Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-03-28

| tunlty Tor displaying some exquisite
gowns. The company includes Charles
/ cherry, Arnold DAILY. Max Freeman. q.
| Harrison Hunter Miss Kate Pattison
Selten, Miss Laura Clements and Miss
| Clarita Vidal. The Prince of piisen,"
/ by Frank Pixley and Gustav Luders. be-
gins its New York career At the Broad
/ way Theater.
George J. Gould's country home.
| Georgian court, at Lakewood, n J.. has
| been taken as model by the King of
SIAM Tor certain improvements he intends
making in his palace. The New York
| firm which supplied the bronze. marble
and electric fountain at Mr.. Gould
| home has received from the King of
| Siam request for an estimate for a
| fountain on similar lines but FIVE times
as large, for the central courtyard of the
palace. Although the estimate has not
yet been prepared, it is said that such a
| fountain as the King wants will cost
abSut 100000.
The passage of Il package of diamonds
| through the custom house has brought
out the fact that the return Of the jewels
| to Antwerp was prevented only By the
| stopping of the Red Star line steamer
| Finland in the lower bay by means OF
| wireless telegram and the sending to her
| OF tug. When the steamer arrived here
the diamonds were in her safe. and when
| she sailed on her return trip it was found
that the package had not been landed.
and the wireless message was sent. with
| the result that the package was turned
| over to an authorized person who fol-
| lowed the ship on j tug.
"Some old masters offered at the sec
end nights sale of the oil paintings from
| the Arthur Furber and the Misses De
| PySter collections failed to evoke much
| enthusiasm among prospective buyers.
| A Rembrandt was sold for $50, and
madonna and child by Rubcns brought
| only $3.50, while one of the minor paint
| ingS by Rosa BOnheur sold for $500 after
most spirited bidding. In all eighty-twO
paintings We're sold for total of $22.2l4.
| Adolph Schreyer's Arabian Camp
| brought the highest price of any painting.
$3.50 being paid for it. Besides this
were two paintings which brought over
$1,000.
IF you place a clock above the sew
enth floor in one of the tall skyscrapers,"
said William /. Rose. a theological eX-
| pert, 'and YOU don't face it north or
south, it will stop inside of twenty-four
hours and cannot again be made to run
| regularly. I'm in the clock business my
| self and | learned this fact through one
| of my own clocks which was on the
! eighth story of the McGill building in
/ Wall street" Mr.. Rose discovered he
| says. that the tall buildings which have
| steel skeleton sway from east to west
each twenty-four hours in consequence of
the effect of the sun, and this affects 4
| pendulum.
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt and his
WIFE who was Miss Elsie French and
| their counsel. Col. William Jay, APP
| peared at the tax office and were
| at once conducted to the private office
| of President Wells. Mr.. Nanderbilt's
| personally had been assessed at S230,-
| Gee and that of his wife at $15O.000
| Each swore off part of the assessment
| claiming residence in Newport.
| 1t developed that eX-Chief Bill Devery
| asked big reduction in his assessment
DO you want to swear it all OFF,
| the chief was asked.
Not on your life he answered. Il
am too good a citizen for that"
| Tiffany & Co.. the jewelers., have Of
! fered a reward of $500 for the return of
an ivory statuette which was stolen from
| their store about a year ago. The work
cannot be duplicated This is believed to
| be the same statuette which TOothpickS
| Britton, the shoplifter, confessed to have
stolen upon one of his professional visits
| to YiffanyS store The statuette repre-
sents Buddhist priest with his croZier
in one hand and inter in the other His
| FODe Is thrown CaFeleSSIN over HIS IefC
| shoulder. 1t is eighteen and half inches
| high and worth about $4,000. To0thpicks.
| when he was arrested, said that he had
sold the statuette to a Bowery jcweler
for $40.
The revelations that have followed the
! discovery that Shang Draper had been
made a Mason have filled Grand Master
| Grandall and his associates in the grand
| lodge with dismav and Indignation. So
! high does the feeling run because of the
! discovery that Draper IS not the only
person of his class who has gained ad-
mittance to lodges in Manhattan and
| Brooklyn that it is likely that the char
ters of several lodges will he suspended
| before the end of the week and many
eXpulSiOnS from the fraternity follow.
| Draper, it has been ascertaincd. is not
! only a Master Mason. but also a Royal
! Arch Mason. As early as last Noyem-
| Der he was taken into Mount Zion Chap
| ter. still representing himself TO be re-
! spectacle broker. He went in with the
first class that took the degrees that
month.
The announcement that Sir Michael
and Lady Herbert have taken a cottage
at Newport and will make the city by the
sea the summer headquarters of the
| British embassy. Is received with enthu-
/ siasm on all sides. 1t was at Newport
that Lady Herbert first established her
reputation as one of the prettiest and
/ most charming young women In the land.
1t was at Newport that most of the
wooing was done when Sir Michael was
Il young secretary of legation. 1t is to
/ Newport. them that the HerbertS natural
liz return with the full fedged honors of
an embassy. With all the secretaries
and attaches to give the London pronun-
citation and information it IS very evident
t-1 hr = rf IN i.n
English as she is spoke" and not
French. the fashionable lingo at Newport
this summer
There are many shops in New York.
city which claim the credit of being the
smallest Some are tucked in out-of-the-
way corners or else are merely portions
Of other large offices. What is actually
the smallest shop in New York is located
at $50 Sixth avenue. Here. in the neigh
l0rhood If the large department stores,
with elevated and surface cars passing
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