Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-05-02

pearing in the district in brand nav,
suit Of store clothes and hat Ii ,sas-
only short time ago that the aged finan-
cler whirled into the street with clinker.
built auto. letting his annual pass on rho
Manhattan Elevated go to waste in his
pocket. These features of extsavagance
are causing no little comment on tbo
street. where Mr.. Sage has always been
regarded as Il fairly economical man
MIR. Sage's last suit, bought two years
ago, was had at 4 bargain in a Broad
way store. He saw it in a window
marked $3.50 and admired il greatI,-
He did not bag at once. but waited unf3
the early June days waned into August
when ii was marked down to So ~
Then he jumped in and bought it for
cash.
The wall between the telephone hoof!,s
in the new French restaurant Las beea
carefully padded 50 thar n sound is llof
audible from one to the other, ana now
that 1t : no longer possible TO hear what
Is said in the other booths the wires are
not so often busy. There are loI~ .
Interesting messages so dyer titosc wires
the operator explained. ''and it used ra,
be quite easy TO hear them before the
walls We're deadened. Men used to cag
mp q number and pretend 70 be tGlk;n-
there While they We're really listening te
hear what the person IN the other booth
was talking about. One man used To-
come there every evening merely to listen
He would pay for the time lie used the
phone. but he interfered with everybody
else who came there. He was the worst
case. but there were others nearly as bad.
So in self-lefenSe we had the walls dead
ehed,
Pryce Jones, who had been steward of
the Casino Club since the Casino was
opened in 1880, died at his home after
an illness of several months.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
is to erect huge office building Oh the
site bounded by Cortlandt, Liberty. West
and Washington streets. The block is
on the line of the proposed Hudson x
Manhattan railroad tunnel. 1t fronts
2004 feet on Cortlandt street, 211.5 on
Washington. 1862 on Liberty a&d 211.3
on West street.
Louise c. Haines. an actress, has filed
a petition in bankruptcy with liabilities
to the amount of S19S22 and no assets.
The debts were contracted between May
and December, 1902 The largest cred.
itor is Richard NJ Montgomery, SlT,uuU.
for money loaned to her without Sc
curity. 1t was said that the money was
sunk in exploiting 4 play
Bishop Potter has formally endorsed
the no-treating saloon as against the
places where the convivial custom pre-
walls. Bishop Potter says that IN deal
ing with the question the strenuous con
dition Of modern life and the fact that
men do drink must be taken into ac-
count, and that men aud women DESTROYS
of lettering such conditions should set
up counter attractions to the saloon.
Any mechanism, he thinks. which dis
courageS the present drink usages is to
be commended
Among the passengers who arrived on
the Celtic were the Marquis and
Alarchioness Of HEREFORD, the parents Of
the Earl of Yarmouth, who is to wed
Miss Alice Yhaw of Pittsburg
Announcement is made that the much
talked of purchase of the WeStcott EX-
press Company by the American Ex-
press Company has been finally ar
ranged
The woes Of poor old Uncle Tom and
the pitiful death of Little Eva will no
longer bring tears to the eyes of the
school children of New York if they con
hne their reading to the class libraries
provided by the board of education. The
board Of superintendent voted to drop
the novel of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe
from the catalogue. The general reason
given is that the book has served its pur-
feeling.
Paul A. Sorg, a young millionaire of
Middlet0wn, O.. who has spent much
time in and about New York since he
the estate of his father. was
rudely interrupted while entertaining
some companions prior to his departure
TO Europe by the arrival of a deputy
sheriff with an attachment for S1S25.
The deputy sheriff seized about a score
of trunks belonging to Sorg, and at the
same time levied on coach which had
been purchased by Sorg the day before
from another coach dealer and was wait
ing to take the party to the steamship
pier. Sorg pleaded with the deputy sher-
if to release his belongings so he could
depart. He would not give check for
the $3.50 in question, saying he intended
to contest the suit, but declared himself
good for the amount. 1t was only when
one of Sorg's friends signed an agree
ment to give security for the amount in
question as soon as the papers could be
drawn up that the attachment was vaeat-
ed and Sorg allowed TO uroceed