Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-06-27

:lal matters. Up Il rev months aSo
Mr. Dean was cashier of the Fifth Ave
years old.
Many impending changes among the
pastor and dloceSOn officers of the Cath-
Olic church in New y Fk city have been
brought TO light, following the announce
| ment that Rev. John L. Chadwick. for
merly of the battleship Maine. had re
signed his commission as chaplain III the
navy to resume parish work. 1t Is said
these changes will bring back Rev. Dr.
| Richard l.. Burtsel to his old charge,
the Church of the Epiphany, from which
he was removed by the late Archbishop
| CorrigGn ut the time of the famous Ia
thcr McGlynn controversy.
\ singular claim Of 81 100000 has just
been made against the estate Of Gen.
| Samuel Thomas by his son, Edward X.
| Thomas, and his daughter. Mrs. Robert
| Livingston Beekman. who aliege that
| they lent their father $G0O,O0O each in
| the year 1901 at about the time Of the
| failure of the Seventh National bank. to
bolster up which Gen. Thomas advanced
| enormous sums. Gen Thomas left an
estate valued ut more than S2O.O0O.0O0.
| For many years he had been many times
a millionaire, and just why he should
| have called upon his son and daughter
| to lend him S1,2OO,000 does not appear.
Because Russell Sage made a mistake
| in the date on which swearing off" and
| corrections could be made in taxes, he
/ Will have to meet personal taxes this
| year on an assessment Of $2,OO0,OOO. 1t
was presumed when Mr.. Sage did not
| appear ut the tax Office for the purpose
OF swearing off" his assessment of 81
| 100000 before March 1, that he was
| tn al ha 70,
| tested. IN past years he has been as
seSSed for only 100000. The multi
| millionaire has sent Il letter of protest
| to the tax commissioners explaining the
matter, but the books are finally closed
Happy Fanny Fields. the celebrated
| English laughing girl" whose antics on
the stage are said to be quite enough 70
make gargoylc grin or an iron dog wag
his tail has just arrived in New York
| She expects to make the American vaude-
vile circuits echo with enc continuous
roar Miss Fields has a special claim
| to celebrity in that She refused to APP
pear in private entertainment given by
| William Waldorf hstor in London She
is reported to have said that she would
act for Americans or Englishmen, but
would not sing and dance for Mr. a Stor,
because he was neither an American nor
an EngliShman.
The w X. Vanderbilts have projected
| an extensive yachting tour on the Vail
| ant. The cruise will be entirely in north
| ern waters, all the Russian and Scandi-
| nayi0n ports being in the itinerary The
party may be joined by James Henry
| Smith. vino has chartered the Anthony
Drexel yacht. the Margarita. aud who
| viii have with him party of sixteen,
| including the Oliver Harrmans. The
1 a I,n
| tier cabins and the main saloon and dim
ing saloon have been hung in silks. Il
deep India red being the predominating
color of the last two. Altogether she will
be the finest private yacht cruising in
European waters this summer
All that is left of Five Points, as it ap-
peared in the days of Dickens visit to
| New York, and notorious always in
New 1ork's annals of poverty. squalor
and crime. is disappearing. The tumble
down. peak-roofed novels which occupy
Worth street in part of the little tri-
angle between the Five Points House
of Industry and the intersection of Worth
| and Baxter streets, are being torn down
The city is clearing the space for a little
park, which will connect Paradise park
| with Mulberry Bend. 1t includes ali the
| properties on Worth street for 1877 feet
| from the corner and those on Baxter
street for 100 feet. There are some half
dozen of the old novels left. sandwichcd
IN between tive-story tenements of the
Italian invasion.
Two interesting waits of the ocean
came into port the other day Margaret
Stokes. a 10year-old Brooklyn girl. ar
rived on the Parma from Martiniuue.
she Is a survivor of the steamer Rora
ma. which was destroyed at st. Pierre
tal .N~KNrN -
who witnessed the awful death of her
mother. brother and sister, and who was
severely injured herself, has not yet re-
covered from the effects of her Terrible
eXperienc Sarah Abrams, Katfir girl.
enjoys the distinction of having come To
New York from Cape Town on a steam
snip in which only one man knew Of her
| presence. She was an accidental stow
away, and it is the Union Castle Mail
Steamship company, on whose ship she
came that will have to see that She gets
back safely.
An interesting feature of the proposed
gigantic New York Central terminal is
Ine plan for double-decking that part of
! Iorty street which lies adjacent
By tins arrangement the upper deck or
Story VIII be on a level with the elevated
station. The Importance of the plan is
lhat 1t involves the taking of Il first step
IN new and somewhat revolutionary de
parture in making provision for street
traffic. If the scheme proves feasible it
Will no doubt he employed in other con
geStod croS$town streets, particularly
Fourteenth and Twenty streets and
Park row. At present Park row is prac-
tlCable for pedestrians only in one threc-
ton. \ person who starts east from
Brooklyn bridge on this alleged thorough.
fare has a half hours work cut ont for
him to reach The Times building. 400
yards away
Jewel the big elephant in the Central
park menagerc. can't realize that the
chains have been taken from her legs
and NIL day stands on the spot where she
had formerly been Shackled to the floor
She keeps up the swaying motion of her
hody, and is careful not to lift clear
from the floor the foot which had been
fastened to the iron ring She will raise
the foot as formerly. until only the toes
rest ON the flooring. and then let it dow n
again, Her stall is roomy enough for hei
"a walk about aud get exercise. just as
Hattie. the 3-year-old does THAT Is
due 10 force of habit, and it will bt
some time before Jewel gets it through