Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-02-28

The shareholders Of the National Park
Bank voted 10 increase the capita,
Stock of the bank from $2.0oO.0O0 10
| Ho'NJu,UJN. the new stock 10 Ice issued
I 70 Stoehaolders of record pro rata al
! $500 share.
| W i'll Mcconnell, manager for Amelia
bingham III The Frisky Mrs. Johnson.
/ had 4 misunderstanding with the actress.
,,t resulted in Mcconnell resigning.
ne actress, II IS said. had been too eX-
| acting 10 suit Mcconnell.
y new bit of slang has made its an.
| pearance. The moment an automobile
/ stops on the street and the operator
/ ailShts and begins 10 lool; NJ the ma
| chlhery some man or boy on the side
! Walk Wells Mt him; Get a horsew The
/ phrase has become an equivalent TO Get
| Il move on, in other respects.
! Hilda Clarke. formerly prima donna
/ Of the BostonianS. and Frederick Stanton
! Flower were united in marriage 1T the
/ nome of Hiss Clarke'S parents. Miss
! Clarke won fame as The Bride-Elect''
| Mr.. Flower is Il member of the firm of
! Flower x Co, bankers, and was one of
the principal heirs OF his uncle. the for
| mer governor.
Samuel ] Kennedy. who is uiler in
/ Odds at the Grand Hotel liz July. 1S9S
and who has been at liberty on $4,000
| bail, has been relea sed without bSt. the
| prosecution abandoning the case. He is
! pfacuclng dentistry on Staten island
Kennedy was convicted and sentenced to
Death, On two subsequent trials the
juries disagreed.
Thomas ". Miner, son of the la,a
con-re$snan, is to build a new theater.
/ Plans for the building. which will he
three and four stories high. have been
hled. 1t is 10 be built on the east side
of Third avenue. just north Of One Hun
bred and Twenty street 1t viii
he of ornamental brick with two bal
comics and a seating capacity Of 1890.
1t VIII be called Harlem Theater.
Rumors are afoat concerning the mar
rlace OF Mrs Mamie Tangharne Shaw
and Robert Walton Goelet Mrs. Shaw
| Is in Europe. Her divorce from Robert
! Gould Shaw, to whom she was married
| III October. 1897, was granted on Fchru-
/ airy :, and Mr.. Shaw almost Immediately
married Mrs. Mary Converse. widow Of
| {. II. Converse of Newton. Mass Mr.
! Goelet is the son of the late Robert Goe.
let ana q cousin of Miss May Goe!et and
Robert Goelet.
Visitors to Coney Island next summer
will be surprised at the transformation
wrought in that famous resort. An army
of 5000 workmen is at present at work
! tearing down all old wooden shacks and
building new and handsome structures OF
/ brick and stone. Over SJ.000.O0O will
| be expended before the summer sets in
and it Is the design Of capitalists who
| have recently acquired large real estate
| holdings on the island to improve the
moral tone Of the resort without dimin-
| ishlns its attractiyenesS.
The famous Thirteen Club. having ex-
hauSted all its grues0me stunts, is now
looking for Il haunted house to hold its
meetings in. The following "ad' APP
pears III the afternoon papers: Wanted
"A haunted house. within fifty miles of
New York. furnished or unfurnshed. iSo-
lated or otherwise. Address. for thir-
teen days, Brian G. Hughes. NH. Club.
242 Center street. Manhattan" Affida-
Wits that spooks, ghosts. spirits and other
supernatural phenomena have been seen
within or about the house must be pre-
| scented.
The art student population Of New
ork. according to the statement of the
director Of one of the largest nrt cOols
in the city, is about 1000 The propC ton
of women TO men is about to !. The
resident population-that is, those who
live permanently in this city-is compar-
atlvely small. New York is the art cen
ter of the continent and as such draws
to Il the best painters, the best Scuiptors
and the best designers. II 10 other city
are there 50 many great art schools, so
many museums and galleries and SO
| many opportunities TO develop talent.
Henry Clark Rouse of this city. presi-
dent Of The Missouri. Kansas X Texas
railroad, has returned from a tour of
the world. While abroad he investgat-
| ed the construction and equipment OF the
| TranSSibcrian railroad. making the trip
| from Pekin to Moscow in the record time
| Of II days and 10 hours over the East
| Chinese Il Trans-Siberian railroad. Mr..
| Rouse believed that the road viii be of
| great commercial value. He finds it we'll
| constructed and well conducted, ana be-
| ievcs il will soon be possible to make the
| trip by rail from Berlin to the Pacific
coast in less than fortnight.
Another "natiron'' building will be
erected on the triangle formed by the
! junction Of Wall, Pearl and Beaver
streets. 1t will be fifteen stories high.
! There are no unusual wind currents Mt
! that point and ncighboring owners do
/ not believe the Wall street Gatiron will
! play such antics with the winds as does
! the TWcnty-third street building, which
/ is twenty stories high. The fact that
! Capt. kidd's famous treasures have new
or been found stimulated lower Wall
| streets imagination yesterday and il was
! freely predicted that work on the exca-
| yations might lead to sensational reveal
! tons.
! Mrs. Frederic Nelson. mother OF the
! fancee Of Reginald Vanderbilt. has rent
/ ed for the summer the Newman cottage,
| known as the Nutshell. at Newport Mrs
! Nelson is expected 10 take possession
soon. and viii be accompanied by her
| daughter, Mrs. Arthur l. Kemp. who
| has been i'll for some time and Miss
! Cathleen Nelson. The rental of so small
| a cottage as the Nutshell would hardly
! give force to the rumor that the Wander
! bile-NeiIson nuptials will be an early in
cident in Newport this spring Norf
! however, is being rushed at Sandy Pons
t in Portsmouth, on the cottage and stable,
Of Reginald Vanderbilt.
Mile Helene Gerard. described by
Tody Hamilton as having a figure thai
might drive Il srnlptor mad with iay."
arrived on the CuBardcr Trcanit. She