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

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OF the agreement Miss Biggar wifi ~.
ceive in cash from the sale of the proDer.
~ S4S0.000 an apartment house in New
York valued at S40000and personal pron-
'"'- ->''-iated TO be worth 500, 900. ,nak.
ing n total of S620,000. besides nm an
nual allowance for life of $500 The SET
Element closes a sensational case.
A letter from Waco. Tex. signed
''Podgett,' has been received by the
family of William s. Whitwell. the Har-
ward student and athlete who has been
missing for some time The writer saws
| he was called on recently by Il youn..
man answering Whitwell's description,
who represented himself as a student nj
| Harvard The visitor, Podgett says.
claimed to be the son of Il prominent
resident Of New York. and aIdpd thar
his father did not knew where he was
| and that he did not want him 10 know.
William F. Havemeyer. who owns a
| piece Of land about the size OF a hianker
| on Exchange place, in the financial dis
trict has joined with another man who
owns like parcel adjacent. ana they are
going to put up tWelye-story sky
scrarer. When completed the structure
| Will look like a tower OF steel and glass
ana will have the t4Ess;lissinction OF
| being the smallest skyStr3ls6@ in the
world. 1t is to be called the daylight
| enter into its making.
"You never know how much a million
| dollars is until you try to count ii, re-
marked treasury expert the other DAY
| when the count in the Subtreasury vaults
was completed. Ten men had been n
| work on this job since March 81, the
| count being made necessary by the ap-
pointment of new subtreasurer. The
| amount counted was $3.50, AL ,256. This
IssBn
| 913.066.40 in silver, S1S,649, III in paper
money, S113,G4S.S6 in minor coin and
500. 1866 in other items, such as paid
coupons, interest checks, etc.
William S. WhitwelI. Harvard student
and athlete, who disappeared on Febru-
airy % from Cambridge, Mass. is still
missing. His Family hope there may be
! some clue to his whereabouts in letter
| received recently from woman living
in Bellows Falls. Vi. the writer Of which
| said that the appearance IF book agent
who had visited her coTre>ponded in ev-
cry way with the description Of Mr..
| Whitwell as published. The family has
become convinced that the young mans
mind was unbalanced by an attempt 10
make up years work by taking a
double amount of lectures at the same
| time that he was playing football.
Three thousand persons sat in the
| south field of Columbia university, which
WAS transformed into the forest of Ar
| den. on May II, where they witnessed Il
notable performance of Shakespeare's
AS You Like It. The gross receipts
were about $4,000 and after the ex-
penses are paid 4 substantial sum will
| 20 to the university settlement kinder
gaIten. The company of players were
under the stage direction of Ben Greet,
who. through the courtesy OF Charles
| FrOhman, was permitted to present the
comedy. The Rosalind Of Miss Edith
| Wynne Matthison won all by her charm
and the other actors were hailed with
hearty applause.
One Of the valued possessions of the
! late Stuart Robson was collection Of
scrapbooks compiled by the comedian
with great care. They did not contain
press clippings, either. Mr.. Robson was
| a radical free thinker, and he neglected
no opportunity to point out what he con
| sidered the unworthiness of the clergy.
/ lie cut ont all the reports of their mis-
| deeds that appeared in the newspapers,
| amt for number Of years he added
/ these clippings assiduously to his collec-
| ton The scrapbooks increased so much
| in bulk ut last that he was compelled to
| give UP the task. But he was always
| proud of the monument that he had
raised to his opinions.
! The $4,000 pearl necklace lost by Mrs.
| Colgate Hoyt, wife of the banker, April
,, was found by Miss Harriet Schade a
Saleswoman, who has returned the neck
| lace to Mrs. Hogt Mrs. Hoyt handed
the young woman 500. Three days after
Mrs. HOyt lost her necklace Miss Schade
was walking through Twenty-third street
! On her way to lunch. when she saw the
gems glttering in the gutter. She con-
| cluded that the stones We're simply beau
| tiful limitations. Miss SchadeS parents
thought the pearls hardly genuine, but
| watched the lost and found columns for
some mention of such n necklace. \ jew
| eler finally told the family the pearls
were genuine and very valuable.
1t is announced that katherine Fran
| ceSca, Baroness Won Wolf, of Munich,
| bavaria, is to become the wife of Dan
bridge Spotswood of Virginia next win
ter in the Bavarian capital. The pros
pective groom is a lineal descendent of
| Maj.-Gen Sir Alexander Spotswood. first
governor of the Old Dominion. His
tancee is Il niece of the minister of jus
tice of Bavaria. Although of a noble
German family she was born in phila-
delphia Her grandfather, the Baron
tinguiShed lawyers in Munich. Mr..
SpotSwood met the baroness while she
| was visiting in New \ ork and before she
returned to her home they became en-
gagged.
Powers GOuraud. who was married in
London the other day to Gladys Croker,
who inherited large share of the mil
lions belonging TO that California fami-
ly. has had the experience of a stage
career which nowadays seems so neces-
sary to every interesting episode of New
| York life. Mr.. Gouraud decided two
years ago, when the Crocker millions
were more remote than they were after
ward. that he would endeayor to profit
financially by his talents as an enter
| tainer He was engaged by George Led
ercr for small part in "The New York
ers' when Dan DAILY appeared frst as
| star in that production. Mr. Gouraul
divided his duties as a Johnny with an
other dramatic aspirant who came into
notice nj the same time. This was Fred
Titus the former bicycle champion, bet
| ter known TO fame as a husband Of
| Edna May. Both these Young men soon