
At the request OF Receiver Smith
| Lewis Nixon has consented to remain aS
president Of the United States ShipbuilI-
ing company.
Mrs. F. L. st. John a prominent So
I
| killed by being thrown into the rapid
| transit subway by an electric car She
! had just stepped off car and was stand
| ing on the foot and a half space between
| the track and the subway when another
| car on the same track Knocked her into
| the tunnel, fall of forty feet. The mo-
| t0rman was arrested.
During the isca, year just ended the
| money order department of the New
J FORK postotfce handled the sum of S2I8.-
3l3,OOO. This is an increase over the
previous year Of $3t ,326 600
Julius D. Rowe. a prominent citizen Of
| Lafayetteville. y. Y. has managed. dur
ing Il brief stay in New York. to separate
| himself from various securities valued
| in the aggregate At $20O0O. Some time
| ago he placed with u firm in Wall street
| orders for the purchase Of certain Sc
crritles, which were acquired in due
| time. Finally he came down from La
| fayetteville. visited the brokers and took
away the shares. An hour later he re-
turned and reported having lost the
| bundle while on his way to the Grand
Central station. The police was mott.
fed and warnings were sent out on the
tickerS. Fortunately for Mr. Rowe. the
stocks are all registered, and anyone who
purchases them will he Il loser. as they
have been stopped" at the offices OF
the various companies.
Katherine Donohue, Il pretty chorus
girl who stands on her head to make the
oblique line of the letter M in Punch,
Judy Il Company 1t the Paradise gar
den, was taken i'll after performance
and the stage manager thought she was
going crazy. She ran around in circles,
cut up all sorts of capers and then
tainted Manager Hammerstain sent the
young woman to his physician, DR.
Carleton Simon. who wrote long letter
to Mr., Hammerstein in which he said
he must get new girl 10 stand on her
head. He explained at much length that
the structure of Miss Donohue's brain
had been changed" by her inverted posi-
ton. and that if she continued to stand
upside down for five minutes each night
she would land in an insane retreat.
Mr., Hamerstein says he wants girl
with no brains
In connection with the recent articles
on the alleged kleptOmaniac tendencies
of college men. ii may be said that the
restaurant keepers are not always so
easy" or forgiying as they are said to
be. In many places fixed up as German
rathskellers and bcdecked with ex-
pensive stems, a tiny electric wire runs
from stein 70 stein along the shelves and
mantels. Whenever one OF the stems is
disturbed, a burglar alarm rings in the
bar. This has caused considerable EN-
barraSsment 10 customers who have
taken down some of the handsome stems
merely to examine them.
All the green vegetable ia New York
have jumped enormously in price. Some
Of the staples have gone up BOO per cent
The long drought and the succeeding
heavy rains rotted the roots of growing
garden truck. Potatoes have increased
in prices from St.21 and Sl.I5 per barrel
to $3.50 and S4.1O: cabbageS from =
cents to and - cents head: peas.
from II cents to 80 to 10 cents per half
peck lettuce. from three heads for 10
cents TO 1 and y cents Il head; cauliiow-
en- from 10 TO 10 cents a head
John II. Rockefeller. Jr., was said to
be the prospective buyer of the PhineaS
{. kngsland property on the northwest
corner of Fifth avenue and Forthwith
street, Mr.. Rockefeller announced la~r
winter that he would build = handsome
home for the club that is conducted by
his Sunday school class.
Justice TruaX, in the supreme court.
appointed Warren : Burt referee in
suit brought by Lucia Ser!ey against
lifrNert IS. SeeieN. The papers on file
did not disclose the nature of the suit,
rs the pleadings were not attached to
Justice TruaNS order. Mrs. Herbert
liarnum Seeley was Miss LHcie Mitchell.
q daughter of the late Archibald Paul
Mitchell of this city, Seeey is a grand.
SON Of the late L. +, Barnuu, and in
hcrlted from the Snowman an estate of
about 100000. The famous Seclcy din
ner was given by him GA the night of De
| cember 10, 1876. in honor of his brother,
| Clinton Baruum Sceey. who was 10 bc
married ten days later, 1t became Il
| celebrated occasion because of the raid
which Capt Chapman made ON the ban
uuet because he had heard thar the
| vaudeville entertainment provided WAS
/ going to Toe an improper exhibition,
! Whitaker Wright, the London tiuaucer
and promoter, who was arrested early in
| March charged with fraud as a director
of the London and Globe Fiuance com
| pany aud has since been in jail pending
| cNtwdiion proceedings formally waived
all rights and agreed to be voluntarily
! eXtradted to England by the British
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