Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-11-19
New York Every Day.


/ Hotel Imperial by asking for dozen
mourning" postage stamps to place upon
| letters she had just written. When the
/ clerk explained that none was to be had
she remarked that America is slow
Margaret Anglin is i'll at New Haven.
| Conn.,, and was unable to give the first
/ production of her new opera. The Eter-
nal Feminine" She is suffering from
nervous exhaustion. Manager Porter was
in communication with Philadelphia plan
| ming to cancel the engagement for Miss
Anglin there.
Representatives of twelve unions, with
total membership of over 10000 men.
have, at joint meeting, decided to form
a new central body composed only of
| unions directly in the building trades
Permanent organization will, it is said be
effected very soon. Some of the unions
represented are working under the arbi-
tratlon agreement and are not in the
Building Trades alliance.
Cornell Preston, a negro lad poisoned
week ago by eating part of plum pud-
dlng left by an unknown messenger at
theatrical boarding house in West Forty
third street, is dead at Roosevelt hos
pital Preston's mother, who was cook
in the boarding house, and another coll
in the hospital. are recovering. No trace
has been found of the poisoner.
New York may have hypnotic hos
pital if the American Institute for Scen-
title Research receives the support of
wealthy philanthropists. Connected with
it will be a laboratory where the effect
of mental suggestions may be studied
scientifically and dispensary where the
poor may be treated with thought for
aches and pains These are some of the
plans which Prof. James Fl. Hys!op and
his associates have in mind.
Large as the subway station is at For
ty-second street it has been found made
qu3te to handle the enormous crowds in
Longacre square during the theater
hours. In consequence a howl has gone
from the managers, demanding that ex.
ira facilities be afforded. The restaurant
men unite in this demand. and it is proc
able that the express schedule will be
changed to relieve the crush until such
time as the local system is perfected.
Cornelius Vanderbilt has invented
new type of locomotive tender. The wa
ter tank is not rectangular, but cylindri-
| cal. 1t is built of steel, one-Quarter inch
| thick and is feet in diameter and %
feet long. Its transverse strength is so
great that, although % feet long, it will
carry its load of % tons of water without
any center support. Consequently the
under frame can be made lighter The
net saving in weight is about ~ tons.
| Another advantage is the coal is carried
next to the engine.
For $4,000 the United States Battleship
Maine Salvage company has bought from
| the Cuban government the wreck of the
Maine in Havana harbor. A cofferdam
| will be built around the hulk and it will
| be raised. Such of the seventy-four
| bodies of American sailors as were not re-
covered after the battleship was de-
| stroyed will be removed and buried. The
| salvage company will sell the machinery
and armor, and after exhibiting the hulk
IN Havana new bottom will be placed
on the ship and it will be lowed to Luna
| park, Coney Island, where it will be ex-
| hibited as a curiosity.
! The facts of wedding of romantic
! interest solemnized at Cumberland. Md.
| has leaked out. David Watts aged 21
! Of Harrisburg, Pa, grandson of Simon
/ cameron and nephew of former United
/ States Senator Donald Cameron and
| Gene Luneuska, aged -, of New York
| prlma donna of the comic opera, ''The
| Strollers," were married just after the
| performance at Cumberland. Watts had
| lish." He feared objection from his fam
lily. Mrs. Watts left with her company
/ for Grafton, w. Va. while Mr.. Watts
returned to Harrisburg.
young man, keep away from the
| chorus girls. They are n snare and do-
| fusion! They will lead you Mt faster
pace than you can GO
| With these words Magistrate Cornell
/ in the TOmbS court discharged Joseph
| Holzer. IL years old, who was charged
| by Wendell AIischter with stealing 500
| which Mischter had given the boy to take
| to the office of an insurance company.
! The boy declared he lost the money.
/ but the prosecution contended he was
| enamored Of an actress and spent the
money on her. Then the magistrate de-
| livered his bit of advice about the folly of
going with chorus girls and discharged
him.
"IIoy & Martin, Attorneys and Coun-
sellers ut Law is the sign in sufficiently
! asSertive letters on an office door of the
| Windsor Arcade, Fifth avenue. But
| burglars who seek to be restored to their
| families and unhappy women and men
who yeRrn to he divorced from theirs
need not seek legal advice from Hoy &
Martin. The largest fee will not tempt
either of them TO practice in the criminal
or divorce courts. As for ability-at the
end of Miss Hoy's firse year nj the law
school she won 4 scholarship which paid
for her tuition for two years. At the
end of the second year she wrote the
| essay that won the ]. T. Mum prize.
/ When she was graduated last year Miss
! Hoy stood first of the class Of ten other
women and ninety-nina men.
| A subway cocktail is the next. The
! first Of the underground enterprises pre-
/ dicted by the men who planned the sub
4 way and foretold the growth Of an I'M
I derground city is to be a saloon. 1t is to
/ he rathskeller and will be located near
the entrance 10 the Brooklyn bridge The
runuel now being built for the city hall
/ station Of the subway to the Brooklyn
/ bridge entrance viii pass within tew