Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-10-17

other night at the Museum of Natural
History. About $4,000 worth of dia-
mGnds were exposed to the RAYS of a
small particle of radium. The diamonds
became phosDhorescent when exposed to
the radium. which was behind six inches
| of plank and one inch of metal, the rays
coming through and illuminating the
stones.
4 great string of automobiles lined "
at the Tweuty-thrd street ferry entra ace
when the Babes in Toyland' company
| arrived from Washington. There was a
car for little Miss Muffet, one for Con
| trary Mary, another for Bopeep, and
even the Widow Piper and Mother Goose
found admirers on hand with ''whizz'
wagons. All the girls were glad to get
back 10 little old New York, where they
exDcyt to make 4 winter run at the Ma
iestic.
! \ farm owned by Russell Sage at
| Sickletown. in RGckland county. was sold
| for D0l-payment Of Sl13 taxes at the
county tax sale. The county bought i'll
tie property. but Sage may redeem it II
| he can save up money enough The ia
mods Andre monument property at Tap
| pan also was sold for non-paymeBt Of
taxes aud bought in by the county.
| This monument was erected by Cyrus W.
Fled in memory of Maj. Andre, Brit
ish spy
It has been decided BIZ the supreme
court that an artists work cannot be al
tered without his consent and at the
same time have his name attached to il.
William de Leftwich Dodge brought an
action to prevent tue Allied Arts com
pany and the Tiffany studios from inter
fering in any manner or making changes
in four mural paintings executed by him,
now in the lobby Of the King Edward
hotel. Toronto, Ont. Judge Mccall to-
day granted his application for an injunc-
ton, with costs.
An increase in the prize list and
more minute differentiation of classes
will be the new features Of the horse
show which opens at Madison Square
garden November rs. The list of awards
now aggregates $50 900, and it NAV be
increased to $4,000 In the driving
classes trotters and PAGERS will be Judged
apart this year. The roadster classes are
unchanged from last year. An effort has
been made to get good exhibit of thor
oughbred sires by increasing the first
prize to 5000. This sum will hardly
have the desired effect.
Anthony COmstock, the New York re-
former. was assaulted and badly beaten
at New Haven. Conn, while arresting
DR., James ]. Doherty, who is charged
with sending Objectionable matter
through the mails The experience with
DIR. D0herty, according to Mr.. Comstock,
was the worst he ever experienced. Mr..
COmstOck has one, if not two, ribs
broken and was fearfuly pummeled, be-
sides being thrown down n flight of
stairs. His nose was marked and he
showed other effects Of his experience at
the home of DIR. Doherty.
A woman came down to Park row the
other morning with baby in her arms
and. peering through the advertising win
dows of one Of the big dailieS, dictated
the following and asked to have it in
serted:
FOR SALE-MY LITTLE LEOPOLD
Wagner. lie Is only year and months
| old. with blue eyes like the sky and light
nair. and chubby and good like an angel
l cannot support him any more. am
nara working woman and love my Leo
pod but will sell him for $500 " | get t
from nice Jewish family. Mrs. Nellie
| wagner. "a Cannon street.
The Phipps houses, across the street
/ from Mr.. Carnegie's New York residence
ut Ninety-tirst street and Fifth avenue,
1
| most ready for occupancy" It is not
| likely, however. that they will be ready
| for the coming season. Mr. Carnegie, ac-
| cording to present plans. will arrive here
| in short time and spend the winter
in New York. Mr.. and Mrs. George
| Westinghouse, who have been in New
| York have returned To their country
houses ut Lcnox. where they entertained
| extensively during the summer
In the original deed of the ground on
which large building in Wall street
stands there is clause that the property
| is not 70 be used as Il public thorough
J fare. The corridor of the building is
used rs Short cut through the block
| by hundreds of persons, who have no
business in the building, every day; but
on one day each year chain is placed
across the corridor to bar passage, and
thus comply with the terms of the deed
| The chain was up recently, to the an
| noyance of many hurrying brokers and
| clerks, who tried to take the short way.
Men who like to play for big stakes
have at last found n way to circumvent
the police. The Marquette club, which
opened few days ago. provides the OPP
portunity in an entirely legal manner
The club is exclusively for members, and
the members can play anything they
choose and for any sized stakes they de-
sire. 1t was reported that John W.
Gates was backing the enterprise. but
this is denied in q telegram from Mr..
Gates, dated Chicago. The manager adj
mits that many of the Waldorf crowd
are members, but denied ,Gat Mr.. Gates
| is one of them.
The plan for the support of the actors
home in New York city, recently proposed
by the trustees OF the actors fund, that
members of the theatrical profession con
tribute one-half of | per cent. of their
salaries toward the support of the home,
Is meeting the Endorsement of the profes-
sion. Miss Alice Fisher was the first to
sign the agreement, and other members
| or her company have wired ready will
hngneSs to do so. Robert Edeson has
wired IN assurance of his hearty cooper
alton in the plan. and the members of the
Edwin Forrest lodge of the Actors Order
OF friendship have indorsed il by resolu-
| ton.
Since Lewis Nixon introduced water
automobiing in the New York harbor
naval architects have been experiment.