Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-10-24

bulkhead at Coney island we would not
have any property left there. The dam
age done TO park property at Coney is
land. including the shore drive and con-
| course, will take maybe $4,000 to re-
pair, and 1t may reach 100000
Russell Sage through his attorneys has
filed suit against Lewis Mendelson.
agent for Mrs b. J. Fisher, to foreclose
n $2OO,OOO mortgage on the Media apart
| ment house. Mrs. Fisher is an English
woman, the widow of Capt Il. ]. Fisher,
who died last April The couple came
to America from England about fifteen
years ago.
| An electrically tested oven. designed for
| the brewing of makeup, has been in
stalled in some of the theaters here and
| i is likely to revive old greenroOm ameni-
ties, long since dead. An ingenious ae-
| tress broiled lobster on one of these
contriyances recently. and this is bound
to create the fad of dressing room lunch
cons. The device is too primitive for
| anything so ambitious as lobster a In
| Newburg, for this delicacy calls for boiled
| Holsters, eggs, trutiles, butter and Ma
deira
Men who loiter about the lobby of
There are large transoms above the
doors that lead from the wide vestibule
| into the theater proper. These were
| tilted at such an angle the other even
| ing that they reflected like mirror part
of the scene on the stage. At the mo-
ment the discovery was made the chorus
of Peggy from Paris" was engaged In
n dancing march across the stage. The
mirror showed only long row of green
clad legs and feet upside down, as if
| corypheeS were dancing ON the ceiling
| Hi, there, Bill" cried the discoverer,
and soon there was a group of gleeful
ones enjoying the novel scene. Acting
| Manage Burnham of Wallaek's, Repre-
sentative Clarence Hyde of the Savage
company, the ticket taller and others
joined the crowd and n message was sent
AROUND :: the Holland house for George
! AIDE TO como and see what Il wonderful
show his musical comedy was when
| looked at in the right way. Now the
management has hard work keeping the
lobby clear while the transom is open for
ventilation.
Mrs. f. f. Mason of Boston, came to
| New York to do some shopping and spent
several hours in the stores of Broa lway
and Sixth avenue. When she ret Irned
| to the Holland house she found mat Il
ring which had n large diamond set be-
tween two beautiful pearls was missing.
Miss Mabel O. keefe, who is employed
ut the glove counter of Sixth avenue
| store. while putting her stock in order
the other evening, noticed something
bulky in Il finger of one Of the gloves
and, shaking it, was surprised to seq
the beautiful ring drop our. She had no
idea to whom the trinket belonged uuth
she saw an advertisement for it in The
Herald. She mt once communicated with
|
who hurried to the store, was oyerjoyed
| to receive the ring and in addition to
thanking the finder gave her reward.
1t has been discovered. according to
The Herald, that Il depa rtment employee
of this city, one of the examiners
whose duty It Is to pass upon expense ac-
counts of detectives employed by the dis
trict attorney in his efforts to stamp out
gambling is the recognized agent and
manager of a system of Doorooms said
to be controlled by an east side congress-
man. 1t is known that he refused TO
pass fayOrably Hpun the expenditures of
the detectives, and The Herald asserts
that for long period the examiner has
seldom visited his desk except upon pay
day, District Attorney Jerome says the
head OF the department will have an OPP
lportunity to tell what he knows of the
matter.
All the personal property and business
of the American Cycle Manufacturing
company was sold and transferred TO the
| Pope Manufacturing company.
John G.. Kilhreth. who has been Il
member of the stock exchange since 1882,
has been declared insolvent. Mr.. xii
hreth has not been actively trading in
the market for some time. T. III. Pow
| ers Farr. who had been Mr.. Klbreth' 5
partner from May. 1894, until the dis
solution, authorized the statement that
he is not financially concerned or in
I volyed in Mr.. Kilbreths affairs.
Booker T. Washington, just back from
| a short vacation in Europe. was well
coined home at a meeting of 3000negroes.
He said the opportunities for education
and labor for the negro here are much
better than the poorer classes get on the
other side. The poorer classes there.
he said. save more money than the co..
ored people here. although they earn less
On the other hand, in point of general
morality, 1 think that our people here
compare favorably with the lower classes
cf Europe"
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