Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-07-23


/ ney's cries. The police have been IN
able 10 gain any trace Of the men.
The total dead in the destruction Of the
+ excursion steamer General Siocum June
/ - is given as 95S in the final report pre-
scented to Police Commissioner McAd0o
today by the inspectors III charge % the
police Investigation. Only S3I of de dead
+ We're identified. Sixty-two persons were
( reported missing and $50 were injured.
Ony 23) ont of nearly l4G0 on the steam
+ CT escaped injury or death. Assuming that
/ the unidentified dead are anIong the MISS
/ ing. all but one person has been thus az
counted FOR.
Tammany officials. with Sheriff Mitch
eli l.. Erlan-er in the van. appeared be-
+ fore the state civil service commission
and eamored for 20U0 civil serv-
lCe Positions, the holders Of which are
| now protected by the civil service law.
Ihey put forward the argument 81 PEE
selal responsibility for their departments
ard endeaYored to have these positions
i Transferred from the competitive to the
+ exempt classes. they coui6 remove The
I present employees and fill their places
with Tammany followers.
Three government prisoners On Gor-
errors island made IA desperate attempt
/ 10 escape. \ sentry Shot one Of them.
4 the bullet entering the prisoners jaw ana
almost tearing off the mans head. y
/ private Of 60. II. sentry on the southern
end o. the island, saw three men Chamber
ing oYef the sea wall. They ran toward
! q rowb0at aud the sentry fired. One of
/ the mon. William RheneI. fell The oth
ei two then threw up their hands.
John Il. Herreshoff. president of the
| lIeritshoh Manufacturing company. has
| received fattering cablegram from the
/ German emperor regarding the American
schooner yacht lngomar. which was 50
successful al the INiel regatta. The Kai-
ser praised the design the construction
ana the performance of the lng0mar. and
requests that the HerreSh0f1's submit Ia
him plans, and estimates of cost of .
yacht similar in model, but Of larger size
than Commodore Plants vessel
The Amateur Athletic union buckle
/ 2irile that the officers decided 10 xiv,
to Miss Alice Roosevelt after She had
/ awarded the prizes at the championship
meet at st. Louis has been sent by eX-
press to Oyster Bay. The girdle is COM
pose of heavy silk joined with a lnckle
( consisting of three gold medals which
! represent the handicap prizes. the junior
/ championship prizes and the senior
/ championship prizes of the 81. Louis con-
tests As President Roosevelt is honor
N St. Louis this year he has been re-
questea 10 present the @irdlt to hi,
daughter.
Strikes of the plumbers. gas filters and
SteamhtterS and helpers have been or
! dCred ON all the contracts OF New York
general contractors in outside cities to
+ force system of exchange OF cards with
| unions i'll outside cities. The huildings
affected are in pittShurg. Philadelphia.
Baltimore. Washington, Newark Bng-
liamton. Jersey City and Princeton.
Miss Amelia bingham win opcn her
season in Norfolk Va. playing 4 roper
Tory of her New York successes In adj
/ clifton To the company she had last sea.
/ son. John kcllerd and Joseph Kilgnur
Rave been engaged. After making Il
/ tour of the south and middle west. Miss
! Bingham will bring here. just before TIE
1 holidays. u new play dealin. with Ameri-
can life. by George Middleton, who col
Elaborated with Paul keSter i'm the
dramatiZation of Julia Marlowc's the
I Cavalier The title selected is The
4 Vital Issue
i D. Percy Morgan, millionaire. chIbnaR
and whip. left his palatial residence on
i the old Boston post road at llarriSon-on-
! the-Sound. y. Y. on Sunday. May -.
4 He started for New York with his three
/ youngest children and has not returned.
/ For several years Mr. and Mrs Morgan
/ have occupied the historic Jay mansion.
al joining the country seal of John T..
Parsons. the millionaire lawycr. who i
the father of Mrs. Morgan They have
entertained extensively and Mrs. Nor
gan took great interest in charitable
/ work amd was 0i!@ ,If ;hG i3am supports
of the fresh-ail' outings for old women
from Manhattan. Ma members Of the
I A{,rpsr1 m Parsons family could In
found today.
Georg" Thatcher. the veteran minstrel.
who has Just been engaged ny Henry w
Savage. To play the role of SaSSairas
Livingston in the western County
Chairman" company. received tele-
@rom from his wife recently. saying
that her uncle left an estate worth $lo0.
GOO. Nevertheless. NE saws he will play
>asSafras Livingston.
Society at Newport has Il new fad ia
which the time houored Scrapbook is play
ing the principal part. Il is an old idea
adapted TO Il new pUrposc-nnc through
which everyone becomes her own hiog-
rapher. Tho fad was discovered through
a run on stationery stores for scrap
books Then il was learned that il is the
thing nov to cut from newspapers ail that
is printed ahout ones self. then To paste
4 the tliIDltES mo t1bhS. II - Nditt ~ ~
n rule among the faddiStS not Ia diScrimi-
nate between pleasant and diSagrecahie
things that have been published.
Richard Watson Glider is almost en-
trclr recovered from his attack of appen-
Iicitis The prolonged hut not danger
Gus illness from which he suffered all last
winter has also nearly disappeared. The
report that he had rented -Four Brooks
farm to Mark Twain and would him
self go TO Europe IS incorrect. MIR. Glenn
chtS has rented Il cottage called Glen
cote" on the Glider farm AMI will take
possession in few days
Considered purely as Il sigh New York
is growing in importance every day. Last
summer there We're only three Seeing
New-Y ork" coaches in commission Now
there are twentv-tWo. Two rival com
panies are doing all the business they
can handle in showing strangers the show
places of the clty. The charge far =
ride through the city on one of these