Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-05-23

or whistle of any bird He ted friends
that he had been in the employ of George
j. Gould, John ID. Rockefeller and
others.
Merely by doing his duty for ffty-one
years, never having received a re9ri-
mand, Henry Brushaber who has been
in the employ of the Bowery Savings
bank since he was 10 years old. so far
earned the esteem of the men who con-
troll the institution that in the presence
of many of the best known fnanciers of
New York he was presented with 5000
gold watch and chain. He began serv-
ice as an errand boy and rose to the post
of signature clerk. He lives at 27S
Quincy street, Brooklyn.
Her body swollen to enormous propor-
tons by elephantiasiS and weighing 400
pounds. Mrs. Annie Wilt is dead. Elk
tIaordinary preparations are being made
by the undertaken TO get the body out of
the house. 1t is too large to pass through
Il doorway in the special coffin being
built for it. 1t has been decided TO run
plankS up TO the window and slide the
coffin down. Mrs. Wit was - years of
age when her abnormal growth began
In the hospital where she had been for
treatment she was known as the patient
with the elephant feet her legs being
as big as Il mans body. For more than
a wear she had been unable to walk
without crutches.
Statistics compiled by the board of
health show that the population OF New
York city is increasing rapidly. The
births reported in Manhattan borough
alone during the first four months of the
year We're 1000 in excess of those renort-
ed i'll the same period last year. There
has been n falling off in the percentage
of deaths and the city has gained enar-
mouSly by foreign immigration. Taking
all things into consideration. the board OF
health estimates that the population has
grown from 3.437.202 at the time of the
last federal census i'll 1900 to ). 49, $50.
Most of the land owners in Harlem
are not The rightful pOSsessorS of their
holdings. according to Il lawyer of New
York. Heirs Of Dutch freeholders of 2J0
years ago. some thousands in number,
on the authority of this lawyer, are own
ers of Harlem. of a large part of Central
park and of about all of the water front
property on the East river from Seventy
fourth street to Harlem river, along the
Harlem river and down the Hudson to
18th street. The present day value of
the property is conjectured to he $1,000
100000. Prominent among the deScen-
dants of the alleged rightful owners are
President Roosevelt. Gov. Odell and Put
nam Bradlee Strong, son of the late
Mayor Strong.
There was a chapter of accidents at
Days theater the other night, where
Miss Cecil Spooner and her company are
appearing in My Lady Peggy Goes to
Town. In the fencing scene between
Miss SpOoner and Mr.. Hale they were
very fooliShly using duelling swords, the
sharp points unprotected by guards of
any kind. During the fast work of the
bout Miss SpOoner was cut i'll several
places on the right forearm and Mr.
Hale received several cuts about the
head and face. A doctor attended them
after the act and they resolved hereafter
to stick to fos. During the scene at the
inn in the last act, in which Miss
Spooner rode horse onto the stage
the animal fell over n 10-foot embank-
ment as it was being led off after she
had dism0unted. After rolling down the
incline it struggled and kicked among the
back scenery, tearing some of it 70 pieces
and spelling the effect from the front of
the house. Miss SpOoner waited until
the din had ceased, and then went on
with her lines. =, The horse was not in
jured.
Carlo Brizzi, who came of a disfin-
guished Italian family of composers. and
who was the author of several success
full operas, is dead For the last six
years he lived in this city. For half
an hour before he passed away his son
sar at the bedside and played the dying
mans fayOrite airs. While the yiolinist
was playing simple folk song with a
gentle harmony and plaintive melody,
his father raised his ad from the pill
low and reached out as if to take the
instrument from the hands of the player
Then he sank back again on the bed
dead Pneumonia was the cause of
death. Brizzi wrote, among others. the
opera "Christophero Colombo" in which
Adelna Patti sang when the work was
produced for the Chicago exhibition The
prayer ut the funeral of King Humbert
was composed by Brizzi. The deceased
had been Il resident of New York for six
years.
Richard Henry Stoddard the veneer
able poet, is seriously i'll in his home at
800 East Fifteenth street. For several
years Mr.. Stoddard has been afflicted